DHAKA: The European Union is set to adopt much tougher economic sanctions against Russia for its role in the Ukraine crisis, officials said. After discussions on broadening the sanctions from the current mix of asset freezes and travel bans, the legal instruments required to give effect

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama has told Central American leaders that migrant children flooding into the US without legitimate legal claims will be sent home. The presidents of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador met Obama at the White House on Friday to discuss the crisis at the US

DHAKA: Israel and Hamas agreed to a 12-hour cease-fire starting Saturday, temporarily halting more than two weeks of bloodshed that has claimed more than 800 mostly civilian lives. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Secretary of State John Kerry that Israel would agree to the truce,

DHAKA: Seven people are feared killed in an Indian Air Force helicopter crash near Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh on Friday. The helicopter allegedly sent a distress call shortly before 5 am when it was 37 kms north of Lucknow. After that, it lost contact with Air Traffic Controllers in

DHAKA: An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 struck on the coast of Alaska early on Friday, shaking people awake in the state capital city of Juneau but causing little, if any, damage, officials said. A geophysicist at the National Earthquake Information Center Jessica Turner said “We

DHAKA: There are no survivors from the Air Algerie AH5017 passenger jet that crashed in Mali. French President Francois Hollande said this which reports BBC on Friday. Hollande said one flight data recorder had been recovered, after French troops reached the crash site near Mali’s

DHAKA: At least 15 people were killed by alleged Taliban gunmen while they were travelling by road in the central Afghan province of Ghor.The attackers stopped two minibuses overnight, ordered the passengers out and shot them dead, according to the province’s police chief.The

DHAKA: Efforts to secure a ceasefire between Israel and the militant Hamas movement are intensifying as the death toll in 18-day-old conflict continues to climb. Gaza faced more Israeli shelling and air strikes overnight, while Israeli towns raised the alarm over Hamas rockets on Friday

DHAKA: On Friday, the US Sentencing Commission voted unanimously to allow nearly 50,000 nonviolent federal drug offenders to seek lower sentences. The commission's decision retroactively applied an earlier change in sentencing guidelines to now cover roughly half of those serving federal

DHAKA: The US says it has evidence that Russia has fired artillery across the border targeting Ukrainian military positions. Russia also intends "to deliver heavier and more powerful multiple rocket launchers" to pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine, the state department said. Russia has

DHAKA: New research suggests the global decline in wildlife is connected to an increase in human trafficking and child slavery. Ecologists say the shortage of wild animals means that in many countries more labour is now needed to find food. Children are often used to fill this need for

DHAKA: Israeli police have shot dead at least two Palestinians just north of Jerusalem during massive protests in support of those under siege in Gaza in several areas of the occupied West Bank. Palestinian security and medical officials named one of the men as Mohammed Al-Aaraj, 25, who

DHAKA: The wreck of a plane that disappeared with 116 people on board on a flight from Burkina Faso to Algiers has been found in Mali, officials say. The Burkinabe army said the plane, operated by Algeria's national airline Air Algerie, had crashed about 50km (30 miles) from the Burkina

SAUDI ARABIA: Three Bangladeshi citizens were killed and four others injured in a road accident some 70 kilometers away from Riyadh, the capital Saudi Arabia, on Thursday noon.The deceased were identified as Jalal, 28, from Noakhali, Masud, 27, from Comilla and Rony, 25, from

DHAKA: Ukraine’s prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Thursday resigned in protest at the disbanding of the ruling parliamentary coalition.‘I announce my resignation in connection with the dissolution of the parliamentary coalition and the blocking of government initiatives,’ a

DHAKA: At least 15 people have been killed and more than 200 injured when a UN-run school used as a shelter in Gaza was shelled.The Gaza health ministry says, reports the BBC.Hundreds of Palestinians were in the school in Beit Hanoun, fleeing heavy fighting in the area.It is the fourth

DHAKA: Algeria’s national airline, Air Algerie, says it has lost contact with one of its planes flying from Burkina Faso to Algiers across the Sahara.Algerian aviation officials said the plane had crashed, but gave no further details, reports the BBC.Contact was lost about 50 minutes

DHAKA: The UN says militant Islamist group Isis has ordered all women and girls in Mosul, northern Iraq, to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM). UN official Jacqueline Badcock said the fatwa, or religious edict, applied to females between the ages of 11 and 46. She said the

DHAKA: UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos has expressed extreme concern at the situation in Gaza, describing a ceasefire as ‘vital’. She said the conflict meant 44% of Gaza was a no-go area for Palestinians, and residents were running out of food. More than 710 Palestinians and 30

DHAKA: Russia will cooperate with the investigation into the downing of a Malaysian airliner a week ago and is satisfied that the Netherlands, rather than Ukraine, is leading the effort.The country’s ambassador to Malaysia said on Thursday, reports The Straits Times.Liudmila