DHAKA: Uganda’s electoral commission has announced that Yoweri Museveni has won a fifth term as president.It said that President Museveni had won 60.75% of the vote, while his main opponent Kizza Besigye had taken 35%, reports the BBC.President Museveni will now serve another five years

DHAKA: British Prime Minister David Cameron has called his referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU for 23 June, after the cabinet agreed to campaign to stay in.Speaking from outside Downing Street, the prime minister said leaving the EU would ‘threaten our economic and national

DHAKA: Indian authorities have imposed curfews and shoot-to-kill orders in a northern state after two days of violent protests over caste rights.Three people have died and about 80 injured in the clashes involving the Jat community in Haryana state, reports the BBC.The Jats are currently

DHAKA: Russia plans to modify some of its intercontinental ballistic missiles to destroy asteroids before they hit Earth, according to a top Russian rocket researcher.Sabit Saitgarayev of Russia's Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau revealed the effort during an interview last week with the

DHAKA: Militants from the Islamic State group who were killed in a US air strike in Libya posed a threat to US and Western interests, the Pentagon says.An IS camp was attacked in Sabratha, around 70km (43 miles) west of Tripoli, reports the BBC.The 38 people killed reportedly include

DHAKA: Clashes inside a United Nations compound in South Sudan killed at least 18 people, including two Doctors Without Borders staffers, the organization said Thursday.The fighting erupted Wednesday evening and continued Thursday at a U.N. civilian protection site in the northeastern

DHAKA: Colombian authorities are investigating the disappearance and dismemberment of at least 100 people whose bodies were allegedly thrown into a sewer system underneath a notorious prison in Bogota.The investigation is focusing on La Modelo, one of Colombia's largest and most

DHAKA: About 900 migrants have been rescued near the Greek island of Lesbos, the EU border agency Frontex has said.According to BBC news, the migrants were taken aboard a Bulgarian ship on patrol between Lesbos's port of Mytilene and the Turkish coast.Frontex said it was picking up all

DHAKA: US President Obama has signed new expanded sanctions on North Korea, after the country fired a test missile earlier this month.The country has refused to stop its nuclear programme and the bill was easily passed by Congress, reports the BBC.The sanctions cut off money North Korea

DHAKA: A Kenyan air strike has killed the intelligence chief of Somalia's militant Islamist group al-Shabab, an army statement has said.Mohammed Karatey and 10 other al-Shabab commanders were killed in the strike in southern Somalia on 8 February, it added.He played a key role in last

DHAKA: President Obama is to visit Cuba in the coming weeks as part of a broader trip to Latin America.Reports say, according to the BBC.He will be only the second sitting US president in history to travel to the island, after Calvin Coolidge in 1928.US Republicans have criticized the

DHAKA: At least 53 people were killed after a bus hit a truck head-on north of Ghana's capital, Accra on Wednesday night. This is the country's worst road crash in years, reports the australian.com.auThe Metro Mass Transit coach was heading to the northern town of Tamale from the

DHAKA: Pope Francis has decried the ‘tragedy’ of people who are forced to migrate, as he celebrated Mass in Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez city on the border with the US.He climbed a ramp overlooking the Rio Grande that separates the city and El Paso, Texas, and laid flowers on a cross

DHAKA: A large explosion in the Turkish capital, Ankara, has left at least 28 people dead and 61 injured.Quoting Turkish officials, the BBC reported the explosion on Thursday.A vehicle full of explosives was detonated as military buses were passing by, according to the Ankara governor’s

DHAKA: Boutros Boutros-Ghali, a history-making diplomat who made his mark as an architect of the Camp David accords and then became the United Nations’ first African secretary-general, has died.He was 93, reports CNN.Rafael Ramirez Carreno, Venezuela’s U.N. ambassador and current head

DHAKA: Russia will sign this year a contract with Iran to supply a batch of its Sukhoi Su-30SM multi-role fighter jets to the Islamic Republic.RIA news agency on Wednesday quoted a senior official at Russia’s arms export agency as saying, reports The Jerusalem Post.Iranian defense

DHAKA: The US has deployed four F-22 stealth jets in South Korea, in a show of force following North Korea’s recent nuclear tests and satellite launch.The Raptors flew over the US military air base in Osan in Gyeonggi province, bordering North Korea, on Wednesday, reports the BBC.The

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama has a message for Donald Trump — being president is tougher than being on a reality show and the American people are too "sensible" to elect him."I continue to believe Trump will not be president," Obama said at a news conference in California after a

DHAKA: An earthquake measuring 4.7 on the Richter Scale hit Assam on Wednesday dawn. The epicentre of the quake was located Dokmoka in Assam. The quake, which has been reportedly felt in several other north-eastern states, 34km (21mi) SSW of Bokakhat, India; was felt at 5.06 am. The quake

DHAKA: The Canadian government has confirmed that the number of missing or murdered indigenous women in the country may be higher than the previously cited 1,200.Ministers recently spoke to survivors across Canada to begin a government inquiry into the matter.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau