DHAKA: North Korea has vowed to cut two key communication hotlines with the South, amid rising tensions after Pyongyang’s recent rocket and nuclear tests.It comes after Seoul suspended its operations at the jointly-run Kaesong industrial complex in the North, reports the BBC.Kaesong is

DHAKA: Nato is ready to patrol the Aegean Sea to deter people-smugglers taking migrants from Turkey to Greece, US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter says.The announcement followed a request from Nato members Turkey, Germany and Greece, reports the BBC.Nato defence ministers are meeting in

DHAKA: A US push for an immediate ceasefire in Syria has run into Russian opposition ahead of talks aimed at reviving peace negotiations on the conflict.Russia proposed a 1 March ceasefire, but the US believes Moscow is giving itself and the Syrian regime three weeks to crush rebels,

DHAKA: A 20-year-old man allegedly shot and decapitated his grandparents inside an Oklahoma City home that doubled as a day care.Investigators who came to the house for welfare check Tuesday afternoon found three children huddled inside an attached garage. The children were unharmed,

DHAKA: The US Senate has voted unanimously in favor of tougher sanctions against North Korea, after the country’s recent nuclear and rocket tests.It targets anyone who directly or indirectly helps Pyongyang’s weapons proliferation or human rights abuses, reports the BBC.On Thursday,

DHAKA: A surge in fighting in Syria’s Aleppo province has displaced about 50,000 people, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has warned.The humanitarian situation is deteriorating rapidly, the ICRC added, with water supplies to Aleppo city cut, reports the BBC.The Syrian

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama's plans to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide from US power plants have been stalled by the US Supreme Court.The court ruled that the president's Clean Power Plan could not go forward until all legal challenges were heard, reports the BBC.Designed to cut

DHAKA: Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders cruised to early victories in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, while Ohio Gov. John Kasich is projected to win a tight contest for second in the GOP race.Trump, a brash billionaire reality TV star who has never run for

DHAKA: At least nine people were killed and scores more injured, police say, after two passenger trains collided in the German state of Bavaria.The head-on crash happened near Bad Aibling, a spa town about 60km south-east of Munich.The trains’ operator said both trains had partially

DHAKA: Two passenger trains have collided in the German state of Bavaria, with police saying at least four people have been killed and scores injured.The head-on crash happened near Bad Aibling, a spa town about 60km south-east of Munich.One of the trains was derailed in the crash and

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