DHAKA: Dozens of people have been killed at a Yemeni prison complex in air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition on Saturday (October 30). Strikes hit a building used as a prison in the al-Zaydiya security headquarters in the western port of Hudaydah, reports the BBC. Rebels and

DHAKA: Shia militias said they have launched an assault to the west of Mosul, opening up a new front in the battle to drive ISIL from the country’s second city and the group’s last major bastion in the country. The coalition of militias, know as the Popular Mobilization Units, had

DHAKA: Pakistan’s Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid has been removed from office over a newspaper leak that sparked a rift between the army and government earlier this month. “Evidence available so far points to a lapse on part of the information minister, who has been directed

DHAKA: Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign team has challenged the FBI over its decision to brief US lawmakers on a new inquiry into the Democratic candidate’s email use. FBI Director James Comey informed Congress of the move in a letter on Friday, 11 days before the election.

DHAKA: Twenty-five people have been killed in two days of violence in the Central African Republic. The UN peacekeeping mission said 15 people died in clashes between Muslim fighters of the former Seleka militia and the Christian vigilante anti-Balaka group on Thursday (October 27).

DHAKA: There are many craters on Mars -- but this one is different. New images show a fresh, dark mark on the face of the Red Planet. This one was made by the Schiaparelli spacecraft when it hit the surface hard after a systems malfunction. The pictures -- taken by a NASA Mars

DHAKA: Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant appears to be using tens of thousands of people as “human shields” in and around Mosul, where Iraqi forces are waging an offensive aimed at retaking the country’s second biggest city. The UN human rights office also said on Friday

DHAKA: An American Airlines plane has caught fire on the runway of Chicago’s O’Hare airport while taking off. The Boeing 767 bound for Miami experienced an “uncontained engine failure”, officials involved in the investigation said. The pilot aborted the take-off and

DHAKA: Roof tiles with built-in solar panels have been unveiled by Tesla chief executive Elon Musk. The tiles, made from glass, are intended to be a more attractive way to add solar panels to homes, compared with currently-used solar technology. The launch took place in Universal

Hillary Clinton says she is “confident” a new FBI probe linked to her emails will not change its original finding that she should not be prosecuted. The Democratic presidential candidate called on the FBI director to explain the new inquiry to the American people. James Comey

DHAKA: The BSF on Friday (October 28) said it had killed 15 Pakistani paramilitary personnel while retaliating to cross-border shelling and firing in which two Indian civilians were killed and two injured in Jammu region. Firing mortar shells and using automatic weapons, Pakistani

DHAKA: Philippine anti-narcotics officers gunned down a town mayor and nine of his men in a clash in one of the bloodiest operations since President Rodrigo Duterte launched a crackdown on illegal drugs. Samsudin Dimaukom, mayor of the southern town of Saudi Ampatuan, was one of more

DHAKA: Delegates from 24 countries and the European Union have agreed that the Ross Sea in Antarctica will become the world’s largest marine protected area (MPA). Some 1.57 million sq km (600,000 sq miles) of the Southern Ocean will gain protection from fishing for 35 years, reports

DHAKA: Saida Ahmad Baghili’s piercing eyes look up from a Yemen hospital bed as if pleading for help. She is 18, but the children’s clothes that drape her emaciated body appear too large for her in photos released this week, reports CNN. Baghili is being treated for severe

Hours after India expelled a Pakistan High Commission staffer for espionage, Pakistan summoned the Indian envoy in Islamabad and asked that an Indian official, Surjeet Singh, leave Pakistan. A communique from Pakistan’s foreign ministry said Surjeet Singh has been declared “persona

DHAKA: Global wildlife populations have fallen by 58% since 1970, a report says. The Living Planet assessment, by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and WWF, suggests that if the trend continues that decline could reach two-thirds among vertebrates by 2020. The figures suggest

Two strong earthquakes have hit central Italy, damaging buildings and sending scared residents into the streets. A 5.5-magnitude quake struck at 7:10 pm local time (1710 GMT) near Visso in Macerata province, officials said. It was followed two hours later by a 6.1 magnitude tremor

DHAKA: France says that it has completed the clearance of the ‘Jungle’ migrant camp in Calais, three days after it began an operation to demolish it. The announcement, from a regional official, came with fires still burning in the camp, after blazes were set overnight and in the

DHAKA: Fighters have killed at least 30 civilians, including children, after abducting them in the remote Afghan province of Ghor. According to officials and police on Wednesday (October 26), suspected ISIL fighters killed dozens of civilians on Tuesday in the Firozkoh district in

DHAKA: ISIS is sending “suicide squads” from Syria to its Iraqi stronghold of Mosul. Witnesses have told CNN that as tens of thousands of troops close in on the key city to take it from the militant group’s control. Witnesses said hundreds of new arrivals had streamed into