DHAKA: The European Commission will make the controversial proposal that EU member countries should take in refugees under an EU quota scheme.The UN estimates that 60,000 people have already tried to cross the Mediterranean this year, reports bbc.com.Migrants are being driven to make the

DHAKA: Thailand’s king Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world’s longest-reigning monarch, has left a Bangkok hospital after a seven-month stay.Crowds lined the streets and cheered as the 87-year-old king was driven from the capital, Bangkok, to the royal palace in the coastal town of Hua

DHAKA: Defense ministers from five European Union (EU) countries are meeting on Sunday for talks on a military campaign to stop human trafficking and reinforce the region’s defenses against the flow of migrants from North Africa.Officials from France, Germany, Poland, Italy and Spain

DHAKA: Pope Francis, who helped broker a historic thaw between the United States and Cuba, held talks with Cuban president Raul Castro on Sunday ahead of the pontiff’s trip to both countries in September.The brother of Cuba’s revolutionary leader Fidel arrived for a meeting that the

DHAKA: Rescuers Sunday brought ashore 469 migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh after their wooden boat arrived off Aceh in northwest Indonesia.An official said, reports The Straits Times.‘We received a report from fishermen this morning that there were boat people stranded in the waters

DHAKA: Protesters threw bottles, cans and smoke bombs at riot police in central London on Saturday in a demonstration against the re-election of Britain’s Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron.Scuffles broke out when the demonstrators, blaring hooters, banging pots and chanting

DHAKA: The United Nations representative in Yemen has said that the Saudi-led coalition is bombing ‘effectively, trapped civilians’.Civilians in the northern city of Saada are struggling to flee Saudi-led coalition air strikes targeting Houthi rebels, reports and aid workers say,

DHAKA: Several people have been killed in a shooting in the Swiss town of Wuerenlingen, north-west of Zurich, Switzerland police say.Officers came to the scene after gunfire was heard at a residential building overnight, report bbc.com.They found bodies lying both inside and outside the

DHAKA: Russia president Vladimir Putin on Saturday led a huge commemorative WWII march through Red Square as Russia celebrated 70 years since Soviet victory over Nazi Germany.Clutching a portrait of his father Vladimir, who fought in the war, Putin unexpectedly joined a massive column of

DHAKA: Fifty inmates and 12 Iraqi policemen were killed late on Friday as dozens of inmates escaped from a prison holding 300 people charged with acts of terrorism.A security official and a police source said on Saturday, reports The Straits Times.It was not clear if any high-profile

DHAKA: Fifty inmates and 12 Iraqi policemen were killed late on Friday as dozens of inmates escaped from a prison holding 300 people charged with acts of terrorism.A security official and a police source said on Saturday, reports The Straits Times.It was not clear if any high-profile

DHAKA: Indian Maoist rebels took 250 villagers hostage in restive Chhattisgarh just hours before Prime Minister Narendra Modi toured the central state on Saturday.Officials said, reports The Straits Times.Guerillas abducted the villagers late Friday in Sukma district, 80 kilometers away

DHAKA: Nearly 200 migrants have been detained in a single southern Thai province ever since a network of jungle prison camps run by people smugglers was uncovered there.Police said Saturday, reports The Straits Times.Spurred by Thai junta chief Prayut Chan-O-Cha’s calls to end the grim

DHAKA: Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has been sentenced to three years in jail on corruption charges after a retrial in Cairo.His sons were given four years each in the same case which centers on the embezzlement of $14m earmarked for renovation of presidential palaces.The

DHAKA: Russia readied for a grandiose Red Square military parade on Saturday to mark 70 years since the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, but Western leaders were going to stay away due to the Ukraine crisis.New tanks, mammoth nuclear missile systems and some 16,000 troops were

DHAKA: Britain’s Saturday newspapers said Prime Minister David Cameron’s election win was a remarkable triumph of quiet conservatism, but leaves him facing battles to keep Scotland in the United Kingdom and Britain in the European Union.The Conservative centre-right prime minister’s

DHAKA: Ed Miliband, Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage have all resigned following the disastrous performance of their respective parties in the UK's General Election overnight.Miliband was the final leader to stand down, announcing his resignation just after midday today, and saying he accepted

DHAKA: A total of 111 suspected Rohingya migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh were rescued from jungle of Thailand's southern Songkhla province.On Friday, Thailand police said the 111 migrants had been left alone in the jungle after suspected human traffickers who had brought them into

DHAKA: David Cameron has returned to Downing Street with the Tories having defied polls and won the UK general election-2015.The Conservatives made gains in England and Wales and are forecast by the BBC to secure 331 seats in the Commons, giving them a slender majority.Labour leader Ed

DHAKA: A devastated Ed Miliband has resigned from the Labour party, saying he is truly sorry for the scale of the party’s crushing defeat.In an emotional speech, Miliband said it was time for someone else to take over as leader but called on the party to keep fighting, rather than give