DHAKA: Russia has fired cruise missiles at targets in Syria in a major display of military power, with warships in the Caspian Sea more than 1,200km away carrying out the attacks.Russia says it is targeting the Islamic State (IS) of Iraq and Syria group, but at least some of its air

DHAKA: At least 13 people are reported to have been killed in air strikes that hit a wedding in a rebel-held town in Yemen.The attack happened in Sanban, about 100km south-east of the capital, Sanaa, witnesses said, reports the BBC.It was not clear who was behind the attack but a

DHAKA: US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has come out against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement championed by Barack Obama.The landmark trade deal involves 12 countries along the Pacific rim, including the US, Australia and Japan.In an interview Hillary Clinton said the

DHAKA: Russia's growing military involvement in the Syria conflict is expected to be high on the agenda as Nato defence ministers meet in Brussels.It comes after Nato member Turkey complained that Russian jets had repeatedly violated its airspace, reports the BBC.Ministers are also

DHAKA: The EU is beginning a new operation in the southern Mediterranean to intercept boats smuggling migrants.Under Operation Sophia, naval vessels will be able to board, search, seize and divert vessels suspected of being used for human smuggling.Until now, the EU has focused on

DHAKA: Aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is seeking to invoke a never-used body to investigate the US bombing of its hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz.MSF said it did not trust internal military inquiries into the bombing that killed at least 22 people, reports BBC.The

DHAKA: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2015 to Tomas Lindahl of the UK, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar of the USA on Wednesday.The award was bestowed on Tomas Lindahl, Francis Crick Institute and Clare Hall Laboratory,

DHAKA: The leader of last month’s short-lived coup in Burkina Faso has been charged with crimes including threatening state security and murder.Gen Gilbert Diendere is expected to face trial before a military tribunal.Interim President Michel Kafando was reinstated two weeks ago after

DHAKA: Yemen’s Houthi rebels have confirmed in writing to the UN secretary general their commitment to UN resolutions aimed at ending the country’s conflict.In a letter obtained by the BBC, Houthi representatives pledge to adhere to a seven-point peace plan brokered by the UN during

DHAKA: The US commander of international forces in Afghanistan has said an air strike on a hospital in the northern city of Kunduz was a mistake.Gen John Campbell said that the US would never intentionally target a protected medical facility, BBC reported.At least 22 people were killed in

DHAKA: Attacks on several targets in Aden have killed 15 soldiers from the Arab coalition and its allies in Yemen.The official WAM news agency of the United Arab Emirates said, according to Al Jazeera.Explosions hit a hotel housing Yemeni officials and a Gulf military base in Aden, a

DHAKA: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2015 to Takaaki Kajita of Japan and Arthur B. McDonald of Canada on Tuesday.The prize was bestowed to Takaaki Kajita, Super-Kamiokande Collaboration, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan and

DHAKA: A hotel in Yemen’s second city of Aden which Khaled Bahah, the prime minister and vice president, and members of the government are using as a base has been hit by several blasts.Government officials said Bahah was not hurt in Tuesday morning’s attack, but there were other

DHAKA: Moscow is prepared to set up contacts with anti-Assad military group Free Syrian Army (FSA) and have asked the United States for information on them.But so far Moscow has not received a response, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday, reports sputniknews.com.‘In any

DHAKA: Three scientists from Ireland, Japan and China won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries that helped doctors fight malaria and infections caused by roundworm parasites.The Nobel judges in Stockholm awarded the prestigious prize to Irish-born William Campbell (Prize

DHAKA: The risk of a ‘serious cyber attack’ on nuclear power plants around the world is growing.Warns a report, says the BBC.The civil nuclear infrastructure in most nations is not well prepared to defend against such attacks, it added.Many of the control systems for the

DHAKA: A teenager has been killed and more than 200 Palestinians injured as clashes with Israeli forces and settlers continued in the occupied West Bank.The violence followed Israel’s decision to bar Palestinians from accessing Jerusalem’s Old City unless they were residents, a move

DHAKA: Islamic State (IS) militants in northern Syria have blown up another monument in the ancient city of Palmyra.Officials and local sources say, reports the BBC.The Arch of Triumph was ‘pulverised’ by the militants who control the city, a Palmyra activist told the media.It is

DHAKA: At least 131 people were killed in mudslides that smashed into a village outside Guatemala City, officials say three days after the disaster struck the Central American nation.'Unfortunately, a new count shows that there are 131 confirmed dead and recovered,' and still about 300

DHAKA: Violent storms and flooding have hit south-eastern France, killing at least 17 people with four more missing, officials say.Three elderly people drowned when their retirement home near the city of Antibes was flooded.Others died trapped in their cars in tunnels and underground car