DHAKA: At least 17 soldiers were killed in a terror attack at an army administrative base in India-ruled Jammu and Kashmir’s Uri near the Line of Control Sunday morning, the worst in recent years. All four terrorists have been killed, reports NDTV. The attackers were killed in a

DHAKA: A court in Egypt has ordered a freeze on the assets of five prominent human rights activists and three non-governmental organizations. All are accused of receiving foreign cash in a case stretching back to 2011. If convicted, they could face up to 25 years in prison. A

DHAKA: A group of Central European European Union members known as the Visegrad Four could veto any Brexit deal that would limit people’s right to work in the United Kingdom. Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico made the remarks on Saturday (September 17), BBC reports. Hungary,

DHAKA: Parliamentary election voting has started in Russia amid present president Putin supporter’s dominance. Far Eastern regions were the first to vote in the largest country of the world spanning 11 time zones. Their last parliamentary election was held in 2011 with accusations

DHAKA: The US-led coalition has admitted its planes carried out an attack in eastern Syria that the Russian army said killed at least 62 Syrian troops fighting IS. The US said its planes had halted the attack in Deir al-Zour when informed of the Syrian presence, reports the BBC. A

DHAKA: At least 29 people have been injured in an explosion in the Chelsea district of Manhattan in New York on Sunday (September 18, GMT time). The injuries are not life-threatening but one is serious. The cause of the blast is unclear but Mayor Bill de Blasio said it was

DHAKA: UK Prime Minister Theresa May is likely to trigger the formal process of leaving the European Union early next year, according to a top EU official. European Council President Donald Tusk said Mrs May had told him the UK could be ready to begin talks by February. The BBC’s

DHAKA: Edward Snowden has dismissed a report by the House of Representatives intelligence committee that heavily criticized his activities. It rejected his view of himself as a whistleblower, and said he was a disgruntled employee whose actions did nothing more than help US enemies.

DHAKA: The European Council Donald Tusk has called on EU leaders to take a “sober and brutally honest” look at the bloc’s problems, in the wake of Britain’s shock vote to leave the EU. As they gather in Bratislava for a meeting without the UK, they will discuss ways to regain

DHAKA: Hillary Clinton has vowed she will never give up as she hit the campaign trail again following a three-day rest after being diagnosed with pneumonia. Speaking at a rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, the Democratic nominee said her time off was a gift, allowing her to reflect

DHAKA: A witness in a Senate hearing on the extra-judicial killings in the Philippines has testified that he was a member of a death squad in the home city of President Rodrigo Duterte. Moreover, the then mayor himself ordered the killings of crime and drug suspects as well as the

DHAKA: Serious Brexit talks between United Kingdom and rest of the European Union (EU) countries could take as long as twelve months, a former European Council president predicted. Herman Van Rompuy has predicted the time of the talks at the end of 2017 during a talk with BBC. He

At least six people were killed and over 150 injured as a cargo train collided with a passenger train in Pakistan’s Multan on Wednesday morning (September 15). Quoting a Multan police officer Dr. Rizwan, Dunya News reports four compartments of the passenger train, Awami Express, were

Typhoon Meranti has landed in China after battering Taiwan with its strongest storm in 21 years. The super typhoon, with gusts of up to 227km/h (141 mph), killed one person and left half a million homes without power in Taiwan, reports the BBC. It made landfall near China's

DHAKA: One of Japan’s most active volcanoes is due for a major eruption within the next 30 years, said scientists who have studied a build-up of magma there. The Sakurajima volcano on Japan’s Kyushu island poses a “growing threat”, researchers at the University of Bristol said.

DHAKA: Indonesia’s highest Islamic authority has said it is a sin for people to deliberately burn forests to clear the land for growing crops. Illegal slash-and-burn farming has devastated large areas of Indonesia and causes air pollution which affects countries around the region.

DHAKA: European commission president Jean-Claude Juncker said European Union (EU) is in need of a military headquarters to work towards a common military force. Lack of such ‘permanent structure’ has been resulted in to money waste in missions. His annual state of the union

In a formal announcement, cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu resigned from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday (September 14). Sidhu had resigned as a member of the Rajya Sabha on July 18 and there had been speculations that he may join the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)

DHAKA: The US has flown two supersonic B-1B Lancer strategic bombers over South Korea in a show of force, just days after North Korea carried out its fifth nuclear test. The two bombers conducted a low-altitude flight over an air base located some 77km (48 miles) from the border

DHAKA: Aid agencies have warned that North Korea is facing a humanitarian disaster after tens of thousands of people were displaced by flooding. The UN and the International Red Cross said the government has reported 133 deaths with nearly 400 people missing and homes and crops