DHAKA: A special court of India on Wednesday sentenced five people to death for planting bombs on Mumbai's local trains in July 2006, killing 189 people and leaving over 800 injured.Seven of the 12 men convicted for the train blasts have been given a life term.The convicts were found

DHAKA: More than 1,000 pilgrims are still confined to a number of hospitals in Makkah for treatment of various ailments, Health Ministry’s spokesman Faisal Al-Zahrani said.He said the patients include some pilgrims who were injured in the crane crash in the Grand Mosque on Sept. 11 and

DHAKA: Afghan forces have been battling Taliban fighters to retake the city of Kunduz, a day after it fell to the insurgents in their biggest victory since their removal from power in 2001.Heavy fighting has been reported, and President Ashraf Ghani said his forces had regained some

DHAKA: Officials from several countries have said that more than 1,000 people died in last week’s stampede near Mecca during the annual Hajj pilgrimage.The last figure given by the Saudi authorities was 769.However, a Nigerian official told the BBC that more than 1,000 bodies had been

DHAKA: The death toll from a suspected air strike on a wedding party in Yemen on Monday has risen to at least 130.The United Nations and local medics say, reports the BBC.Missiles reportedly hit two tents in a village near the Red Sea port of Mocha, where a man linked to the Houthi rebel

DHAKA: The Nepalese government is considering banning anyone deemed too young or too old or with a severe disability from climbing Mount Everest.A spokesman said under new proposals, no-one younger than 18 or older than 75 would be allowed to climb, reports the BBC.The ministry of tourism

DHAKA: NASA scientists’ found evidence of liquid water runs down canyons and crater walls over the summer months on Mars.According to researchers the discovery raises the chances of being home to some form of life, reports The Guardian.The trickles leave long, dark stains on the Martian

DHAKA: Afghan forces have arrived at Kunduz airport in preparation for a counter-attack on the embattled city, which was seized by the Taliban on Monday.An operation would be launched in the coming hours, a spokesman for the Kunduz provincial police told the BBC.Troops and officials

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama has announced that more than 50 countries have pledged tens of thousands of new personnel to bolster the UN’s overstretched and underequipped peacekeeping operations.Obama said that about 40,000 new troops and police had been committed to the UN’s blue

DHAKA: Taiwan has evacuated thousands of residents and tourists as ‘super typhoon’ Dujuan headed towards the island, gathering strength on its approach to the east coast.Torrential rains and high winds are forecast across Taiwan from Monday afternoon, with landfall predicted around

DHAKA: Taliban fighters have carried out an early-morning raid on the city of Kunduz in Afghanistan, entering the northern city from three different directions.Sources tell Al Jazeera.Al Jazeera’s Abdullah Shahood, reporting from the capital Kabul, said Kunduz city was in lockdown on

DHAKA: Jeremy Corbyn, the newly elected leader of Britain’s Labour Party, claimed more than a decade ago that Osama bin Laden was framed for 9/11.Corbyn wrote in a 2003 article for the London-based Morning Star newspaper that the United States and Britain made it look like bin Laden,

DHAKA: A coalition of separatists who promised independence for the Spanish region of Catalonia has won the regional parliamentary elections.With 99 percent of Sunday’s vote counted, the ‘Together for Yes’ group of secessionists had 62 seats in the 135-member parliament.If they join

DHAKA: Clashes have erupted for a second day in a row at Al-Aqsa, after Israeli security forces stormed the mosque and fought with Palestinian worshippers.Witnesses on the ground in occupied Jerusalem told Al Jazeera that the Israeli police entered the mosque shortly before 7:00am local

DHAKA: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday branded US support for rebel forces in Syria as illegal and ineffective, saying US-trained rebels were leaving to join Islamic State (IS) with weapons supplied by Washington.In an interview with US networks recorded ahead of a meeting with

DHAKA: The Iraqi military has officially announced it is to begin sharing ‘security and intelligence’ information with Russia, Syria and Iran to help combat the advances of the Islamic State (IS) of Iraq and Syria group.A statement issued by the Iraqi Joint Operations Command said the

DHAKA: Seventeen Syrian refugees, including five children, have drowned after their boat sank in Turkish waters on its way to Greece.Local media report, says Al Jazeera.The Turkish coastguard on Sunday recovered the bodies from the wooden boat that had set off from the Turkish holiday

DHAKA: Iran’s supreme leader has called on Saudi Arabia to apologize for Thursday’s deadly stampede during the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Makkah.Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s remarks came after a speech by President Hassan Rouhani at the UN in which he called for an investigation.Saudi

DHAKA: France has carried out its first air strikes in Syria against the Islamic State (IS) of Iraq and Syria group.The announcement from President Francois Hollande’s office on Sunday came after a year of hesitation, reports Al Jazeera.Hollande had resisted the raids in Syria, saying

DHAKA: Iran President Hassan Rouhani has used a speech at the UN to call for an investigation into Thursday’s stampede at the annual hajj pilgrimage to Makkah.The incident is the deadliest to hit the hajj in 25 years, with 769 people dead, more than 130 of them from Iran, reports the