DHAKA: Russian airstrikes on a prison complex run by Al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate killed at least 57 people and wounded 30 others, many critically, a monitor said, giving a revised toll.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Sunday’s air raids on an Al-Nusra Front building prison

DHAKA: Members of Catalonia’s assembly are due to choose a new regional president after pro-independence parties reached an agreement to form a coalition.The anti-capitalist CUP party and the Junts pel Si (Together for Yes) alliance are expected to elect Carles Puigdemont as regional

DHAKA: Riot police have used water cannon to disperse anti-migrant protesters in the German city of Cologne.Right-wing groups, headed by the anti-Islam Pegida movement, gathered after reports emerged of a wave of sexual assaults on women on New Year's Eve, reports the BBC.Violence flared

DHAKA: Israeli troops have killed two Palestinians during an alleged stabbing incident near the central West Bank city of Nablus as a wave of violence continues without pause.Ali Abu Mureem, 26, and Said Abu al-Wafa, 38, were both fatally shot by Israeli forces while allegedly attempting

DHAKA: An Islamic State (IS) militant carried out a public ‘execution’ of his mother because she asked him to leave the group.Activists say, reports the BBC.Ali Saqr, 21, killed his mother, Lena al-Qasem, 45, outside the post office in Raqqa, Syria, eyewitnesses said.Raqqa has served

DHAKA: Mexican police have recaptured Joaquin Guzman six months after the fugitive drug kingpin’s escape from prison.Guzman, the head of the powerful Sinaloa cartel, was Mexico’s most-wanted fugitive. He had escaped from a maximum security prison six months ago.‘Mission

DHAKA: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she will consider changes in the law to make it easier to deport migrants who commit crimes after sex attacks on women in Cologne.The attacks on New Year's Eve have shocked the country and sparked a debate about Germany's open-door policy on

DHAKA: A hospital in China has been bulldozed while still in use, reportedly causing doctors inside to flee and burying six bodies from its morgue under rubble, state media say.The Number Four Hospital of Zhengzhou University in Henan province was partially demolished on Thursday amid a

DHAKA: The Arab coalition and Yemen's foreign ministry have denied Iran's accusation that Saudi fighter jets struck its embassy in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa.Iran on Thursday said the warplanes had attacked the building on Wednesday night, an allegation that has heightened tensions

DHAKA: Police in Nicaragua have rescued 15 Bangladeshi migrants wandering lost on a highway after their smugglers abandoned them.Quoting Managua Police Commissioner Leonidas Roque, the dailymail.co.uk reported that the migrants were being taken from Costa Rica to Honduras. That route

DHAKA: About 95 homes have been destroyed after a bushfire ripped through a Western Australian town.Three people are unaccounted for and one-third of the historic town of Yarloop, south of Perth, has been razed, authorities said.Wind gusts of up to 60km/h (37 m/ph) overnight fanned the

DHAKA: Iran has accused Saudi-led coalition warplanes of damaging its embassy and injuring staff in an air strike on Yemen’s capital, Sanaa.State media quoted a foreign ministry spokesman as saying planes had deliberately targeted the site, reports the BBC.But some later reports in Iran

DHAKA: China has sent an envoy to Saudi Arabia and Iran amid an escalating feud, the foreign ministry said on Thursday, calling on all sides to exercise restraint.Chinese vice foreign minister Zhang Ming was currently in Saudi Arabia and would travel on to Iran, ministry spokeswoman Hua

DHAKA: A Syrian refugee reportedly allowed smugglers to rape his wife as payment for his family being trafficked to Europe.The husband, who had run out of money, allegedly volunteered his wife for payment and apparently started participating in the daily rapes.The unidentified woman, a

DHAKA: India’s Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed passed away on Thursday at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi.He was 79, reports the TOI.Sayeed, detected with sepsis, decreased blood count and pneumonia, was admitted to AIIMS on

DHAKA: The UN Security Council says it will begin work immediately on new measures against North Korea, after Pyongyang said it had tested a hydrogen bomb.The council condemned the test, saying “a clear threat to international peace and security continues to exist”, reports the

DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry has repeatedly called leaders in Saudi Arabia and Iran to try to defuse their diplomatic row.US officials say, reports the BBC.State department spokesman John Kirby said the phone conversations involved foreign ministers of both countries and the

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama grew emotional Tuesday as he made a passionate call for a national "sense of urgency" to limit gun violence.He was introduced by Mark Barden, whose son Daniel was killed in the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, reports the

DHAKA: The North Korean authorities say they have successfully tested a hydrogen bomb amid reports of a tremor near the main nuclear test site.State media announced the test after monitors detected a 5.1 magnitude quake close to the Punggye-ri site, reports the BBC.The North is thought to

DHAKA: The UN Security Council has strongly condemned an attack on the Saudi embassy in Tehran by protesters angered by the execution of a Shia cleric.The statement made no mention of the execution of the cleric, Nimr al-Nimr, reports the BBC.Saudi Arabia broke off diplomatic ties with