DHAKA: The UN secretary-general says two United Nations peacekeepers have been killed and seven wounded in a suicide attack in Mali.Ban Ki-moon said he was saddened by the deaths and condemned the attack against UN personnel in a statement issued Saturday.The UN mission in Mali had

DHAKA: Israeli and Palestinian negotiators were poised to resume indirect talks Sunday with Egyptian mediators on reaching a more permanent ceasefire before the current truce expires. The Egyptian government persuaded both sides late Wednesday to adhere to a new five-day ceasefire,

DHAKA: Hamas rejected on Saturday as insufficient offers made in Cairo to Palestinian negotiators seeking to end Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip, and raised the possibility of renewed fighting when the current truce expires.Israel said it had also not yet accepted any proposals

DHAKA: Chadian troops have rescued 85 Nigerians kidnapped last week by the Islamist terror group Boko Haram.  A Nigerian security official told media that they had intercepted a convoy of buses transporting gunmen and the villagers in a routine security check, reports BBC. Neither the

DHAKA: The governor of the US state of Missouri has declared a state of emergency in the St Louis suburb where a black teenager was shot dead by police last week.Jay Nixon also said a curfew would run from midnight local time (05:00 GMT) until 05:00 (10:00 GMT) in Ferguson.The move

DHAKA: The Islamic State group has executed 700 members of a tribe it has been battling in eastern Syria during the past two weeks, the majority of them civilians. The killing spree happened in several villages inhabited by the al-Sheitat tribe in Deir Ezzor province, where the tribe

DHAKA: As a temporary lull in fighting seems to be holding, a political battle rages on in Cairo, as Israeli and Palestinian negotiators try to hash out details that could cement a long-term truce.Hamas’ political leader Khaled Mashaal took to the airwaves on Saturday afternoon to

DHAKA: Current TV founders Al Gore and Joel Hyatt filed a lawsuit on Friday against Al Jazeera, claiming the Qatar-based broadcaster owes them millions of dollars after it bought Current TV.Al Jazeera acquired Current TV for an estimated $500 million in 2013. Gore and Hyatt are suing

DHAKA: The leader of Iraq’s Kurds, Masoud Barzani, appealed to Germany for weapons to help Kurdish fighters battling militants of the Islamic State, and said foreign powers must find a way to cut off the group’s funding. The European Union on Friday gave a green light to EU

DHAKA: Iran’s foreign minister said on Saturday that he believed it was unlikely a final-status agreement would be reached with the West over the Islamic Republic’s disputed nuclear program within the time frame that has been allotted in the negotiations. ‘The chances that we will

DHAKA: Flash floods and mudslides following heavy rains have killed at least 53 people in Nepal over the past three days and cut off remote communities in the mountains. The government said on Saturday, reports dawn.com. The landslides and flooding were triggered by annual monsoon rains

DHAKA: Two BSF personnel were killed while four others injured when militants opened fired at their vehicle just outside the Awantipora IAF airfield in India’s Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday. Officials said a squad of Border Security Force (BSF) personnel was changing guard at the

DHAKA: He has already taken after his mother in the fashion stakes, causing clothes he wears to fly off the shelves of shops.Now Prince George is setting trends in the name game. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s choice for their son has seen it soar in popularity, making it into

DHAKA: Thousands of protesters have gathered in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad after arriving in big convoys from Lahore. Rally leaders Imran Khan and Tahirul Qadri demanded that prime minister Nawaz Sharif step down, alleging rigging in the 2013 elections. Qadri, an anti-government

DHAKA: The United States could help build Vietnam’s naval capacity if a ban on selling lethal weapons to the authoritarian nation is lifted. The most senior US military officer to visit Vietnam for decades said Saturday, reports The Straits Times. General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of

DHAKA: Twenty-seven people have died in separate incidents of landslide, cloudburst and flood in ecologically fragile India’s Uttarakhand in the past 24 hours as heavy monsoon rain continues to lash the state, according to the disaster management control room. Fourteen deaths due to

DHAKA: Militants in northern Iraq have massacred at least 80 men from the Yazidi faith in a village and abducted women and children.Islamic State (IS) fighters entered Kocho, 45km (30 miles) from Sinjar, on Friday afternoon, reportedly telling men to convert to Islam or die, reports

DHAKA: The Islamist terror group Boko Haram kidnapped at least 97 men and boys and killed 28 people this week in a raid on villages in Borno State in northeast Nigeria.  Boko Haram gunmen also injured 25 others during the raid in which scores of homes were burned, the sources said. The

DHAKA:  Pakistan's cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan said Saturday he would continue to lead protests in Islamabad along with thousands of his supporters until Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif steps down.Khan says the May 2013 general election that brought Sharif to power in a landslide

DHAKA: Nineteen people have been killed in the last 24 hours in landslides and incidents of house collapse as heavy rain continued in the hill state of Uttarakhand in India on Saturday.While 14 people have been killed in Yamkeshwar, Pauri and Lansdowne Tehsils of Pauri district, 2 people