DHAKA: At least 46 people have been killed in a series of bombings in central Iraq, police and medical officials say.Eighteen died in an attack on a funeral for a pro-government Sunni militiaman in a village south of Baquba, the capital of Diyala province.Seven car bombs meanwhile

DHAKA: Thailand’s prime minister urged anti-government protesters on Wednesday to vent their anger against her at the ballot box, insisting that elections were the best way to solve the country’s deepening political crisis.Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has faced weeks of mass

DHAKA: European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, who is coordinating talks between six world powers and Iran on its nuclear programme, said she would visit Tehran in the coming weeks.‘It is my intention to visit in the next weeks,’ Ashton told a news conference in Kuwait

DHAKA: UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon says that half of Syria’s population now ‘urgently need humanitarian aid’.He was speaking at a donor conference in Kuwait to raise funds for the worsening humanitarian crisis.The UN is asking for $6.5bn over the coming year for Syria, its

DHAKA: Australia said on Wednesday that no asylum-seekers’ boats have arrived for nearly a month, but the military leader leading border control said he was not yet ready to declare operations a success.The number of people brought to Australia on people-smuggling boats to seek asylum

DHAKA: Myanmar military has continued to use rape as a weapon of war even after a nominally civilian government was elected in 2010, a women’s group says.The Women’s League of Burma said it had documented more than 100 cases, some involving children as young as eight.Most rapes were

DHAKA: The US has returned to India three ancient sculptures that had been smuggled into the US by art dealers and accomplices.The move followed a month of tense ties after a row over an Indian diplomat who was arrested in the US, reports BBC.The row erupted after the diplomat, Devyani

DHAKA: South Korean activists have launched an anti-North Korea balloon campaign, sending packages containing leaflets, USB drives and money across the border, despite the North`s government threatening to target the "human scum" involved.The balloons started floating over the border on

DHAKA: Gunshots rang out in the heart of Thailand`s capital overnight in an apparent attack on anti-government protesters that wounded at least two people and ratcheted up tensions in Thailand`s deepening political crisis.The city`s emergency services office said one man was hit in the

DHAKA:  A 51-year-old Danish woman was allegedly beaten, robbed and gang-raped in Connaught Place or CP in the heart of New Delhi on Tuesday evening.A Danish national, who was traveling New Delhi, had gone to visit a museum and while returning back to hotel in Paharganj lost her way in

DHAKA: Egyptians have voted on a new constitution, in a ballot widely seen as a referendum on the army’s decision to overthrow former President Mohamed Morsi in July last year.The vote was largely peaceful, but at least 11 people were killed and 28 people wounded across the country

DHAKA: The United States has implanted devices in nearly 100,000 computers to spy on institutions such as the Chinese and Russian military, EU trade groups and agencies within Saudi Arabia, India and Pakistan. The New York Times on Tuesday cited documents from the National Security

DHAKA: Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon has apologised for quotes that appeared in a newspaper that lambasted US Secretary of State John Kerry`s role in the Middle East peace process.Mr Yaalon was quoted as saying that Mr Kerry was acting out of "misplaced obsession and messianic

DHAKA: At least 200 South Sudanese civilians drowned on Tuesday in a ferry accident on the White Nile river while fleeing fighting in the city of Malakal, an army spokesman said."The reports we have are of between 200 to 300 people, including women and children. The boat was overloaded,"

DHAKA: Tens of thousands of demonstrators slept on the streets of Bangkok on Monday night, continuing a protest intended to force Thailand`s Prime Minister from office, authorities said.The protesters have laid siege to major intersections in Thailand`s large and hectic capital city. At

DHAKA: An explosion in a village in southern China`s Guizhou province killed 14 people and injured seven others on Monday afternoon, China`s state-run Xinhua news agency reported, citing local officials.The blast happened in the Laoshan village in the city of Kaili at about 2:30 p.m.

DHAKA: Polls are set to open in Egypt in a constitutional referendum, the first ballot since the military overthrew Islamist president Mohamed Morsi and an event likely to spawn a presidential bid by army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.Few doubt that Egyptians, who staged mass

DHAKA: A suspected improvised bomb attack at a university campus in the Philippines has left 24 people wounded, many critically, including students and teachers.Police said on Monday, reports gulfnews.com.It appeared a fire was set off deliberately in a school building housing security

DHAKA: Fugitive intelligence contractor Edward Snowden worked briefly at the US embassy in India almost three years before revealing the scale of his country’s surveillance programmes, according to a report on Monday.The former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor arrived in New

DHAKA: French president Francois Hollande’s Paris love nest is registered to a convicted criminal with mafia links.The Daily Mail has reported, says gulfnews.com.Michel Ferracci was given an 18-month suspended prison sentence last year for his role in a group that laundered money from a