DHAKA: US President Barack Obama has said that his historic meeting with Cuban President Raul Castro could be a "turning point" in relations.He described the meeting on the fringes of the Summit of the Americas as "candid and fruitful".Mr Obama said that the former foes would continue to

DHAKA: Italian and merchant ships have rescued almost 1,000 migrants from three overcrowded skiffs near the coast of Libya and found one dead body.Italy’s coast guard said, reports The Straits Times.The migrants sent out a distress call by satellite phone on Friday and were being taken

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama and Cuban leader Raul Castro shook hands and sat near each other at a historic Summit of the Americas, a new milestone in efforts to end decades of animosity.Obama and Castro, separated by the presidents of Ecuador and El Salvador, stood before taking

DHAKA: An Egyptian court confirmed death sentences for Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and 11 other defendants on Saturday, and jailed a US-Egyptian citizen for life over Islamist protest violence.Judge Mohamed Nagy Shehata also sentenced to death two Islamists who have fled the

DHAKA: Gunmen have killed 20 construction workers in Pakistan’s restive south-western province of Baluchistan, shooting them at point blank range after identifying where they were from.Officials said on Saturday, reports The Straits Times.The area is plagued by violence, with

DHAKA: A Tibetan nun is believed to have died after setting herself on fire to protest China's rule over the Himalayan region and to voice support for the Dalai Lama.Rights groups and media said, reports The Straits Times.Yeshi Khando walked around the Kardze Monastery in a type of prayer

DHAKA: The mastermind of the 26/11 attacks, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, has been released from a jail in Pakistan.Jail officials in Rawalpindi said Lakhvi was released on Friday morning.The Lahore High Court had Thursday ordered that he be released, provoking a strong reaction from

DHAKA: A head-on collision between a coach and lorry in Morocco has killed 31 people, many of them young athletes, officials say.Nine are reported to have been injured near the southern city of Tan-Tan.Many of the victims were killed by a fire which broke out following the crash, local

DHAKA: At least 21 people were killed during a shipwreck off the northern coast of Haiti, said the country's civil protection directorate.A small boat carrying about 50 migrants left from the area of Le Borgne, west of Cap-Haitien, on Wednesday night. It began to sail toward the island of

DHAKA: Some 70 people were reported missing following a landslide in a jade mining area in Phakant in Myanmar’s northern Kachin state.The bank of a 15.25-metre-high jade mining burrow of Myayamone Co. Ltd. near Lonekhin village in Phakant collapsed on Wednesday.Along with the victims,

DHAKA: At least 12 people have been killed and 70 others injured in an attack in northern Afghanistan.Gunmen stormed a government compound on Thursday in the town of Mazar-i-Sharif, the provincial capital of Balkh province, killing the police chief and two other officers. Officials say

DHAKA: At least 29 militants have been killed and 31 others arrested in army raids in Egypt’s volatile northern Sinai region.The military sources said this on Thursday.The raids were conducted in Rafah, Al-Arish and Sheikh Zawayed from April 5 to 8, army spokesperson Brigadier General

DHAKA: A gunman has been arrested after he shot dead three people at the Palace of Justice in the Italian city of Milan.A fourth person was found dead at the court, from an apparent heart attack, reports the BBC.The suspect, Claudio Giardiello, was reportedly a defendant in a bankruptcy

DHAKA: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has cautioned against seeing a preliminary agreement on his country's nuclear program as the ‘guarantee’ of a final deal with world powers.Last week Iran and world powers reached a framework agreement on the issue, reports the

DHAKA: India’s opposition Congress party is finding it hard to defend a long holiday taken by its vice-president Rahul Gandhi, and some seniors in the party are questioning whether the scion of the country’s most famous family is interested in politics.Gandhi, a 44-year-old bachelor

DHAKA: Iran will only sign a final nuclear agreement if economic sanctions against the nation are removed on the first day of the deal's implementation, President Hassan Rouhani said Thursday.Six world powers and Iran reached a preliminary deal last week that aims to limit Tehran's

DHAKA: As many as four people are reported to have died after a man opened fire at the Palace of Justice in the Italian city of Milan before being arrested.Officials said the gunman, identified by local media as Claudio Giardiello, was a defendant in a bankruptcy case.The Ansa news agency

DHAKA: A man believed to be a defendant in a bankruptcy case on Thursday shot ‘at least one person dead’ in a Milan court.A prosecutor cited by Italian media said, reports The Straits Times.The sound of shots sparked panic, with lawyers fleeing the scene while police officers searched

DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry has warned Iran over its alleged support for Shia Houthi rebels in Yemen.He said the US would support any Middle Eastern country that felt threatened by Iran, and would not ‘stand by’ if Iran destabilized the region, reports the BBC.The US has

DHAKA: The man accused of bombing the Boston Marathon in 2013 has been found guilty of all 30 charges that he faced, many of which carry the death penalty.The jury in Massachusetts will now decide what sentence 21-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will receive.Three people were killed and more