DHAKA: A tour bus accident in southwest Tibet left at least 44 people dead in China’s Tibet Autonomous Region,  The bus was involved in a three-vehicle pileup along the National Highway in Nyemo County in Tibet. It crashed against a sports utility vehicle and a pickup truck, and then

DHAKA: Tens of thousands marked the 69th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Nagasaki on Saturday, as the city’s pacifist mayor urged the Japanese government to listen to increasing concerns over controversial plans to expand the role of its military. Crowds gathered to remember

DHAKA: Tens of thousands marked the 69th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Nagasaki on Saturday, as the city’s pacifist mayor urged the Japanese government to listen to increasing concerns over controversial plans to expand the role of its military. Crowds gathered to remember

DHAKA: At least four people have been killed in Pakistan’s Punjab province, in clashes between police and supporters of a leading anti-government cleric. Many have been wounded in the violence, which occurred after police blocked roads to the provincial capital Lahore. The cleric,

DHAKA: Hamas, the Islamist movement in de facto control of Gaza, vowed Saturday there would be no concessions to Israel. The group defies international attempts to broker a new ceasefire after fighting resumed. ‘There will be no going back, the resistance will continue,’ Hamas

DHAKA: Unites States president Barack Obama on Saturday vowed to continue air strikes against Iraqi jihadists if needed to protect US diplomats and military advisors. Speaking in his weekly address, Obama said that he had authorised the strikes in Iraq to protect US personnel serving in

DHAKA: The Iraqi government delivered a planeload of ammunition to Arbil, the capital of Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdish region, on Friday in an unprecedented act of military cooperation between Kurdish and Iraqi forces. A US official said, The Jerusalem Post publishes this report on

DHAKA: Medical sources in Gaza said on Saturday that the IAF struck a motorcycle carrying two Gazans in a refugee camp in central Gaza.The two men were killed in the attack, reports The Jerusalem Post.Meanwhile, the Palestinian Ma’an wire service said three bodies were recovered

DHAKA: A court in Egypt has dissolved the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the Muslim Brotherhood’s political wing.The government of president Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has cracked down harshly on the Islamist movement and other opponents over the past year.Last July, Sisi, then head of

DHAKA: China’s foreign minister on Saturday slammed the Philippines’ proposed three-stage resolution to territorial disputes in the South China Sea, saying Manila had already jumped to the third stage by seeking international arbitration.‘If the Philippines want to carry it out

Myanmar ministers have robustly defended their government’s track record ahead of a meeting Saturday between US secretary of state John Kerry and Myanmar president Thein Sein. Kerry is in Naypyitaw for meetings today and tomorrow with Asean foreign ministers and counterparts from Asean

DHAKA: Around 14 Maoists belonging to Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC), a breakaway faction of the CPI Maoists, were killed in a fierce gunbattle with the CPI Maoists rebels in Kauriya village in Palamu district on Saturday. Jharkhand police said, reports The Times of India. Police have

DHAKA: A community panchayat has banned girls from wearing jeans and keeping mobile phones claiming that they were having a ‘bad’ effect on them and were responsible for eve-teasing incidents. The panchayat of Gujjar community was held at Jadwad village on Friday,

DHAKA: India’s former union minister Jaswant Singh slipped into coma on Friday after sustaining severe head injuries and remained on life support system in a ‘highly critical state’. Doctors attending on him at the Army Research and Referral (R&R) hospital in New Delhi said, The

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama said he was willing to consider broader use of military strikes in Iraq to beat back Islamist militants, but Iraqi political leaders must first figure out a way to work with each other. The New York Times reported, says The Straits Times on Saturday. In

DHAKA: Egypt has called for an immediate return to ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and said progress has been made in the negotiations involving Palestinian factions and Israel. Speaking from Gaza after several Israeli air strikes hit the enclave on Saturday morning, Al Jazeera's Andrew

DHAKA: US fighter jets and drones repeatedly bombed Sunni Islamic extremists in northern Iraq on Friday, targeting what officials described as ISIS artillery units and convoys advancing on the Kurdish regional capital of Irbil. The airstrikes ramped up America's involvement in Iraq where

DHAKA: A girl thought to have died in the Indian Ocean tsunami has been reunited with her family after being found alive nearly a decade later, her parents said Friday.  Raudhatul Jannah was just four when she was swept away as the disaster struck Indonesia on Boxing Day in 2004. After

DHAKA: The US and UN have condemned the resumption of attacks between Gaza and Israel on Friday, urging both sides to cease hostilities. Israel renewed strikes on Gaza soon after a three-day truce expired, saying it was in response to rocket fire by Hamas, which controls Gaza. White

DHAKA: The US says it has launched an air strike against militants from the Islamic State (IS) group in Iraq, reports BBC. The Pentagon said American aircraft attacked artillery that was being used against Kurdish forces defending the northern city of Irbil. President Barack Obama