DHAKA: More than 450 people were killed in China’s restive mainly Muslim Xinjiang region last year, a rights group said - with three times as many deaths among members of the Uighur minority than ethnic Han Chinese.Xinjiang has seen a wave of unrest, labeled by the authorities as

DHAKA: Six decades after the first conquest of the world’s highest peak, tons of rubbish and human waste abandoned by hundreds of Mount Everest climbers is starting to raise a stink.Nepal is cracking down on the mountaineers who seek to emulate the 1953 feat of Sir Edmund Hillary and

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama has reacted scathingly to a speech by the Israeli prime minister that castigated his policy towards Iran.In a speech to the US Congress, Benjamin Netanyahu warned that a deal under discussion on Iran’s nuclear program could ‘pave Iran’s path to the

DHAKA: The London graduate believed to be Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria executioner ‘Jihadi John’ once denounced the 9/11 attacks and the 2005 bombings in the British capital, according to an audio recording released Tuesday.Kuwait-born Mohammed Emwazi was identified by media

DHAKA: An earthquake measuring 6.4 magnitude struck off the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Tuesday.The US Geological Survey said, reports The Straits Times.There was no immediate word on damage or casualties.The quake was 23 miles deep and centered 114 miles west of the town of

DHAKA: Moscow and Kiev agreed a gas delivery deal until the end of March after EU-brokered talks in Brussels, securing supplies to Europe after a row over supplies to rebel-held eastern Ukraine.The EU said, france24.com reports.‘I am satisfied that we managed to safeguard the full

DHAKA: The Venezuelan government says the United States has two weeks to dramatically reduce the number of diplomats it has in the country.Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez said the US could decide which of its 100 diplomats should be sent home.She said the goal was to bring the balance

DHAKA: A solar-powered plane made a third successful test flight in the United Arab Emirates on Monday ahead of a planned round-the-world tour to promote alternative energy.Organisers hope that Solar Impulse 2 may head off around the globe as early as Saturday but caution that the

DHAKA: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he received donations from firms that got government subsidies, the first time he himself has faced questions about potentially improper donations, after having lost three cabinet members to scandals.Abe returned for a rare second term in

DHAKA: USA President Barack Obama said Iran should agree to at least a decade-long freeze on its nuclear activity if a landmark deal is to be finally reached, reports BBC.BBC adds, Obama, in an interview with Reuters, also said the odds were still against such an agreement

DHAKA: Police in northwest Pakistan have arrested more than 450 parents for refusing to vaccinate their children against polio.Officials said on Monday, reports The Straits Times.Riaz Khan Mehsud, deputy commissioner of Peshawar, the main town of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province,

DHAKA: Iraq has launched a military operation to recapture Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit from Islamic State (IS).Troops and militia were said to be attacking on different fronts, backed by airstrikes from Iraqi fighter jets, reports the BBC.The government says that its forces are

DHAKA: North Korea fired two missiles into the sea and vowed ‘merciless’ retaliation on Monday as the US and South Korea kicked off joint military drills denounced by Pyongyang as recklessly confrontational.The annual exercises always trigger a surge in military tensions and

DHAKA: Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will meet on Wednesday for a decision that could presage the first big split in its leadership.Sources say the party is likely to decide whether to remove founder members Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan from its top decision-making

DHAKA: A video has captured the moment US police shot and killed a homeless man after an altercation in downtown Los Angeles.The graphic film shows a violent struggle between the man and several officers in the city’s Skid Row area.As the police try to subdue him, a voice is heard

DHAKA: Islamic State released 19 Assyrian Christian captives in Syria on Sunday after processing them through a sharia court.A monitoring group, British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said this which reports the Times of India.More than 200 Assyrians remain in Islamic State

DHAKA: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has arrived in the US to argue against a possible nuclear deal with Iran.Netanyahu says the deal would be inadequate to prevent Tehran from acquiring a nuclear bomb.He is due to give a speech in Congress on Tuesday which was not agreed in advance

DHAKA: Holding placards declaring ‘I am not afraid’, some 10,000 Russians marched in Moscow on Sunday in memory of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov, whose murder has widened a split in society that some say could threaten Russia’s future.Families, the old and young walked slowly,

DHAKA: Thousands of supporters of Italy’s Northern League have poured into one of Rome’s biggest squares for a rally against immigration, the EU and Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s government.League leader Matteo Salvini accused Renzi of substituting the country’s interests to

DHAKA: A military assault on Islamic militants in the southern Philippines entered its fifth day on Saturday, with the toll rising to 24 guerrillas and two soldiers dead.Officials said, reports The Straits Times.Ten Abu Sayyaf militants were killed in a two-hour clash on Friday after