DHAKA:  Japan on Tuesday switched on a nuclear reactor, officials said, ending a two-year shutdown in the energy-hungry country that was sparked by public fears following the 2011 Fukushima crisis, the worst atomic disaster in a generation.“The reactor No 1 at the Sendai nuclear power

DHAKA: Twenty-one people have died and 66 others were hospitalized with exhaustion as soaring temperatures and high humidity hit Cairo and other parts of Egypt.The health ministry has said, reports Al Jazeera.The victims, who all died on Sunday, succumbed as temperatures reached highs of

DHAKA: A magnitude 5.7 earthquake in Afghanistan was felt across South Asia on Monday, shaking the ground in Kabul, Islamabad and New Delhi, reports gulfnews.The epicenter of the quake was about 34km west-south-west of Ashkasham, Afghanistan (88 kilometers from Feyzabad), at a depth of

DHAKA: Six children and two adults have been found handcuffed and fatally shot in the head in a Texas home, following the arrest of a man who exchanged gunfire with police.The gunfire broke out when officers who had been called to the Houston-area home late on Saturday spotted the body of

DHAKA: Nearly one million people have now been affected by widespread flooding across Myanmar since June, officials say.The government says up to 100 people have died and 1.2 million acres of rice fields have been destroyed, reports BBC.Though schools in some areas have reopened, fresh

DHAKA: At least 11 people have been killed and 20 others injured in Jharkhand's Deoghar town in a stampede close to a temple of Goddess Durga.Thousands of devotees flock to the temple in the month of August each year to offer the holy water of the river Ganga to Lord Shiva at the town's

DHAKA: At least 12 people including four foreign UN contractors died in a hostage siege at a hotel in central Mali that ended after government troops stormed the building on Saturday.‘There are 12 dead in all,’ an army officer told the media after the operation at the Hotel Byblos in

DHAKA: Among the 1.92 lakh graduates who were conferred degrees on Saturday at the 28th convocation of India’s Indira Gandhi National Open University (Ignou), also included Mumbai blast accused Yakub Memon, who was hanged on July 30.Memon was conferred the degree in absentia by the

DHAKA: Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abbadi has issued a decree proposing the cancellation of the country’s deputy president positions and deputy PM role.Abbadi held a meeting on Friday evening with a number of experts and advisers to discuss the administrative and financial reforms

DHAKA: A Rwandan UN peacekeeper in the Central African Republic (CAR) has shot dead four of his colleagues and wounded eight others at their base before being gunned down himself.Military sources have said, Al Jazeera publishes this report on Sunday.The UN said it was opening an

DHAKA:  Singapore is holding nationwide events to mark 50 years since it became an independent state.Tens of thousands of people are expected to attend an outdoor parade, complete with flybys by the air force and a Singapore Airlines A380 airliner reports bbc.com.Singaporeans are also

DHAKA: The Japanese city of Nagasaki is marking 70 years since the dropping of an atomic bomb by the United States.A ceremony there will observe a minute's silence, followed by speeches by the Nagasaki mayor and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.A cathedral that was destroyed by the bomb but

DHAKA: Hamas called on the Palestinians to initiate wide-scale attacks on West Bank settlers and to start conflict with Israel following the death of Sa’ad Dawabhse in a hospital in Beersheba on Saturday.Dawabshe, 32, died after most of his body was burned in an arson attack on his home

DHAKA: The father of the Palestinian 18-month-old baby boy who died in last week’s settler arson attack in the occupied West Bank has also died from his wounds.Sa’ad Dawabsheh, the father of Ali, died early on Saturday, his brother told Al Jazeera.The 32-year-old died in Soroka

DHAKA: Powerful Typhoon Soudelor is battering Taiwan with strong winds and heavy rain, leaving at least four people dead.The storm - with winds of more than 230km/h (142mph) - made landfall on the eastern coast early on Saturday and is now moving across the island, reports bbc.comIt is

DHAKA: At least 35 people have died and hundreds more have been wounded in separate bomb attacks over the last 24 hours in the Afghan capital Kabul.A suicide bomber blew himself up near the city's police academy on Friday evening, killing about 20 recruits, reports bbc.com.A short while

DHAKA: North Korea is to switch to a new time zone to mark its liberation from the Japanese at the end of World War Two, says state media.North Korea is currently in the same time zone as South Korea and Japan, which are nine hours ahead of GMT, reports BBC.But Pyongyang Time will see the

DHAKA: Persistent eruptions from Indonesia's Mount Raung continue to bring bad news for Bali-bound travellers.Virgin Australia and Jetstar grounded flights again on Friday as forecasters warned westerly winds would send dangerous ash clouds over Denpasar.The ash is expected to hang over

DHAKA: France is to conduct air, land and sea searches in and around the island of Reunion in the hope of finding more debris which could be linked to MH370.Malaysia said on Thursday that a wing section found on the French Indian Ocean island definitely came from the doomed Malaysia

DHAKA: At least seven people have been killed and more than 100 injured by a powerful car bomb in the Afghan capital Kabul early on Friday morning, said health officials.Police say that the bomb went off in the Shah Shahid area of the city, BBC reported.Injured people including children