DHAKA: The US Army is to reduce the size of its force by 40,000 soldiers over the next two years, according to US media.The cost-cutting exercise will also see an additional 17,000 civilian employees cut from the army.The plan, which could be officially announced later this week, would

DHAKA: Greece has submitted ‘no concrete proposals’ for a new bailout, at a key meeting of eurozone finance ministers.Malta PM says, reports the BBC.Joseph Muscat tweeted that this ‘doesn’t help this evening’s eurozone leaders’ meeting’ in Brussels.The eurozone had urged

DHAKA: A Nato convoy and an Afghan intelligence agency office have been targeted in two suicide attacks hours apart in the Afghan capital Kabul.In the first attack a car bomb hit a land cruiser carrying foreign forces. Nato said there were no fatalities, reports the BBC.In the second

DHAKA: At least 20 people have been killed in a bomb blast in the city of Zaria, northern Nigeria.A regional governor and two workers said, reports Al Jazeera.‘I am sad that a terrorist bomb attack just killed 20 people in Sabon Gari Zaria,’ Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai, the governor of

DHAKA: Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and new finance minister Euclid Tsakalotos are expected to present new proposals to Greece’s creditors at a eurozone emergency summit Tuesday in Brussels aimed at preventing Greece’s exit from the eurozone.The new Greek plan reportedly

DHAKA: Pope Francis has ended his first full day in Ecuador with a visit to the cathedral in the capital Quito, where thousands of people braved a deluge of rain to hear him speak.Francis returned to the Vatican ambassador’s residence in Quito on Monday night and later re-emerged

DHAKA: World powers were set Tuesday to miss yet another deadline to nail down an elusive nuclear deal ending a 13-year standoff with Iran, despite hours of difficult top-level negotiations.In a sign of how complex the negotiations have become, foreign ministers met deep into the night

DHAKA: About 800 million people still live in dire poverty and suffer from hunger despite the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) being the most successful anti-poverty push in history.The UN said on Monday, The Straits Times publishes this report on Tuesday.The number of

DHAKA: The world's oldest man, Sakari Momoi, has died in Japan at the ripe old age of 112, an official said Tuesday.Momoi, born months before the Wright brothers made their first successful flight, passed away late Sunday, said the official at Saitama City, north of Tokyo, where he had

DHAKA: Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have agreed that Athens will present a fresh Greek proposal for an aid deal with creditors at an emergency eurozone summit in Brussels on Tuesday.Greek government sources said, reports Al Jazeera.A Greek

DHAKA: An Iraqi warplane has accidentally dropped a bomb over a residential area of Baghdad after it experienced mechanical failure.Officials of defense ministry confirmed the matter to Al Jazeera on Monday that a bomb fell from a Russian-made Sukhoi Su-25 fighter jet, hitting a New

DHAKA: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has told his cabinet to boycott a popular talk show on the national broadcaster. The Australian Broadcasting Corp. (ABC) was criticised after a former terror suspect was allowed on live television show Q&A two weeks ago, reports

DHAKA: Princess Charlotte has been christened at a church in Sandringham after the Cambridges made their first public outing as a family of four.The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge pushed the princess in a pram the Queen used for two of her own children, reports bbc.comSeveral thousand well

DHAKA: Greek voters have decisively rejected the terms of an international bailout.The final result in the referendum, published by the interior ministry, was 61.3% "No", against 38.7% who voted "Yes".Greece's governing Syriza party had campaigned for a "No", saying the bailout terms were

DHAKA: Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, the UN special envoy to Yemen, has arrived in Yemen’s capital Sana’a in a bid to arrange a pause in fighting until the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on July 17, to allow for deliveries of humanitarian aid.The visit by Ould Cheikh Ahmed, who

DHAKA: Pope Francis is due to arrive in Ecuador at the start of a seven-day tour of South America.Ecuador’s left-wing President Rafael Correa called the visit ‘an honor’, reports the BBC.Pope Francis will also travel to Bolivia and Paraguay, as part of his second trip to the region

DHAKA: At least 73 people have been killed in Iraqi government air strikes and artillery fire in the western Iraqi cities of Ramadi and Fallujah.An air strike on a sports field in Ramadi shortly after midnight on Sunday killed at least 50 people and left more than 30 people injured,

DHAKA: The US spy agency bugged the phone of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff along with her top political and financial officials, according to new information released by WikiLeaks.The whistle-blowing website published on Saturday a National Security Agency (NSA) list of 29 Brazilian

DHAKA: Ahead of Tuesday’s final deadline, foreign ministers from major powers were expected back in Vienna Sunday seeking to score a huge diplomatic success by nailing down the nuclear deal with Iran.After almost two years of intense effort, there were signs that inside the neoclassical

DHAKA: Millions of Greeks are due to vote in a crucial referendum on whether to accept the terms of an international bailout.Polling stations opened at 07:00 local time (04:00 GMT), with the first results expected on Sunday evening, reports bbc.comThe end of a frenetic week of campaigning