DHAKA: Germany has insisted it was responsible for the Holocaust, after Israel’s prime minister claimed a Palestinian leader told the Nazis to kill Europe’s Jews.Chancellor Angela Merkel said Germans were ‘very clear in our minds’ that the Nazis were responsible, reports the

DHAKA: Britain, France, Germany and the United States have asked a UN sanctions committee to investigate Iran’s recent missile test, branding it a serious violation of UN resolutions.US Ambassador Samantha Power last week said Washington had concluded that a medium-range ballistic

DHAKA: Scientists say they have identified a new species of giant tortoise on the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific.They used genetic data to determine that a group of 250 slow-moving reptiles was distinct from another tortoise species on Santa Cruz island, reports the BBC.It is the 15th

DHAKA: Wikileaks claims to have released some of the contents of CIA director John Brennan’s personal email account, reports the BBC.Six documents published on the Wikileaks website include a draft security clearance application containing personal information.A CIA statement said the

DHAKA: The White House has strongly condemned a visit to Moscow by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.A spokesman criticised Russia for putting on a “red carpet welcome”, reports the BBC.The Syrian leader’s trip on Tuesday came three weeks after Russia began air strikes in Syria

DHAKA: Two Chinese diplomats have been killed and a third wounded after a woman opened fire at a restaurant in the central Philippine city of Cebu.The deputy consul and the finance officer for the Chinese consulate in the city were killed and the consul general wounded, police said,

DHAKA: Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and US secretary of state John Kerry will meet on Friday in Vienna to discuss the Syrian conflict together with their counterparts from Turkey and Saudi Arabia.Moscow said Wednesday, reports France24.Russia’s foreign ministry made the

DHAKA: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday approved the Iranian government’s nuclear deal with world powers but said Tehran should yield core elements of its nuclear program until allegations of past military dimensions had been settled.In a letter to President Hassan

DHAKA: Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has visited Moscow on his first overseas trip since the civil war broke out in his country in 2011.During the surprise visit, he held talks with President Vladimir Putin.Russia launched air strikes in Syria last month against the so-called

DHAKA: A powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck off Vanuatu in the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, but no tsunami threat was detected and no damage reported.Seismologists said, reports NDTV.The quake hit at a depth of 131 kilometers about 335 kilometers from the capital Port Vila, the

DHAKA: The number of migrants who have arrived in Greece this year has topped half a million.The United Nations said, reports the BBC.The rate of people arriving has risen to 8,000 a day, the UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees said, with many hoping to beat winter weather.Most migrants

DHAKA: A government-appointed Sri Lankan judge says allegations the army committed war crimes during the long conflict with Tamil Tiger rebels are ‘credible’.He was leading the first government inquiry into the atrocities, one month after the UN released its own findings.President

DHAKA: Canadian Prime Minister-designate Justin Trudeau has confirmed he will withdraw Canadian fighter jets from the air strikes against Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria.He informed US President Barack Obama of his decision hours after leading his Liberal party to victory in the

DHAKA: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for fast action to halt the "dangerous escalation in violence" between Israelis and Palestinians.He told reporters in Jerusalem it was not too late to avoid a broader crisis, reports the BBC.Ban spoke soon after police said a Palestinian

DHAKA: Justin Trudeau is set to become Canada’s new prime minister after his Liberal Party swept to power in general elections, ending nearly a decade of Conservative Party rule.The Liberals seized a parliamentary majority, an unprecedented turn in political fortunes that smashed the

DHAKA: Croatia has opened its border with Serbia, letting in thousands of refugees who had been stranded for nearly two days in the cold.The opening on Monday partially cleared the human bottleneck that has been building up in the West Balkans.The humanitarian crisis has been growing

DHAKA: Dogs are the most diverse animal on the planet - a legacy of thousands of years of selective breeding by humans.But they derive from wild wolves that were gradually tamed and inducted into human hunting groups - perhaps near Mongolia or Nepal.The findings come from an analysis of

DHAKA: Canada's opposition Liberal Party is heading for victory in parliamentary elections that would end nine years of Conservative rule, early results show.Out of 338 seats, results of 230 seats were declared till 9:10am. The Liberals, led by Justin Trudeau, have won in 138 seats while

DHAKA: The Maldives’ top court has overturned a sentence of death by stoning issued to a woman found guilty of adultery.Local media report, says the BBC.The woman, who reportedly gave birth out of wedlock, was convicted by a magistrate’s court on Sunday.However, the Supreme Court

DHAKA: One Israeli soldier has died of his wounds and at least 11 people, including four soldiers, have been injured in an attack on a bus station in southern Israel.Police said describing the incident as a shooting and stabbing attack, reports Al Jazeera.After the attack on Sunday