DHAKA: Thai authorities say floods have killed more than 20 people and affected areas across the country in the past two weeks, while concern is growing there could be a repeat of the devastating floods in 2011.The Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department says 32 out of 77 provinces

DHAKA: The head of the US Marine Corps has ordered two generals to retire because they failed to defend Camp Bastion in Afghanistan from a Taliban attack.Gen James Amos said Maj Gen Charles Gurganus and Maj Gen Gregg A Sturdevant "did not take adequate force protection measures" to stop

DHAKA: South Korea staged its largest military display for a decade on Tuesday, as President Park Geun Hye warned of the "very grave" threat posed by North Korea`s nuclear weapons programme.Some 11,000 troops and 120 aircraft took part in the event at an air base south of Seoul, which

DHAKA: Venezuela has announced it is expelling three US diplomats, whom it accuses of plotting to sabotage the economy.President Nicolas Maduro said the diplomats have 48 hours to leave the country, saying "Yankees, go home!"Mr Maduro says he has evidence that the trio took part in a

DHAKA: President Barack Obama has said a potential US government shutdown is "entirely avoidable" as only a few hours remain to avert it.Mr Obama criticised Republicans for trying to refight the last election as they seek to link the budget to delaying his health care law.If no agreement

DHAKA: If Iranian president Hassan Rohani’s dream of reaching a deal with world powers on Tehran’s nuclear programme in six months comes true, Oman, an important intermediary in the dispute, could be a big winner.There have been too many false dawns in Iran’s decade-old standoff

DHAKA: Car bombs exploded in several predominantly Shia Muslim neighbourhoods of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 54 people and wounding dozens.Police and medical sources said, reports daily Hurriyet.The deadliest single attack took place in Sadr City, where a man parked a white car

DHAKA: Saudis have expressed disbelief following a report that a Yemeni who had spent close to 10 years begging in Saudi Arabia offered his wife a four-wheel drive vehicle and a plot of land for supporting him.According to the report, first published by a Yemeni website, the Yemeni

DHAKA: The commander of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards said on Monday that president Hasan Rohani should have spurned to take last week’s historic telephone call from US counterpart Barack Obama.‘The president took a firm and appropriate position during his stay’ in New York

DHAKA: Britain, France and China will be involved in a peace conference on Syria due in Geneva in November.French foreign minister Laurent Fabius said Monday, reports Hurriyet.The US-Russia peace initiative, dubbed Geneva 2, will involve all five permanent members of the UN Security

DHAKA: United Nations chemical weapons inspectors in Syria to investigate allegations of chemical and biological weapons use during the country’s ongoing civil war departed from Damascus on Monday, witnesses said, ending their second mission in two months.A convoy of four United Nations

DHAKA: Dozens of suspected al-Qaida militants captured a Yemeni army base on Monday in the south-east of the Arabian peninsula country.A military official said, reports The Jerusalem Post.The militants had taken some military personnel hostage at the base in the city of al-Mukalla, the

DHAKA: A mortar shell hit the Chinese embassy in Syria’s capital Damascus on Monday, damaging the building and wounding one person.Chinese state media reported, says The Jerusalem Post.Insurgents fighting to topple president Bashar Assad have launched mortar and rocket attacks on the

DHAKA: An Egyptian court upheld a one-year prison sentence against former prime minister Hisham Kandil, who was appointed by deposed president Mohamed Mursi, and ordered his arrest.Kandil was handed the sentence in April, when he still headed the government, for failing to implement a

DHAKA: Iran plans to build a new domestically designed warship, named the Persian Gulf.The commander of the Iranian navy said in an interview with the Fars News Agency published on Sunday, Tehran Times prints this report on Monday.Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari also said that the process

DHAKA: Terrified Muslims hid in their homes in northwest Myanmar on Monday after armed police dispersed a Buddhist mob that torched houses and surrounded a mosque in the latest outbreak of sectarian tension.Clashes between majority Buddhists and Muslims have killed at least 237 people and

DHAKA: Mortified that the world may be warming up to Iran, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is taking an unpopular message to the White House and the United Nations this week, don’t be fooled by Tehran’s new leadership.Netanyahu contends Iran is using conciliatory gestures as

DHAKA: Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII will be declared saints on 27 April in 2014, Pope Francis has announced.The Pope said in July that he would canonise his two predecessors, after approving a second miracle attributed to John Paul.Polish John Paul, the first non-Italian pope for

DHAKA: Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has begun announcing far-reaching political reforms aimed at benefiting Kurds and other minorities.He has proposed lowering the 10% electoral threshold, which currently prevents Kurdish and other smaller parties entering

DHAKA: Russia successfully launched an unmanned Proton-M booster rocket on Monday, the first since the same type of rocket crashed in flames shortly after lift-off in July.The space agency said, reports The Jerusalem Post.Carrying a communications satellite for Luxembourg-based SES , the