DHAKA: Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission said 22 people were executed by federal police during a confrontation on a ranch in the western state of Michoacan last year. The commission had investigated the clash, which took place at a ranch in the town of Tanhuato in May 2015.

DHAKA: A senior North Korean diplomat based in London has defected to South Korea, becoming one of the highest Northern officials to do so. The South Korean government said, reports Al Jazeera. Thae Yong Ho, minister at the North Korean Embassy in London, has arrived in South Korea

DHAKA: Three people, including two children, have died after their throats were slit by glass-coated strings used for flying kites on India’s Independence Day. Saanchi Goyal, 3, and Harry, 4, were looking out through the sunroof of their cars in different parts of Delhi when sharp

DHAKA: A Malaysian oil tanker carrying 900,000 litres of diesel has been hijacked and taken to Indonesian waters, Malaysian maritime officials say. The MT Vier Harmoni was reportedly sailing from Tanjung Pelepas port in Malaysia on Monday when it was seized, reports the BBC. The

DHAKA: Elderly Germans may have to keep working until the age of 69 if a Bundesbank proposal is adopted. It says Berlin should consider raising the retirement age to that level by 2060, from around 65 at the moment. The central bank says that otherwise the country may struggle to

DHAKA: An air strike has hit a hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in northern Yemen, killing at least 11 people, the medical charity says. Another 19 people were injured in the attack in Abs, in Hajjah province, believed to have been carried out by the Saudi-led coalition

DHAKA: The US says it has sent 15 Guantanamo Bay detainees to the United Arab Emirates - the largest single transfer during President Barack Obama’s administration. The Pentagon says the transfer of 12 Yemeni nationals and three Afghans brings the total number of prisoners down to 61

DHAKA: A government official says at least 33 people died and 28 others were injured when an overcrowded bus veered off a mountain highway in Nepal. Home ministry official Chiranjivi Nepal said the injured people were brought by helicopter to Kathmandu and are being treated in two

DHAKA: A preliminary investigation at New York’s John F Kennedy International Airport has found no evidence of gunfire inside one of its terminals despite earlier reports of shots being heard, according to the airport’s operator. No gun casings were found after a search of Terminal

DHAKA: Gunmen shot and injured 10 police paramilitaries Monday who were trying to impose a curfew in the main city of Kashmir during Indian Independence Day, security sources said. Three of those who were wounded are in a serious condition, according to a spokesman for the Central

DHAKA: The leader of India’s main opposition Congress party, Sonia Gandhi, has been discharged from hospital where she had surgery to repair a shoulder injury, doctors say. Her condition is stable and she has been advised to rest, doctors at Delhi’s Ganga Ram Hospital said, reports

DHAKA: At least 10 children have been killed and about 30 injured in an air strike on a school in the stronghold of Yemen’s Houthi rebels, according to a medical aid group. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Saturday that the victims were aged between eight and 15 and attended a

DHAKA: The former Cuban leader Fidel Castro has made a rare public appearance at an event to mark his 90th birthday. He appeared at a gala in Havana’s Karl Marx Theatre with his brother, President Raul Castro, and Cuba’s ally, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, reports the BBC.

DHAKA: The UN Security Council has authorized a 4,000-strong regional protection force for South Sudan’s capital, Juba. These African troops will have a more robust mandate than the 12,000 UN soldiers already in the country. South Sudan’s government has said it opposes the move,

DHAKA: Six people were killed Friday when a small private aircraft crashed at Shannon Airport in Fredericksburg, Virginia of USA. The plane was attempting to land, but pulled back up at the end of the runway, reports CNN. “It attempted to abort the landing and take off again,”

DHAKA: More than 70 Republicans have signed a letter to the party’s National Committee head urging him to stop helping Donald Trump’s campaign. They said Trump’s “divisiveness” and “incompetence” risked drowning the party in November’s election, reports the BBC. The

DHAKA: Burkinis are among the overtly religious outfits banned from some of France’s most popular beaches, amid growing terror concerns. Cannes, a city on the French Riviera famous for its annual film festival, has banned overtly religious clothing on the beach in the wake of recent

DHAKA: Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed his close ally and powerful chief of staff Sergei Ivanov. According to a Kremlin statement, the move represents the highest-level demotion inside the Kremlin in several years. “Russian President Vladimir Putin has decreed to

DHAKA: A series of blasts across Thailand has targeted tourist towns, killing four people and injuring dozens. In the resort town of Hua Hin, south of Bangkok, four bombs exploded over the last 24 hours, reports the BBC. Several blasts also hit the island of Phuket, one

DHAKA: A massive 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of New Caledonia on Friday (August 12). The United States Geological Survey (USGS) said the quake struck at a depth of about 9km and 109 kilometers east of Ile Hunter in New Caledonia at 1:26 GMT. However, there was no