DHAKA: The UN’s top human rights official has arrived in Sri Lanka amid concerns that the country’s president is backtracking on promises to investigate war crimes.Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, will spend four days in the country, reports the

DHAKA: North Korea has brought forward the possible date of a controversial ‘satellite’ launch to as early as Sunday.Regional governments say, reports the BBC.The secretive state will launch the satellite-bearing rocket between 7-14 February, the Japanese government has said,

DHAKA: The Labor Ministry of Saudi Arabia has banned workers transferring their sponsorship after completing housing projects in the country, with contractors ordered to send them back to their home countries.Labor Minister of the country Mofarrej Al-Haqbani has signed an agreement with

DHAKA: US astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who was the sixth man to walk on the Moon, has died aged 85.He passed away at a hospice in West Palm Beach, Florida, his family said, reports the BBC.As part of the Apollo 14 mission in 1971, he spent more than nine hours on the Moon’s surface.He said

DHAKA: An earthquake has toppled several buildings in the south Taiwan city of Tainan, killing at least three people.Rescue teams were trying to reach people trapped in rubble after the magnitude 6.4 quake struck early on Saturday as people were sleeping, reports the BBC.A baby and one

DHAKA: Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has declared a state of disaster in rural parts of the country hit by a drought.An estimated 2.4 million people are now in need of food aid, more than a quarter of the population, reports the BBC.The announcement comes days after the EU urged

DHAKA: First they debated what being a progressive means, then things only escalated in Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders' final debate Thursday before the New Hampshire primary.It started as the two Democratic presidential candidates sparred over Clinton's status as an "establishment"

DHAKA: Police in Chicago of United States found six people dead inside a single home in the city's Gage Park on Thursday afternoon.The investigation is still in its infancy and authorities said they don't know much just yet, reports the CNN.But it appears they discovered a grisly scene:

DHAKA: France has carried out abusive and discriminatory raids and house arrests against Muslims under its current state of emergency, traumatizing and stigmatizing those targeted, including children and the elderly.Human rights groups said, Al Jazeera publishes this report on Thursday

DHAKA: Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has declared war on mosquitoes responsible for spreading the Zika virus in a recorded TV message to the nation.She said a national mobilization day would be held on Saturday, during which thousands of soldiers and state employees would work to

DHAKA: Hillary Clinton has defended her progressive record after Democratic rival Bernie Sanders mounted an attack on her links to Wall Street.‘I’m a progressive who gets results and I will be a progressive president who gets results,’ she said, reports the BBC.The two Democratic

DHAKA: North Korea appears to be preparing to launch a long-range missile, according to South Korea’s defense ministry and Japanese media.Activity has been spotted at a launch station on the west coast of the isolated nation, reports the BBC.Earlier this week Pyongyang announced it was

DHAKA: Syria’s government and the opposition have blamed each other for the suspension of peace talks in Geneva.UN envoy Staffan de Mistura called a temporary pause, saying the talks would resume on 25 February, reports the BBC.But the opposition HNC said they would not return until

DHAKA: It was Iraq’s ‘Garden of Eden’; unique wetlands in southern Iraq where a people known as the Ma’dan, or ‘Arabs of the marsh’, lived in a Mesopotamian Venice, characterised by beautifully elaborate floating houses made entirely of reeds harvested from the open

DHAKA: The Trans Pacific Partnership, one of the biggest multinational trade deals ever, has been signed by ministers from its 12 member nations in New Zealand.The ceremony in Auckland brings the huge trade pact, which has been five years in the making, another step towards to becoming a

DHAKA: German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Wednesday that he had told Iranian President Hassan Rouhani he was welcome to visit Germany the next time he comes to Europe.Speaking after meeting Rouhani in Tehran, Steinmeier said he had urged him ‘to keep Germany in mind

DHAKA: South Korea has warned the North it will ‘pay a harsh price’ if it goes ahead with its plan to launch a satellite into space.North Korea said on Tuesday it intended to carry out the launch between 8 and 25 February.Critics say it is a cover for a test of ballistic missile

DHAKA: Fighters from the Islamic State (IS) of Iraq and Syria group killed 18 Iraqi soldiers in a suicide car attack north of Ramadi, continuing their counter-assault after being driven from the city by Iraqi Security Forces last month.Military sources told Al Jazeera that Tuesday

DHAKA: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and US Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont came in deadlocked, both receiving roughly 50 percent in a race that was too close to call. Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, declared the result a ‘virtual tie’.Unusually large

DHAKA: Last month, Hani Mansour took his wife, who was expecting their first child, to the Republican Hospital in the city of Taiz.After spending hours at the state-run hospital, Mansour’s wife gave birth. Mansour was overjoyed to hear the news, but was shocked when the doctor told him