DHAKA: Shops and schools in a town in eastern India where an elderly nun was gang-raped closed March 17 in protest over perceived police inaction, as anger mounts over the ‘inhuman’ crime.Business owners said, Turkish daily Hurriyet reports.Police have detained around 10 people

DHAKA: In its latest effort to reach out to supporters in South-east Asia, the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria has posted photos and a video of Malay-speaking children training with weapons.The footage depicts a group of at least 20 boys studying, praying, eating and undergoing

DHAKA: Pakistan hanged 12 male convicts on Tuesday, an interior ministry spokesman said, the largest number of people executed on the same day since an unofficial moratorium on capital punishment was lifted in December. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif lifted a de facto moratorium on capital

DHAKA: Russia’s president Vladimir Putin on Monday reappeared in public after an unusually long 10-day absence, dismissing as ‘rumors’ frenzied speculation over his health and whereabouts. Looking somewhat pale, Putin shook hands with Kyrgyz president Almazbek Atambayev at the

DHAKA: Thousands are expected to join a rally led by priests in India’s Kolkata later on Monday in support of a 71-year-old nun who was gang raped at her convent school.The city’s archbishop said, reports The Straits Times.The rape by a gang of robbers late on Friday is the latest

DHAKA: Protesting a sluggish economy, rising prices and corruption - and to call for the impeachment of left-wing President Dilma Rousseff, nearly a million demonstrators marched in cities and towns across Brazil on Sunday.The protests in the continent-sized country come as Brazil

DHAKA: China has eased ahead of Germany and France to become the world’s number three arms exporter after the United States and Russia.A Stockholm-based think-tank ‘Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)’ said this in its annual report on Monday.The volume of

DHAKA: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has been granted the power to govern by decree until 31 December.The measure was approved by the National Assembly, where Maduro has a majority, reports the BBC.He requested the approval of the Enabling Law after the United States issued new

DHAKA: At least 15 people were killed and 78 injured as twin Taliban suicide bombers blew themselves up at two Christian churches during Sunday mass in the country’s eastern city of Lahore.It is the latest attack on religious minorities in Pakistan, reports the Times of India. The

DHAKA: The tomb of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has been almost completely leveled in fighting near Tikrit.Footage shows all that remains of the once-lavish mausoleum in the village of al-Awja are pillars that held up the roof, reports the BBC.Iraqi forces and Iranian-backed Shia

DHAKA: Syria’s conflict entered its fifth year on Sunday with the regime emboldened by shifting international attention, and a growing humanitarian crisis exacerbated by the rise of the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria group. More than 215,000 people have been killed and half of

DHAKA: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined to comment on a report from the independent news outlet Dozhd on Sunday that said Russian president Vladimir Putin had not been in Moscow for the last several days. Putin, who has not been seen in public or on live television broadcasts for

DHAKA: The United States will have to negotiate with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad for a political transition in Syria and is exploring ways to pressure him into agreeing to talks. US Secretary of State John Kerry told CBS News in an interview, reports The Straits Times. Washington

DHAKA: At least five people were killed and 40 others injured when Taliban suicide attackers targeted two packed churches during mass on Sunday in Pakistan’s biggest Christian neighborhood in Lahore, the capital of Punjab. The attackers targeted Roman Catholic Church and Christ Church

DHAKA: The United States embassy in Saudi Arabia said it had suspended consular services in the kingdom for two days due to ‘heightened security concerns’, after warning of threats against Western oil workers.All services in Riyadh and at the consulates in Jeddah and Dhahran have

DHAKA: China is falling short of its people’s expectations in battling smog, Premier Li Keqiang said on Sunday, one week after the authorities blocked a scathing documentary on the country’s air pollution problem.Li, who is second only to president Xi Jinping in the Communist

DHAKA: Egypt’s state media reports that a disciplinary court has ordered 41 judges into compulsory retirement for supporting the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.The Disciplinary Council headed by Nabil Zaki, a judge, did not immediately release the reason for its decision on Saturday,

DHAKA: Kurdish authorities in Iraq said they have evidence that fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) used chlorine gas as a chemical weapon against their peshmerga forces.The Kurdistan Region Security Council (KRSC) said in a statement on Saturday that

DHAKA: The president of Vanuatu said most of his people are homeless after the devastating cyclone that hit the Pacific island nation on Friday.Speaking from Japan, Baldwin Londsdale told that most of the buildings in the capital Port Vila had been destroyed by Cyclone Pam, reports the

DHAKA: A tour bus has plunged off a cliff in southern Brazil, killing at least 32 people.Police say the bus, carrying about 50 people, fell down the 400m (1,300ft) cliff near the city of Joinville in Santa Catarina state.Rescue teams are on site and police say there are still people