DHAKA: Indonesian police have arrested six people who were planning to attack Singapore. The men aged between 19 and 46, were arrested at several locations in nearby Batam island on Friday, BBC reports on Friday (Aug 5). The plot allegedly involved firing a rocket from Batam, just

DHAKA: Taliban fighters are believed to have captured all passengers and crew of a Pakistani government helicopter that crash-landed in eastern Afghanistan. Afghan officials said the helicopter went down late on Thursday in Logar province, close to the Afghan-Pakistan border, an

DHAKA: The leader of the Sinai branch of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has been killed in a series of air strikes south of the peninsula’s El Arish town. Egypt military said Abu Duaa al-Ansari was killed together with 45 other ISIL fighters in an operation

DHAKA: One of Australia’s new senators has said climate change is a global conspiracy created by bankers seeking to establish a worldwide government. Malcolm Roberts won a Queensland Senate seat as member of the anti-immigration One Nation party in recent elections, reports the BBC.

DHAKA: At least a dozen people are feared killed and many are injured after suspected militants opened fire at a busy market area in Kokrajhar town of India’s Assam on Friday (August 5). The incident took place at a weekly market. One of the militants also threw a grenade, said a

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama said there have been gains against so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria but warned the group still poses a threat. As the jihadist group lost ground, he said, there were signs it was shifting to attacks abroad, reports the BBC. “The

DHAKA: The Egyptian military says it has killed the head of the Sinai branch of so-called Islamic State (IS), along with dozens of its fighters. It said Abu Duaa al-Ansari was killed in a series of air strikes on fighters of the Sinai Province - or Ansar Beit al-Maqdis – group,

DHAKA: Iran has hanged up to 20 Sunni Muslim prisoners it said were involved in armed attacks. State media said that the group was executed on Tuesday, and was responsible for killing women and children between 2009 and 2011. Iran, which is predominantly Shia, executed at least 977

DHAKA: Trump Taj Mahal, the Atlantic City casino, founded by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump but no longer under his ownership, will shut down after years of losses. The owners said the casino had long been unprofitable, reports the BBC. The closure after Labor Day will

DHAKA: A woman has died and five other people were injured in a knife attack in Russell Square, central London. Police were called at 22:33 BST on Wednesday to reports of a man injuring people with a knife. One of the victims, a woman in her 60s, was treated at the scene but was

DHAKA: Fresh divisions are emerging within the US Republican Party over its presidential candidate Donald Trump. Republican donor Meg Whitman has endorsed his rival Hillary Clinton, saying Trump’s ‘demagoguery’ had undermined the national fabric. Senior party activist Jan

DHAKA: An Emirates airline flight from India has crash-landed at Dubai International Airport. The Dubai government media office says, reports the BBC. Images posted online show thick black smoke coming from the plane. The Dubai government media office said all passengers were

DHAKA: Two leading international campaign groups claimed that the Australian government has a deliberate policy of ignoring abuse of asylum seekers. Australia transports asylum seekers who arrive by boat to off-shore processing centers in Nauru and Papua New Guinea. Human Rights

DHAKA: Donald Trump has dismissed Barack Obama’s time in the White House as a ‘disaster’ after the US president said he was not fit to succeed him. “He’s been weak, he’s been ineffective,” Republican candidate Trump said of Obama in a Fox News interview on Tuesday,

DHAKA: North Korea has test-fired a ballistic missile which travelled 1,000km before landing in Japanese waters. The South and Japan say, reports the BBC. The missile was launched off the North's east coast early on Wednesday. The North is barred from developing nuclear and

DHAKA: At least 22 people are missing after a highway bridge connecting the city of Mumbai with the beach resort state of Goa in western India collapsed. Officials said two buses carrying passengers plunged into a flooded river after the collapse early on Wednesday, reports the BBC.

DHAKA: At least 22 people have been killed and 20 wounded in a car bomb attack in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, according to medical officials. Tuesday's attack targeted forces loyal to eastern commander Khalifa Haftar, known as the Libyan National Army (LNA), spokesman

DHAKA: An FBI employee with top secret security clearance has pleaded guilty to acting as an ‘agent of the Chinese government’. Kun Shan Chun, a naturalized US citizen born in China and known as Joey, confesses in court to sending sensitive information to a Chinese official. US

DHAKA: Venezuela’s national election council has declared its approval of the first step in an opposition campaign to recall President Nicolas Maduro. It said that the opposition had succeeded in gathering 1% of voter signatures in all 24 of Venezuela’s states. The move is the

DHAKA: Qusai Abtini, a 14-year-old boy who played a role in the first television comedy produced in rebel-held parts of Syria, was killed when a missile struck a car he was in as he tried to escape the city of Aleppo. Abtini was 10 years old when protests first erupted against the rule