DHAKA: The UK is to send up to 50 additional military personnel to Afghanistan to train and advise security forces there. They will join the 450 British troops already in the country - and will aid counter-terrorism efforts and provide leadership training, reports the BBC. Officials

DHAKA: Bomb-making material, rifles, ammunition and a combat journal have been recovered from the house of the suspect in the Dallas shootings. Five police officers were killed and seven wounded in a hail of gunfire during a protest on Thursday against the shooting of black men by

DHAKA: The US has expelled two Russian diplomats in response to an attack on an American diplomat in Moscow, the state department says. Spokesman John Kirby said the two officials - who have not been named - were told to leave on 17 June. Kirby said that earlier that month, a

DHAKA: Typhoon Nepartak hit Taiwan’s east coast on Friday, leaving two dead and 66 injured, as well as forcing evacuations and disrupting services. More than 15,000 people had to leave their homes as hundreds of flights were cancelled and offices and schools shut. The typhoon

DHAKA: The US Capitol building lockdown has been lifted. The US Capitol and Capitol Visitor Center were on lockdown Friday morning (July 8) while the US Capitol Police investigated ‘a report person of interest’. ‘Out of abundance of caution, the US Capitol and Capitol Visitor

DHAKA: Suicide bombers and gunmen have killed at least 35 people in an attack by so-called Islamic State (IS) at a Shia shrine in the Iraqi town of Balad. At least one bomber blew himself up outside the mausoleum of Sayid Mohammed bin Ali al-Hadi, which was then stormed by gunmen, BBC

DHAKA: The US and South Korea have agreed to deploy a controversial missile defense system, in the wake of intensifying threats from North Korea. The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-missile system will be deployed solely to counter the threat from Pyongyang, a

DHAKA: Saudi officials say 12 out of 19 people arrested over Monday’s three bomb attacks in the country are Pakistani. An interior ministry spokesman also named a suicide bomber who killed four security officers near a mosque in the sacred city of Medina as Naer Muslim Hamad, a

Four officers were killed in downtown Dallas as crowds protested the fatal shootings of two African-American men by police in Louisiana and Minnesota, authorities said. A total of 10 police officers were shot during the protests, Dallas Police Chief David Brown said. An 11th was shot

DHAKA: A black man has been shot dead by police in the US state of Minnesota as protests continued over the police killing of a black man in Louisiana. Philando Castile’s girlfriend live-streamed the aftermath, showing him covered in blood with a police officer pointing his gun at

DHAKA: House Republicans have called FBI Director James Comey to testify about Hillary Clinton’s use of private email as secretary of state. Comey will have to explain to a House committee why he recommended the likely Democratic presidential nominee should not be prosecuted. Over

DHAKA: Taiwan is bracing itself for the arrival of a vast typhoon, expected to hit the island in the next day. Thousands of tourists have been evacuated from offshore islands ahead of category five Typhoon Nepartak. The super typhoon packed winds of up to 263km an hour, some 780km

DHAKA: Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has vowed that his government will “strike with an iron fist”, a day after a series of bombings hit the country. Four people were killed at the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina, Islam’s second holiest site, on Monday (July 4),

DHAKA: Pilots of the EgyptAir jet that crashed in the Mediterranean Sea in May battled to extinguish a fire, the cockpit voice recorder reportedly shows. The data, revealed by sources close to the investigation but not yet made public, backs up evidence from the flight recorder of

DHAKA: US Republican Donald Trump has said Hillary Clinton’s use of private email while secretary of state put the “entire country in danger”. The FBI’s decision not to recommend criminal charges against her is the greatest example yet that the system is rigged, he told a North

DHAKA: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inducted 19 new ministers to his government in a major expansion. The new ministers, including former journalist MJ Akbar and MP Arjun Ram Meghwal, took the oath on Tuesday (June 5). Senior ministers Sushma Swaraj, Rajnath Singh, Arun

DHAKA: The US space agency has successfully put a new probe in orbit around Jupiter. The Juno satellite, which left Earth five years ago, had to fire a rocket engine to slow its approach to the planet and get caught by its gravity, reports the BBC. A sequence of tones transmitted

DHAKA: A suicide bomber has killed four security officers and injured five others near one of Islam’s holiest sites in the Saudi city of Medina, according to the interior ministry. The bomber detonated his explosives after being stopped outside the Prophet’s Mosque, a statement

DHAKA: At least 45 people with suspected links to drug trafficking have been killed in four days since Rodrigo Duterte was sworn in as president of the Philippines. A Philippines’ TV channel, reported on Monday that at least 29 drug and robbery suspects were killed in Bulacan

DHAKA: Australia’s opposition leader has urged Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to resign after a cliff-hanger election failed to deliver a clear winner. “I think he should quit,” said Labor Party leader Bill Shorten. “He’s delivered instability.” The election result