DHAKA: North Korea has accepted an offer to attend high-level talks next week, South Korean officials have said. The meeting, on 9 January, will focus on finding a way for North Korean athletes to attend the Winter Olympic Games in South Korea in February, reports BBC. North Korean

DHAKA: The US government is cutting almost all security aid to Pakistan, saying it has failed to deal with terrorist networks operating on its soil, reports BBC. The state department said the freeze would remain in place until Islamabad took action against the Haqqani network and the

DHAKA: A suicide bomber killed 11 people in an attack on a mosque in northeast Nigeria, the epicenter of the conflict with Islamist insurgency Boko Haram, reports Business Insider. The bomber hit the mosque in the town of Gamboru in Borno state, near Nigeria's border with Cameroon,

DHAKA: North Korea has reopened a hotline to South Korea, almost two years after it was disabled on the orders of leader Kim Jong-un, reports BBC. South Korea confirmed it had received a call from the North at 15:30 local time (06:30 GMT) on Wednesday (January 3). The North Korean

US President Donald Trump has boasted that his nuclear button is "much bigger" and "more powerful" than North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's. Trump's tweet is the latest contribution to the bickering, increasingly personalised feud between the nuclear-armed leaders, reports the

DHAKA: At least 46 people have been killed after a coach plummeted 100m (330ft) down a cliff and landed upside down on a beach in Peru, reports The Gurdian. The bus was carrying 57 passengers to Peru’s capital when it was struck by a tractor trailer shortly before noon and plunged

South Korea has offered high-level talks with North Korea on 9 January to discuss its possible participation in the 2018 Winter Olympic Games. It comes after the North's leader Kim Jong-un said he was considering sending a team to Pyeongchang in South Korea for the Games in

DHAKA: More than 300 actresses, writers and directors have launched a project to help fight sexual harassment in Hollywood film industry and other workplaces, reports BBC. The initiative, which is called Time's Up, was announced via a full-page advert printed in the New York Times.

North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un has said a nuclear launch button is "always on my table", warning the US it will never be able to start a war. In a televised New Year speech, he said the entire US was within range of North Korean nuclear weapons, adding: "This is reality, not a

In an escalation of tension with the Trump administration, the Palestinian Authority has temporarily recalled its envoy to Washington, reports Los Angeles Times. On the other hand, Palestine has also recalled its ambassador to Pakistan after he attended a rally in support of

At least 12 people, including 10 US citizens, were killed in a plane crash that took place in northwest Costa Rica on Sunday (December 31), reports CNN. The single-engine turboprop's two Costa Rican pilots also died in the crash, President Luis Guillermo Solis Rivera said in a

At least 30 people were killed and 16 others injured in yet another road accident on the Nakuru-Eldoret highway on Sunday morning (Dec 31). Police said the accident occurred at Migaa about 10 kilometers from the Salgaa black spot when a bus collided head-on with a truck, reports the

Israel has filed notice to withdraw from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) alongside the United States, reports Al Jazeera. According to Al Jazeera’s report published on Saturday (December 30), Israel has blasted UNESCO in recent years over

DHAKA: Thousands of pro-government demonstrators are attending rallies in Iran, after two days of anti-government protests, reports BBC. State TV showed crowds of black-clad supporters in the capital, Tehran. Dozens of people have been arrested during days of protests over

DHAKA: A massive late night fire that broke out at a Mumbai complex has killed at least 15 people, reports BBC. The blaze erupted just after midnight at a building in the popular Kamala Mills restaurant and shopping compound. It engulfed the structure within 30 minutes, local media

DHAKA: At least 12 people have been killed in a fire at an apartment building in the Bronx borough of New York, reports BBC. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said the dead included a one-year-old child and that four other people had been critically injured. The fire is now under

At least 40 people were killed and dozens more were in injured in suicidal blasts on an office of the Afghan Voice news agency and Shiite cultural centre in Kabul of Afghanistan on Thursday (December 28), report NDTV and other international media. It is the latest deadly violence to

DHAKA: At least 40 people have been killed and 30 wounded in a suicide attack at a Shia cultural and religious organization in a western area of Kabul city of Afghanistan, reports BBC. Afghan interior ministry said that the suicide blast was followed by another two explosions in the

DHAKA: Former US President Barack Obama has warned against the irresponsible use of social media, in a rare interview on BBC Radio 4. He warned that such actions were distorting people's understanding of complex issues, and spreading misinformation. His successor Donald Trump is

DHAKA: Indian fire across the Line of Control in the disputed Kashmir region killed three Pakistani soldiers, reports ABC News quoting Pakistani officials Tuesday (December 26). In a statement, the military said the "unprovoked cease-fire violation" along the Line of Control took place