DHAKA: Rome is likely to elect its first female mayor in a run-off vote in municipal elections. Virginia Raggi, from the anti-establishment Five Star Movement, is seen as favorite against Roberto Giachetti of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD), BBC reports on Sunday (June 19).

DHAKA: World’s largest nuclear icebreaker, Arktika, has been launched at the Baltic Shipyard in St Petersburg of Russia on Thursday (June 16). The vessel is 189.5 yards long and 37.1 yards wide and is fitted with two designed RITM-200 nuclear-power reactors. The maximum thickness of

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama has hosted Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House in a move aimed at thawing relations between the two countries after Washington’s apparent rapprochement with its main regional rival, Iran. The 30-year-old prince - who has

DHAKA: Iraqi government forces have retaken most of the city of Falluja from so-called Islamic State fighters who have held it since 2014, officials say. US Defense Secretary Ash Carter said there was ‘still some fighting to be done’ as IS still controls a significant part of the

DHAKA: Vladimir Putin is seemed unhappy with the decision as Russian athletes are banned from international competition and Olympics of 2016. Putin has said that it is unjust and unfair that Russian athletes remain banned from international competition, including the 2016 Olympics in

DHAKA: The Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro has announced a financial emergency. This announcement for state financial emergency will be less than 50 days before the Olympics. Interim Governor Francisco Dornelles said that the ‘serious economic crisis’ threatens to stop the

DHAKA: A man has been charged with murder in connection with the shooting of Labour MP Jo Cox. England's West Yorkshire Police said Thomas Mair, 52, has been charged with the murder of the 41-year-old lawmaker, reports the BBC. She was shot and stabbed outside her constituency

DHAKA: Medical aid charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said that it will no longer take funds from the European Union in protest at its migration policy. MSF singled out the EU's deal with Turkey under which Turkey agreed to take back any migrants who crossed the sea to Greece

DHAKA:  Eleven people convicted of murder in the Gulbarg Society massacre in Gujarat of India were sentenced to life in jail by a special SIT court on Friday. Of the 13 people convicted for lesser crimes, one was sentenced to 10 years in jail and 12 were given seven years in jail,

DHAKA: Honor has been paid around the world to Labour MP Jo Cox, who died after being shot and stabbed. Earlier on Thursday (June 16) the 41-year-old was attacked after holding a electorate surgery in Birstall, West Yorkshire, BBC reports on Friday (June 17). Among those who

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama has said discrimination against LGBT people must be tackled at home and abroad. He came up with the assertion after meeting Orlando attack victims, reports the BBC. A gunman killed 49 people on Sunday morning at a gay nightclub in the city. Obama

DHAKA: Palestine has decried Israel’s practice of siphoning off water supplies from large areas of the occupied West Bank. In a statement issued on Thursday (June 16), the office of Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah said that Israel was “waging a water war” against the

DHAKA: An MP has died after she was shot and stabbed during an attack in her constituency. Police said Jo Cox, 41, Labour MP for Batley and Spen, was left bleeding on the ground by her attacker. A 77-year-old man also suffered slight injuries. A 52-year-old man was arrested near

DHAKA: The cockpit voice recorder from the EgyptAir plane that crashed last month has been found in the Mediterranean. Egyptian investigators say, reports the BBC. A vessel with an underwater robot has been searching an area north of the Egyptian coast. Earlier, it found and

DHAKA: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) said that the ‘war is over’ for its troops in Yemen. However, it may continue to keep them there for ‘counterterrorism operations’ UAE added, Al Jazeera reports on Thursday (June 16). Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi’s

DHAKA: People smugglers in Niger neglected 34 refugees including 20 children in the Sahara desert where they died of thirst. A statement issued by the country’s interior ministry said that the group had died trying to cross the desert into neighboring Algeria between June 6 and June

DHAKA: Debris of the EgyptAir flight that went missing over the Mediterranean last month, killing 66 people on board, has been found. A statement of Egyptian investigators committee said that ‘several main locations of the wreckage’ had been identified, Al Jazeera reports on

DHAKA: The late broadcaster and MP Sir Clement Freud, who died aged 84 in 2009, has been accused of abusing two girls between the late 1940s and 1970s. Sylvia Woosley, who first met Freud when she was 10 and was sent to live with him at 14, told the ITV Exposure program that he abused

DHAKA: The governor of Tokyo Yoichi Masuzoe has stated that he is standing down along with a spending scandal. Yoichi Masuzoe has faced brutal criticism over allegations he used official funds to pay for holidays, art and comic books for his children, BBC reports on Wednesday (June

DHAKA: The man who killed a French police couple at their home near Paris was acting on an order from so-called Islamic State (IS) to “kill infidels”. Larossi Abballa, who was killed in a shootout with police, was loyal to IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the officials said. A