DHAKA: An Egyptian court has sentenced former president Mohammed Mursi to 20 years in jail for ordering the arrest and torture of protesters during his rule.It is the first verdict he has received since his ousting and is one of several trials he faces.Mursi was deposed by the army in

DHAKA: Japan’s state-of-the-art maglev train set a world speed record Tuesday in a test run near Mount Fuji, clocking more than 600 kilometers an hour.The seven-car maglev, short for ‘magnetic levitation’, train, hit a top speed of 603 kilometers an hour, and managed nearly 11

DHAKA: South Korean prime minister Lee Wan Koo was left in political limbo on Tuesday after offering to resign over a scandal involving bribery allegations against senior members of president Park Geun Hye’s administration.Park is currently on a trip to Latin America and a presidential

DHAKA: The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said it had received a distress call from a sinking boat in the Mediterranean Sea carrying more than 300 people, with at least 20 reported dead.The news came as European Union ministers were due to meet to urgently discuss Sunday's

DHAKA: New distress calls have been received from migrant boats in the Mediterranean, as EU ministers met in Luxembourg to discuss the crisis.Italy and Malta said they were working on rescues of at least two boats in distress with hundreds on board, reports the BBC.The EU is under

DHAKA: The Indonesian embassy in Yemen was heavily damaged, while its two diplomats and one citizen were injured, in explosions that followed an air strike by Saudi-led coalition warplanes on a missile depot in the rebel-held Yemeni capital of Sana’a.At least 15 people were dead and

DHAKA: Zulu king Goodwill Zwelithini is set to urge restraint after a wave of violence against migrants in South Africa.He has been accused of fuelling the attacks which have killed at least seven people after saying foreigners should ‘go back to their countries’.More than 300 people

DHAKA: Italian PM Matteo Renzi has led calls for more European Union action on sea migration after the latest deadly capsize of a boat in the Mediterranean.Demanding a summit on the issue, Renzi said trafficking was ‘a plague in our continent’ and bemoaned the lack of European

DHAKA: Australia and Iran have agreed to share intelligence about Australians fighting with militant groups in Iraq.Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has said the deal will help both countries in their efforts to tackle Islamic State (IS), reports the BBC.She added that Australia would have

DHAKA: China’s president Xi Jinping is due in Pakistan, where he is expected to announce $46bn of investment.The focus of the spending is on building a China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), running from Gwadar in Pakistan’s Balochistan province to China’s western Xinjiang

DHAKA: One man died and another was hospitalised on Monday in a fire caused by a powerful quake off Taiwan that also set buildings shaking in the capital Taipei and sparked a short-lived tsunami warning in far southwestern Japan.Japanese forecasters had warned the 6.6 magnitude earthquake

DHAKA: A Bangladeshi survived the smuggler’s boat that overturned with several hundred migrants in Mediterranean Sea off Libya’s coast, reports international media Monday.The survivor told investigators there were 950 people on board of the fishing boat that sank on Saturday.Italian

DHAKA: More than 300 people have been arrested in South Africa in connection with a wave of violence against immigrants from other parts of Africa.The minister of home affairs says, reports the BBC.Malusi Gigaba issued a warning to those responsible, saying that they would be subject to

DHAKA: As many as 700 people are feared dead after a boat carrying migrants capsized off the Libyan coast overnight.The Times of Malta reported on Sunday, reports The Straits Times.Twenty-eight people were rescued in the incident, which happened in an area just off Libyan waters, south of

DHAKA: Beleaguered opposition leader Rahul Gandhi was set Sunday to lead a rally of thousands of farmers in the Indian capital against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s controversial overhaul of laws on land-buying.Dressed all in white and waving opposition Congress party flags, busloads

DHAKA: The first French weapons from a US$3 billion Saudi-funded program will arrive in Lebanon on Monday as allies seek to bolster the country’s defenses against the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria and other militants pressing along its Syrian border.Anti-tank guided missiles are

DHAKA: Police in Australia say they have foiled an Islamic State-inspired plot to carry out an attack at a World War One centenary event.Police arrested five teenage suspects, charging one 18-year-old with conspiring to commit a terrorist act, reports the BBC.The men were planning to

DHAKA: Anger flared up against the fragile coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday as a 15-year-old boy was killed when police fired on pro-azadi protesters at Magam in Budgam district.Suhail Ahmed Sofi’s killing is the first such case since the People’s Democratic

DHAKA: A mysterious disease has killed at least 18 people in the past several days in south-eastern Nigeria.Local officials said this that reports the BBC on Sunday.The outbreak started in the Ode-Irele town, Ondo state, and spread rapidly.The disease - characterised by blurred vision,

DHAKA: South African President Jacob Zuma has visited a refugee camp in the port of Durban after a fresh outbreak of anti-foreigner violence.Zuma told those who had fled the violence that it went against South African values and he would bring it to an end.But he was jeered by some in the