DHAKA: The vice-president of the Maldives has been arrested in connection with an alleged plot to assassinate the president, say police and officials.Ahmed Adeeb was in detention and being charged with high treason, Home Minister Umar Naseer said on Twitter, reports the BBC.President

DHAKA: At least 42 people, most of them elderly, were killed when a coach collided with a lorry in southwestern France early Friday, a fire service official said.All but one of the victims were passengers on the coach, while the other fatality was the driver of the lorry, local

DHAKA: Hillary Clinton has said she took responsibility after an attack on a US consulate in Libya in 2012 that killed four Americans.She told a Congressional committee that as secretary of state she introduced reforms to protect diplomatic staff after the attack, reports the

DHAKA: A masked man armed with a sword has killed a pupil and a teacher at a school in Sweden.Two further victims were seriously injured at the school in the western town of Trollhattan.The attacker was shot by police and has died of his injuries. He was 21 and resident in Trollhattan,

DHAKA: Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal was quoted on Thursday as saying that it was the responsibility of all to ‘liberate the Aksa Mosque and Palestine’.Mashaal, who is currently on a visit to South Africa, said in a speech at a mosque in Pretoria, that Hamas was ‘opposed to

DHAKA: A political alliance loyal to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has scooped all 60 list seats up for grabs in the first round of a parliamentary election in which opposition parties were all but absent.Official results showed on Wednesday, reports The Jerusalem Post.The

DHAKA: Germany has insisted it was responsible for the Holocaust, after Israel’s prime minister claimed a Palestinian leader told the Nazis to kill Europe’s Jews.Chancellor Angela Merkel said Germans were ‘very clear in our minds’ that the Nazis were responsible, reports the

DHAKA: Britain, France, Germany and the United States have asked a UN sanctions committee to investigate Iran’s recent missile test, branding it a serious violation of UN resolutions.US Ambassador Samantha Power last week said Washington had concluded that a medium-range ballistic

DHAKA: Scientists say they have identified a new species of giant tortoise on the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific.They used genetic data to determine that a group of 250 slow-moving reptiles was distinct from another tortoise species on Santa Cruz island, reports the BBC.It is the 15th

DHAKA: Wikileaks claims to have released some of the contents of CIA director John Brennan’s personal email account, reports the BBC.Six documents published on the Wikileaks website include a draft security clearance application containing personal information.A CIA statement said the

DHAKA: The White House has strongly condemned a visit to Moscow by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.A spokesman criticised Russia for putting on a “red carpet welcome”, reports the BBC.The Syrian leader’s trip on Tuesday came three weeks after Russia began air strikes in Syria

DHAKA: Two Chinese diplomats have been killed and a third wounded after a woman opened fire at a restaurant in the central Philippine city of Cebu.The deputy consul and the finance officer for the Chinese consulate in the city were killed and the consul general wounded, police said,

DHAKA: Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and US secretary of state John Kerry will meet on Friday in Vienna to discuss the Syrian conflict together with their counterparts from Turkey and Saudi Arabia.Moscow said Wednesday, reports France24.Russia’s foreign ministry made the

DHAKA: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday approved the Iranian government’s nuclear deal with world powers but said Tehran should yield core elements of its nuclear program until allegations of past military dimensions had been settled.In a letter to President Hassan

DHAKA: Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has visited Moscow on his first overseas trip since the civil war broke out in his country in 2011.During the surprise visit, he held talks with President Vladimir Putin.Russia launched air strikes in Syria last month against the so-called

DHAKA: A powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck off Vanuatu in the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, but no tsunami threat was detected and no damage reported.Seismologists said, reports NDTV.The quake hit at a depth of 131 kilometers about 335 kilometers from the capital Port Vila, the

DHAKA: The number of migrants who have arrived in Greece this year has topped half a million.The United Nations said, reports the BBC.The rate of people arriving has risen to 8,000 a day, the UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees said, with many hoping to beat winter weather.Most migrants

DHAKA: A government-appointed Sri Lankan judge says allegations the army committed war crimes during the long conflict with Tamil Tiger rebels are ‘credible’.He was leading the first government inquiry into the atrocities, one month after the UN released its own findings.President

DHAKA: Canadian Prime Minister-designate Justin Trudeau has confirmed he will withdraw Canadian fighter jets from the air strikes against Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria.He informed US President Barack Obama of his decision hours after leading his Liberal party to victory in the

DHAKA: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for fast action to halt the "dangerous escalation in violence" between Israelis and Palestinians.He told reporters in Jerusalem it was not too late to avoid a broader crisis, reports the BBC.Ban spoke soon after police said a Palestinian