DHAKA: Militant outfit Islamic State (IS) warned in a new video on Monday that countries taking part in air strikes against Syria would suffer the same fate as France, and threatened to attack in Washington.The video, which appeared on a site used by IS to post its messages, begins with

DHAKA: Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi has returned to parliament after her party’s landslide election victory in legislative elections held last week.She was mobbed by journalists as she arrived at the parliament on Monday, but declined to make any comment as she takes a low-profile

DHAKA: French police have raided homes of suspected Islamists overnight across the country in the aftermath of the Paris attacks.French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Monday, reports The Jerusalem Post.Valls also said that French intelligence services had prevented several attacks

DHAKA: United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will visit North Korea this week.South Korean news agency Yonhap said, reports the BBC.Yonhap cited a senior UN source for its claim, which the UN has declined to comment on.If it goes ahead, it will be the first visit by a UN chief to

DHAKA: Human societies will soon start to experience adverse effects from manmade climate change, a prominent economist has warned.Prof Richard Tol predicts the downsides of warming will outweigh the advantages with a global warming of 1.1C - which has nearly been reached already.Prof Tol

DHAKA: At least 15 Sudanese refugees have been shot dead and eight more injured in Egypt’s Sinai region as they reportedly attempted to enter Israel. Speaking on the condition of anonymity, Egyptian security officials told the Associated Press that the refugees were killed while caught

DHAKA: More than 2,000 rescuers are searching for survivors of a landslide in eastern China that has killed at least 21 people.Several days of rain sparked a torrent of mud and rock, engulfing homes in Lidong village, Zhejiang province, reports the BBC.The landslide occurred shortly

DHAKA: A huge manhunt is under way for surviving members of the Islamist group that killed 129 people in Paris on Friday night, and their accomplices.French police have named Salah Abdeslam, 26, as a main suspect, reports the BBC.Officials say he was in a car when was stopped by police on

DHAKA: Two of the attackers involved in the wave of shooting in Paris on Friday came from Brussels.Belgian public broadcaster RTBF said on Sunday, quoting the federal prosecutor’s office, reports The Jerusalem Post.In a short statement on its website, RTBF said ‘two of the

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin held informal talks on the sidelines of a G20 leader summit in Turkey on Sunday.Live footage from the meeting showed, reports The Jerusalem Post.It was not immediately clear how long the two leaders spoke for, or what

DHAKA: Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has said his group is determined to continue its fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (IS) following a double suicide bombing in Beirut’s southern suburbs that killed 43 people and left over 200 injured.Nasrallah made the remarks in

DHAKA: Syria should hold elections within 18 months, groups opposing the Syrian president should be involved in future talks about the country’s political process, and a truce - minus two rebel groups - should be put in place immediately.World leaders said, reports Al Jazeera.The

DHAKA: Authorities in France and Belgium took people into custody Saturday in the aftermath of the worst violence in France since World War II, a series of terror attacks that killed more than 120 people.ISIS claimed responsibility for the horrific Paris attacks, for which France vowed

DHAKA: A high-speed TGV train has derailed near the eastern French city of Strasbourg, killing at least 10 people, officials say.The crash happened during a test run in the town of Eckwersheim, on a new Paris-Strasbourg line, reports the BB.The train was carrying 49 railway technicians

DHAKA: Three teams carried out the attacks in the French capital, which killed 129 people and left more than 350 wounded, the Paris chief prosecutor says."We have to find out where they came from... and how they were financed," Francois Molins told reporters, reports the BBC.He said seven

DHAKA: A provisional toll from Paris attacks on Friday put the number of dead at 128 while another 99 were in critical condition.A source at the prosecutor’s office said on Saturday, reports The Jerusalem Post.Gunmen strapped with suicide bombs attacked restaurants, a concert hall and a

DHAKA: The US president and other world leaders have condemned a series of coordinated attacks in the French capital Paris that has left more than 128 people dead and scores injured.In a statement late on Friday evening, Barack Obama said the attacks were an ‘outrageous attempt to

DHAKA: Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of central Seoul Saturday in a massive protest against the conservative government’s drive for labor reform and state-issued history textbooks.Police sprayed water on the crowd, estimated to number about 50,000, as some protesters

DHAKA: Exactly five years to the day since Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest, her opposition party has won the majority of seats in historic elections in Myanmar.The pro-democracy icon and Nobel Peace Prize winner is due to meet on November 15 some of the country’s most

DHAKA: In an official statement Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for the attacks in Paris on Friday that killed more than 150 people.Earlier on Saturday, the militant group IS released an undated video threatening to attack France if bombings of its fighters continue, reports The