DHAKA: President Viktor Yanukovych is still in Ukraine, a senior security source told media on Saturday following reports his residence was empty and unguarded and his offices were in the hands of protesters.‘Everything’s ok with him,’ the source said. ‘He is in Ukraine’.Asked

DHAKA: At least nine people have died in Venezuela in the wave of protests against the leftist government of president Nicolas Maduro.Officials said on Friday, The Straits Times publishes this report on Saturday.At least 137 people have also been injured and 104 have been detained in the

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama on Friday offered ‘strong support’ for Tibetans’ human rights in a meeting with the region’s spiritual leader the Dalai Lama that defied China.‘The president reiterated his strong support for the preservation of Tibet’s unique religious,

DHAKA: Muslims banking on a holiday to Mars will have to cancel their plans after religious clerics took the time out of their schedule to issue a decisive decree on space travel.A fatwa issued by the General Authority of Islamic Affairs and Endowment in the UAE claimed a trip to the red

DHAKA: Venezuela has revoked the accreditation of CNN`s Caracas-based reporter Osmary Hernandez, the US news network says.Two other CNN journalists who had been sent to Venezuela to cover the country`s political crisis also had their working permits cancelled, BBC reported.President

DHAKA: Syria has submitted a new 100-day plan for the removal of its chemical weapons after failing to meet a February 5 deadline, but the international mission overseeing the operation believes it can be done in a shorter timeframe, diplomats have said.The Organisation for the

DHAKA: Ukrainian opposition leaders have signed a deal with the president to end a political crisis that will effectively strip the presidency of much of its power and free from jail the opposition leader, Yulia Tymoshenko.The pact, which was signed by the president, Viktor Yanukovich,

DHAKA: A car bomb has exploded at the gates of Somalia`s presidential palace, followed by an attack by gunmen, police in Mogadishu say.A fierce gunfight is now said to be underway inside the compound.President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has called the UN envoy to Somalia to say he was not

DHAKA: A mortar attack struck a busy area in a mainly Shia town south of Iraq`s capital, killing at least 22 people and wounding more than 50, authorities said.The five mortar rounds slammed into a busy market, a residential building and a parking lot around 7pm local time as people

DHAKA: At least 70 people have been killed during street fighting between protesters and riot police in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, while the country`s interior ministry says that 67 police officers were seized by the protesters.A Media photographer saw bodies of 21 dead civilians in

DHAKA: The Indian Supreme Court has put on hold Tamil Nadu`s plan to release seven people convicted of killing former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, which has led to a legal battle between the state government and the Centre.Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh had said Tamil Nadu`s

DHAKA: More than 100 South Koreans are heading across the border for reunions with their North Korean relatives - the first such events since 2010.The reunions, which come after North Korea called for better relations between the two sides, are taking place from 20 to 25 February, reports

DHAKA: California politicians have announced a $687m (£412m) plan to provide immediate assistance to communities parched by an ongoing historic drought.The proposal was put forward by state Democrats and California Governor Jerry Brown, reports BBC.Most of the money, garnered from two

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama has vowed to expand trade agreements between the Americas and Asia, despite concerns within his own political party.Ending a day of talks with the leaders of Mexico and Canada, Obama said the North American partners must keep up their "competitive

DHAKA: Ukraine`s President Viktor Yanukovych says he has agreed a truce with opposition leaders, after at least 26 people died in clashes this week.In a statement, he said "negotiations" would now start to end the bloodshed of the last two days, reports BBC.Opposition leader Arseniy

DHAKA: Australia has inadvertently made public the identities of almost 10,000 asylum seekers, the department of immigration has said, raising concerns it could help locate people fleeing persecution.A file published on a government website by mistake held the names, nationalities and

DHAKA: The government in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu has decided to free three men and a woman convicted of plotting the 1991 assassination of former PM Rajiv Gandhi.On Tuesday, the Supreme Court commuted the death sentences of Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan, citing

DHAKA: Colombia`s President Juan Manuel Santos has dismissed the chief of the armed forces over disparaging comments about inquiries into extrajudicial killings.Santos said General Leonardo Barrero had been sacked for "disrespectful remarks" that emerged as part of an investigation into

DHAKA: Downtown Kiev was aglow in fire early Wednesday, as demonstrators undeterred by a bloody day on the streets staked their claim to the heart of the Ukrainian capital and, they hope, the heart of the country itself.Such flames have been a constant for three months, acting as fiery

DHAKA: The Supreme Court of India on Tuesday commuted the death penalty of Rajiv Gandhi`s killers to life term, citing the 11-year delay in deciding their mercy pleas.With this, the three convicts on death row in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case — Santhan, Murugan and Perarivalan —