DHAKA: Israel has launched air strikes on Gaza early Thursday after being targeted by rocket fire, just as agreement had been reached on extending a truce by five days.Israel's military said it was targeting "terror sites" after at least five rockets were launched from Gaza.The

DHAKA: Jordan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia have come out belatedly against Israel’s attacks against Hamas in Gaza in response to rocket fire, as their antipathy to Hamas has been overshadowed, as of late, by anti-Israel rhetoric meant for the masses. As the war against Hamas began, Jordan,

DHAKA: Edward Snowden says dishonest comments to Congress by the US chief of national intelligence pushed him over the edge and prompted him to leak a trove of national security documents. In a wide-ranging interview with Wired magazine over several days from Moscow, Snowden said he had

DHAKA: Six people were killed in the Gaza Strip when an Israeli missile exploded amid attempts to dismantle it. The dead included two journalists, an Italian and a Palestinian, and a number of bomb disposal officers. The incident happened in the town of Beit Lahiya, in the north of the

DHAKA: France will deliver weapons to Kurdish forces fighting Islamic extremists in Iraq, French president Francois Hollande announced on Wednesday. ‘In order to respond to the urgent need expressed by the Kurdistan regional authorities, the president has decided, in agreement with

DHAKA: Taiwan’s science and technology minister said Wednesday that China is launching frequent cyber attacks on the island despite warming ties between the two former rivals.‘The Chinese cyberwar units have been engaging with Taiwan units almost every day, with some severe

DHAKA: Italy’s government on Wednesday confirmed the death of Italian journalist Simone Camilli in Gaza during an operation to dismantle an Israeli missile.‘Simone Camilli’s death is a tragedy for his family and for the country. Once more a reporter pays the price for a war

DHAKA: A Swiss train derailed on Wednesday in the mountainous eastern region of Graubuenden. Switzerland’s ATS news agency reported, says The Straits Times. ATS said that Graubuenden police said the accident was ‘serious’, but that officers had not provided further details.

DHAKA: Thai police on Wednesday said up to 16 people were believed to have died when a building caved in during construction, as they issued arrest warrants for several people behind the project. Three bodies, including those of a woman and her four-year-old daughter, have so far been

DHAKA: Jihadists from the Islamic State (IS) group have taken control of a string of villages in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo. A monitoring group said on Wednesday, reports Hindustan Times. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the extremist group had

DHAKA: Thailand’s military government gave preliminary approval on Wednesday for a draft law to make commercial surrogacy a criminal offence, following a spate of dramatic surrogacy scandals in the past two weeks. The case of an Australian couple accused of abandoning their Down

DHAKA: Iraq’s caretaker prime minister Nuri al-Maliki said Wednesday that it will take a federal court ruling for him to leave power, defying president Fuad Masum’s decision to task a rival with forming the next government. ‘I confirm that the government will continue and there

LONDON: A Bangladeshi born ‘jihadist’ has died while fighting in Syria.  The deceased jihadist (in Islamic term ‘mujahid’) Muhammad Hamidur Rahman, 25, is a British citizen, used to live at Portsmouth. He left the UK last October after telling his family he was going to deliver

DHAKA: The outlook for Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is poor despite conservation efforts, with further deterioration expected in coming years, a report says. The bleak forecast came in a five-yearly report released by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. Climate change

DHAKA: A Thai Airways plane flying from Sydney to Bangkok was forced to make an emergency landing in Bali on Tuesday after a broken cockpit window caused the cabin pressure to drop, according to reports.Flight TG467 was carrying 272 passengers when it touched down at Bali’s Ngurah Rai

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama has appealed for calm in Ferguson, Missouri, after the shooting of a black teenager by police sparked two nights of violence. He described the death on Saturday of Michael Brown as heartbreaking and added: ‘Remember this young man through reflection and

DHAKA: Egypt presented a proposed cease-fire to Israel and Hamas aimed at ending the monthlong war, Palestinian officials said early Wednesday after negotiators huddled for a second day of Egyptian-mediated talks meant to resolve the crisis and bring relief to the embattled Gaza

DHAKA: Indian President Pranab Mukherjee has from a public stage reminded the country's lawmakers that they must uphold Parliament's dignity, after members of the Trinamool Congress and the Telugu Desam Party or TDP engaged in an unseemly squabble over a room in Parliament."Please,

DHAKA: The Ebola virus has killed 1,013 people and infected another 1,848, latest World Health Organisation data showed.The fatalities include 52 deaths recorded between August 7-9 in the three West African countries at the centre of the epidemic - Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone -

DHAKA: The skies over Gaza remained calm on the second day Tuesday of a 72-hour truce as negotiators in Cairo prepared to tackle the thorny issue of the Israeli blockade. As Gaza’s residents ventured out to try to piece together their battered lives, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators