DHAKA: Gunmen have stormed two buildings in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, killing at least 29 people including 20 women.  The attack took place late on Saturday in the neighbourhood of Zayouna in east Baghdad, police said. One officer said he "found bodies everywhere". The motive for the

DHAKA: A Thai court Thursday passed a suspended prison sentence on an anti-coup activist for breaching a ban on political gatherings, his lawyer said, in the first protest-related verdict since the military takeover.Weerayuth Kongkanathan, 49, was given a one-month suspended jail

DHAKA: An Indian passenger train set a new national speed record of 160 kilometres an hour on Thursday during a test between the capital and the Taj Mahal city of Agra.The introduction of high-speed links and bullet trains were one of the key poll campaign promises of India’s new

DHAKA: Myanmar police imposed an overnight curfew in the country’s second largest city of Mandalay on Thursday, after two nights of sectarian unrest that left two people dead.Dozens of police were seen patrolling the streets and shops were shuttered as tension gripped the normally

DHAKA: Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) president Masoud Barzani asked the region’s parliament on Thursday to form a committee to organize a referendum on independence.A parliament member who attended the closed session, said. Turkish daily Hurriyet publishes this

DHAKA: Iran and six world powers resumed talks on Thursday aimed at hammering out an accord later this month to end a long-running dispute over Tehran’s nuclear program, seeking to bridge still wide gaps in their negotiating positions.After informal contacts on Wednesday, chief

DHAKA: The al-Qaida affiliated Sinai-based Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, which reportedly recently pledged allegiance to The Islamic State, formerly known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), has claimed responsibility for the murder of the three yeshiva students in Judea.The

DHAKA: Baghdad’s forces struggled Thursday to break a military stalemate with Sunni militants, as US officials reached out to key leaders to push for an end to political chaos in Iraq.Iraq prime minister Nouri al-Maliki has offered an amnesty aimed at undercutting support for the

DHAKA: Afghan president Hamid Karzai signed a law aimed at curbing the financing of terrorist groups, a government statement said on Thursday, the second of two measures needed to save its banks from being put on an international blacklist.‘After the judiciary verified that this law

DHAKA: Australia’s immigration minister has described an incident in which an asylum-seeker sent himself on fire as ‘distressing’ but said it would not change the way the government handles refugee claims. Scott Morrison said late on Saturday he was waiting to be briefed about the

DHAKA: Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinians in the West Bank as they continued a search for three missing Israeli teens. Palestinian medical and security officials said on Sunday, reports The Straits Times. In Ramallah, 30-year-old Mohammed Tarifi was shot dead during early morning

DHAKA: Russian president Vladimir Putin has said he supports a peace plan tabled by Ukraine, as long as it includes ‘practical action’ to start talks. He said Kiev must negotiate and make compromises with pro-Russian rebels for the plan to be ‘viable and realistic’. Putin also

DHAKA: A South Korean soldier has shot dead five comrades, injured five more and fled from an outpost near the border with North Korea, BBC reports. The army private opened fire on fellow soldiers on Saturday evening at a post in the eastern Gangwon province. It is not yet clear what

DHAKA: Taliban militants fired eight rockets into a NATO air base at one of Afghanistan’s main airports on Saturday evening. The provincial authorities said that reports the NDTV.com. No casualties or damage to buildings were reported at the base at Jalalabad airport. The attack comes

DHAKA:  Boko Haram militants have killed dozens of people in fresh attacks on villages in Borno state in northern Nigeria, the BBC has learnt. A local member of parliament confirmed the attacks and said that at least five other villages had been targeted. The Nigerian military has also

DHAKA:  The United States has said it is "horrified" at reports of sexual violence and murders in India and it also applauded the role of individuals, government officials and civil society groups working to protect the survivors. "Like so many in India, we were horrified to learn of

DHAKA: A British woman who was sailing near Indonesia at the time Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared has said she believes she saw the plane ‘burning’ and billowing smoke before it crashed in the southern Indian Ocean. An eye-witness account from yachting enthusiast Katherine

DHAKA: The driver whose car rammed into Gopinath Munde’s car, killing the union minister, has been arrested. India police said Tuesday, reports gulfnews.com. Gurvinder Singh, who was driving the car, was arrested at the scene. Singh, 32, was driving his personal Tata Indica car,

DHAKA: Police in London have arrested the leader of Pakistan’s powerful MQM party, Altaf Hussain, on suspicion of money-laundering. Officers are searching a residential address in north-west London where they say a 60-year-old man was detained, reports the BBC. Hussain has lived in

DHAKA: Nato defence ministers are due to discuss for the first time the long-term security implications of Russian actions over Ukraine.The talks in Brussels will also focus on what action Nato member states should take in response, says BBC report. Relations between Nato and Moscow