DHAKA: Most of the people caught up in an attack on a shopping centre in Kenya`s capital, Nairobi, have been rescued, defence officials have told the BBC.Col Cyrus Oguna said only a small number remained under the control of the militants, who are thought to be from Somalia`s al-Shabab

DHAKA: Chancellor Angela Merkel`s conservative party has won Germany`s election, but finished just short of an absolute majority, official results show.Mrs Merkel earlier urged her party to celebrate "a super result" after exit polls suggested she was set to win a historic third term.Her

DHAKA: Russia can send its military personnel to help in the proposed operation to eliminate Syria`s chemical arms.Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov says, reports the BBC.Lavrov told Russian TV that military observers could help Syria destroy its stockpiles under a US-Russian deal.He

DHAKA: Poachers have killed a record 688 rhinos in South Africa so far this year, more than the entire number slaughtered in 2012, according to figures issued Sunday, World Rhino Day.South Africa is home to the world`s biggest rhinoceros population but killings have surged in recent years

DHAKA: Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, a former Taliban second-in-command released in Pakistan this weekend, is being kept in a safe house in the port city of Karachi as regional powers debate his role in the Afghan peace process.Sources in Pakistan said on Sunday, reports The Jerusalem

DHAKA: Seven people were killed in clashes between Yemeni tribal gunmen and suspected al-Qaida fighters on Sunday in Marib province, east of the capital Sanaa.Yemen’s tribal sources said, reports The Jerusalem Post.Al-Qaida guerrillas killed one tribesman, the sources in the province

DHAKA: Twin explosions at All Saint’s Church in Pakistan’s Peshawar killed 78 people and wounded 130 others on Sunday.The victims of the blast included children and women who were shifted to the Lady Reading Hospital.Earlier, chief executive of LRH, Dr Arshad Jawed said that 61 people

DHAKA: The president of the opposition Syrian Coalition, Ahmad Jarba, has said the group is willing to attend a proposed Geneva conference to end two and a half years of conflict in Syria if it aims to establish a transitional government with full powers.In a letter to the United Nations

DHAKA: Turkish president Abdullah Gül has said it would be ‘unrealistic’ to have any discussion on the Syrian war without the inclusion of Iran, adding that Turkey and Iran were both directly involved in the ongoing process.‘Frankly, it’s unrealistic to talk about Syria without

DHAKA: Turkey’s EU affairs minister Egemen Bağış has said Turkey will probably never become a member of the European Union because of stiff opposition and ‘prejudiced’ attitudes from the bloc’s current members.The Telegraph newspaper has reported, says Turkish daily

DHAKA: Swiss voters on Sunday overwhelmingly rejected a referendum calling for an end to the country’s military draft, with 73 percent casting ballots against the plan, exit polls showed.In a country whose part-time army is ingrained in the national image, and seen abroad as being as

DHAKA: North Korea on Sunday angrily denied reports that it had executed several state performers to cover up the past of its first lady Ri Sol-ju, calling the media accounts an ‘unpardonable’ crime.The denial came a day after the North indefinitely postponed reunions for families

DHAKA: Bo Xilai, who was sentenced to life in prison for corruption on Sunday, has indicated that his verdict was unjust and is expected to launch an appeal, said a lawyer with direct knowledge of the case.Bo, former Politburo member and Chongqing city party leader, was convicted of

DHAKA: A bomb blast outside a church in the Pakistani city of Peshawar has killed at least 60 people and injured more than 100 others, officials say.They say two suicide bombers blew themselves up as people were coming out after Sunday Mass.The victims were said to include women and

DHAKA: Russia on Sunday criticised what it said were Western attempts to use a Syrian chemical arms disarmament deal to seek a UN resolution threatening force against president Bashar Assad’s government.‘They see in the US-Russian deal not a chance to save the planet from significant

DHAKA: Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, will lead nuclear talks with world powers, a move that would see the experienced pragmatist succeed a conservative who had overseen a hardening of Tehran`s position.Iran’s Fars news agency reported on Sunday, says The Jerusalem

DHAKA: Israeli forces on Sunday joined Kenyan efforts to end a deadly siege by Somali militants at a Nairobi shopping mall.A security source told media, reports The Straits Times.‘The Israelis have just entered and they are rescuing the hostages and the injured,’ the source told media

DHAKA: The death toll from an attack in northeastern Nigeria that saw insurgents dressed as soldiers set up checkpoints and gun down travellers on a highway has risen to at least 142.A Nigeria official said on Sunday, reports The Straits Times.‘We recovered 55 bodies on Wednesday and 87

DHAKA: Iran paraded 30 missiles with a nominal range of 2,000km on Sunday, the first time it had displayed so many with the theoretical capacity to hit Israeli targets.Iran displayed 12 Sejil and 18 Ghadr missiles at the annual parade marking the anniversary of the outbreak of the 1980-88

DHAKA: Saudi women activists have called for a new day of defiance next month of the long-standing ban on women driving in the ultra-conservative kingdom.An online petition entitled ‘Oct 26th, driving for women’ had on Sunday gathered more than 5,800 signatories, as activists try