DHAKA: Hundreds of people, including Bangladeshis, are feared dead after two boats carrying up to 500 migrants capsized off the Libyan city of Zuwara, residents and officials say.The first boat, which signaled for help early on Thursday, had nearly 50 people on board.The second

DHAKA: Up to 50 refugees have reportedly been found dead in a truck in Austria, as German chancellor Angela Merkel and Balkan leaders gathered in Vienna to decide on how to tackle together the biggest migration crisis to hit Europe since World War II.The Krone newspaper reported on

DHAKA: Two senior Iraqi commanders have been killed and 10 others injured in a suicide car bomb attack north of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar, where fierce fighting with the Islamic State (IS) of Iraq and Syria group is continuing.Sources have told Al Jazeera.Brigadier Abderahman Muqtada

DHAKA: China national prosecutor’s office said on Thursday that they were accused of dereliction of duty and abusing their positions resulting in the blast that killed at least 121 people.Chinese prosecutors have detained 11 people over a massive warehouse explosion that killed at least

DHAKA: The death toll in the violence across Gujarat has risen to nine on Thursday, as the Patel community continues its agitation demanding OBC status and reservation benefits.The violence was triggered on Tuesday night by the brief arrest of Hardik Patel, the 22-year-old leader of the

DHAKA: A man who shot two journalists on live TV in the US state of Virginia has died after shooting himself.Vester Lee Flanagan, 41, an ex-employee of WDBJ7 TV known professionally as Bryce Williams, was in a car that was surrounded by police following a chase, reported the BBC.WDBJ7 TV

DHAKA: About 50 people have been found dead in the hold of a boat carrying migrants intercepted off the coast of Libya.The Italian coastguard says, reports the BBC.About 430 people had been rescued alive from the boat, a spokeswoman told the media.The rescue operation was carried out by a

DHAKA: Seven people have died in the violence that erupted in several parts of India’s Gujarat province after the brief detention of 21-year-old Hardik Patel last night in Ahmedabad.The city is tense and the Army has been called in to restore law and order.Five people were killed last

DHAKA: Two journalists were shot dead during a live TV report in the US state of Virginia.WDBJ7 TV reporter Alison Parker, 24, and cameraman Adam Ward, 27, were killed during an interview in Moneta, Bedford County, reports the BBC.During the live broadcast, shots could be heard, sending

DHAKA: At least three people were killed in widespread violence in India’s Gujarat province on Wednesday as tension mounted in the state, even as Hardik Patel vowed to intensify the agitation for OBC quota for Patel community.Apprehending more trouble, curfew was clamped in parts of

DHAKA: Three people were killed in widespread violence in Gujarat on Wednesday as tension mounted in the state, even as Hardik Patel vowed to intensify the agitation for OBC quota for Patel community.Apprehending more trouble, curfew was clamped in parts of Ahmedabad and other major

DHAKA: Two people in Afghan military uniforms opened fire on a vehicle killing two Nato soldiers in Afghanistan.Their nationalities are not known immediately, the BBC reports.The incident occurred early on Wednesday in Helmand province. Soldiers returned fire killing the attackers, a

DHAKA: The Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, has said he is confident he has the continuing support of key allies Iran and Russia.A fresh push is under way to resolve Syria’s four-year conflict, leading to speculation Assad could be forced out to reach a settlement.But Assad said

DHAKA: Kosovo and Serbia have signed a series of agreements in key areas, in a major step towards normalizing ties.Serbs in northern Kosovo will enjoy greater rights through one of the deals, while Kosovo gains its own international dialing code in another.The EU’s foreign policy chief,

DHAKA: At least three Indian security forces personnel were killed and six others injured in an ambush by the left-wing Naxalite rebels in India’s eastern state of Odisha Wednesday, a senior police official said."The incident happened near Sukma-Malkangiri border in the state's

DHAKA: Contrary to remarks made by visiting UK foreign secretary Phillip Hammond an Iranian official denied on Tuesday that his government’s policy towards Israel has changed and said that the Zionist regime should be annihilated.‘Our positions against the usurper Zionist regime have

DHAKA: At least 175 people have been executed in Saudi Arabia in the past year after unfair trials lacking basic safeguards.Amnesty International says, reports the BBC on Tuesday.A new report alleges the Gulf kingdom’s ‘faulty justice system facilitates judicial executions on a mass

DHAKA: European leaders should do more to open up and help migrants instead of using language that dismisses their rights.A UN expert on migrant rights has said, reports the BBC.Talking about ‘marauders’ and ‘swarms’ was an unsubtle way of dismissing their legitimacy, said

DHAKA: At least three people have been killed in clashes between rival armed groups in Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp, near the southern port city of Sidon.Fighting between the Jund al-Sham group and members of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement on Monday

DHAKA: South Korea has halted its propaganda broadcasts into North Korea as part of a deal to defuse tension.Seoul had begun the loudspeaker broadcasts, which infuriate Pyongyang, after a landmine at the border injured two of its soldiers earlier this month.The tensions bubbled over in a