DHAKA: Burkina Faso coup leaders have agreed to return to their barracks and said they would restore the deposed president to power, signing a deal with the army that apparently defuses a tense standoff sparked by last week’s coup.The breakthrough came on Tuesday night after marathon

DHAKA: More than 700,000 women and girls are being held in prisons around the world.The number has risen 50% since 2000, outstripping the growth among men, the study from the London-based Institute for Criminal Policy Research said, reports the BBC.Just three countries - the US, China and

DHAKA: Ever wondered who holds the key of the sacred Kaaba, which is considered the house of God by around 1.6 billion Muslims around the world?The Al Shaibi family from Saudi Arabia have been the key keepers of the Kaaba for more than 16 centuries - before Islam and until this day.The

DHAKA: Chinese President Xi Jinping reached Seattle at the start of his first state visit to the US.The China premier Xi will spend three days meeting business and technology leaders in Seattle, before heading to Washington for talks with President Barack Obama, reports the BBC.Cyber

DHAKA: A young Palestinian woman shot and wounded by Israeli troops after she reportedly attempted to stab a soldier at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank has died.Sources have told Al Jazeera.The woman, named as a 19-year-old university student, was wounded at the checkpoint near the

DHAKA: Egypt has evicted and demolished the homes of 3,200 families in the Sinai peninsula in violation of international law.Human Rights Watch says, reports the BBC.The military has been razing homes along the border with the Gaza Strip to create a ‘buffer zone’ and eliminate

DHAKA: Burkina Faso coup leaders have released the country’s prime minister, Yacouba Isaac Zida, from custody.Al Jazeera has learnt, as the army and the elite presidential guard continued surrender talks.The prime minister was detained alongside the country’s president and an unknown

DHAKA: Hungary's PM has said Europe's borders are threatened by migration, at the start of a week of intense diplomatic activity on the crisis.Viktor Orban said migrants were "breaking the doors" and that a united stance was required, BBC reported. Ministers from Poland, Hungary, the

DHAKA: Greece’s leftwing leader Alexis Tsipras has emerged triumphant from a snap general election after securing a dramatic victory over his conservative rival, despite a turbulent first term in office.There had been predictions that the race was too close to call after he accepted a

DHAKA: At least 13 migrants, including children, have died after their dinghy and a ferry collided off Turkey, the coastguard there says.The accident happened close to the port of Canakkale. The boat was on its way to the Greek island of Lesbos, BBC reported.In a second incident, Greece's

DHAKA: BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya has died of a heart attack in Kolkata on Sunday.He was 75 years old.Dalmiya is survived by his wife, his son Abhishek and a daughter, reports NDTV.Dalmiya had complained of chest pain and breathing troubles at around 9:00pm on Thursday night.He was

DHAKA: Nepal has adopted a new constitution aimed at bolstering its transformation from a Hindu monarchy to a secular democracy, as violent protests raged against some of the terms of the charter.Firecrackers went off on Sunday in celebration in Kathmandu and President Ram Baran Yadav

DHAKA: At least 13 migrants have died after their dinghy collided with a ferry, the Turkish Coastguard says.The accident happened off the Turkish coast, close to the port of Canakkale. The boat was reportedly on its way to the Greek island of Lesbos.Dogan news agency said 46 people were

DHAKA: Members of the al-Kassam Brigades, Gaza ruling Hamas’s armed wing, captured an Israeli drone which fell near Beit Lahia in the strip on Saturday night.Press TV reports, The Jerusalem Post publishes this report on Sunday.No official statement has been made.According to the report,

DHAKA: Dubai has announced a three-day mourning period after the 33-year-old son of the Gulf emirate’s ruler passed away.The UAE’s official state news agency WAM said on Saturday, Al Jazeera publishes this report on Sunday.Sheikh Rashid, son of the Prime Minister and Vice-President of

DHAKA: Nepal is due to formally adopt its new constitution, drawn up after years of political wrangling.The constitution will see the Himalayan nation become a secular, federal republic with seven states.However, it has been opposed by some groups who want Nepal to be a Hindu nation.

DHAKA: Nine kabaddi players from Odisha were killed and 15 others were seriously injured after a mini-truck in which they were travelling fell off a bridge on Saturday evening near Surapalli in Sundargarh district.The incident occurred around 4:30 pm on Saturday when the team from

DHAKA: Austria saw the arrival of at least 10,000 migrants on Saturday, amid bitter rows among EU nations on how to handle the growing crisis.The migrants were initially sent into Hungary by Croatia, which said it was unable to cope with the 20,000 who had arrived since Wednesday.Hungary

DHAKA: Voting is due to begin in Greece's general election with opinion polls indicating a tight race between the left-wing incumbent Syriza party and the conservative New Democracy.The snap election, Greece's fifth in six years, was called after Syriza lost its parliamentary majority in

DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry has said Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has to go but the timing of his departure should be decided through negotiations.Speaking after talks with British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond in London on Saturday, Kerry called on Russia and Iran