DHAKA: India has emerged as the top destination for human trafficking in South Asia, a top UN official has said. South Asia representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Cristina Albertine, said that a majority of the victims are from Bangladesh and Nepal.

DHAKA: Three Palestinians have been killed in shelling after Israel ended a humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, medics said. In a statement on Sunday the Israeli military attributed its decision to resume aerial, naval and ground activity to "Hamas's incessant rocket fire

DHAKA: Israel late Saturday authorized an extension of the humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza for another 24 hours at the request of the United Nations, Israeli officials told CNN. But Hamas rejected a cease-fire extension, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said. "Any humanitarian cease-fire

DHAKA: Three people were killed and 20 others injured in violent clashes between two groups in Saharanpur, western Uttar Pradesh, on Saturday. The clashes broke out at 3 am over construction on a disputed piece of land. Shops were burnt, cars including some police vans, were set on fire

DHAKA: The Israeli army on Saturday released the names of two IDF soldiers who succumbed to their wounds which they incurred during the two-week-old ground incursion in the Gaza Strip. Captain Liad Lavi, an officer in an infantry unit, died late Saturday after he was hospitalized in the

DHAKA: Israel has accepted a UN request for a 24-hour ceasefire in Gaza, but warns the army will act if it is breached by Palestinian militants, BBC reports. A crisis cabinet meeting extended Saturday's truce until midnight on Sunday (21:00 GMT). The move comes despite Hamas militants

DHAKA: North Korea fired a short-range missile into the sea on Saturday, the 15th time it has launched rockets this year. The South’s Yonhap news agency reported, says The Straits Times. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff in a statement said the North ‘fired a short-range missile

DHAKA: Search teams have located the second flight data recorder from an Air Algerie plane that crashed in Mali. A UN team has been scouring the remote site where the plane came down, killing all 116 people on board. Air traffic controllers lost contact with the plane early on Thursday

DHAKA: Thousands of demonstrators protested outside the Israeli Embassy in west London on Saturday. They were carrying large Palestinian flags and chanting pro-Palestinian slogans, calling for an end to the Israeli offensive in Gaza. The Jerusalem Post publishes this report. BDST: 2109

DHAKA: The United States ordered on Saturday’s evacuation of its embassy in Libya due to a ‘very real risk’ to personnel. US Secretary of State John Kerry said, reports The Straits Times. Kerry said that the United States sent its embassy personnel overland to Tunisia ‘because

DHAKA: Russia says new EU sanctions against it over the Ukraine crisis will jeopardise security co-operation against terror. The Russian foreign ministry said the EU would bear the blame for the move which sees 15 officials and 18 entities subject to asset freezes and visa bans, reports

DHAKA: Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters have seized a Syrian army base in the northern province of Raqa, killing scores of troops and beheading some of them. A monitoring group said on Saturday, reports The Straits Times. The takeover of Division 17 base came as the UN

DHAKA: The death toll in Gaza has passed 1,000, Palestinian medical officials say, 19 days after Israel launched an offensive against Hamas militants. It comes amid a 12-hour humanitarian truce, which Gaza residents have been using to gather essential supplies and retrieve bodies buried

DHAKA: The first team of Pakistani climbers to reach the summit of the world’s second tallest mountain, K2, has arrived at the summit. K2 lies in Pakistan, near the northern border with China. The climbers made it to the summit at 02:30 (22:30 GMT on Friday), the BBC publishes this

DHAKA: The US embassy has shut in the Libyan capital Tripoli due to security concerns. US state department says, reports the BBC. Embassy staff were evacuated to neighboring Tunisia ‘due to the ongoing violence resulting from clashes between Libyan militias’, it adds. The state

DHAKA: Residents in Gaza are using a 12-hour humanitarian truce to return to their homes, gather essential supplies and search for those trapped in the rubble. At least 60 bodies have been recovered and taken to the Shifa Hospital morgue, with more thought to remain buried. Some 940

DHAKA: Syria’s Al-Qaeda affiliate has released a video of a US suicide bomber who blew himself up at an army post in the northwest of the country. Moner Mohammad Abu Salha, alias Abu Hurayra al-Amriki, was believed to be the first American national to carry out such an attack in

DHAKA: US secretary of state John Kerry will continue truce efforts in Paris on Saturday when France hosts diplomats from the United States, Britain, Germany, Italy, the European Union, Turkey and Qatar. A French diplomatic source said, reports The Jerusalem Post. Hamas wants an end to

DHAKA: Israeli tank shelling killed 18 Palestinians from a single family in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, the Gaza health ministry said, shortly before a 12-hour humanitarian truce agreed by Israel and Hamas went into effect. Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf Al-Qidra said

DHAKA: Israel and Hamas have begun a 12-hour humanitarian truce in Gaza. Israel said it would continue to "locate and neutralise" Hamas tunnels during the pause, which began at 08:00 local time (05:00 GMT), and vowed to respond if it came under attack. International efforts to negotiate