DHAKA: Germany’s foreign intelligence agency helped the CIA track down Osama bin Laden in Pakistan where US special forces killed the Al-Qaeda leader.A German news report published Sunday said, according to The Straits Times.The BND spy service provided a tip-off that Osama was hiding

DHAKA: Thousands of people rallied in Okinawa in southern Japan on Sunday in protest against a controversial United States airbase on the island, as a two-decade-old bitter row over the relocation of the site drags on.Okinawa is home to more than half of the 47,000 US service personnel

DHAKA: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held talks on Sunday with his counterpart during a visit to Mongolia, with the two nations upgrading relations as Delhi tries to strengthen its influence in China’s backyard.Meeting Prime Minister Chimed Saikhanbileg, Modi praised the

DHAKA: The United States is ‘deeply concerned’ about an Egyptian court decision to seek the death penalty for former president Mohamed Mursi.A State Department official said on Sunday, reports The Straits Times.The US criticism follows condemnations from Amnesty International and

DHAKA: A magnitude 5.7 earthquake hit Nepal on Saturday, about 76 km east south east of the capital Kathmandu, at a shallow depth of 10 km.The US Geological Survey said, reports The Straits Times.A 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck on April 25, killing more than 8,000 people and there have

DHAKA: The Syrian army has killed an Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria leader responsible for oil-related affairs along with 40 other militants in an attack in the eastern province of Deir al-Zor.Syrian state media reported, says The Straits Times.A news flash on state TV identified IS

DHAKA: Thailand has found more than 100 migrants on a southern island but thousands remain adrift as boats are pushed back out into southeast Asia’s seas by governments who have ignored a UN call for a coordinated rescue.The crisis has arisen because smugglers have abandoned boats

DHAKA: Myanmar president office said it may snub a regional meeting hosted by Thailand on May 29 aimed at easing the current Bay of Bengal migrant crisis, reports NDTV. Hundreds of boat people have arrived on Thai, Malaysian and Indonesian soil since May 1, when the discovery of mass

DHAKA: At least 55 people were killed in two Boko Haram raids this week near Maiduguri, capital of restive northeastern Nigeria Borno state.A vigilante and two residents said on Friday, reports the Times of India.“Boko Haram fighters raided Bale and Kayamla villages where they killed at

DHAKA: Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza has returned to the capital Bujumbura in the wake of a failed coup attempt.Nkurunziza was in Tanzania when military leaders moved against his bid for a third term on Wednesday, reports the BBC.Three of the coup leaders have been arrested,

DHAKA: Three major meteorological agencies -- the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Japan's Meteorological Agency and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology -- have determined that water in the Pacific Ocean is now warm enough to say that El Niño is back.The El Niño

DHAKA: Malaysia has turned away two boats with up to 800 Rohingya Muslims, insisting that Myanmar must end its oppression of this minority group, reports the Straits Times.With 1,158 refugees, mainly Rohingyas from Myanmar but some from Bangladesh as well, landing in Langkawi on Sunday

DHAKA: The wreckage of a US military helicopter that disappeared this week while delivering aid near the Chinese border in Nepal has been found.Six US marines and two Nepali soldiers were on board. There is "no chance" of survivors, Nepali officials say, reports the bbc.comTuesday's

DHAKA: Almost 3,600 migrants have reportedly been rescued from overcrowded boats sailing from Africa to Europe over the past 48 hours, with sea conditions seen as perfect for attempting the crossing.While more than 600 migrants were brought ashore at the port of Catania in Sicily on

DHAKA: Around 800 migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh were brought ashore to the east coast of Aceh on Indonesia's island of Sumatra on Friday, a search and rescue official said."The latest information we have is about 794 people were found in the middle of the sea and brought ashore by

DHAKA: Indonesia faced calls on Thursday to stop virginity tests for women seeking to join the military, with a leading rights group calling the practice ‘cruel, inhuman and degrading’.Human Rights Watch (HRW) said interviews with female members of the military showed that the

DHAKA: A boat crammed with scores of Rohingya migrants, including many young children, was found drifting in Thai waters Thursday, according to a media reporter at the scene, with passengers saying several people had died over the last few days.Dozens of visibly weak-looking people were

DHAKA: Nearly 200 migrants detained since Thailand launched its recent crackdown against human trafficking in the country's deep south will be prosecuted for entering the country illegally, police said Thursday.In the last fortnight, Thai police have rounded up more than 250 Myanmar

DHAKA: The US military has denied claims by Iraq's government that a coalition air strike hit a mosque where the deputy commander of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group had been meeting other fighters in the north of the country.Iraq’s defence ministry said an air

DHAKA: Seventy-two people died in a huge blaze at a footwear factory in the Philippine capital, authorities said on Thursday, as angry relatives and workers described sweatshop conditions including dismal fire safety standards.Firefighters and police pulled dozens of corpses out of the