DHAKA: A gun battle has erupted close to a Karachi air terminal one day after militants stormed Pakistan’s biggest and busiest airport, reports say.Local media say gunmen have attacked a training camp of the airport security forces.It is not clear if there are any casualties, reports

DHAKA: Five Nato soldiers have been killed in an incident in southern Afghanistan, the Nato-led force in the country says.The International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) says the incident took place on Monday but gave no details.The Isaf force currently has soldiers from 50

DHAKA: The Pakistani military has carried out air strikes in tribal areas in the north-west of the country, killing at least 15 militants.Officials say, reports the BBC.The raids destroyed nine militant positions in the Tirah Valley in Khyber district, the military said.The strikes came

DHAKA: Over 50 suspected Boko Haram fighters were killed in a military operation by troops in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno. The authorities said on Monday, NTV reports on Tuesday. Nigerian military spokesperson Chris Olukolade said troops in the northeast region also foiled an

DHAKA: Suspected Boko Haram militants kidnapped at least 20 young women over the weekend in northeastern Nigeria, 8 kilometers from a town where more than 200 schoolgirls were taken nearly two months ago, local officials said. The incident in the village of Garkin Fulani is the latest in

DHAKA: The world’s oldest man, a 111-year old Polish immigrant to the US, has died at a New York home for the elderly. Media reported on Monday, says The Straits Times. Alexander Imich passed away early Sunday at a Manhattan senior residence where he had lived since 1986, the New York

DHAKA: In its first official engagement with India after the change of guard in Delhi, Beijing’s statecraft again came to the fore as visiting foreign minister Wang Yi used nothing short of a panegyric to PM Narendra Modi to reach out to the new government. Wang is in India as a

DHAKA: A radio broadcaster was shot dead in the Philippines Monday, police said, the third journalist in just over a month to be murdered in one of the most dangerous countries for media workers. A gunman riding a motorcycle shot Nilo Baculo, 67, from close range outside his home in the

DHAKA: Rescuers discovered five bodies on Monday in a river in northern India as they stepped up their search for 24 students washed away in a sudden surge of water released from a dam. The students were standing on the Beas river’s edge on Sunday evening taking photographs in the

DHAKA: Egypt’s interim prime minister Ibrahim Mahlab said his cabinet had resigned on Monday, allowing president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to choose a new team on his first day in office. Ex-army chief Sisi was sworn in on Sunday, nearly a year after he ousted elected president Mohamed

DHAKA: Twenty-eight people were killed as Pakistan’s military fought an all-night battle on Monday with Taliban gunmen who besieged Karachi airport armed with rocket launchers and suicide vests, leaving a nascent peace process in tatters. Ten militants were among the dead, officials

DHAKA: Security forces said Monday they have re-launched a military operation at Karachi airport as gunfire resumed several hours after they announced the end of a militant siege that left 24 dead.   Fresh gunfire was reported from the airport Monday morning and a loud explosion was

DHAKA: The Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the attack at Karachi airport in Pakistan.  Security forces said they have relaunched a military operation at Karachi airport as gunfire resumed several hours after they announced the end of a militant siege that

DHAKA: The bodies of two of the 24 students, who were washed away in the Beas river near Mandi in Himachal Pradesh, have been recovered from the Pandoh dam reservoir. The incident occurred at around 6 pm on Sunday when the students, six of them girls, were clicking pictures on the banks

DHAKA: Five people including the killers were killed in Las Vegas in US on Sunday night.  Two people have shot and killed two police officers in the US city of Las Vegas, before killing another person and then shooting themselves, says BBC.        The incident began in a pizza cafe

DHAKA: Metro workers in Brazil's largest city, Sao Paulo, have voted to remain on strike for an indefinite period despite an earlier ruling by a labour court calling on them to return to work. The court said that the unions had abused their powers. The governor of Sao Paulo state

DHAKA: The Benazir Bhutto International Airport in Rawalpindi and the Allama Iqbal International Airport in Lahore were placed on ‘red alert’ on Sunday night after a terrorist attack on the Karachi airport. Additional security personnel were deployed around areas of the airports and

DHAKA: At least 23 people have been killed and a number injured in a gun and bomb attack on Shia pilgrims in south-western Pakistan, officials say. They say the gunmen targeted hotels in the town of Taftan, Balochistan province, where the pilgrims were staying after returning from Iran.

DHAKA: At least 23 people have been reportedly killed, including security personnel, and 14 others injured by the armed gunmen at Karachi international airport in Pakistan on Sunday night.       An army spokesman said all 10 of the gunmen who attacked Jinnah International Airport's

DHAKA: Members of the Sikh community are marching through central London in protest over the storming of India’s Golden Temple 30 years ago. Thousands are attending the event, as protesters demand that the assault of June 1984 be recognized as a genocide. Crowds from all over the