DHAKA: By next May, none of Singapore’s public servants will have access to the internet while at work. The city-state, which prides itself on strong law and order, is cutting off online access for government workers from about 100,000 computers. Quoting the Straits Times, CNN

DHAKA: Two Palestinian gunmen killed four people and wounded six others after opening fire at a popular open-air shopping and restaurant area of central Tel Aviv, capital city of Israel. Quoting authorities, BBC reports the matter. The attacks took place in two locations in Sarona

DHAKA: At least 15 people are reported to have been killed and dozens wounded in a series of air strikes on rebel-held areas in the Syrian city of Aleppo. One of the strikes hit near the Bayan hospital in the eastern Shaar district, activists and a monitoring group said, reports the

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama has backed India’s entry into the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCG) and Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG). India’s entry into these groups will give it easier access to technology for research and advancement, reports the BBC. President Obama

DHAKA: Euroskepticism is on the rise across Europe, new research has suggested, with little more than two weeks to go before Britons decide whether to remain within the EU. Nonetheless, the Pew Research Center report found that a slim majority - a median of 51% - of respondents across

DHAKA: Non-EU migrants illegally entering an EU state in the Schengen zone should not face detention on those grounds. The European Court of Justice says, reports the BBC. Migrants staying illegally should instead be returned to the country from which they came under the so-called

DHAKA: An EgyptAir plane flying from Cairo to Beijing has been forced to make an emergency landing in Uzbekistan due to a bomb threat. All 118 passengers and 17 crew on board the Airbus A330-220 were checked out at Urgench International Airport, in the east of the country, BBC reports

DHAKA: Police in China’s north-western region of Xinjiang are asking some residents to provide DNA samples and other biological data when applying for travel documents. People in the multi-ethnic area of Yili will have to provide the samples before being allowed to go abroad, reports

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama will not be there at a memorial to the late boxer Muhammad Ali on Friday. Ali died last Friday at the age of 74 in hospital in Phoenix, Arizona. World leaders will be among thousands attending Friday's procession and memorial service in

DHAKA: Hillary Clinton has thanked her supporters for helping her to reach a historic moment for women the Democratic nomination for president. She told cheering crowds at a rally in New York that ‘Thanks to you, we've reached a milestone’, BBC reports on Wednesday (June 8).

DHAKA: North Korea appears to have reactivated its nuclear capacity again at Yongbyon. The Yongbyon site processes spent fuel from power stations and has been the source of plutonium for North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, BBC reports on Tuesday (June 7). The reactor was shut

DHAKA: For Agness Jonathan, every day is a gamble with her children's lives. Simple questions like whether they should go to school carry an unimaginable risk of death and dismemberment to satisfy a barbaric demand, CNN reports on Tuesday (June 8). This is because her daughters

DHAKA: At least 11 people have been killed by a blast which targeted a police bus in central Istanbul, officials say. The remote-controlled device was reportedly detonated as the vehicle passed through the busy Vezneciler district at the morning rush hour. No group has yet said it

DHAKA: Philippine boxing hero Manny Pacquiao has led his country’s tribute to Muhammad Ali, whose death brought back fond memories of the October 1975 ‘Thrilla in Manila’ fight between Ali and Joe Frazier. ‘We lost a giant,’ Pacquiao, a newly elected senator, said on his

DHAKA: Hillary Clinton has clinched the Democratic Party nomination for US President after reaching the required number of delegates. Quoting a report of news agency AP, BBC reports the matter. Clinton acquired over 2,383 delegates the number needed to make her the presumptive

DHAKA: At least 17 people, including 11 ‘extremists’, were killed during a series of attacks in oil-rich Kazakhstan, an increasingly authoritarian ex-Soviet nation that has largely avoided violence by religious zealots. Kazakhstan officials said Monday, reports Al Jazeera.

DHAKA: A court in the Indian capital, Delhi, has found five men guilty for the 2014 gang rape of a Danish woman. The 51-year-old tourist was robbed and raped at knife point on 14 January. Nine people, including three minors, were arrested for the crime. One of the accused died in

DHAKA: At least 14 people, including six children, have been killed in a bus crash in southern Turkey on Monday (June 6). At least 26 others are reported to have been injured in the accident, which occurred in the city of Osmaniye as the bus was returning from a school trip. The

DHAKA: Tributes have been paid to a celebrated Indian body-builder, Manohar Aich, who has died in the city of Kolkata (Calcutta), aged 104. Aich died of age-related ‘complications’ on Sunday, his family said. He is survived by four children, reports the BBC. Aich was the first

DHAKA: A veteran US photojournalist and a translator have been killed in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. David Gilkey of National Public Radio (NPR) and Zabihullah Tamanna were travelling with the Afghan army when they came under fire and their vehicle was hit by a shell, NPR