DHAKA: Up to 30 migrants are feared dead after a boat capsized in the Mediterranean off the Libyan coast while some 77 were rescued by EU naval units from the sea. Ships from an EU task force and Italy’s coast guard raced to the scene 35 nautical miles off the coast as survivors

DHAKA: One person has been killed and three others wounded in a shooting at a music venue in New York. Police said the shooting happened at Irving Plaza, near Union Square, Manhattan, where hip-hop artist TI was due to perform on Wednesday evening. No-one has been arrested and the

DHAKA: Militant outfit Islamic State (IS) of Iraq and Syria is trying to creep into the trade to get their people to Europe from the chaotic and near-failed state of Libya. They are trying to do such thing as the route from Turkey to Greece becomes more heavily policed, CNN reports on

DHAKA: Indonesia has hard-bitten its punishments for child rapists to include the death penalty and chemical castration. It follows outrage over several recent violent crimes, including the gang-rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl, BBC reports on Thursday (May 26). President Joko

DHAKA: Workers at French nuclear power stations are due to down tools on Thursday amid growing industrial action over controversial labour reforms. The CGT union said staff at 16 of France’s 19 nuclear plants had voted for a one-day strike. The government said on Wednesday it was

DHAKA: Mullah Haibatullah Akhunzada has been announced as successor of Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, the armed group's leader who died in a US drone strike. The Taliban spokesman told Al Jazeera on Wednesday (May 26) that Sirajuddin Haqqani and Mullah Yaqub, son of

DHAKA: Demonstrators outside a Donald Trump rally in New Mexico have set fire to campaign merchandise and clashed with police. Protesters threw burning T-shirts and plastic bottles at police outside the rally at a convention centre in Albuquerque, reports the BBC. Demonstrators held

DHAKA: Two Canadian fishermen have been celebrating catching bright blue lobsters over the last few days. But how exceptional these striking-looking crustaceans are, asks Justin Parkinson. Lobsters caught off the Atlantic coast of North America aren’t usually very bright. They

DHAKA: A US-backed association of Syrian Kurdish and Arab fighters has begun a campaign to oust Islamic State (IS) militants from land north of Raqqa. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) is believed to have planned about 30,000 fighters. US-led coalition warplanes will support the

DHAKA: The Afghan Taliban has pronounced a new leader to swap Mullah Akhtar Mansour who was killed in a US drone strike. The Taliban acknowledged that, Mansour's death for the first time and named his successor as Mawlawi Haibatullah Akhundzada, BBC reports on Wednesday (May 25).

DHAKA: Eurozone finance ministers have agreed a ‘major breakthrough’ that is to extend further bailout loans to Greece as well as debt relief. After late-night talks in Brussels, the ministers agreed to unlock 10.3bn Euros in new loans. The move came two days after the Greek

DHAKA: An EgyptAir flight that crashed in the Mediterranean did not swerve and change direction before disappearing, an Egyptian official says. The Airbus A320 was en route from Paris to Cairo with 66 people aboard when it vanished from radar early on Thursday. Greece’s defence

DHAKA: The former president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, has been granted refugee status in the UK, according to his lawyer. Nasheed, the opposition leader, was controversially jailed for 13 years under anti-terror laws last year. He was allowed to travel to the UK to receive

DHAKA: Planning Minister Romero Juca, a close ally of Brazilian acting President Michel Temer, is stepping aside in a new political scandal. The minister was caught on tape allegedly conspiring to obstruct the country’s biggest-ever corruption investigation, reports the BBC on

DHAKA: Above 100 people have been killed in multiple attacks claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in strongholds of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Concurrently car bombs and suicide bombers in bus stations, hospitals and elsewhere in the coastal cities of

DHAKA: President Barack Obama has declared that the US is fully elating its ban on sales of lethal weapons to Vietnam, its one-time enemy. He announced this during a visit to communist Vietnam and talks with its leaders, Obama said that the move removed a ‘lingering vestige of the

DHAKA:  At least 45 people were killed after a car bomb hit a crowd of young men lining up to join the Yemeni army in the city of Aden, on Monday (May 23). The official was not immediately able to give a specific casualty toll from the bombing outside the Badr base in the Khormaksar

DHAKA: At least 17 schoolgirls were killed as a boarding house caught fire in northern Thailand on Sunday (May 22) midnight.   Five others were injured and two girls remain missing, police said on Monday. According to a local newspaper, the fire broke out at the boarding-house of

DHAKA: Seven people have been killed after a volcano in western Indonesia erupted, blasting clouds of volcanic ash 3-km into the sky. The victims were farming in an area that was declared unsafe because of its close proximity to Mount Sinabung, reports the BBC. The volcano was still

DHAKA: Turkey’s ruling AK Party is set to appoint a key ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as its leader and new prime minister, after a reported rift led Ahmet Davutoglu to quit. Binali Yildirim, the outgoing transport minister, is the sole candidate at a party congress in