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

DHAKA: The White House has hired its first openly transgender staff member.The White House announced Raffi Freedman-Gurspan's appointment on Tuesday, reports abcnews.go.com. Freedman-Gurspan is an outreach and recruitment director for presidential personnel in the Office of Personnel.

DHAKA: Video footage has emerged of a key suspect police want to question in connection with the deadly bomb blast in the Thai capital Bangkok.The footage, from a CCTV camera, shows a man in a yellow shirt leaving a backpack in the Erawan Hindu shrine, reports the BBC.At least 20 people

DHAKA: Turkey’s prime minister says he has exhausted all options to form a coalition government after talks with the nationalist MHP failed, pushing the country closer to fresh elections.Ahmet Davutoglu said he would return the mandate to the president, reports the BBC.The main

DHAKA: Iran wants to work with other powers in the Middle East to promote peace following last month’s nuclear deal.The country’s vice-president Masumeh Ebtekar says in an interview with the BBC.Ebtekar stressed that Iran had a right to defend itself, but that it had no intention of

DHAKA: Indonesian rescuers have found the bodies of all 54 people who were onboard a Trigana Air plane that crashed in the western Papua region.The head of the search and rescue agency said his team had found the aircraft completely destroyed and partially burnt, reports the BBC.The plane

DHAKA: A bomb blast rocked a shrine at a major central Bangkok intersection during the evening rush hour Monday, the government said, reportedly killing around 27 people and injuring 78 others.At least two bombs were found at the scene, Maj. Gen. Weerachon Sukhondhapatipak, a spokesman