DHAKA: Italian PM Matteo Renzi has led calls for more European Union action on sea migration after the latest deadly capsize of a boat in the Mediterranean.Demanding a summit on the issue, Renzi said trafficking was ‘a plague in our continent’ and bemoaned the lack of European

DHAKA: Australia and Iran have agreed to share intelligence about Australians fighting with militant groups in Iraq.Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has said the deal will help both countries in their efforts to tackle Islamic State (IS), reports the BBC.She added that Australia would have

DHAKA: China’s president Xi Jinping is due in Pakistan, where he is expected to announce $46bn of investment.The focus of the spending is on building a China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), running from Gwadar in Pakistan’s Balochistan province to China’s western Xinjiang

DHAKA: One man died and another was hospitalised on Monday in a fire caused by a powerful quake off Taiwan that also set buildings shaking in the capital Taipei and sparked a short-lived tsunami warning in far southwestern Japan.Japanese forecasters had warned the 6.6 magnitude earthquake

DHAKA: A Bangladeshi survived the smuggler’s boat that overturned with several hundred migrants in Mediterranean Sea off Libya’s coast, reports international media Monday.The survivor told investigators there were 950 people on board of the fishing boat that sank on Saturday.Italian

DHAKA: More than 300 people have been arrested in South Africa in connection with a wave of violence against immigrants from other parts of Africa.The minister of home affairs says, reports the BBC.Malusi Gigaba issued a warning to those responsible, saying that they would be subject to

DHAKA: As many as 700 people are feared dead after a boat carrying migrants capsized off the Libyan coast overnight.The Times of Malta reported on Sunday, reports The Straits Times.Twenty-eight people were rescued in the incident, which happened in an area just off Libyan waters, south of

DHAKA: Beleaguered opposition leader Rahul Gandhi was set Sunday to lead a rally of thousands of farmers in the Indian capital against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s controversial overhaul of laws on land-buying.Dressed all in white and waving opposition Congress party flags, busloads

DHAKA: The first French weapons from a US$3 billion Saudi-funded program will arrive in Lebanon on Monday as allies seek to bolster the country’s defenses against the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria and other militants pressing along its Syrian border.Anti-tank guided missiles are

DHAKA: Police in Australia say they have foiled an Islamic State-inspired plot to carry out an attack at a World War One centenary event.Police arrested five teenage suspects, charging one 18-year-old with conspiring to commit a terrorist act, reports the BBC.The men were planning to

DHAKA: Anger flared up against the fragile coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday as a 15-year-old boy was killed when police fired on pro-azadi protesters at Magam in Budgam district.Suhail Ahmed Sofi’s killing is the first such case since the People’s Democratic

DHAKA: A mysterious disease has killed at least 18 people in the past several days in south-eastern Nigeria.Local officials said this that reports the BBC on Sunday.The outbreak started in the Ode-Irele town, Ondo state, and spread rapidly.The disease - characterised by blurred vision,

DHAKA: South African President Jacob Zuma has visited a refugee camp in the port of Durban after a fresh outbreak of anti-foreigner violence.Zuma told those who had fled the violence that it went against South African values and he would bring it to an end.But he was jeered by some in the

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama said on Saturday that climate change poses the world’s biggest single threat.‘Today, there’s no greater threat to our planet than climate change,’ Obama said in his weekly address, which had an environmental theme to mark Earth Day on April

DHAKA: Israel said on Saturday it would transfer US$470 million of withheld tax revenues to the Palestinian government following talks between a senior Israeli military officer and Palestinian officials.In December, Israel began withholding around US$130 million per month of taxes it

DHAKA: Indian police shot dead a 16-year-old boy on Saturday during an anti-India demonstration in Kashmir as a separatist strike shut down the Himalayan region for a second day.Officials said, reports The Straits Times.The uncle of the boy said police first detained his nephew before

DHAKA: Japan’s population has shrunk for the fourth year running, falling back to a level it was last at in 2000, with more than one in four people now aged 65 or older.The government said, reports The Straits Times.The population dropped by 0.17 percent, or 215,000 people, to

DHAKA: A suicide bomber killed at least 22 people and wounded 50 others in an attack on Saturday outside a bank in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad.Provincial officials said, reports The Straits Times.‘The explosion happened outside a bank where government employees collect their

DHAKA: A prominent former aide to late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, Izzat al-Douri, has been killed in a wide-scale military operation.Al-Douri - believed to be mastermind of the insurgency against the current government - was an influential leader and is said to have played a role in

DHAKA: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday called for an immediate halt to the fighting in Yemen, the first time he has made such an appeal since Saudi-led air strikes against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels began three weeks ago.“I am calling for an immediate cease-fire in Yemen