DHAKA: The nationwide process of selecting candidates to run in November’s US presidential race is under way in the state of Iowa.Voters have begun meeting - or caucusing - across the state in schools, churches and other venues, reports the BBC.Early indications based on entrance

DHAKA: The first freely elected parliament in Myanmar for 50 years has held its opening session.Hundreds of new MPs, mostly from the National League for Democracy (NLD) but also some smaller parties, have been sworn and taken their seats, reports the BBC.The NLD, led by Aung San Suu Kyi,

DHAKA: At least 10 people were killed and 20 wounded when a Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up trying to enter a police building in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul.Police and the interior ministry said, reports Al Jazeera.Deputy interior minister, Ayub Salangi, confirmed the death toll

DHAKA: At least 11 people were shot dead at a girl's 15th birthday party in Mexico’s Guerrero state.Its governor says, reports the BBC.Hector Astudillo Flores said a disturbance occurred at the traditional coming-of-age party in Cundancito, in the west of the region.After the shooting,

DHAKA: Chef Benoit Violier, whose Swiss restaurant was named the best in the world in December, has been found dead at his home.Violier, 44, ran the Restaurant de l’Hotel de Ville in Crissier, near the city of Lausanne, reports the BBC.It earned three Michelin stars and came top in

DHAKA: Authorities of Saudi Arabia detained 33 terror suspects including nine US citizens during the past four days.The others include 14 Saudis, three Yemenis, two Syrians, an Indonesian, a Filipino, an Emirati, a Kazakhstan national and a Palestinian, reports the

DHAKA: Hundreds of MPs gathered for a new session of Myanmar’s parliament, set to choose its first democratically elected government in more than 50 years.It will be an assembly dominated by MPs from Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD), which won 80 percent of

DHAKA: More than 10,000 migrant children may have disappeared after arriving in Europe over the past two years.The EU’s police intelligence unit says, reports the BBC.Europol said thousands of vulnerable minors had vanished after registering with state authorities.It warned of children

DHAKA: At least 45 people have been killed in three blasts near the Shia shrine of Sayyida Zeinab, south of the Syrian capital Damascus.Syria state media say, reports the BBC.Scores of people were also reported to have been wounded.The shrine, which is highly revered by Shia Muslims, has

DHAKA: Iran’s supreme leader has awarded medals to navy commanders for capturing US sailors who entered Iranian territorial waters this month.Iran’s state media said on Sunday, reports The Jerusalem Post.Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who had said Iran should remain wary of its arch-enemy

DHAKA: The New York Times has endorsed Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican John Kasich in their bids to become their parties’ presidential candidates.Clinton, the liberal daily said in an editorial, is ‘one of the most broadly and deeply qualified candidates’ in modern history,

DHAKA: At least 33 refugees, including at least five children, have died after their boat sank in the Aegean Sea while trying to cross from Turkey to a Greek island, according to Turkish media.The refugees had set off from the district of Ayvacik in Canakkale province in an apparent bid

DHAKA: France intends to make another push at trying to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and has warned that if its efforts failed, it would recognize a Palestinian State.‘France will engage in the coming weeks in the preparation of an international conference bringing together

DHAKA: Hillary Clinton’s unsecured home server contained more than a dozen emails deemed “top secret”- one of the highest levels of classification in the US government, the White House has said.Quoting State Department spokesman John Kirby, the BBC reported the documents were not

DHAKA: US and UK agencies reportedly hacked into Israeli drones and other aircraft as they gathered intelligence, in an operation dating from the late 1990s.It enabled Israel’s allies to monitor information acquired by its reconnaissance missions.The BBC reported the matter quoting Der

DHAKA: Donald Trump has been mocked by his Republican rivals at a televised debate in Iowa, after quitting the event in a row with Fox News.He decided to withdraw after the broadcaster refused to drop host Megyn Kelly, whom Trump accused of bias, reports the BBC.The debate began with his

DHAKA: The authorities in Sweden are making plans to expel as many as 80,000 failed asylum-seekers.Sweden interior minister Anders Ygeman said that charter aircraft would be used to deport the migrants over several years, reports the BBC.Quoting Swedish media, BBC reported that the

DHAKA: At least 55 Iraqi soldiers and pro-government tribal fighters have been killed in two attacks attributed to the Islamic State (IS) of Iraq and Syria group in the country’s western region, near the city of Ramadi.The first attack took place in the early hours of Tuesday when

DHAKA: More than a third of the world’s population, or 2.6 billion people, live in nations and territories gripped by repression, corruption and human rights abuses, with the worst being Syria, Tibet and Somalia.An advocacy group said on Wednesday, reports The Jerusalem Post.The year

DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry will push China to rein in North Korea’s nuclear ambitions, as he meets with officials in Beijing.The visit follows North Korea’s claim that it had successfully tested a hydrogen bomb earlier this month.Kerry told reporters that Pyongyang was