DHAKA: Russia has become a danger to Britain and the country must be prepared to take steps to defend itself and its allies.The former head of MI6 says, reports the BBC.Sir John Sawers, who recently retired after five years as chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, told BBC Radio

DHAKA: Protesters and police clashed in Kathmandu on Saturday at a demonstration by some 30,000 people led by the Maoist opposition to demand that political parties reach a consensus on a new constitution, in the biggest street march in Nepal in years.Police lobbed teargas shells and

DHAKA: Iraq’s national museum officially reopened Saturday after 12 years of painstaking efforts during which close to a third of 15,000 stolen pieces were recovered.The much-delayed reopening was brought forward in what officials said was a response to the destruction of priceless

DHAKA: The jailed leader of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) on Saturday made a ‘historic’ call to the separatists to hold a disarmament conference, a key step in efforts to end Turkey’s 30-year Kurdish insurgency.‘As we are ushering the 30 years of conflict towards

DHAKA: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has urged his army to prepare for war with the United States and its allies, state media said on Saturday, as Pyongyang ramps up the rhetoric ahead of US-South Korea military drills. Kim’s comments came after South Korea and the United States on

DHAKA: Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, was shot dead in central Moscow late on Friday ahead of a major opposition rally this weekend. Investigators and police said, reports The Straits Times. ‘In central Moscow, a man with

DHAKA: Senior officials from Iran and six powers negotiating with Tehran over its nuclear program will hold more talks in Montreux of Switzerland on March 5.The European Union said on Friday which reports the Jerusalem post.The talks between political directors will be preceded by a

DHAKA: The parents of a former Thai princess have been detained under the lese majeste law, the strict defamation rules that protect the royal family.Srirasmi Suwadee’s parents confessed that they had misused royal connections to have their former neighbour jailed on a bogus fraud

DHAKA: A boat carrying at least 10 people thought to be illegal immigrants has sunk off the coast of Macau and the rescue operation hampered by strong currents.Macau’s marine department said that four people had managed to swim to safety but the rest were missing, reports the NDTV.

DHAKA: Four people, including a policeman, were killed today in the second shooting incident in two days in South Korea where gun crime is extremely rare.A 75-year-old man, armed with a hunting rifle, shot dead his brother, the brother's wife and a policeman who responded to an

DHAKA: Ukrainian troops have towed artillery away from the frontline in the war-ravaged east, in a step that seems to augur well for a ceasefire agreement signed with Russia-backed rebels.The military on Thursday showed reporters seven or eight guns being towed away from the front at the

DHAKA: The German parliament is set to vote on a plan to extend financial aid to Greece by another four months.The extension - approved by creditors last week in exchange for a series of Greek government reforms - needs to be ratified by Eurozone members.Although some German MPs have

DHAKA: A Saudi man, described by prosecutors as one of Osama bin Laden's most trusted lieutenants, was convicted in a federal court in New York in connection with the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.Khalid al-Fawwaz, 52, faces up to life in prison after a jury on

DHAKA: Ukraine announced on Thursday that it would begin withdrawing artillery from the front line with separatist rebels in the east, a move that amounts to recognition that a ceasefire meant to take effect on February 15 is holding at last.The pro-Russian rebels have already been

DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry has questioned the judgement of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu over his stance on Iran’s nuclear programme.Netanyahu has criticised the US and others for ‘giving up’ on trying to stop Iran obtaining nuclear weapons.The Israeli PM ‘may not be

DHAKA: Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria militants have abducted at least 220 people from Assyrian Christian villages in northeastern Syria during a three day offensive.A monitor that tracks violence in Syria said on Thursday, reports The Straits Times.The British-based Syrian

DHAKA: United States-trained army commandos on Thursday killed 14 militants belonging to the Al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf group in the first major battle this year on a remote southern island, as the Philippines stepped up efforts to rescue foreign hostages.The Abu Sayyaf is the smallest

DHAKA: For the first time since the end of World War-II, Germans will be able to buy copies of Adolf Hitler’s memoir Mein Kampf.The Jerusalem Post publishes this report.According to TIME magazine, a state-funded research center will be reissuing the book in December, when the Germany

DHAKA: More than 100 people have been killed in avalanches that buried homes in the northeastern Panjshir Valley of Afghanistan.Mohammad Aslam Syas, the deputy director of the Afghanistan Natural Disaster Management Authority, said the avalanches buried homes across four northeast

DHAKA: Three journalists for TV station Al-Jazeera were arrested in Paris on Wednesday after flying a drone from a park on the edge of the city.“The first was piloting the drone, the second was filming and the third was watching,” a judicial source said.The arrests come after multiple