DHAKA: The US will help South Korea deploy an advanced missile defence system as soon as possible.Officials from the Pentagon said the shield will help South Korea offset the growing threat posed by North Korea following its launch of a long-range rocket on Sunday, reports the BBC.North

DHAKA: Former Prime Minister of Nepal and Nepali Congress president Sushil Koirala passed away due to Pneumonia at his residence early Tuesday. He was 79.Koirala, who was elected Prime Minister of Nepal on February 10 in 2014, died at his residence in Maharajgunj in the outskirt of

DHAKA: Two boats on their way to Greece have capsized near Turkey, killing at least 35 migrants.Turkish media say, reports the BBC.Both the Anadolu and Dogan agencies reported that 24 people died close to the Greek island of Lesbos.Dogan said another 11 people died in a separate incident

DHAKA: German Chancellor Angela Merkel is visiting Ankara to discuss measures to stem the flow of refugees bound for Europe.However, tens of thousands of Syrians remain stranded at the border with Turkey after fleeing a Russia-backed government offensive in Aleppo.Merkel, whose country

DHAKA: Hamas and Fatah representatives were scheduled to begin talks in Doha, Qatar, on Sunday in yet another bid to end their dispute and implement previous reconciliation agreements signed between the two sides.On the eve of the talks, both Hamas and Fatah expressed cautious optimism

DHAKA: About 2,000 women in Bosnia have protested against a ban on wearing Islamic headscarves in courts and other legal institutions.The ban includes all religious symbols but explicitly mentions the hijab, reports the BBC.The women marched for around an hour through the capital,

DHAKA: The Vibgyor school in Whitefield, near Bengaluru in India, had an unexpected visitor on Sunday morning -- a leopard, which was caught on the school's CCTV cameras.A security guard saw the big cat on the premises and raised the alarm a little after 4 am, reports the NDTV.The Vibgyor

DHAKA: The death toll from the quake, which struck early on Saturday at the start of the Lunar New Year holiday, rose to 35 earlier on Monday. More that 100 people are still missing, said govt source.Rescuers in the southern Taiwan city of Tainan pulled a woman out alive from the wreckage

DHAKA: The UN Security Council has strongly condemned North Korea's launch of a long-range rocket.After an urgent meeting in New York, the council said it would soon adopt a new sanctions resolution in response, reports the BBC.Pyongyang said it fired the rocket to place a satellite in

DHAKA: Algerian MPs have passed a package of reforms that include reinstating a limit on presidential terms and giving the Berber language official status.The language can now appear on official documents, although Arabic will remain the language of government, reports the BBC.A two-term

DHAKA: Senator Marco Rubio was attacked by several Republican rivals for the party’s nomination to run for the White House in a fractious TV debate.New Jersey Governor Chris Christie tore into Rubio, a rising force in the polls, as inexperienced and scripted, reports the BBC.The Florida

DHAKA: Officials in the EU have urged Turkey to let in tens of thousands of Syrian refugees trapped on its border at Kilis after fleeing fighting.EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said there was a moral, if not legal, duty to provide protection.Turkey says the refugees are

DHAKA: A total of 132 people remain trapped under the rubble of an apartment block in the Taiwanese city of Tainan after Saturday's earthquake, officials say.Rescuers said it would be possible to reach 29 of them, with the rest buried deeper inside the ruins of the 17-storey block,

DHAKA: North Korea has fired a long-range rocket, which critics say is a test of banned missile technology.The country had notified UN agencies in advance that it intended to put an earth observation satellite into orbit, reports the BBC.It appears the rocket was fired from a base in the

DHAKA: The Somali military, backed by the African Union (AU), has retaken Merca from al-Shabab militants who seized the port city on Friday.Residents say, reports the BBC.Civilian casualties were reported after what residents said was light resistance from the militants.The AU on Friday

DHAKA: Rescuers are searching the rubble of a high-rise residential building in southern Taiwan after an earthquake that killed at least 11 people.Some 30 people are still missing from the 17-storey block, which was one of several that collapsed in Tainan city when the magnitude 6.4 quake

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