DHAKA: Dozens of people have died in northern Kenya in a week of fierce clashes between rival ethnic groups, aid sources and reports said on Saturday.The ongoing unrest, centred around the town of Moyale in Marsabit county on the frontier with Ethiopia, has seen villages burned down and

DHAKA: Yemen’s ministry of defence has said that the deadly gun and bomb attacks on the ministry’s complex in Sana’a were carried out mainly by Saudi militants.In a preliminary report submitted to president Abdu Rabbo Mansour Hadi, the country military’s chief of the general staff

DHAKA: Egyptian judges began hearing appeals on Saturday of 21 women and girls handed heavy jail terms over an Islamist protest, in a case that sparked an outcry.The 14 adult women were handed 11-year jail terms and the seven minors sentenced to juvenile detention last month, shocking

DHAKA: An Iranian news agency says inspectors from the United Nations nuclear agency have arrived in Teheran to visit a nuclear facility that has long been off-limits to outside experts.The semi-official Mehr news agency said on Saturday that two inspectors from the International Atomic

DHAKA: Protest leaders have pledged that anti-government rallies will resume in Thailand’s capital, Bangkok. Suthep Thaugsuban, a former deputy prime minister, hinted at an end to the truce called in honour of the king’s birthday. ‘We will only win if we have so many people that

DHAKA: Nelson Mandela’s funeral cortege will travel through the streets of the capital Pretoria on three consecutive days, the South African government said on Saturday, encouraging people to line the route.‘Every morning, when the remains leave the mortuary to lie in state, those

DHAKA: New York (NY) based investment firm Tau Investment Management Inc., announced the commitment to raise US $1 billion to help Bangladesh and other garment-manufacturing nations in order to construct factories with better safety and protection of workers. According to a statement

DHAKA: United States defence secretary Chuck Hagel is visiting with American forces in Afghanistan amid a stubborn stand-off between the US and Afghan leaders over a security agreement.Hagel’s unannounced visit on Saturday lands him in the centre of the chaos, but he has no plans to

DHAKA: Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov is expected to pay a visit to Tehran in the coming days to discuss bilateral relations and Iran’s nuclear programme after clinching a landmark deal between the Islamic republic and the major powers last month.‘A visit by Sergei Lavrov to

DHAKA: The UN General Assembly elected Jordan to the Security Council on Friday to replace Saudi Arabia, which had rejected the seat in an unprecedented act to protest the council’s failure to end the Syrian and Israeli-Palestinian conflicts.Arab countries chose Jordan as a replacement,

DHAKA: Moscow and Kiev have failed to reach agreements on reducing Russian gas prices or Ukraine joining a Moscow-led customs union.A spokesman for Russian president Vladimir Putin told reporters on Saturday, according to The Straits Times.Dmitry Peskov said Putin and Ukrainian president

DHAKA: At least 300 people have been killed in two days of violence in the capital of the Central African Republic, says the Red Cross.The organisation said its staff stopped collecting bodies in Bangui as night fell but would resume over the weekend, and expected the toll to rise,

DHAKA: North Korea has deported a US veteran of the Korean War who had been detained in the country since October, the state-run KCNA news agency reports.It says Merrill Newman was expelled on "humanitarian grounds" after confessing to "crimes" against the state during the 1950-53 war and

DHAKA: The US unemployment rate fell to a five-year low of 7% in November, according to the US Labor Department.Payroll figures also showed that 203,000 jobs were created last month, more than predicted, as the US economy displayed more signs of strength.The monthly non-farm payroll

DHAKA: An al-Qaida linked group has claimed responsibility for Thursday`s attack on Yemen`s defence ministry that killed at least 52 people, the country`s worst militant assault in 18 months."As part of the policy of targeting the operation rooms of pilotless planes, the mujahideen (holy

DHAKA: The head of the World Trade Organisation Roberto Azevedo is preparing to submit the text of a global trade deal to the WTO membership for agreement later on Friday, said sources involved in the talks at the WTO`s ministerial conference in Bali.Azevedo`s move signals he has resolved

DHAKA: US Vice-President Joe Biden has urged Japan and South Korea to "improve their relations and co-operation".Mr Biden was in Seoul on the third leg of an Asian tour dominated by tensions over China`s newly-declared air defence zone.China`s zone covers disputed islands controlled by

DHAKA: The head of the World Trade Organisation Roberto Azevedo is preparing to submit the text of a global trade deal to the WTO membership for agreement later on Friday, said sources involved in the talks at the WTO`s ministerial conference in Bali.Azevedo`s move signals he has resolved

DHAKA: Hong Kong on Friday announced a new air quality health index, the first in Asia to use the system, in its ongoing battle to combat air pollution.The Air Quality Health Index (AQHI), introduced in Canada in 2005, will replace the city`s nearly two-decades-old Air Pollution Index

DHAKA: Top Chinese film director Zhang Yimou is facing a S$205 million lawsuit after violating the country`s controversial one-child policy, a lawyer said Friday, prompting renewed debate around the rules.Critics say China`s late-1970s family-planning law, which restricts most couples to