DHAKA: A strong storm battered Britain and the Netherlands on Monday, killing three people, cutting power and forcing hundreds of plane and train cancellations as it moved on across mainland Europe.Winds of up to 160 kmh lashed southern England and Wales, disrupting the travel plans of

DHAKA: Afghan president Hamid Karzai is beginning a five-day visit to the UK, during which he will hold talks with his Pakistan counterpart, Nawaz Sharif.Britain will chair the meeting, which aims to improve troubled relations between the two Asian countries.Correspondents say the UK

DHAKA: A rights activist in Kuwait says an appeals court has upheld a 10-year prison sentence against a social media commentator for posts considered offensive to Islam and the rulers of fellow Gulf states Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.Monday’s ruling highlights the escalating crackdowns in

DHAKA: A South African court began sentencing Monday 20 right-wing extremists convicted of high treason for a plot to kill apartheid icon Nelson Mandela and drive blacks out of the country.The Boeremag organisation had planned a right-wing coup in 2002 to overthrow the post-apartheid

DHAKA: Three Egyptian policemen were killed on Monday when masked men attacked a checkpoint in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura, security sources said.No group has claimed responsibility for the attack. Al-Qaida-linked Islamist militants have stepped up attacks on soldiers and police since

DHAKA: The UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi is due to arrive in Damascus for talks with Syrian government officials, amid reports of fierce fighting in and around the capital city.In his two-day visit, which starts on Monday, he is expected to meet Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and

DHAKA: At least 110 pilgrims including children were killed and over 100 injured in a stampede at Ratangarh temple in Madhya Pradesh in India on Sunday morning.Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has ordered a magisterial inquiry to probe the tragedy.Atleast 50 were killed

DHAKA: Iran will not ship enriched uranium stockpiles out of the country, the Iranian deputy foreign minister said on Sunday, rejecting one key demand of world powers due to resume nuclear negotiations with Tehran this week.Abbas Araqchi’s comment may disappoint Western officials, who

DHAKA: The mood of celebration turned into one of mourning as nearly 60 devotees were feared killed and more than 100 others injured in a stampede at a temple in Datia district, 70 km from Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh, on Sunday morning.‘Between 50 and 60 people have died and over 100

DHAKA: Former National Security Agency systems analyst Edward Snowden says surveillance programs used by the United States to tap into phone and internet connections around the world are making people less safe.In short video clips posted by the WikiLeaks website on Friday, Snowden said

DHAKA: World powers will hold fresh talks with Iran on its nuclear programme on Tuesday, amid raised hopes of a less hardline approach from the Islamic republic’s new president.The two-day meeting in Geneva will be the first such negotiations since president Hassan Rouhani, a reputed

DHAKA: More than 50 pilgrims were killed and over 100 injured in a stampede at Ratangarh temple in Datia district of Madhya Pradesh on Sunday morning.While more than 40 were killed in stampede, others died of drowning after jumping off a bride near the temple.The tragedy was caused by

DHAKA: A major clean-up operation was under way in the Philippines on Sunday after typhoon Nari pounded the archipelago’s north, leaving 13 dead, as authorities issued a storm warning for the east of the country.The military, along with civilian relief workers, struggled to clear roads

DHAKA: Vietnamese police on Sunday raised the death toll from a blast at a fireworks factory to 24 blaming other explosives also stored at the site for the accident which also left many injured.‘At least 24 people were killed - we have identified 16 bodies,’ Phu Tho policeman Pham

DHAKA: US state secretary John Kerry said on Thursday that Washington’s suspension of military hardware deliveries to Egypt was ‘not a withdrawal’ of US friendship and could be lifted ‘based on performance’.‘By no means is this a withdrawal from our relationship or a severing

DHAKA: A second team of international inspectors arrived in Damascus on Thursday to help supervise the destruction of Syria’s chemical arsenal under the terms of a UN resolution.Three UN vehicles carrying inspectors earlier departed from their Damascus hotel en route to an undisclosed

DHAKA: Police say a bomb exploded has outside a police station in a crowded market in southwest Pakistan, killing at least five people.Police official Mohammed Mohsin says the blast on Thursday in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, also wounded at least 20 people.The bomb also

DHAKA: Iraq’s justice ministry says authorities have executed 42 people, including a woman, over the past two days.They were all convicted on terrorism-related charges.Thursday’s announcement shows Baghdad’s determination to carry out capital punishment despite international appeals

DHAKA: An Afghan official says preparations are underway for a meeting of elders next month that will advise the president on whether to sign a long-troubled security deal with the United States.Afghanistan interior ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqi said on Thursday that security services

DHAKA: Twenty pilgrims were killed while 40 others were injured when an overloaded mini truck carrying them fell in a gorge in Manguwal village in the district early Thursday.‘The pilgrims were returning from Chintpurni shrine in Himachal Pradesh and were headed to Begowal falling in