DHAKA: United States and Japanese officials said on Thursday they will position a second early-warning radar in Japan within the next year and deploy new long-range surveillance drones to help monitor disputed islands in the East China Sea by next spring, moves that may well raise

DHAKA: Chinese president Xi Jinping showed no sign of bending to South-east Asian pressure to resolve increasingly irascible territorial disputes over the South China Sea on Thursday, simply repeating past calls for dialogue.Xi, in the first address by a foreign leader to Indonesian MPs,

DHAKA: At least 80 migrants have drowned and rescuers were trying to save about 250 people still missing near the Italian island of Lampedusa after a migrant boat caught fire and sank, Italian media reports said. The accident occurred on Thursday morning, reports Al Jazeera.Rescuers

DHAKA: The United States and Japan said on Thursday Tokyo would pay a third of the cost of Washington pulling thousands of Marines out of Japan as it reduces its heavy military presence on Okinawa.US state secretary John Kerry, defence secretary Chuck Hagel, Japan’s foreign minister

DHAKA: In a bid to bolster moderate forces in Syria against Islamic rebel factions, the CIA has reportedly been expanding a covert program to train US-backed opposition fighters in the embattled country.The Washington Post on Thursday cited US officials as saying., reports The Jerusalem

DHAKA: The leader of Greece’s far-right Golden Dawn party was jailed pending trial on charges of belonging to a criminal group.A court official told media early on Thursday, reports The Jerusalem Post.Golden Dawn leader Nikolaos Mihaloliakos appeared before investigating magistrates and

DHAKA: US state secretary John Kerry said on Thursday that the United States hopes to engage with the new Iranian administration, but that any advances must be based on concrete steps by Tehran to give up its nuclear weapons programme.If Iran intends to be peaceful, ‘I believe there is

DHAKA: Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has a new leak of radioactive water which may have entered the Pacific Ocean, its operator says.Workers discovered water overflowing from one of the storage tanks late on Wednesday, plant operator Tepco said.It estimates that 430 litres of

DHAKA: At least 28 people, including 13 children, were killed and 10 others injured when the two mini buses they were travelling in were hit by a truck on National Highway 35 in lower Assam’s Barpeta district in the wee hours today.The two buses were going one behind the other when the

DHAKA: At least 12 people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack on a militant commander`s compound in north-west Pakistan, officials say.Reports said the commander, Nabi Hanfi, had been fighting the Pakistani Taliban in the Orakzai tribal region.Officials said gunmen fired shots at

DHAKA: Riot police have clashed with protesters in Mexico City during a demonstration commemorating the 45th anniversary of a student massacre.Protesters, some of them masked, threw firebombs, bottles and rocks at police who battled to disperse the crowd.At least 40 people were injured,

DHAKA: Indonesia`s main anti-graft agency arrested the chief justice (CJ) of the constitutional court for alleged bribery, an agency official said, the latest high-profile corruption case to hit Southeast Asia`s largest economy.Akil Mochtar, who was elected as chief justice for a

DHAKA: Eight people died when a bus carrying church members home blew a front tire, crossed the grassy median of Interstate 40 in eastern Tennessee in US, clipped an SUV and collided with a tractor-trailer before overturning, officials said Wednesday.Six people on the eastbound bus were

DHAKA: The head of Greece`s far-right Golden Dawn party, Nikos Mihaloliakos, has been remanded in custody on charges of organising a criminal group.He appeared before investigating magistrates at an Athens court in a hearing that lasted into the early hours of Thursday.He was one of six

DHAKA: A jury has found Michael Jackson`s concert promoters, AEG Live, not guilty of negligence in hiring the doctor who killed him.The Jackson family had been seeking $290m (£180m) for emotional losses, plus an unspecified amount for economic losses - a sum AEG called "absurd".Dr Conrad

DHAKA: Tom Clancy, the best-selling author of “The Hunt for Red October” and other wildly successful technological thrillers, has died. He was 66.Penguin Group (USA) on Wednesday said that Clancy died Tuesday in Baltimore. The publisher did not disclose a cause of death.Clancy arrived

DHAKA: Flowering plants may have originated more than 100 million years earlier than previously thought, according to scientists in Switzerland and Germany.The previously oldest known flowering plant-like pollen dates from the Early Cretaceous period which is around circa 145 ± 4 million

DHAKA: Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and his Indian counterpart Salman Khurshid intend on discussing preparations for the Russian-Indian high-level summit planned for October 2013 at a meeting in Moscow on Wednesday.The VoR’s correspondent Polina Chernitsa reports, according to

DHAKA: The authorities say that the death toll from an unusual spate of hornet attacks in central China has reached 41.The Shaanxi provincial government said on Wednesday that the attacks had plagued not only the city of Ankang, where 19 died as reported by the official Xinhua News

DHAKA: The authorities say a man arrested at Florida’s Jacksonville International Airport had told security screeners he had a bomb in his backpack, but they only found an electronic scale and batteries.Zeljko Causevic was booked into jail early on Wednesday, reports The Straits