DHAKA: The United States has carried out air strikes on positions of so-called Islamic State (IS) in Libya, following a request by the UN-backed government there. The Pentagon says, reports the BBC. The strikes targeted positions in the port city of Sirte, an IS stronghold.

DHAKA: Republican candidate Donald Trump has called Democratic rival Hillary Clinton “the devil”, in the face of continuing fire from within his own party. Speaking at a rally in a high school gym in Pennsylvania, Trump attacked Bernie Sanders for capitulating to Clinton in the

DHAKA: Five Russians on board a military helicopter were killed when it was shot down by rebels in northern Syria, Russia has said. The Mi-8 transporter came down in Idlib province. It was carrying three crew and two officers, Russia’s defense ministry said, reports the BBC. The

DHAKA: Syrian rebels have launched an offensive aimed at breaking a government siege of eastern Aleppo, where the UN estimates some 300,000 people are trapped with dwindling food and medical supplies. A rebel alliance that includes the Jabhat Fatah al Sham group - which was formerly

DHAKA: Former defense minister Yuriko Koike has been elected governor of Tokyo, the first woman to lead Japan’s capital. Koike, running as an independent candidate, received more than 2.9 million votes in Sunday’s election, beating her opponents by a wide margin, reports the BBC.

DHAKA: Muslims across France have attended Catholic Mass in a gesture of solidarity after the murder of a priest on Tuesday. Fr Jacques Hamel was killed in his church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray near Rouen by two men who had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) group.

DHAKA: Turkey's president declared that he wants to close the nation's military academies and put the spy agency and the military chief of staff under his own control. Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the proposals would be brought before parliament. The measures are the

DHAKA: Tunisia’s parliament has passed a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Habib Essid, effectively dismissing the government of the US-trained economist. A total of 188 MPs voted to sack Essid, with only three supporting him, reports the BBC. Essid, who has been in office

DHAKA: Donald Trump rejected a Muslim lawyer’s assertion on the Democratic convention stage that the Republican nominee has ‘sacrificed nothing and no one’. ‘Who wrote that? Did Hillary’s script writers write it?’ Trump said that in an interview with ABC News’ George

DHAKA: In the past week it was seen flowers and candles carpeting a street in Munich, the tranquility of a small Bavarian town shattered by a suicide bomb and a small church in suburban France sealed off after its octogenarian priest had his throat cut. Before these horrific events,

DHAKA: American Luke Aikins has become the first person to jump from 25,000-ft without a parachute, landing safely in a net. Aikins, who has more than 18,000 jumps under his belt, fell dead centre into the 100x100ft net in Simi Valley, southern California. During the two-minute fall

DHAKA: The Turkish military has killed 35 Kurdish militants who tried to storm a base in the south-east, officials say. The overnight attack, in the Cukurca district of Hakkari province near the Iraqi border, came hours after clashes between soldiers and militants left eight soldiers

DHAKA: Turkey president Erdogan declared that he will withdraw all lawsuits against people charged with insulting him. Erdogan said that he was inspired by the feelings of unity in the wake of the recent failed coup. But he also stepped up his attacks on nations criticizing his

DHAKA: The UN Security Council has authorized the deployment of a UN police force to Burundi to try to quell violence and human rights abuses in the country. The council backed a French-drafted resolution to send up to 228 police for an initial period of a year, reports the BBC.

DHAKA: A 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck the Mariana Islands in the Pacific Ocean early Saturday. The quake occurred at a depth of 117 miles (212 km) some 19 miles south-southwest of the uninhabited island of Agrihan in the U.S. territory, the U.S. Geological Survey. No tsunami

DHAKA: Syrian jihadist group Jabhat al-Nusra, also known as the Nusra Front, has announced it has split from al-Qaeda. Leader Abu Mohammed al-Julani, in his first recorded message, said its new name would be Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (Front for the Conquest of Syria/the Levant). He said

DHAKA:  A couple from India’s Dalit community has been hacked to death after a row over a 15 rupees (17.56 BDT) debt in Uttar Pradesh state. The deceased were identified as Bharat and Mamta, formerly known as untouchables, form the lowest rung of India's caste hierarchy, BBC

DHAKA: Chancellor Angela Merkel has said recent attacks in Germany involving asylum-seekers would not change its willingness to take in refugees. She said the attackers “wanted to undermine our sense of community, our openness and our willingness to help people in need. We firmly

DHAKA: Hillary Clinton has told voters the presidential election is a “moment of reckoning”, as she made history by accepting the Democratic nomination. Speaking on the final night of the party’s convention in Philadelphia, the first woman nominated by a major party said there

DHAKA: Hillary Clinton accepted her party's presidential nomination after taking stage of the Democratic National Convention. Clinton appeared on local time Thursday (July 29) almost overcome with emotion as she enter the arena to loud cheers and embraced her daughter, Chelsea, who