DHAKA: New guidelines governing the Japan-US defense alliance will allow the two militaries to ‘cooperate seamlessly’.American Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Wednesday in Tokyo following a meeting with his Japanese counterpart, reports The Straits Times.On the second day of a

DHAKA: Myanmar’s president Thein Sein will host rare talks Wednesday with influential allies and rivals including opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi as she intensifies efforts to lift a constitutional ban on her bid for the presidency.The long-awaited talks in the capital Naypyidaw,

DHAKA: Eight members of a Maryland family were found dead in a house Monday when police went to check on the father, who had failed to show up for work.The man and seven children, whose ages ranged from 6 to 16, were discovered in the home, Princess Anne Police Chief Scott Keller said.No

DHAKA: Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarf will tour Pakistan and Oman to convey Iran’s deep concern about the humanitarian plight in Yemen due to the Saudi-led air raids.Foreign ministry spokesperson Marzieh Afkham said on Tuesday, reports the Times of India.The Saudi Air

DHAKA: The UN Security Council has demanded humanitarian access to the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk in Damascus.One UN official described the situation for the 18,000 refugees there as ‘beyond inhumane’.The situation has deteriorated since 1 April, when Islamic State (IS)

DHAKA: More than a 100,000 people have fled their homes after Saudi-led coalition air strikes began in Yemen, according to UNICEF.A spokesman from the UN agency, Rajat Madhok, told Al Jazeera that most of those who have been displaced are women and children.“Most displacements have

DHAKA: The Indian police say they have arrested a 28-year-old man wanted in connection with two sex attacks in Britain.Former nightclub bouncer Raminder Singh was arrested in New Delhi on Sunday after three years on the run, police joint commissioner Ravindra Yadav said in a statement

DHAKA: Fourteen people were injured in an explosion at a controversial chemical plant in the eastern Chinese city of Zhangzhou.The authorities said on Tuesday that it was the second accident at the site in two years, reports The Straits Times.Footage from an amateur video posted by

DHAKA: Twenty red sanders smugglers were killed in an alleged encounter with a joint team of special police and forest personnel in the Seshachalam forests of Chittoor district in India’s Andhra Pradesh in the early hours of Tuesday.The incident took place at Etagunta and Vacchinodu

DHAKA: The suspected mass graves of up to 1,700 captured Iraqi soldiers killed by the Islamic State group (IS) have been found in the city of Tikrit.The sites are near the former US Army base, Camp Speicher, reports BBC on Tuesday.Iraqi forensic teams have begun to excavate 12 graves

DHAKA: The United States and the Philippines will double the size of their annual war games this month, with some exercises to be staged close to a South China Sea flashpoint.The Filipino military said Monday, reports The Straits Times.The 10-day exercises between the long-time allies

DHAKA:Although China’s economic growth has slowed somewhat over the past year, the number of super-rich people has expanded to a record high.The recently released China Ultra High Net Wealth Report 2014-2015 said, reports The Straits Times.The number of people from the Chinese mainland

DHAKA: Palestine president Mahmoud Abbas says he has refused to accept hundreds of millions of dollars of tax revenues unfrozen by Israel.Abbas says he returned the money because Israel deducted a third to pay for what it called utility bills.He has threatened to take Israel to the

DHAKA: Yemen’s Shia Houthi rebels have made more gains in the city of Aden, despite air strikes by a Saudi-led coalition.Fighting in the southern city has intensified as rebels and forces loyal to President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi battle for control.Countries including China have stepped

DHAKA: Some 1,500 migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean to Italy in five different boats were rescued in one day.Italian coastguards said Sunday, reports the NDTV.Four coastguard vessels and an Italian navy ship intervened Saturday to save three large boats carrying migrants off the

DHAKA: Leaders of central and west African states will hold a summit on Wednesday to try to draw up a joint strategy against Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants.A statement from organizers said Sunday, reports The Straits Times.The April 8 summit will be the first of its kind since

DHAKA: Yemeni Shia rebels captured the provincial government headquarters in Aden on Sunday, pushing into new areas of the battleground southern city despite a Saudi-led air campaign.A local official said, reports The Straits Times.The rebel forces advanced during the night to reach the

DHAKA: The United Nations Security Council is considering Russia’s call for a pause in Saudi-led air strikes in Yemen.The council’s president, Dina Kawar, who is also Jordan’s UN ambassador, said members needed time to ‘reflect on the proposal’.The air strikes against Houthi

DHAKA: Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak’s chief of staff and a former ambassador to the United States, who was also a senior member of Najib’s party, were among six people killed in a helicopter crash near the capital.The officials said on Sunday which reports the Jerusalem

DHAKA: Former Cuban President Fidel Castro, 88, appeared in public ‘full of vitality’ for the first time in more than a year on Monday, greeting a delegation of Venezuelans.It was his first known appearance outside his home since Cuba in December agreed to normalize relations with the