DHAKA: A US government review panel has determined a man from Yemen detained at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba for more than a decade can be released.Mahmud Mujahid, 33, had been accused of being an al-Qaeda fighter and bodyguard to Osama Bin Laden.He was held at the detention centre since 2002

DHAKA: A 14-year-old boy is being hailed as a hero in Pakistan for tackling a suicide bomber -- dying at the main gate of his school and saving schoolmates gathered for their morning assembly, reports CNN.Ninth-grader Aitazaz Hassan Bangash was on his way to the Ibrahimzai School on

DHAKA: A car bomb has exploded near a school in the central Syrian province of Hama, killing at least 18 people and wounding dozens more, according to a monitoring group.The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Thursday that the explosion took place in the village of

DHAKA: An escaped jail inmate turned himself in just so that he could warm up -- that`s how cold the U.S. has been this week.With the country swept with unforgiving weather since December due to a distorted polar vortex, Brimson in Minnesota plunged to minus 40 C on Wednesday while

    DHAKA: Devyani Khobragade, the Indian diplomat at the heart of a dispute that has strained ties between New Delhi and Washington, is on her way back to India from the United States, officials said.American authorities` arrest and strip-search of Khobragade, the Indian deputy

DHAKA: A suicide bomber has killed 22 Iraqi army recruits and wounded dozens of others in Baghdad, police say, a day after the country`s prime minister pledged to wipe out al-Qaeda from the country.A man with an explosive vest blew himself up on Thursday amid the recruits at the small

DHAKA: UK visas may be auctioned off to overseas millionaires or ‘sold’ in exchange for donations to hospitals and universities under new government proposals, a media report said Thursday.The proposals, which will be published next month, will form part of a report from the

DHAKA: The father of a Pakistani teenager killed after tackling a suicide bomber Thursday hailed his son for saving ‘hundreds’ of lives through his bravery.Aitzaz Hassan, aged around 15, died in hospital after stopping the bomber, who blew himself up, at the gates of his school in the

DHAKA: Turkish prime minister Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling party has seen its popularity slip since a corruption scandal erupted last month but remains comfortably ahead of the main opposition.The first major poll published since the affair showed on Thursday.The survey by Sonar research,

DHAKA: Konstantin Dolgov, the Russian foreign ministry’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Democracy and Supremacy of Law, has confirmed earlier Thursday his plans on visiting the Guantanamo detention camp on January 17.‘We believe that the American side won’t change the previously set

DHAKA: Philippine president Benigno Aquino Thursday sought Norway’s help in reviving failed peace talks with Maoist guerrillas, a senior presidential aide said, nearly a year after peace talks hosted by Oslo fell apart.Aquino met Norwegian foreign minister Borge Brende in the Philippine

DHAKA: Afghanistan is to release all but 16 of 88 prisoners regarded as a security threat by the United States.The White House has said, reports Sky News.Afghan officials have said they do not have enough evidence to try the other 72 detainees so they will be freed.The US is strongly

DHAKA: US energy secretary Ernest Moniz will no longer travel to India as planned next week, an official of the US Energy Department said on Wednesday, the most serious repercussion yet in a row over the arrest of an Indian diplomat in New York.‘I can confirm that Secretary Moniz is no

DHAKA: A suicide attacker in Karachi on Thursday killed one of Pakistan’s best-known police commanders, famed for his fearless work tackling militants in the city.Chaudhry Aslam, who had survived numerous assassination attempts in the past, died along with two other officers when a

DHAKA: A massive car bomb killed 18 people in the village of Kafat in Syria’s central Hama province on Thursday.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights NGO said, reports Al Arabiya.The monitoring group said women and children were among the dead in the blast, which also killed members

DHAKA: An Egyptian court sentenced 63 Muslim Brotherhood supporters to three years in jail each on Thursday on charges including rioting, thuggery and weapons possession during protests late last year in Cairo.An Egypt judicial source said, reports Today’s Zaman.It was the biggest

DHAKA: Only 14 percent of voters believe Rahul Gandhi would make the best prime minister for India, a survey found on Thursday, just days after his endorsement by outgoing Congress premier Manmohan Singh.The survey for The Times of India found 58 percent of respondents want Narendra Modi,

DHAKA: Germany said on Thursday it had accepted a UN request to destroy remnants of Syria’s chemical weapons on its own soil as part of a bid to eliminate the arsenal by June 30.‘The government decided following a request by the UN-Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons

DHAKA: Central African Republic (CAR) interim leader Michel Djotodia is expected to face pressure to step down when he attends a regional summit on Thursday.His failure to quell violence between Christian and Muslim militias has prompted speculation that he may quit.However, CAR officials

DHAKA: Islamist rebels have captured the headquarters of the al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) in the Syrian city of Aleppo.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was not clear what had happened to the jihadists who had been at the hospital in the