Francois Fillon is to be the conservative candidate in next year’s French presidential election after his rival Alain Juppe admitted defeat. With virtually all the results counted, Fillon won Sunday’s run-off with nearly 67 percent of the vote. Fillon promised to build a fairer

DHAKA: At least 34 civilians were killed Sunday in a flare up of ethnic violence in restive eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, authorities said, following a week of soaring tensions. “The provisional toll is 34 civilians killed,” said local official Joy Bokele, referring to an

DHAKA: Swiss voters are casting their ballots to decide whether or not to speed up the process of phasing out the country’s nuclear power plants. If voters choose ‘yes’ in Sunday’s referendum, it would force three of the country’s five reactors to close next year, and the

DHAKA: The Syrian army said it had taken control of an important district in rebel-held eastern Aleppo on Saturday after fierce fighting, with rebels blaming intense air strikes and lack of hospitals for their collapsing frontline. Government forces advanced with a ground and air

DHAKA: A lawyer for Hillary Clinton’s campaign said it will participate in a recount of US election votes in Wisconsin. The recount was initiated by Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein, who is also seeking recounts in Michigan and Pennsylvania, citing “statistical

DHAKA: Cuba’s former leader Fidel Castro was a ‘brutal dictator’, US President-elect Donald Trump has said, hours after the 90-year-old’s death was announced. Trump, who takes office in January, said he hoped Cubans could move towards a freer future. Castro came to power in

DHAKA: General Qamar Javed Bajwa has been named as Pakistan’s new army chief. A channel Geo News’s special correspondent Rana Qamar said General Bajwa’s name had been finalized by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday (November 26), reports the Hindustan Times. General

DHAKA: Tropical Storm Otto continues to weaken as it heads into the Eastern Pacific. As Hurricane Otto, this storm hit the coast of Costa Rica and Nicaragua as a Category 2 storm on the five point Saffir-Simpson scale. Hurricane season in the Caribbean Sea runs from the beginning of

DHAKA: Pakistan’s army says a mosque has been targeted at an army facility in northwest Pakistan, resulting in a shootout in which four of the attackers and two soldiers have died. The army said in a statement that 14 soldiers were wounded in Saturday's suicide attack, claimed by

DHAKA: Some two million people are expected to join nationwide protests in South Korea to demand the resignation of President Park Geun-hye. They estimate 1.5 million will gather in Seoul and 500,000 in other regions - in what would be largest rallies since the demonstrations began

DHAKA: Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary leader who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States, has died aged 90. Raul Castro, Fidel's brother and current president of Cuba, announced his death on state television early on Saturday, reports Al Jazeera.

The election commission in Wisconsin has received a request for a recount of the votes in the state narrowly won by Donald Trump more than two weeks ago. The request was filed by Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, reports the BBC. Dr Stein has also pledged to file vote

DHAKA: An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.5 struck north-eastern Tajikistan, close to the borders with China and Kyrgyzstan, at 1424 GMT on Friday (November 25). The US Geological Survey said this, reports the Straits Time. The quake, initially reported as a magnitude 6.8, struck

DHAKA: Wildfires raged across Israel for a third consecutive day, forcing tens of thousands of people from their homes in what officials described as an act of “arson terrorism”. Twelve people were detained on Friday (November 25) in relation to fires, police spokesman Micky

DHAKA: A train collision in northern Iran killed at least 31 people and injured about 60 on Friday (November 25). An Iranian official has told state TV that the death toll from the train collision might increase. The provincial governor, Mohammad Reza Khabbaz, said that so far 31

DHAKA: Mexican authorities have discovered 32 bodies and nine heads hidden in mass graves in a southern region plagued by violence from drug cartels. Investigators exhumed the remains of 31 men and one woman from a hillside in Zitlala, where turf wars between rival criminal gangs are

The Colombian government and the country’s largest rebel group, the FARC, have signed a revised peace deal on November 24 (Thursday) local time. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and the head of the FARC guerrilla Timoleon Jimenez, alias Timochenko, signed the deal in a low-key

DHAKA: Nearly 80 people, many of them Shia pilgrims, have been killed in a truck bomb attack at a road stop in Iraq, a security official says. The blast struck at a petrol station and restaurant near Hilla, some 100km (60 miles) south of Baghdad, reports BBC. The road stop was full

DHAKA: Myanmar is seeking the ethnic cleansing of the Muslim Rohingya minority from its territory. A senior UN official has told the BBC that armed forces have been killing Rohingya in Rakhine state, forcing many to flee to neighboring Bangladesh, says John McKissick of the UN refugee

At least 40 people have been killed when a platform collapsed at a construction site in China’s Jiangxi province. The accident took place at a power plant in Fengcheng where a cooling tower was under construction, reports the BBC. A number of people were still trapped at the