DHAKA: Brexit has weakened Europe and created uncertainties about its future, Russia’s deputy prime minister has said. Arkady Dvorkovich explained to BBC Newsnight, “For Russia it’s important that Europe is strong. We need strong partners to go forward, and the British decision

DHAKA: At least 14 people have been killed in a bomb attack in the home city of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Dozens more were wounded in the explosion at a packed market in the southern city of Davao, reports the BBC. A presidential spokesman said investigators had found

DHAKA: China’s top legislature has ratified the Paris global climate agreement. Quoting China’s state news agency Xinhua, BBC reports the matter. The country is the world’s largest emitter of harmful CO2 emissions, which cause climate change. China and the US were expected

DHAKA: Tropical Storm Hermine has strengthened into a hurricane, threatening to bring a dangerous storm surge to Florida in US. Hermine is expected to make landfall on the northern Florida Gulf Coast early on Friday - the first hurricane to hit the state since 2005. Governor Rick

DHAKA: A French court has overturned a ban on burkini in Nice, concluding that the decree against the full-body swimwear was illegal because there were no proven risks of disruption to public order. The administrative court of Nice ruled on Thursday (September 1) that “in the absence

DHAKA: A rocket operated by the aerospace company SpaceX has exploded on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral where it was being test-fired ahead of a launch. The force of the blast shook buildings several miles away, reports the BBC. SpaceX said “an anomaly” had occurred while the

DHAKA: Hundreds of thousands of people have marched through the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, in rival demonstrations. Opposition supporters, staging their largest rally for two years, called for President Nicolas Maduro’s removal. They blame him for Venezuela’s economic crisis

DHAKA: Residents of a small community on the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island have been told they can return to their homes, after a severe earthquake at sea sparked a tsunami warning. The 7.1 quake struck 169km (105 miles) north-east of Gisborne on Friday morning local time.

RIYADH: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and other Middle East countries will celebrate Eid al-Adha, one of two important religious festivals of Muslim community, on September 12 as the Zul Hijjah moon was not sighted. KSA Supreme Court issued a royal decree in this regard on Thursday

DHAKA: Joe Sutter, the man who led development of Boeing's 747 jumbo jet, has died aged 95. Boeing’s commercial aircraft boss Ray Conner said Sutter was “an inspiration” not just to Boeing but “to the entire aerospace industry”, reports the BBC. The 747, which ushered

DHAKA: At least five people were killed when two planes have collided mid-air in an Alaskan remote area on Wednesday (August 31). Alaskan State troopers said it was yet to be revealed why the mid-air crush took place, said Allen Kenitzer, with the Federal Aviation Administration office

DHAKA: French authority has discovered over 370 kilograms of cocaine fro a coca-cola plant in southern part. The narcotic, with a street value of over 50 million Euros, was hidden in bags among a delivery of orange juice concentrate from South America. The discover form the village

DHAKA: Brazilian senate has voted to remove President Dilma Rousseff from her office in allegation of manipulating the budget. However, Dilma denied the allegation while her13-year long leftist party reign came to an end. Sixty-one senators voted in favour of her dismissal and 20

DHAKA: US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has insisted Mexico will pay for a border wall “100%”, in a major immigration speech. He told a cheering crowd in Arizona that he would secure the border, and left open the possibility that millions of illegal immigrants be

DHAKA: Girls in Britain are becoming more miserable, suggests the Children’s Society’s annual report. Among 10 to 15-year-old girls, the charity’s report says 14% are unhappy with their lives as a whole, and 34% with their appearance. Researchers were told of girls feeling

DHAKA: North Korea has executed their education chief Kim Yong Jin through firing squad. Kim was branded “anti-party and a counter-revolutionary member” by the country’s State Security Department, after he exercised a “bad attitude” during North Korea’s Supreme People’s

DHAKA: US Republican candidate Donald Trump is to visit Mexico on Wednesday, hours before he details measures against illegal immigration in a speech. Trump tweeted that he was looking forward to meeting President Enrique Pena Nieto, who has invited both him and Democrat Hillary

DHAKA: The chief strategist of the Islamic State group, whose calls for attacks against the West during Ramadan led to mass bloodshed, has been killed in Syria. IS-affiliated media say, reports the BBC. The Amaq news agency said Abu Muhammad al-Adnani died in Aleppo province. The

DHAKA: A car driven by a suicide bomber exploded after ramming into a gate at the Chinese embassy in the Kyrgyzstan capital of Bishkek, authorities said. Local medics said the driver of the car was killed while two embassy staff and a woman were injured in the blast. “As a result

DHAKA: There has been an explosion close to the Chinese embassy in the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek, reports say, but casualties are still unclear. Details are still emerging but Russia’s Interfax news agency quoted local officials as saying at least one person was killed. A car