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DHAKA: Ukraine’s acting president said Kiev was ready for talks with Russia on Moscow’s takeover of Crimea, but it would never accept annexation of the peninsula.‘We are ready for talks, but will never be reconciled with the annexation of our territory,’ Oleksander Turchinov said
DHAKA: Thailand is to lift its state of emergency on Wednesday, as tensions ease following weeks of anti-government protests.Officials say the emergency decree will be replaced by the Internal Security Act instead, reports the BBC.The 60-day decree, imposed on 22 January in Bangkok and
DHAKA: Three million people have joined an effort led by a satellite operator to locate the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, in what may be the largest crowdsourcing project of its kind.The satellite firm DigitalGlobe said on Monday that its search area now has some 24,000 square
DHAKA: A suicide bomb attack in northern Afghanistan has killed at least 15 people including women and children.Officials have told the BBC.Another 27 were wounded in the attack in Maymana, capital of Faryab province, Provincial Governor Mohammadullah Batash said.The bomber is believed to
DHAKA: Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree recognising Crimea as a sovereign state, paving the way for it to be absorbed into Russia.The decree said it had taken into account Sunday`s referendum in Crimea, in which officials said 97% of voters backed breaking away from
DHAKA: US president Barack Obama imposed sanctions on 11 Russians and Ukrainians on Monday blamed for Russia’s military incursion into Crimea, including two top aides to Russian president Vladimir Putin.Obama’s order freezes any assets in the United States and bans travel to the 11
DHAKA: The US city of Los Angeles was awoken just before dawn on Monday by a relatively powerful magnitude 4.7 earthquake, but there were no immediate reports of casualties.Residents of the Hollywood neighbourhood said they were shaken by the quake, which lasted just a few seconds.Burglar
DHAKA: Malaysia police are looking into possible pilot suicide in their investigation into missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, as it emerged that the last message from the cockpit, believed to be from co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid, came around the time that two of the plane’s crucial
DHAKA: Ukraine’s foreign minister denounced Russian ‘provocations’ on Monday, warning of a troop build-up on the border and the presence of ‘political tourists’ in its eastern regions.‘We are very much concerned by the number of Russian troops on the (border),’ Ukraine
DHAKA: The EU has agreed to impose travel bans and asset freezes against 21 officials from Russia and Ukraine, following Sunday’s referendum in Crimea.The individuals affected are seen as having playing a central role in Crimea’s move to break away from Ukraine and join with
DHAKA: Crimea’s separatist leader on Monday said Russia had sent the autonomous republic the equivalent of nearly 295 million euros in ‘financial assistance’, a day after it voted overwhelmingly to split from Ukraine.‘The Russian Federation today gave the republic 15 billion
DHAKA: Chinese vice foreign minister Li Baodong on Monday repeated Beijing’s call for calm and restraint in Ukraine, after Crimea’s Moscow-backed leaders declared a 96-percent vote in favor of quitting Ukraine and annexation by Russia.Li, speaking to reporters ahead of a visit to
DHAKA: European Union foreign ministers will agree asset freezes and travel bans on Russian individuals after Ukraine’s Crimea region voted for annexation by Russia.British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Monday, reports The Jerusalem Post.‘We will agree today, I’m
DHAKA: Russia’s lower house of parliament will pass legislation allowing Ukraine’s southern Crimea region to join Russia ‘in the very near future’.News agency Interfax cited its deputy speaker as saying, reports The Jerusalem Post.‘Results of the referendum in Crimea clearly
DHAKA: Crimea’s separatist parliament on Monday introduced the Russian ruble as a second official currency alongside the Ukrainian hryvnia, after declaring independence following a referendum to break with Ukraine and join Russia.The parliament said in a statement that the hryvnia could
DHAKA: Crimea’s pro-Moscow prime minister Sergiy Aksyonov on Monday said he was leaving for Moscow after the local assembly approved a motion to secede from Ukraine and apply to become part of Russia.‘We are flying to Moscow,’ he tweeted, after local authorities had earlier said a
DHAKA: Ukrainian troops will remain in Crimea, the country’s defence minister said Monday even as media reported the separatist peninsula planned to disband Ukrainian units there.‘Troops that are deployed (in Crimea) will stay there,’ Ukraine defence minister Igor Tenyukh told a
DHAKA: India remains the biggest buyer of arms in the world, importing nearly three times as many weapons as its nearest competitors China and Pakistan over the last five years.A Swedish think tank said on Monday, reports NDTV.The total volume of arms sales was up 14 percent in 2009-13
DHAKA: Crimea’s regional assembly on Monday declared independence from Ukraine and applied to join Russia.The assembly said all Ukrainian state property on the peninsula would be nationalised, reports The Straits Times.‘The republic of Crimea appeals to the United Nations and to all
DHAKA: Malaysia drew a fresh round of scathing criticism from China on Monday over conflicting information on missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, with state media and social media users voicing increasing scepticism as the search enters its 10th day.Malaysian prime minister Najib