President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday three key members of the national security team for his administration -- signaling he will make good on the hard-line agenda on which he campaigned. Unveiled Friday were nominations of Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions as attorney general, Kansas

The ex-Breitbart executive Steve Bannon, who serves as Trump’s chief strategist for the new administration, said “darkness is good.” Quoting The Hollywood Reporter, CNN reports that Bannon said: “Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That’s power. It only helps us when they

DHAKA: At least 73 people have been killed and 110 injured in a fuel tanker explosion in western Mozambique. Officials said the circumstances of the blast on Thursday afternoon in the village of Caphiridzange in Tete province, near the border with Malawi, remain unclear, reports BBC.

US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has submitted his letter of resignation, he has told a congressional panel. The 75-year-old top American spy had been expected to step aside, as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to appoint his own officials, reports the BBC.

Japan’s PM Shinzo Abe has said he has “great confidence” in US President-elect Donald Trump and he believes they can build a relationship of trust. Abe described the 90-minute meeting in Trump Tower, New York, as “candid”, with a “warm atmosphere”, reports the BBC.

DHAKA: Japan’s Prime Minister is set to become the first foreign leader to meet US President-elect Donald Trump, since the election last week. Shinzo Abe said he wanted to “build trust” and “work together for prosperity and world peace”, before leaving for his trip. The

DHAKA: Hillary Clinton, in her first public speech since last week's crushing presidential loss, admitted making the appearance “was not the easiest.” But speaking at the Children’s Defense Fund’s “Beat The Odds” Gala on Wednesday night, Clinton emotionally reflected

DHAKA: Twenty-one people have died in Cameroon after consuming a locally produced alcoholic drink that can often be toxic. A further 22 people are hospitalized in the eastern town of Abong-Bang after drinking Odontol, reports the Business Standard. Authorities in the affected areas

A hospital, blood bank and ambulances are reported to have been hit as Syrian government aircraft and artillery bombarded rebel-held eastern Aleppo. The director of the Bayan Children’s Hospital was forced to take shelter in the facility’s basement, reports the BBC. Activists

Tremors were felt in New Delhi and parts of National Capital Region (NCR) of India after a 4.4 magnitude earthquake struck on the Delhi-Haryana border on Thursday morning (November 17). The tremors, which lasted nearly a minute, shook Delhi and neighbouring Gurgaon and Ghaziabad around

DHAKA: German Chancellor Angela Merkel will run for a fourth term in elections next year.  A senior politician in her party told CNN on Tuesday (November 15). “She will run for Chancellor,” Norbert Roettgen of the Christian Democratic Union said on CNN’s program

DHAKA: The Mexican government is working on a plan to deal with possible mass deportations under President-elect Donald Trump, a presidential spokesman says. In a press conference on Monday (November 14), Eduardo Sanchez, spokesman for Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto told that

DHAKA: Egypt’s highest court has overturned a death sentence against ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. Morsi had been condemned to death for his part in a mass prison break during the 2011 revolution. He was elected president in 2012, but removed by the military a year

DHAKA: President Barack Obama has sought to assure US allies that President-elect Donald Trump will honor the country’s international alliances when he takes office in January. Obama told reporters that Trump had “expressed a great interest” in maintaining the US commitment to

The UK government has no overall Brexit plan and a strategy may not be agreed for six months, a leaked memo prepared for the Cabinet Office suggests. The memo - obtained by The Times and seen by the BBC - warns Whitehall is working on 500 Brexit-related projects and could need 30,000

ISIL fighters in Iraq launched a series of suicide bomb attacks in the city of Fallujah and an oasis town south of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 14 people and wounding dozens. The attacks came as Iraqi forces and their allies continue fighting ISIL in the northern city of Mosul,

US President-elect Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will try to “normalize US-Russia ties”, the Kremlin has said, following a phone conversation between the two. Putin wished Trump “success in implementing the election program,” reports the BBC. Trump, who

DHAKA: Gale and heavy rain in the South Island of New Zealand are impeding the airlift of hundreds of people still stranded after Monday’s powerful earthquake. Dozens of helicopters are being drafted in to move residents and tourists from the seaside town of Kaikoura, reports the

DHAKA: According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), 2016 looks poised to be the warmest year on record globally. With data from just the first nine months, scientists are 90 percent certain that 2016 will pass the mark set by 2015. Temperatures from January to September

DHAKA: Skywatchers are preparing for the latest ‘supermoon’ as Earth’s satellite makes its closest approach since 1948. The UK’s best chance to see it will be on Monday evening, with the moon set to rise at 16:43 GMT in Edinburgh and at 16:44 GMT in London. To observers, it