DHAKA: Palestinian groups, including representatives from Hamas and Islamic Jihad, held their first formal meeting in Cairo on Monday with Egyptian mediators hoping to pave the way towards a durable ceasefire agreement with Israel. Talks focused on a list of demands agreed by the

DHAKA: Britain is reviewing all arms export licenses to Israel in response to the Jewish state’s ongoing conflict with Hamas in Gaza.A British government spokeswoman said on Monday, reports The Jerusalem Post.Israel launched an offensive against Hamas almost four weeks ago following a

DHAKA: India’s coast guard was on Monday launching a search for some 600 fishermen who have not made contact after a storm overnight in the Bay of Bengal. An Indian official said, reports The straits Times. About 40 trawlers have not returned to port following the storm off the coast

DHAKA: Germany has stopped a major deal to provide a fully equipped training camp to Russian forces due to the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. The government said Monday, reports The Straits Times. German vice-chancellor and economy minister Sigmar Gabriel has withdrawn his authorisation for

DHAKA: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said the attack at an UN-run Gaza school that killed 10 people was a ‘moral outrage and a criminal act’. It constituted a ‘gross violation of international law’, Ban said. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the US was appalled

DHAKA: Fighters with the militant group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria reached the triangle border between Iraq, Syria and Turkey, it said in a message posted on Twitter on Sunday. ISIS took control of Iraq's largest hydroelectric dam on Iraq's Tigris River, which provides power to

DHAKA: The United States will announce nearly $1 billion in business deals, increase funding for peacekeeping and commit billions of dollars to expanding food and power programs in Africa during a summit this week, officials said. US officials said the August 4-6 summit in Washington of

DHAKA: Israel has agreed to a 7-hour humanitarian cease-fire, according to the Israel Defense Forces, but a spokesman for Hamas says it's a no go. The cease-fire is expected to start at 10 a.m. local time (3 a.m. ET) Monday, the IDF said in a statement. It would not apply to the areas in

DHAKA: An earthquake has struck southwestern China, killing at least 381 people in a remote mountainous area of Yunnan province, and causing some buildings, including a school, to collapse. Some 1,881 people were injured Xinhua and state broadcaster CCTV said, citing the authorities.

DHAKA: Almost 100 people were killed during attacks on a police station and government offices in China’s far western region of Xinjiang early last week. China state media said on Sunday giving fresh details on one of the worst incidents of unrest in years. The official Xinhua news

DHAKA: Britain’s foreign secretary Phillip Hammond is concerned that Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip could lead to an increase in anti-Semitic attacks in Britain. Hammond raised the concerns in an interview with The Sunday Telegraph on Thursday, saying he has already

DHAKA: A Hamas team arrived in Cairo on Sunday for talks with Egyptian mediators on a possible truce in Gaza. An airport official and state news agency MENA said, Turkish daily Hurriyet reports. The delegation is led by senior Hamas official Ezzat al-Rishq, the sources said. Egypt, the

DHAKA: Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) took over Iraq’s biggest dam unopposed by Kurdish fighters, who also lost three towns and an oilfield on Sunday to the Sunni militant group. Witnesses said, sharply raising the stakes in its bid to topple the Baghdad government, reports The

DHAKA: At least 175 people have been killed and some 1,300 injured after a magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck in south-west China. China state media say, reports the BBC. The US Geological Survey said the quake struck about 11km north-west of Wenping in Yunnan province at 16:30 local time

DHAKA: A couple was shot dead in an alleged case of honour killing in Pakistan’s Punjab province. Both the boy and the girl lived in Chakwal city with their families, and fell in love, but the elders of the families refused to consent to their marriage. Dawn online reported on Sunday,

DHAKA: Rescue workers on Sunday discovered more bodies in the mud and debris of a devastating landslide in western India, taking the confirmed death toll to 92. An Indian official said, reports The Straits Times. With dozens more villagers still missing, rescue workers kept up their

DHAKA: China’s state media on Sunday slammed Japan’s move to name islands at the edge of its territorial waters claimed by Beijing as a ‘farce’, saying they already had Chinese names. Tokyo on Friday named 160 uninhabited islands in the East China Sea which include five in an

DHAKA: A hijacked Singaporean oil tanker carrying 21 sailors was released on Sunday a week after being seized by pirates in waters off Ghana in west Africa. Seoul’s foreign ministry said, reports The Straits Times. The 3,200-tonnes tanker, carrying a South Korean captain and chief

DHAKA: At least 10 people have been killed in a strike on a UN-run school housing Palestinians displaced by the Gaza conflict. Palestine medics say, reports the BBC. Thousands of Palestinians were believed to be sheltering in the facility in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. The

DHAKA: Israel eavesdropped on US Secretary of State John Kerry during doomed peace talks with the Palestinians last year. German news weekly Der Spiegel reported on Sunday, says The Straits Times. The article said the Israelis and at least one other secret service listened in on