Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos said the peace deal with the Farc rebel group will boost economic growth and will enable the country to rebuild its social fabric. “War is always more costly than peace,” he said in an interview with the BBC. Santos and Farc leader

DHAKA: Gabonese opposition leader Jean Ping has said a constitution court ruling which upheld President Ali Bongo’s election victory was “unjust”. Ping called for his supporters to “remain vigilant and mobilized”. There have been concerns about violent protests following the

DHAKA: A suspect sought over a fatal gun attack at a shopping centre in Washington State on Friday (September 23) has been captured. Police said details of the arrest have not been revealed although media reports say it took place in Oak Harbor, south-west of Burlington where the

DHAKA: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was directly addressing the people of Pakistan as he sent across a strong message against the “export of terrorism” from that country, vowing that “India will never forget the Uri attack.” The minister made the remarks while

DHAKA: China is set to start operating the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope, enabling astronomers to probe farther and darker regions of space for the faintest signs of life. Scheduled to be launched on Sunday (September 25), the science mega-project is named after its

DHAKA: A powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck off Fiji shortly after another hit off Tonga but there was no threat of a tsunami. The US seismologists said this which was reported by the Reliefweb.int. The offshore quake occurred at 9:28 am (2128 GMT Saturday), centered around

DHAKA: Police in Charlotte, North Carolina, have released officer bodycam and dashcam footage of a controversial shooting of a black man on Tuesday (September 20). They also released pictures of a handgun and marijuana that police say Keith Lamont Scott possessed. Calls for the

DHAKA: Jeremy Corbyn has been re-elected as Labour leader, comfortably defeating his challenger Owen Smith. He won 61.8% of the vote, a larger margin of victory than last year, reports the BBC. He vowed to bring Labour back together, saying “we have much more in common than

DHAKA: South Korean defense minister has admitted that they have special troops ready if they feel threatened by North Korean boss Kim Jong Un. Han Min-koo admitted to the question in the national assembly last week of whether S. Korea has team ready to take out their neighboring

At least 11 people have been killed in Iraq after attackers hit a police checkpoint and then detonated a car bomb at the entrance to the city of Tikrit. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack on the city, which is 150km north of Baghdad, reports Al Jazeera.

DHAKA: Gabon’s constitutional court has upheld President Ali Bongo’s election victory, rejecting opposition calls for a recount. There have been fears that such a decision could trigger fresh violence. The government said it will hold opposition leader Jean Ping responsible if

At least three people were killed and one critically wounded in a shooting at a shopping mall north of Seattle and at least one suspect remains at large, authorities in the US state of Washington said. The Washington State Patrol said on Twitter the four were shot on Friday at the

DHAKA: Protesters massed on Charlotte’s streets for a third night as pressure mounted on authorities to release a video that could resolve different accounts of the latest police killing of a black man in the United States. Demonstrators on Thursday chanted “release the tape” and

DHAKA: At least 118 people have drowned since a migrant boat capsized this week off the coast of Egypt. The overloaded boat bound for Italy was believed to have been carrying 450 migrants when it overturned Wednesday. Only 164 have been rescued, and hundreds more are feared missing.

DHAKA: Syrian army jets have launched at least 100 air raids on rebel-held eastern Aleppo, killing 26 people, since the government announced a new push on the city. The rescue workers came up with this assertion. The military, which is backed by the Russian air force, said late on

DHAKA: A magnitude of 6.5 earthquakes struck southeast of Tokyo on Friday morning (September 23), the Japan Meteorological Agency reports. The US Geological Survey measured the temblor at 6.4 and said it was centered at sea about 150 kilometers (93 miles) southeast of Katsuura.

DHAKA: Government of city of Charlotte in US state North Carolina has declared state of emergency as continued unrest following police shooting down an unarmed black man. Protests erupted after a black police man shot dead keith Lamont Scott on Tuesday (September 20). One protester

DHAKA: Bus driver of Venezuelan capital Caracas have effectively blocked the city in demand of current economic crisis. Thousands of drivers parked their busses on the road and brought the city to a complete halt for over eight hours, BBC reports. They have demanded a wage bump as

DHAKA: The US army claimed to be working on a new kind of grenade that can either be used as fragmentation or a blast pressure device. This grenade, the first to be introduced in the US army arsenal after 4o years will be able to limit damage in certain circumstances. Picatinny

DHAKA: South Korea and United States will carry out a mock attack on a nuclear facility next month. A South Korean defense ministry official told BBC. However, the officials claimed the testing will no be aiming North Korea, even though, the decision came a mere couple of weeks