DHAKA: Russia will sign this year a contract with Iran to supply a batch of its Sukhoi Su-30SM multi-role fighter jets to the Islamic Republic.RIA news agency on Wednesday quoted a senior official at Russia’s arms export agency as saying, reports The Jerusalem Post.Iranian defense

DHAKA: The US has deployed four F-22 stealth jets in South Korea, in a show of force following North Korea’s recent nuclear tests and satellite launch.The Raptors flew over the US military air base in Osan in Gyeonggi province, bordering North Korea, on Wednesday, reports the BBC.The

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama has a message for Donald Trump — being president is tougher than being on a reality show and the American people are too "sensible" to elect him."I continue to believe Trump will not be president," Obama said at a news conference in California after a

DHAKA: An earthquake measuring 4.7 on the Richter Scale hit Assam on Wednesday dawn. The epicentre of the quake was located Dokmoka in Assam. The quake, which has been reportedly felt in several other north-eastern states, 34km (21mi) SSW of Bokakhat, India; was felt at 5.06 am. The quake

DHAKA: The Canadian government has confirmed that the number of missing or murdered indigenous women in the country may be higher than the previously cited 1,200.Ministers recently spoke to survivors across Canada to begin a government inquiry into the matter.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

DHAKA: Russia says it ‘categorically rejects’ accusations of war crimes over the bombing of hospitals in Syria.Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said ‘those who make such statements are not capable of backing them up with proof’, reports Al Jazeera.Up to 50 people were killed in

DHAKA: Four US journalists have been arrested in Bahrain, accused of entering the country illegally, joining protests and lying to border staff.Bahraini police said on Monday that they had detained four ‘foreign nationals’, while the US State Department said it was aware of reports

DHAKA: Pope Francis has asked Mexican indigenous people in Chiapas state for forgiveness over they way they have been excluded from society.He made his appeal while celebrating Mass in three native languages after a new Vatican decree approved their use, reports the BBC.The Pope also used

DHAKA: France and Turkey have said that air strikes on hospitals in northern Syria constitute war crimes.Up to 50 people have been killed in missile attacks on schools and hospitals in the region, the UN said.Turkey’s foreign ministry blamed Russia for the attacks, reports the BBC.

DHAKA: Hasan Nasrallah, the secretary general of Hezbollah, arrived in Iran on Sunday to receive urgent medical treatment for his cancer, after his condition recently deteriorated.Lebanese media reported on Monday, says The Jerusalem Post.According to the reports, Nasrallah was evacuated

DHAKA: A hospital in north-west Syria backed by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has been destroyed in an air strike.The medical charity said eight members of staff were missing after the attack in Maarat al-Numan, but it did not identify who was responsible.One monitoring group reported

DHAKA: Turkey has denied reports that some of its soldiers have entered Syria, the state-run Anadolu news agency says.Turkish Defence Minister Ismet Yilmaz also told a parliamentary commission it was not considering deploying troops there.In letters of complaint to the UN, Syria had

DHAKA: Turkey has denied reports that some of its soldiers have entered Syria, the state-run Anadolu news agency says.Turkish Defence Minister Ismet Yilmaz also told a parliamentary commission it was not considering deploying troops there.In letters of complaint to the UN, Syria had

DHAKA: A massive fire that broke out during a cultural event at the 'Make In India Week' in Mumbai on Sunday evening was put out after efforts by fire fighters for nearly 30 minutes. Top politicians, celebrities and industrialists were among 8,000 people present there, reports the

DHAKA: Cuba returned to the United States an inert Hellfire missile that had been wrongly shipped to Havana in June 2014.The missile, which did not contain explosives, had been shipped to Spain for a Nato training exercise, the Wall Street Journal said, reports the BBC.It was then taken

DHAKA: Boko Haram Takfiri terrorists have killed at least 30 people in raids on two villages in the crisis-stricken northeast of Nigeria.According to local sources, the militants, on bikes and in vans, first attacked Kachifa village in the country’s northeastern Borno province on Friday

DHAKA: Paramedics are responding to a number of calls from people who fell as a magnitude 5.7 earthquake hit near Christchurch of New Zealand.The quake struck shortly after 1pm on Sunday (11am AEDT) and was initially reported as 5.9 magnitude by GeoNet.Pictures have emerged of a cliff

DHAKA: Charlotte Von Schedvin was a blonde, blue-eyed young woman who hailed from Swedish nobility.PK Mahanandia was a poor art student from eastern India, seen as an “untouchable” in his country’s caste system.Yet their chance meeting in Delhi, late 1975, when Von Schedvin asked

DHAKA: The US has deployed an additional Patriot missile battery in South Korea, the military said on Saturday, ahead of talks to set up an even more sophisticated US defense system - a move that has worried China and Russia.The US military command in South Korea said an air defense

DHAKA: Saudi Arabia is sending troops and fighter jets to Turkey’s Incirlik military base ahead of a possible ground invasion of Syria.The Turkish foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, confirmed the deployment in a statement to the Yeni Şafak newspaper on Saturday, days before a