DHAKA: Thailand`s parliament has moved another step closer to passing controversial political amnesty legislation that opponents fear would allow ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to return.Thousands took to the streets on Friday to protest against the draft bill, raising fears of

DHAKA: Israeli artillery fire in the southern Gaza Strip has killed four Palestinian fighters and wounded others, officials from both sides said.The local commanders of Hamas` military wing were killed by tank fire, Palestinian officials said on Friday, while the Israeli army said five of

DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry has said that in some cases, US spying has gone too far.Mr Kerry is the most senior Obama administration official to have commented directly on an issue that has upset America`s European allies.He said he will work with the president to prevent

DHAKA: Syria has destroyed all of its declared chemical weapons production and mixing facilities, meeting a major deadline in an ambitious disarmament programme, the international chemical weapons watchdog said in a document.The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)

DHAKA: Stranded in the unforgiving expanses of Niger`s Sahara Desert after their vehicles broke down, 90 of people, almost all of them women and children, slowly died of thirst.The migrants had been trying to reach Algeria, Azaoua Mahaman of the Synergie nongovernmental organization said

DHAKA: Israeli warplanes struck a military base near the Syrian port city of Latakia this week, an Obama administration official told CNN on Thursday.An explosion at a missile storage site in the area was reported in the Middle Eastern press, but an attack has not been confirmed by the

DHAKA: China accused Japan of interfering in its recent naval exercises and said it may take unspecified further action if the meddling doesn`t stop.The tough talk comes amid a bitter dispute over competing claims to an uninhabited island group in the East China Sea.China defence ministry

DHAKA: Pakistani police said on Thursday they have arrested 18 suspects over the killing of 10 foreign climbers in the Himalayas in June, but warned that others remain at large.The June 22 attack was the deadliest assault on foreigners in the nuclear-armed country for a decade and was

DHAKA: The US has criticised Germany’s economic policies, saying that its export-led growth model is hurting the eurozone and the wider global economy.In its bi-annual report, the US Treasury said that domestic demand growth in Germany had been ‘anaemic’.It also reiterated its view

DHAKA; Four domestic Chinese flights were diverted on Thursday after bomb threats were received, state media reported, days after an attack rocked Tiananmen Square in the capital.The official Xinhua news agency reported that an unidentified suspect had been arrested in connection with the

DHAKA: Israel’s army arrested three senior members of the Islamist Hamas movement overnight, Palestinian security sources said on Thursday, in the second such arrest operation this week.The three men, Jamal Tawil, Hussein Abu Kwayk and Faraj Romana, were arrested in the West Bank city

DHAKA: A strong earthquake struck Taiwan on Thursday, shaking buildings in the capital Taipei and causing tremors across the island.The country’s Seismology Centre said the tremor, which struck shortly after 8pm local time, was measured at 6.3 magnitude with its epicentre in the

DHAKA: An Italian magazine said Thursday that a United States spy agency had eavesdropped on Vatican phone calls, possibly including when former Pope Benedict’s successor was under discussion, but the Holy See said it had no knowledge of any such activity.‘Panorama’ magazine said

DHAKA: United States Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said he expects deepening cooperation with Japan over the high-stakes cleaning up and decommissioning of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.The Fukushima plant has had a series of mishaps in recent months, including radioactive water

DHAKA: Former US National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden will not answer questions from foreign special services regarding the NSA’s secret surveillance of leaders of countries that are the US` allies.Snowden’s Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena says, reports The Voice

DHAKA: Typhoon ‘Krosa’ hit the northern end of the main Philippine island of Luzon on Thursday forcing around 60 families to flee.A Philippine civil defence official said, reports The Straits Times.The typhoon, packing maximum winds of 160 kilometres per hour, struck the coastal

DHAKA: A jury has been given an insight into the inner workings of tabloid phone hacking at the trial of two former editors of Rupert Murdoch`s defunct News of the World.Former editors Rebekah Brooks and Andrew Coulson are on trial, along with six others, on a range of charges related to

DHAKA: Syria has destroyed all its declared chemical weapons production and mixing facilities, meeting a major deadline in an ambitious disarmament programme, the international chemical weapons watchdog said in a document obtained by Reuters.The Organisation for the Prohibition of

DHAKA: The last county in China to be accessible by modern land transport was finally linked up to the rest of the country Thursday with a new road that has taken decades to build, state media said.The 19,000 people of deeply isolated Medog in southeastern Tibet, where the mighty

DHAKA: Construction is set to begin in India on Thursday for the world’s tallest statue, which will stand twice the size of the Statue of Liberty and be made out of melted-down metal and farming equipment.The tribute to Sadar Patel, the first home minister of independent India who was