DHAKA: Video footage has emerged that appears to show police in Texas shooting and killing a man who had his hands up.In the video, obtained by local media in San Antonio, Gilbert Flores is seen outside a house with his arms raised before shots are fired and he falls, reports the

DHAKA: Hundreds of migrants are stranded outside a major railway station in the Hungarian capital, Budapest, after police sealed off the terminal to stop them travelling through the EU.Government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs defended the closure, saying Hungary was trying to enforce EU law,

DHAKA: The head of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard is saying the US is still the ‘Great Satan’ as local media is reporting police have raided shops distributing American, Israeli and British apparel.The comments by gen Mohammad Ali Jafari, reported by the official Guard website on

DHAKA: Nepali police shot dead at least four protesters and killed a fifth on Tuesday as demonstrators threw stones and petrol bombs, angry at a new planned constitution.The government and major political parties hope that the constitution, in the works for seven years, will provide

DHAKA: In a breakthrough, Thailand’s prime minister announced Tuesday that a second foreign national believed to be the main suspect in the country’s worst bombing at a Brahma temple here that claimed 20 lives has been arrested near the Cambodian border.Thai premier general Prayut

DHAKA: Eighteen persons were killed and 12 others injured today when a bus fell 200 mts deep into a gorge at Nathpa on Hindustan-Tibet National highway, 185km from provincial capital Shimla.Fifteen persons died on the spot while three succumbed to their injuries on way to hospital and

DHAKA: A satellite image confirms that the main temple in the ancient city of Palmyra in northern Syria has been destroyed.The United Nations says, reports the BBC.There had been earlier reports of an explosion at the Temple of Bel in Palmyra, which is held by militants from the Islamic

DHAKA: The Taliban on Monday admitted covering up longtime leader Mullah Omar’s death for more than two years, saying he died in 2013 as was first claimed by the Afghan intelligence.The group had continued as recently as July to release official statements in the name of Omar, who had

DHAKA: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in a speech on terror accused Israel of being founded on the basis of terror and it continues that legacy to the present day. ‘This regime began its work on the basis of intimidation, terror and occupation, and is continuing (on) the same

DHAKA: Fighters from the Islamic State (IS) of Iraq and Syria have blown up part of the Temple of Bel in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra.Sources have told Al Jazeera.An Al Jazeera reporter in the Syrian city of Homs was told that IS, on Sunday, detonated more than 30 tones of

DHAKA: Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Razak has refused to resign after mass protests, and has called for national unity.Tens of thousands of people took to the streets at the weekend, urging Najib to step down over allegations he took hundreds of millions of dollars of public funds, BBC

DHAKA: The European Union has called emergency talks on tackling the bloc's escalating migration crisis.The EU presidency said interior ministers from all 28 member states would hold an extraordinary meeting on 14 September, and the crisis had reached "unprecedented proportions".It

DHAKA: Former Malaysia Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has called on protesters on the streets of Kuala Lumpur to ‘remove’ the country’s Prime Minister Najib Razak.‘To remove him, the people must show people’s power,’ he said as he joined the protests for a second day running,

DHAKA: Renowned Indian scholar and rationalist, M M Kalburgi, has been killed after being shot by unidentified men in the southern state of Karnataka.Police have said, reports Al Jazeera.Police said on Sunday that two men came to Kalburgi’s residence in the town of Dharwad, nearly 400km

DHAKA: Three people, including two police officers, have been shot dead and another wounded after a domestic row in Portugal.Media and officials say, reports the BBC.The incident took place in Quinta do Conde, 30km south of the capital Lisbon.A 77-year-old man is said to have opened fire

DHAKA: The lorry, believed to contain migrants from Syria, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, was stopped in the small town of St Peter-am-Hart close to the German border, Austria’s APA news agency reported on Saturday.Three children are recovering in hospital in Austria after being rescued

DHAKA: Tens of thousands of Malaysians are expected to protest for a second day in Kuala Lumpur, calling for PM Najib Razak to quit over a financial scandal.On Saturday, crowds were undeterred by a heavy presence of police who had called the protests illegal, reports BBC.Protesters are

DHAKA: A Swaziland rights group says 38 girls and young women were killed in a road crash while travelling to a famous traditional festival, abcnews reported. The Swaziland Solidarity Network said in a statement on Saturday that about 20 others were injured when the truck they were in

DHAKA: A tropical storm heading across the Caribbean has killed at least 20 people on the island of Dominica, with dozens more missing.Tropical Storm Erika hit Dominica, in the eastern Caribbean, causing floods and mudslides that have set the country back 20 years, its prime minister

DHAKA: Authorities in Hungary and Italy have made arrests in the deaths of scores migrants and refugees this week, including 71 whose bodies were found in an abandoned truck in Austria.Those who died in Austria -- most likely fleeing war-ravaged Syria -- probably suffocated inside the