DHAKA: The United States on Monday voiced alarm over rare clashes between the Myanmar military and insurgents in Rakhine state believed to have caused hundreds of civilians to flee their homes.Unrest between the military and Arakan Army (AA) - a group that hails from Rakhine but has

DHAKA: The commander of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards accused Saudi Arabia of treachery Monday, saying the bombing of Yemen had put the kingdom in the same camp as arch foe Israel.The remarks, by General Mohammad Ali Jafari, are a further sign of deteriorating relations between

DHAKA: The first troops from Saudi Arabia’s National Guard have been deployed on the border with Yemen.Official media said late on Sunday, The Straits Times publishes this report on Monday.They will join members of the border guard and the army who have reinforced the frontier since

DHAKA: A severe storm in north-west Pakistan, dubbed a ‘mini-cyclone’, has killed 44 people and injured more than 200, officials said on Monday, raising their previous death toll.Intense rain and strong winds buffeted the city of Peshawar and adjacent districts late Sunday, felling

DHAKA: Mountain rescue teams, helped by clear weather, used helicopters to airlift climbers stranded for two days at high altitude on Mount Everest after a powerful earthquake triggered an avalanche that killed at least 17 people.Romanian climber Alex Gavan said on Twitter that three

DHAKA: The recent xenophobic violence in South Africa against migrant workers has sparked a new diplomatic rift with Nigeria, with the South African government condemning Nigeria's decision to withdraw its envoys from Pretoria.On Sunday, the South African government released a statement

DHAKA: At least 22 people were killed in explosions across Iraq on Sunday, including a suicide car bomb attack on a military post in western Anbar province.The police and medical sources said this which reports the Jerusalem Post.The deadliest attack came when a car packed with explosives

DHAKA: At least 35 people have died after a windstorm and heavy rains lashed North West Pakistan.Mushtaq Ghani, the information minister for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, declared a state of emergency at all hospitals in the province and said 200 people had been injured because of the bad

DHAKA: Rescuers continued to scour Indian villages and towns bordering Nepal as India's death toll from the powerful earthquake in the Himalayan nation reached 62, with nearly 260 injured.Strong aftershocks were felt across northern India yesterday. Bihar was the worst-affected state,

DHAKA: Thousands of displaced residents in the Nepali capital have expressed anger towards the government, as they face food and water shortages, a day after a magnitude 7.8 quake hit the country and killed more than 2,500 people.As rescuers continue to dig through the rubble on Sunday,

DHAKA: Powerful aftershocks rocked Nepal Sunday, panicking survivors of a quake that killed more than 2,300 and triggering fresh avalanches at Everest base camp, as rescuers dug through rubble in the devastated capital Kathmandu.Terrified residents, many forced to camp out in the capital

DHAKA: International aid groups and governments intensified efforts to get rescuers and supplies into earthquake-hit Nepal on Sunday, but severed communications and landslides in the Himalayan nation posed formidable challenges to the relief effort.As the death toll surpassed 2,200, the

DHAKA: The overall death toll from a massive earthquake which devastated large parts of Nepal has passed 2,000, officials in the Himalayan nation and neighboring countries said Sunday.National police spokesman Kamal Singh Ban said the number known to have died in Nepal had risen to 1,953

DHAKA: Helicopters began landing at Mount Everest base camp on Sunday to rescue victims of an avalanche that has killed at least 14 people.A media correspondent at the scene said, reports The Straits Times.Six helicopters landed at base camp in Nepal after weather conditions improved

DHAKA: Russian hackers who gained access to the White House computer system last year were able to read President Obama’s unclassified emails.Quoting the New York Times reports the BBC.It said the breach was far more intrusive than previously admitted.Officials have conceded that

DHAKA: More than 1,000 protesters have marched in Baltimore over the death of a black man in police custody a week ago.A minority of protesters smashed police car windows and at least a dozen were arrested, after disturbances that led police to delay spectators’ departure from a

DHAKA: At least 38 people dead as fierce fighting raged on Saturday in south Yemen between Iran-backed rebels and loyalists of exiled president Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, as pressure mounted for the warring factions to hold political talks. The Houthi rebels, who have overrun large parts of

DHAKA: An Indian army mountaineering team found 18 bodies on Mount Everest on Saturday after a massive earthquake in Nepal unleashed an avalanche on the world's tallest mountain at the start of the main climbing season.An Army spokesman said this reports the Times of India on

DHAKA: At least 1,805 people have been killed and 4,718 injured by the 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Nepal, said sources of the country’s Home Ministry on Sunday.Rescue crews and residents began the desperate search for survivors after earthquake hit the country Saturday noon.Whole

DHAKA: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is to attend Moscow’s World War II victory celebrations despite snubs from Western leaders.Russia’s TASS state news agency reported Saturday, citing a UN source, reports The Straits Times.‘His flight out to Moscow is planned for