DHAKA: Russia says it ‘categorically rejects’ accusations of war crimes over the bombing of hospitals in Syria.Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said ‘those who make such statements are not capable of backing them up with proof’, reports Al Jazeera.Up to 50 people were killed in

DHAKA: Four US journalists have been arrested in Bahrain, accused of entering the country illegally, joining protests and lying to border staff.Bahraini police said on Monday that they had detained four ‘foreign nationals’, while the US State Department said it was aware of reports

DHAKA: Pope Francis has asked Mexican indigenous people in Chiapas state for forgiveness over they way they have been excluded from society.He made his appeal while celebrating Mass in three native languages after a new Vatican decree approved their use, reports the BBC.The Pope also used

DHAKA: France and Turkey have said that air strikes on hospitals in northern Syria constitute war crimes.Up to 50 people have been killed in missile attacks on schools and hospitals in the region, the UN said.Turkey’s foreign ministry blamed Russia for the attacks, reports the BBC.

DHAKA: Hasan Nasrallah, the secretary general of Hezbollah, arrived in Iran on Sunday to receive urgent medical treatment for his cancer, after his condition recently deteriorated.Lebanese media reported on Monday, says The Jerusalem Post.According to the reports, Nasrallah was evacuated

DHAKA: A hospital in north-west Syria backed by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has been destroyed in an air strike.The medical charity said eight members of staff were missing after the attack in Maarat al-Numan, but it did not identify who was responsible.One monitoring group reported

DHAKA: Turkey has denied reports that some of its soldiers have entered Syria, the state-run Anadolu news agency says.Turkish Defence Minister Ismet Yilmaz also told a parliamentary commission it was not considering deploying troops there.In letters of complaint to the UN, Syria had

DHAKA: Turkey has denied reports that some of its soldiers have entered Syria, the state-run Anadolu news agency says.Turkish Defence Minister Ismet Yilmaz also told a parliamentary commission it was not considering deploying troops there.In letters of complaint to the UN, Syria had

DHAKA: A massive fire that broke out during a cultural event at the 'Make In India Week' in Mumbai on Sunday evening was put out after efforts by fire fighters for nearly 30 minutes. Top politicians, celebrities and industrialists were among 8,000 people present there, reports the

DHAKA: Cuba returned to the United States an inert Hellfire missile that had been wrongly shipped to Havana in June 2014.The missile, which did not contain explosives, had been shipped to Spain for a Nato training exercise, the Wall Street Journal said, reports the BBC.It was then taken

DHAKA: Boko Haram Takfiri terrorists have killed at least 30 people in raids on two villages in the crisis-stricken northeast of Nigeria.According to local sources, the militants, on bikes and in vans, first attacked Kachifa village in the country’s northeastern Borno province on Friday

DHAKA: Paramedics are responding to a number of calls from people who fell as a magnitude 5.7 earthquake hit near Christchurch of New Zealand.The quake struck shortly after 1pm on Sunday (11am AEDT) and was initially reported as 5.9 magnitude by GeoNet.Pictures have emerged of a cliff

DHAKA: Charlotte Von Schedvin was a blonde, blue-eyed young woman who hailed from Swedish nobility.PK Mahanandia was a poor art student from eastern India, seen as an “untouchable” in his country’s caste system.Yet their chance meeting in Delhi, late 1975, when Von Schedvin asked

DHAKA: The US has deployed an additional Patriot missile battery in South Korea, the military said on Saturday, ahead of talks to set up an even more sophisticated US defense system - a move that has worried China and Russia.The US military command in South Korea said an air defense

DHAKA: Saudi Arabia is sending troops and fighter jets to Turkey’s Incirlik military base ahead of a possible ground invasion of Syria.The Turkish foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, confirmed the deployment in a statement to the Yeni Şafak newspaper on Saturday, days before a

DHAKA: More than 5.5 million people worldwide are dying prematurely every year as a result of air pollutionA new research says, reports the BBC.Most of these deaths are occurring in the rapidly developing economies of China and India.The main culprit is the emission of small particles

DHAKA: ‘Thank you Russia! Thank you Hezbollah! Thank you Iran!,’ shouts the man, as he passes us in the busy square.Nearby, a photograph of Bashar al-Assad beams down from the front of the town hall, and banners in support of the Syrian President hang outside the main mosque, reports

DHAKA: Pope Francis and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill have called for restored Christian unity between the two churches at historic talks in Cuba.The meeting was the first between a Pope and a Russian Church head since the Western and Eastern branches of Christianity split in the 11th

DHAKA: The Independent is to become the first national newspaper of England to move to a digital-only future, owners ESI Media have announced.The move will capitalize on The Independent’s position as the fastest growing UK quality newspaper website, and will ensure a sustainable and

DHAKA: Three people have died in Venezuela from complications related to the Zika virus, President Nicolas Maduro said.There have been 319 confirmed cases of the Zika virus in the nation, reports the state-run newspaper Correo Del Orinoco on Thursday.Venezuela's deaths come as Latin