DHAKA: The Iraqi prime minister has warned so-called Islamic State (IS) militants fighting in Mosul to lay down their weapons if they want to live, state media reports. Speaking on a visit to the front line to the east of the city, Haider al-Abadi said government-led forces “will not

DHAKA: At least 18 people have died after two roadside bombs struck a convoy carrying Iraqi families fleeing a town controlled by the so-called Islamic State in northern Iraq. The bombs targeted a truck carrying people from Hawija, about 120km south of Islamic State’s stronghold in

As opinion polls suggest Donald Trump is gaining support, Hillary Clinton has been holding rallies in states that had been considered safe for the Democrats. BBC reports that both teams are now concentrating more on getting their supporters to vote rather than swaying those undecided.

As opinion polls suggest Donald Trump is gaining support, Hillary Clinton has been holding rallies in states that had been considered safe for the Democrats. BBC reports that both teams are now concentrating more on getting their supporters to vote rather than swaying those undecided.

DHAKA: As opinion polls suggest Donald Trump is gaining support, Hillary Clinton has been holding rallies in states that had been considered safe for the Democrats. A BBC reported that both teams are now concentrating more on getting their supporters to vote rather than swaying those

DHAKA: At least 14 people were killed when a pick-up van collided with a truck on the Dholka-Bagodara highway in Ahmedabad district, on Saturday (November 5). Those injured in the late Friday accident are critical and admitted to a hospital in Ahmedabad, reports Hindustan times.  

DHAKA: Three US military trainers have been shot dead in an exchange of fire at an air base in Jordan, a US official says. One was killed at the base and two others died later in hospital, reports the BBC. They were in vehicles approaching the gate of a military training centre at

DHAKA: Talks between Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro and the opposition are the “last best effort” to finding a peaceful solution to the country’s political impasse, a US official says. US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Tom Shannon said if the talks failed,

DHAKA: The Afghan woman who famously appeared on the cover of National Geographic in 1985 will be deported from Pakistan after serving a short prison sentence. Sharbat Gula was found guilty of living in Pakistan with fake identity documents and sentenced to 15 days in prison. She

DHAKA: Paris authorities began an operation early on Friday (November 4) to clear more than 3,000 people from a makeshift refugee camp in the northeast of the French capital. The operation to shut the sprawling tent encampment, near the Canal Saint-Martin under an overhead metro bridge

DHAKA: Tens of thousands of hard-line Muslims are marching against the governor of Jakarta, demanding he is prosecuted for blasphemy. Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, a Christian, is the first ethnic Chinese to hold the governor’s post in the capital of majority Muslim Indonesia.

DHAKA: Signaling a fresh slide in ties, Pakistan and India may temporarily recall their high commissioners and scale down the size of diplomatic staff in each other’s missions in the wake of the latest diplomatic spat over the spying episode, a media report said on Friday (November 4).

DHAKA: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have made renewed attacks on each other’s fitness for office as polls suggest the race for the White House is tightening. BBC reported that Clinton who has seen her national opinion poll lead shrink in recent days - targeted her Republican

DHAKA: The government of India has imposed a one-day ban on the transmission or re-transmission of NDTV India channel on any platform throughout the country. An inter-ministerial panel on Thursday (November 3) concluded that NDTV India had allegedly revealed crucial and

DHAKA: Thirty civilians have been killed in northern Afghanistan during an Afghan special force mission supported by Nato. Provincial officials said many of the deaths were caused by Nato air strikes. The air support was called in after troops were surrounded by Taliban militants,

DHAKA: About 240 migrants are believed drowned in two shipwrecks off the coast of Libya. The UN refugee agency was told the news by survivors brought ashore on the Italian island of Lampedusa, spokeswoman Carlotta Sami said. No bodies have so far been recovered, reports the BBC.

DHAKA: At least 17 people have died and at least 40 have been injured in a train crash in Pakistan, local media said. Two trains collided early on Thursday morning near Landhi railway station in the southern city of Karachi. Initial reports said that one of the trains had been given

DHAKA: Amnesty International’s office in Moscow has been sealed off by the city authorities, say members of staff. Arriving for work on Wednesday, they found official seals placed across the office entrances, the locks had been changed and the power was cut off. The human rights

DHAKA: Iraqi forces fighting so-called Islamic State (IS) in Mosul have broken through the front line without suffering any losses, a spokesman says. Sabah al-Numan told the BBC that many IS fighters had been killed. Government forces entered the city’s outskirts for the first

A fire at a karaoke lounge in Vietnam has left 13 people dead. The blaze broke out at an eight-storey karaoke bar in the Cau Giay district of Hanoi on Tuesday afternoon, reports the BBC. It took fire-fighters five hours to put it out. Two police officers were injured during the