DHAKA: Russia on Saturday was reported to be reinforcing its military presence in Crimea as Moscow’s foreign minister ruled out any dialogue with Ukraine’s new authorities, whom he dismissed as puppets.Vladislav Seleznyov, a Crimean-based spokesman for the Ukrainian armed forces, told

DHAKA: The Vietnamese government said its search team has reported sighting of oil slicks that could be from the jet engines of the missing Malaysian Airlines plane, as several nations searched waters off Southeast Asia on Saturday after the jet carrying 239 passengers disappeared.Search

DHAKA: Tempers frayed as angry family members left a hotel near Beijng airport on Saturday afternoon, yelling that they were not getting any updates from Malaysia Airlines on its missing plane and demanding that the Chinese government send military planes to conduct search and rescue

DHAKA: The rebel Free Syrian Army has confirmed the appointment of its new chief, Brigadier General Abdel Ilah al-Bashir, after former head General Selim Idriss had initially refused to step down.The FSA confirmed ‘the dismissal of Idriss and the appointment of... Bashir as head of the

DHAKA: Malaysian naval vessels saw no immediate sign of wreckage when they reached the maritime area off the country’s north-east coast where a missing Malaysia Airlines flight last made contact on Saturday.A senior rescue official said, reports The Straits Times.Malaysia has sent three

DHAKA: China has declared a "red line" on North Korea, saying it will not permit chaos or war on the Korean peninsula, and that denuclearisation is the only way to achieve peace.China is the most important diplomatic and economic supporter of North Korea, a country largely isolated as it

DHAKA: Russia`s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned the US not to take "hasty and reckless steps" in response to the crisis in Ukraine`s Crimea region.In a phone call with his US counterpart John Kerry, Lavrov said imposing sanctions on Moscow would harm the US.Pro-Russian troops

DHAKA: A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crews has crashed in the South China Sea, Vietnamese state media said, quoting a senior naval official.The Boeing 777-200ER flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing had been missing for hours when Vietnam`s Tuoi Tre news quoted

DHAKA: China`s state media says Vietnamese authorities have detected signals from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane.The Xinhua News Agency, citing a local Vietnamese media report, says a Vietnamese search and rescue official reported that the signals have been detected from the plane

DHAKA: A stand-off involving pro-Russian soldiers at a Ukrainian military base outside the Crimean city of Sevastopol has reportedly ended without incident.A BBC correspondent saw two lorries from Russia`s Black Sea Fleet outside the gates, surrounded by armed men, reports BBC.But no

DHAKA: Saudi Arabia has listed the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organisation along with two al-Qaeda-linked groups fighting in Syria.The decree against the Brotherhood, whose Egyptian branch supported the deposed Egyptian president, Mohamed Morsi, was reported on Saudi state

DHAKA: A passenger flight carrying 239 people from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing is missing and would likely have run out of fuel, Malaysia Airlines said Saturday."At the moment we have no idea where this aircraft is right now," Malaysia Airlines Vice President of Operations Control Fuad

DHAKA: Venezuela has expelled Panama`s ambassador and three other diplomats amid growing tensions over opposition protests.The officials were given 48 hours to leave the country, reports BBC.It comes a day after Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro broke diplomatic relations and froze

DHAKA:  We`re leaving. No, you`re not.That`s where the crisis in Ukraine stood Thursday after lawmakers in Crimea voted in favor of leaving the country for Russia and putting it to a regional vote in 10 days, reported CNN.This act drew widespread condemnation, with Ukrainian interim

DHAKA: The Ukraine city of Sevastopol has declared itself a subject of the Russian Federation, hours after the semi-autonomous parliament of Crimea voted to do the same.The city, on the Crimean peninsula and home to the Black Sea fleet of the Russian navy, made the announcement late on

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama has urged President Vladimir Putin to seek a diplomatic solution to the crisis in Ukraine, in a lengthy telephone call.In their hour-long conversation, the Russian leader said Moscow-Washington relations should not suffer, reports BBC.Russian troops have

DHAKA: Saudi state television has for the first time broadcast the ‘confessions’ of a jihadist who returned from Syria, as the Muslim kingdom distances itself from Islamist radicals in that country’s conflict.Sulaiman al-Subaie, 25, who grew popular in his homeland for his posts on

DHAKA: The European Union on Thursday froze the assets of ousted Ukraine leader Viktor Yanukovych, ex-premier Mykola Azarov and 16 former ministers, businessmen and security chiefs, all on grounds of fraud.All 18 listed in the EU’s Official Journal were targeted as people ‘subject to

DHAKA: China’s health ministry on Thursday dampened speculation that the country could dump its one-child policy and allow families to have two.The world’s most populous country has restricted most families to one child since the late 1970s, but its ruling Communist party said in

DHAKA: The US is imposing visa restrictions on Russians and Crimeans who it says are threatening Ukraine.In addition, the White House said Thursday that president Barack Obama has signed an executive order authorizing sanctions on groups and individuals ‘responsible for activities