DHAKA: South African prosecutors said that they will take court action in order to secure a longer prison sentence for Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius. He was jailed for six years earlier this month for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013, BBC reports on Thursday (July

DHAKA: Donald Trump has said that if he is elected president he may dispose a guarantee of protection to fellow Nato countries. Speaking to the New York Times, Trump said that the US would only come to the aid of allies if they have ‘fulfilled their obligations to us’. Members

DHAKA: Turkey’s president has declared a state of emergency for three months following Friday night’s failed army coup. Speaking at the presidential palace in Ankara, Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed that “all the viruses within the armed forces will be cleansed”, reports the BBC.

DHAKA: Three French soldiers have died in Libya after their helicopter was shot down, President Francois Hollande says. The soldiers were killed while carrying out ‘dangerous intelligence operations’, Hollande said, reports the BBC. Earlier on Wednesday, French defense ministry

DHAKA: At least 17 soldiers have been killed and 35 wounded in central Mali in an assault on their military base that authorities called a ‘coordinated terrorist attack’.  The raid on Tuesday is the biggest in months on the army in Mali, a country that faces a growing threat from

DHAKA: At least 45,000 people have been rounded up, sacked or suspended from their jobs by Turkey’s government in the wake of last week’s failed coup. The purge of those deemed less than loyal to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan widened on Tuesday to include teachers, university

DHAKA: France's National Assembly has voted to lengthen the state of emergency for six months. The move followed last week's attack in Nice in which 84 people were killed and scores injured when a lorry was driven into crowds. The state of emergency was brought in after

DHAKA: Donald Trump has protected the nomination of the Republican Party to become the next US president. He secured this after months of controversial campaigning that has divided the American right of the political spectrum.  The billionaire businessman had been expected to

DHAKA: Almost a quarter of a million children in parts of Nigeria’s Borno state formerly controlled by Boko Haram are suffering from severe malnutrition. The UN children’s agency Unicef says, reports the BBC. Tens of thousands will die if treatment does not reach them soon,

DHAKA: North Korea has fired three ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast, say US and South Korean officials. The missiles were launched from the Hwangju region, said South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) and flew about 500km to 600km, reports the BBC. The US said

DHAKA: At least 10 paramilitary commandos were killed and five others wounded in an attack by Maoists in Aurangabad district of India’s Bihar province on Monday. Quoting security officials, NDTV reports that the operation against the Maoists is still on after 12 hours of the

DHAKA: A teenage Afghan refugee armed with an axe and knife injured four people on a train in southern Germany before being shot dead by police. Quoting police, BBC reports that three people were seriously hurt and one suffered minor injuries in the attack in Wurzburg, a city in

DHAKA: President Obama has called for restraint after three police officers were shot dead in the city of Baton Rouge in Louisiana. The gunman, Gavin Long, an African-American who had served for five years in the Marines, was also killed. He had posted videos on the internet

DHAKA: Turkey has allowed US warplanes to resume air strikes in Syria and Iraq from the Incirlik airbase, the Pentagon announced on Sunday (July 17). The decision came after a failed coup and arrests shut down the base and shook the already fragile relations between the countries,

DHAKA: Three officers are feared dead after a shooting in Baton Rouge in Louisiana. Kip Holden, the mayor-president of East Baton Rouge Parish Kip Holden, said authorities were still trying to get a handle on the situation, but added, “The count is three officers dead possibly.”

DHAKA: A man and a woman have been arrested in Nice in connection with the Bastille Day lorry attack. More than 80 people died when a Tunisian man, Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, ploughed the vehicle into celebrating crowds on Thursday evening. Earlier, France called up 12,000 police

DHAKA: An armed group has stormed a police station in Armenia's capital, Yerevan, taking hostages and calling for the release of political prisoners. The group released a video demanding opposition leader Jirair Sefilian and a number of others be freed. It called on Armenians to

DHAKA: A bloody coup attempt by a large number of soldiers, including high-ranking generals was quashed by the security forces on July 16 as hundreds of thousands of civilians hit the streets across the country against the rebel soldiers in a night that put a black mark on Turkish

DHAKA: Turkish President Recep Erdogan addressed a large crowd in Istanbul Saturday morning, as security personnel rounded up suspects after a chaotic coup attempt that sent tanks and demonstrators into the streets while aircraft battled overhead. ‘In Turkey the army is not governing

DHAKA: French President Francois Hollande is to lead crisis talks with his inner security cabinet following Thursday's attack in Nice that killed 84 people. Hollande, who said that the attack was a terrorist act, has already extended a state of emergency by three months. Earlier