DHAKA: Thousands of people are evacuating their homes in Indonesia after a volcano erupted in east Java.Mount Kelud spewed ash and debris over a large area, including the city of Surabaya, about 130km (80 miles) away, reports BBC.Some towns are reported to have been covered by a 4cm (1.6

DHAKA: Comcast said Thursday it had agreed to buy Time Warner Cable for $45 billion in a deal that would combine the two biggest cable companies in the United States.If the deal is approved, the combined group will be the country`s dominant provider of television channels and Internet

DHAKA: A Michigan mother’s attempt to cheer her 10-year-old son, who suffers from a disorder similar to autism and told her he had no friends, with a Facebook page has won the boy some 1.3 million fans on the social media site by Wednesday.Jennifer Cunningham created the site early this

DHAKA: Pro-democracy demonstrators clashed with police in Bahrain on Thursday as they marked the third anniversary of an Arab Spring-inspired protest movement that was quelled with the help of GCC troops, witnesses said.It was the first of three days of protests called by the Shia-led

DHAKA: The Qaeda-linked Abdallah Azzam Brigades allegedly released a video Wednesday showing footage of the November 19 double suicide attack against the Iranian embassy in Beirut, for which it has claimed responsibility.The 18-minute video, entitled ‘The attack on the Iranian Embassy

DHAKA: Russia’s president Vladimir Putin has said he backs Egypt’s military chief Abdul Fattah al-Sisi in his ‘bid for the presidency’.Putin, meeting Field Marshal Sisi in Moscow to discuss an arms deal, said he was ‘aware’ of his decision to run.However, there has been no

DHAKA: India’s parliament erupted in mayhem on Thursday when a legislator fired pepper spray in the lower house in protest against a bill on a new state.Television footage showed pictures of lawmakers coughing, sneezing and holding scarves to their faces. Shouting protesters also broke

DHAKA: At least six people were killed and many more wounded Thursday in a car bomb attack close to the entrance of Mogadishu’s heavily-fortified international airport.Somalia police and witnesses said, reports Al Arabiya.The bomb went off near a checkpoint at the entrance to the

DHAKA: Gunmen have abducted a British teacher in Sana’a, in the second kidnapping this month of a British expat in violence-hit Yemen.A security official said on Thursday, reports gulfnews.com.The unidentified gunmen captured the teacher on Wednesday evening as he returned from work,

DHAKA: Thailand has sent around 1,300 Rohingya refugees back to Myanmar, a top official said on Thursday, dismaying rights campaigners who warned the minority Muslims faced persecution in the former junta-ruled country.Thousands of Rohingya, described by the United Nations as among the

DHAKA: Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday that Moscow had presented a draft UN Security Council resolution on ‘fighting terrorism’ in Syria in addition to its attempt at a resolution on aid access there.‘Terrorism is certainly no less acute a problem (than the

DHAKA: Afghanistan is preparing to release 65 detainees from Bagram detention centre despite the US condemning the decision and insisting they are "dangerous".US officials say they have evidence the men were responsible for carrying out attacks on Nato and Afghan troops, reports BBC.But

DHAKA:  African Union (AU) peacekeepers have uncovered a mass grave at a military camp occupied by Seleka rebels in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic (CAR).The find came a day after UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday there was "a distinct risk" the CAR

DHAKA: Boko Haram fighters killed 39 people and razed scores of homes when they stormed two villages in northeast Nigeria, firing indiscriminately on fleeing civilians, a state governor and witnesses said.Heavily armed groups in trucks attacked a mosque, markets and government buildings

DHAKA: Get off the roads, and stay off.That was the message in Georgia and the Carolinas as a snow and ice storm swept through Wednesday, bringing some of the Southeast`s most populous cities to a standstill.The warnings came as freezing rain brought heavy ice accumulations from Atlanta

DHAKA: Afghanistan has halted conservation work at a site once occupied by ancient Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban because the team involved is suspected of secretly trying to rebuild one of the statue’s feet.The United Nations said, reports The Straits Times.Any attempt to

DHAKA: International peacekeepers have failed to prevent the ethnic cleansing of Muslims in the Central African Republic.A human rights group says, reports the BBC.Militia attacks have led to a ‘Muslim exodus of historic proportions’, according to a report by Amnesty International.Aid

DHAKA: The UN has restarted its aid mission in the besieged rebel-held Old City of Homs after hours of talks aimed at saving a truce between warring parties.UN vehicles towed trailers of food into the city, and aid agencies prepared buses to transport fleeing civilians, reports the

DHAKA: A Taiwan official visiting China on Wednesday urged more efforts to build stable relations, a day after the two sides held their first government-to-government talks since splitting 65 years ago.Taiwan’s top official overseeing China policy, Wang Yu-chi, visited the tomb of

DHAKA: It appears prospects for an Israeli-Turkish rapprochement are once again growing more distant.During a news conference held on Tuesday, Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, reiterated his government’s position that any reconciliation between Ankara and Jerusalem would