DHAKA: At least 15 people have died overnight as storms caused Skopje, the capital of Macedonia, to flood. Their bodies were found before 8:30 local time (06:30 GMT) on Sunday, an official said. Six people are still missing, reports BBC. Some of the victims drowned in their cars.

DHAKA: More than 200 Hamas-affiliated Palestinian prisoners have halted their hunger strike after reaching a deal with Israeli prison authorities to end body searches and improve prison conditions. The Gaza-based Prisoner’s Media Office said. The group published what it said was

DHAKA: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has criticized vigilantes who portray themselves as protectors of cows - an animal considered sacred by Hindus. Modi, a Hindu nationalist, said such people made him ‘angry’, and any such attacks must be investigated, reports the BBC. He

DHAKA: Rebel factions in Syria say they have broken a weeks-long government siege of Aleppo, amid scenes of rejoicing in the crucial northern city. Sources close to government forces denied that they had been pushed aside and said they had driven the rebels back from an artillery base,

DHAKA: People across Thailand are voting in a referendum on a new constitution, written by a military-appointed committee. The military threw out the old constitution when it took power in 2014, after months of political instability and sporadic violence. It says that if approved,

DHAKA: People across Thailand are voting in a referendum on a new constitution, written by a military-appointed committee. The military threw out the old constitution when it took power in 2014, after months of political instability and sporadic violence. It says that if approved,

DHAKA: A man charged with the murder of a US tourist in a knife attack in London's Russell Square has been remanded in custody.   Zakaria Bulhan (19), of south-west London, has been charged with the murder of Darlene Horton (64), and the attempted murder of five other people.

DHAKA: In an op-ed written for the New York Times, former CIA Director Michael Morell denounced Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and deemed him a threat to US national security should he be voted into office. “The character traits he (Trump) has exhibited during the

DHAKA: South Sudan’s government has agreed to let in a new international protection force to try to save a peace deal. Ethnic clashes last month left at least 300 people dead and threatened to revive a civil war that has killed tens of thousands. A 12,000-strong UN mission in

DHAKA: A US-backed alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters has taken ‘almost complete control’ of a strategically important Syrian city held by so-called Islamic State (IS), activists say. Manbij is situated at an intersection of roads just south of the Turkish border. It has been

DHAKA: Hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli prisons have declared a hunger strike, in a new wave of protest that Palestinian officials said was expected to grow. Some of the hunger strikers accused Israeli prison guards of ‘harassment’ while others refused food in solidarity with

DHAKA: A fire during a birthday party at a bar in the northern French city of Rouen has killed at least 13 people and injured six. Quoting French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve BBC reports that the blaze in the Cuba Libre bar began in the basement room around midnight on Saturday.

DHAKA: Indonesian police have arrested six people who were planning to attack Singapore. The men aged between 19 and 46, were arrested at several locations in nearby Batam island on Friday, BBC reports on Friday (Aug 5). The plot allegedly involved firing a rocket from Batam, just

DHAKA: Taliban fighters are believed to have captured all passengers and crew of a Pakistani government helicopter that crash-landed in eastern Afghanistan. Afghan officials said the helicopter went down late on Thursday in Logar province, close to the Afghan-Pakistan border, an

DHAKA: The leader of the Sinai branch of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has been killed in a series of air strikes south of the peninsula’s El Arish town. Egypt military said Abu Duaa al-Ansari was killed together with 45 other ISIL fighters in an operation

DHAKA: One of Australia’s new senators has said climate change is a global conspiracy created by bankers seeking to establish a worldwide government. Malcolm Roberts won a Queensland Senate seat as member of the anti-immigration One Nation party in recent elections, reports the BBC.

DHAKA: At least a dozen people are feared killed and many are injured after suspected militants opened fire at a busy market area in Kokrajhar town of India’s Assam on Friday (August 5). The incident took place at a weekly market. One of the militants also threw a grenade, said a

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama said there have been gains against so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria but warned the group still poses a threat. As the jihadist group lost ground, he said, there were signs it was shifting to attacks abroad, reports the BBC. “The

DHAKA: The Egyptian military says it has killed the head of the Sinai branch of so-called Islamic State (IS), along with dozens of its fighters. It said Abu Duaa al-Ansari was killed in a series of air strikes on fighters of the Sinai Province - or Ansar Beit al-Maqdis – group,

DHAKA: Iran has hanged up to 20 Sunni Muslim prisoners it said were involved in armed attacks. State media said that the group was executed on Tuesday, and was responsible for killing women and children between 2009 and 2011. Iran, which is predominantly Shia, executed at least 977