DHAKA: North and South Korea are to hold top-level talks amid growing tension, the South’s presidential office has said.Senior aides to the two countries’ leaders will meet at the Panmunjom truce village on the border at 0900 GMT, the Blue House said, reports the BBC.North Korea had

DHAKA: At least 65 civilians have reportedly been killed in atmosphere strikes by a Saudi-led bloc on a Yemeni city of Taiz.More than half of a passed were women and children, according to assist organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).Taiz has been a stage of heated clashes between

DHAKA: A deputy leader of Islamic State (IS), Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali, has been killed in a US military strike in northern Iraq, the White House says.Hayali, also known as Hajji Mutazz, is described by US officials as the second in command of the group, reports bbc.comThey said he was

DHAKA: Rebels from Greece’s governing left-wing Syriza are to break away and form a new party.Prime Minister and Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras stood down on Thursday, paving the way for new elections, reports BBC.The move came after he lost the support of many of his own MPs in a vote on

DHAKA: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered front-line military units to enter "a wartime state" after an exchange of fire with South Korea.Country's state-run Korean Central News Agency reported Friday.The announcement, employing bellicose language typical of North Korea, adds to

DHAKA: India’s ruling party BJP President Amit Shah and three other senior leaders were trapped in the lift of the state guest house in Patna for around 40 minutes."The lift got stuck between the two floors and its metal doors also got jammed at around 11.30 pm last night. There was no

DHAKA: Chinese emergency workers raced to put out four new fires that had broken out close to the site where two massive explosions in a warehouse storing dangerous chemicals killed 114 people last week.The official Xinhua news agency said on Friday that one of the "ignition points" came

DHAKA: Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has announced he is resigning and has called an early election.Tsipras, who was only elected in January, said he had a moral duty to go to the polls now a third bailout had been secured with European creditors, reports BBC.The election date is

DHAKA: Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is set to call a snap election for 20 September, according to Greek media.Tsipras has faced a rebellion within his ruling Syriza party over a new bailout deal which has been agreed with international creditors.Greece received the first

DHAKA: Yemen’s conflict has left it on the brink of famine, the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) has warned.Food shortages, lack of fresh water, and low fuel stocks have created a ‘perfect storm’ for the Yemeni people, the WFP's Ertharin Cousin said, reports the BBC.The

DHAKA: Two planes have collided in the air over western Slovakia, killing seven people, officials said.The accident happened near the village of Cerveny Kamen, according to Zuzana Farkasova, a spokeswoman for Slovakian firefighters, reports scotsman.com.She could not immediately say how

DHAKA: North Korea has shelled a South Korean military unit on the western section of the inter-Korean border, a move retaliated by the South’s military.The South’s defense ministry says, reports Al Jazeera.Defense ministry said on Thursday that South Korean military detected a

DHAKA: Police in the US state of Missouri have fatally shot a black teenager, who they say pointed a gun at them, and later faced angry crowds, reigniting racial tensions in the country.Sam Dotson, the police chief of the city of St Louis, said the shooting took place on Wednesday when

DHAKA: A woman calmly called 911 to report her baby boy wasn't breathing on Tuesday and then hours later confessed to killing him and her two other young sons over the past months because her husband ignored their daughter, authorities said.Brittany Pilkington was charged with three

DHAKA: Three young females, including a minor, have accused United Nations peacekeepers of raping them in the Central African Republic, the global body has announced, taking the number of allegations to 13 since the UN stationed troops in the country in September.The announcement on

DHAKA: A state security building in northern Cairo was hit by a car bomb in the early hours of Thursday morning, Egypt's interior ministry says.Six policemen were said to have been injured by the explosion in the northern Shubra district of the city. There were no reports of any deaths,

DHAKA: The archaeologist who looked after ancient ruins of Palmyra in Syria for 40 years is reported to have been killed by Islamic State (IS) militants.Khaled al-Asaad had been held for about a month by the group, which seized the Unesco World Heritage site in May.The 81-year-old’s

DHAKA: The bomb attack that killed 20 people at Bangkok’s Erawan shrine on Monday was carried out by a ‘network’.Thailand’s chief of police has said, reports the BBC.Police have released a sketch of the main suspect, a man in a yellow T-shirt who was filmed by security cameras

DHAKA: Turkey is heading rapidly towards a new election and only a solution involving the ‘will of the people’ can break a political impasse after the ruling AK Party failed to form a working government.President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday, reports The Jerusalem

DHAKA: The shrine in Bangkok which was hit by a deadly explosion on Monday reopened to the public on Wednesday.At least 20 people died and scores were injured in the attack on the Erawan Shrine, a Hindu site which is also popular with Thai Buddhists, reports BBC.Thai police say the main