DHAKA: Italian navy recovered 45 bodies, as a migrant boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea on Friday (May 27). According to the local newspaper, the Italian vessel has already rescued 130 people from the boat and continued its rescue mission, SPUTNIK reports on Saturday (May 28).

DHAKA: A weeklong nationwide strike and mass protests by workers of oil refineries, nuclear power plants and some public transportation services have crippled parts of the country, with hundreds of gas stations running dry and vehicles lining up for hours to fill their tanks. Riot

DHAKA: Barack Obama has arrived in Hiroshima to become the first serving US president to visit the Japanese city since the 1945 nuclear bombing. Obama flew into the Iwakuni US base nearby, after leaving the G7 summit, BBC reports on Friday (May 27). He said that his visit was ‘a

DHAKA: Experts following the evaporation of MH370 said that it is likely that a new piece of debris found on a Mozambique beach came from the missing plane. A reader contacted the BBC on Thursday to say he recently found the fragment on the Macaneta peninsula, BBC reports on Friday

DHAKA: More than 300 passengers and crew were abandoned from a Korean Air plane in Tokyo, Japan after a fire broke out in its left engine. Flight 2708 was preparing to take off from Haneda airport en way to Seoul on Friday (May 27) morning, and there were 302 passengers and 17 crew

DHAKA: The US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has reached the number of delegates needed to secure the party’s presidential nomination. In North Dakota on Thursday, he thanked 15 unbound delegates from the state who he said “got us right over the top”, reports the

DHAKA: At least 30 migrants are feared dead after a boat capsized in the Mediterranean off the Libyan coast while some 77 were rescued by EU naval units from the sea. Ships from an EU task force and Italy’s coast guard raced to the scene 35 nautical miles (65km) off the coast as

DHAKA: Up to 30 migrants are feared dead after a boat capsized in the Mediterranean off the Libyan coast while some 77 were rescued by EU naval units from the sea. Ships from an EU task force and Italy’s coast guard raced to the scene 35 nautical miles off the coast as survivors

DHAKA: One person has been killed and three others wounded in a shooting at a music venue in New York. Police said the shooting happened at Irving Plaza, near Union Square, Manhattan, where hip-hop artist TI was due to perform on Wednesday evening. No-one has been arrested and the

DHAKA: Militant outfit Islamic State (IS) of Iraq and Syria is trying to creep into the trade to get their people to Europe from the chaotic and near-failed state of Libya. They are trying to do such thing as the route from Turkey to Greece becomes more heavily policed, CNN reports on

DHAKA: Indonesia has hard-bitten its punishments for child rapists to include the death penalty and chemical castration. It follows outrage over several recent violent crimes, including the gang-rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl, BBC reports on Thursday (May 26). President Joko

DHAKA: Workers at French nuclear power stations are due to down tools on Thursday amid growing industrial action over controversial labour reforms. The CGT union said staff at 16 of France’s 19 nuclear plants had voted for a one-day strike. The government said on Wednesday it was

DHAKA: Mullah Haibatullah Akhunzada has been announced as successor of Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, the armed group's leader who died in a US drone strike. The Taliban spokesman told Al Jazeera on Wednesday (May 26) that Sirajuddin Haqqani and Mullah Yaqub, son of

DHAKA: Demonstrators outside a Donald Trump rally in New Mexico have set fire to campaign merchandise and clashed with police. Protesters threw burning T-shirts and plastic bottles at police outside the rally at a convention centre in Albuquerque, reports the BBC. Demonstrators held

DHAKA: Two Canadian fishermen have been celebrating catching bright blue lobsters over the last few days. But how exceptional these striking-looking crustaceans are, asks Justin Parkinson. Lobsters caught off the Atlantic coast of North America aren’t usually very bright. They

DHAKA: A US-backed association of Syrian Kurdish and Arab fighters has begun a campaign to oust Islamic State (IS) militants from land north of Raqqa. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) is believed to have planned about 30,000 fighters. US-led coalition warplanes will support the

DHAKA: The Afghan Taliban has pronounced a new leader to swap Mullah Akhtar Mansour who was killed in a US drone strike. The Taliban acknowledged that, Mansour's death for the first time and named his successor as Mawlawi Haibatullah Akhundzada, BBC reports on Wednesday (May 25).

DHAKA: Eurozone finance ministers have agreed a ‘major breakthrough’ that is to extend further bailout loans to Greece as well as debt relief. After late-night talks in Brussels, the ministers agreed to unlock 10.3bn Euros in new loans. The move came two days after the Greek

DHAKA: An EgyptAir flight that crashed in the Mediterranean did not swerve and change direction before disappearing, an Egyptian official says. The Airbus A320 was en route from Paris to Cairo with 66 people aboard when it vanished from radar early on Thursday. Greece’s defence

DHAKA: The former president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, has been granted refugee status in the UK, according to his lawyer. Nasheed, the opposition leader, was controversially jailed for 13 years under anti-terror laws last year. He was allowed to travel to the UK to receive