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DHAKA: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump carved out dominant positions in their party nominating races on Super Tuesday, marching ever closer to a scorched-earth general election clash on November 8.Trump swamped his rivals by piling up seven wins across the nation, demonstrating broad
DHAKA: Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden left a personal fortune of around $29m after his death in a raid in 2011, his will shows.The will is among a trove of documents released to US media. It was seized in the US assault in Abbotabad, Pakistan.Bin Laden urged his family to ‘obey my
DHAKA: Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump have both taken early leads in their respective contests for the US presidential nomination.Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia were among the states both candidates won. Trump was defeated by Ted Cruz in Texas and
DHAKA: Palestinian foreign minister Riyad Malki on Tuesday called on the international community not to allow Israeli settlers to enter their countries and to boycott products from those West Bank communities.‘They must not deal directly or indirectly with the occupation system, in
DHAKA: The authorities in Nepal are to extend for free permits for foreigners prevented from climbing Mount Everest by last year’s earthquakes.More than 800 foreign climbers had paid up to $11,000 for permits for expeditions cancelled after quakes in April and May, reports the
DHAKA: The funeral is taking place in Pakistan of the former bodyguard executed for killing Punjab’s governor over his opposition to blasphemy laws.Security was tight as about 50,000 mourners gathered to pay their last respects to Mumtaz Qadri in Rawalpindi, reports the BBC.Qadri was
DHAKA: Hundreds of people have rallied in Salt Lake City in the US state of Utah to protest against a police shooting that left a 17-year-old Somali refugee critically wounded.The Monday night protest in Utah - where speakers urged people to stand up to police and demand accountability -
DHAKA: The vote to appoint a new president in Myanmar has been brought forward by a week, to 10 March.The move likely means an end to negotiations on whether the constitution could be amended so Aung San Suu Kyi could take the top job, reports the BBC.Suu Kyi’s National League for
DHAKA: A suicide bomber attacked a funeral in Muqdadiya of Iraq, killing 40 and wounded 58 more. Several Shi’ite militiamen were in attendees, including six commanders, who were killed. The police chief was wounded trying to defend the jail from militiamen who were on the rampage. There
DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry says all alleged violations of the partial truce in Syria will be investigated.He said the US and Russia were working on a mechanism to ensure any strikes targeted so-called Islamic State (IS) or al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front.Kerry said they had
DHAKA: Europe cannot allow Greece to fall into ‘chaos’, German Chancellor Angela Merkel says, amid sharp divisions among members over the migrant crisis.Austria and several Balkan countries have introduced restrictions stranding migrants in Greece.Merkel said EU nations had not
DHAKA: Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad says he is leaving the ruling party because it is ‘seen as supporting corruption’.Mahathir said he was ‘embarrassed’ to be associated with the United Malays National Organisation (Umno) because of its support for current PM
DHAKA: Pakistan has hanged the former police bodyguard who shot dead Punjab's governor over his opposition to blasphemy laws.Officials say, reports the BBC.Mumtaz Qadri killed Salman Taseer in Islamabad in 2011, a high profile murder that shocked the country.He was hailed as a hero by
DHAKA: White supremacists from the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) group and anti-racism protesters clashed in the US state of California during rival demonstrations, with several people stabbed and injured in scuffles.All three stabbing victims, including one suffering critical injuries, were part of
DHAKA: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has earned an emphatic vote of confidence and reformist partners secured surprise gains in parliament in early results from elections that could accelerate the Islamic Republic’s emergence from years of isolation.As of Sunday morning, latest
DHAKA: A 35-year-old man allegedly killed 14 members of his family at their house near Thane in Maharashtra of India and then committed suicide early hours of Sunday.Among the 14 killed are seven children and six women. According to Indian news agency ANI, the man allegedly killed them by
DHAKA: Hillary Clinton has won the South Carolina Democratic presidential primary, with polls projecting a large margin between her and rival Bernie Sanders.Victory for Hillary was widely expected but it gives her momentum ahead of the "Super Tuesday" primaries in 11 states next week,
DHAKA: New Jersey governor and former Republican candidate Chris Christie is endorsing frontrunner Donald Trump for president, he has announced.Christie dropped out of the 2016 presidential race after a lacklustre showing in polls and state races.‘I’m happy to be on the Trump team and
DHAKA: A suicide bomber killed an Afghan militia commander and at least 10 others in the eastern province of Kunar near the border with Pakistan on Saturday.Provincial Governor Wahidullah Kalimzai said the bomber rode up on a motorcycle to the entrance of the government compound in the
DHAKA: Cameroon’s army has killed at least 92 members of the Boko Haram armed group and freed 850 villagers in a joint operation with Nigerian forces.Cameroon’s government said, Al Jazeera publishes this report on Saturday.The operation in the northeastern Nigerian village of Kumshe,