DHAKA: The head of the pro-Kurdish opposition HDP has accused the ruling AKP of orchestrating nationalist attacks and pushing Turkey towards civil war.No-one has been killed, but Selahattin Demirtas said ‘we are facing a campaign of lynching’, reports the BBC.Violence between the army

DHAKA: Myanmar President Thein Sein has made his first public appearance since the start of a campaign for November 8 general elections, meeting leaders of ethnic armed groups for ceasefire talks.At the opening of the talks in the capital Naypyitaw on Wednesday, Thein Sein stressed the

DHAKA: Queen Elizabeth II becomes Britain’s longest-reigning monarch later when she passes the record set by her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria.The Queen will have reigned for 63 years and seven months - calculated at 23,226 days, 16 hours and approximately 30 minutes at about

DHAKA: A crowd has attacked the headquarters of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish HDP party, amid rising violence between Turkish forces and the militant Kurdish PKK group.Pictures from the scene appeared to show the HDP building in the capital, Ankara, on fire.Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has

DHAKA: Australia has said it will take in more Syrian refugees, amid pressure to do more to help people displaced by violence in the Middle East.Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Wednesday said Australia would accept 12,000 Syrian refugees from persecuted minorities.That is on top of the

DHAKA: A British Airways plane bound for London has caught fire at Las Vegas airport, forcing the evacuation of 172 people on board on emergency slides.McCarran International airport tweeted that seven people "received medical treatment for minor injuries", reports BBC.US Federal Aviation

DHAKA: Turkish ground forces have crossed into Iraq in pursuit of Kurdish militants for the first time since a ceasefire two years ago.Government officials said the incursion was a ‘short-term’ measure to hunt down PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) rebels.Turkish warplanes also

DHAKA: Iraq’s acting deputy Justice Minister, Abdul Karim al-Faris, has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen in the capital, Baghdad.Iraq security officials have told Al Jazeera.The deputy minister’s security guards and driver have also been kidnapped in Al-Bunouk neighborhood in the

DHAKA: There was a time when Aung San Suu Kyi was seen as Asia’s Nelson Mandela. To her more ardent fans, she was more than that, an icon, almost a saint.So why is the Nobel Peace Prize winner’s political party excluding Muslims from its list of candidates for November’s general

DHAKA: At least 14 policemen have been killed after a police bus was hit by an improvised explosive device (IED) laid on a road by outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants in the eastern Turkish province of Iğdır.Doğan News Agency reported on September 8 that the bus was

DHAKA: At least 10 police officers have been killed and several others wounded in a bomb attack on a Turkish police minibus in the country’s east.Turkish officials blamed fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) for Tuesday’s attack, which targeted a bus carrying police

DHAKA: Iran’s president has said his country is ready to hold talks with the United States and Saudi Arabia on ways to resolve the Syrian civil war.Shia powerhouse Iran is a leading patron of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and accuses Sunni rival Saudi Arabia and the US of siding with

DHAKA: North and South Korea have agreed to hold rare reunions for families separated by the Korean War, according to Seoul.The meetings will take place in October at a mountain resort in North Korea.The decision follows an agreement last month that de-escalated tensions sparked by a

DHAKA: Germany can cope with at least 500,000 asylum-seekers a year for several years.The country’s vice-chancellor Sigmar Gabriel has said, reports the BBC.Officials have said they expect more than 800,000 asylum-seekers in 2015 alone - four times the 2014 figure.Gabriel repeated that

DHAKA: EU President Donald Tusk has warned that the refugee crisis affecting Europe was part of an ‘exodus; from war-torn countries that could last years.Speaking to the Bruegel Institute think-tank in Brussels on Monday, Tusk said the current movement of people mainly from the Middle

DHAKA: Around 1,000 Qatari soldiers have been deployed to Yemen, as part of the Arab coalition’s fight against Houthi rebels.An Al Jazeera journalist, reporting from the Saudi-Yemen border, said the troops were backed by more than 200 armored vehicles and 30 Apache combat

DHAKA: Hate crimes against Muslims in London have risen by 70% in the past year, according to Met Police statistics.Figures for the 12 months up to July showed 816 Islamophobic crimes, compared with 478 for the previous 12-month period.Tell MAMA, an organisation that monitors Islamophobic

DHAKA: Unemployed and unable to feed her five children anymore, a 40-year-old woman farmer set herself on fire in Maharashtra's drought-hit Marathwada region, which chief minister Devendra Fadnavis toured extensively last week.Manisha Gatkal doused herself with kerosene and set herself

DHAKA: Germany's coalition government is to release billions of euros to help federal states and municipalities cope with record numbers of migrants.Critics at home have accused Chancellor Angela Merkel of creating a dangerous precedent by opening Germany's borders, reports BBC.About

DHAKA: At least 15 people were killed when a bus crash on a steep winding road near the Brazilian colonial era town of Paraty.Another 30 people were injured. Some of the survivors were airlifted to local hospitals, reports BBC.The bus was travelling to a nearby beach popular with tourists