DHAKA: The US Congress will have a say on a nuclear deal with Iran, under a new agreement reached with the White House.President Barack Obama withdrew his opposition to a bipartisan bill that was unanimously passed through the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, reports the BBC.He has

DHAKA: New Horizons was 115 million km from Pluto (larger sphere) when its Ralph camera captured the viewThe New Horizons probe, which is bearing down on Pluto, has captured its first colour image of the distant dwarf planet, reports BBC.The picture, just released by the US space agency,

DHAKA: Remains of up to nearly 400 unaccounted for service members tied to the USS Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor will be exhumed this year, the Defense Department announced Tuesday.The hope is that most of the battleship's sailors and Marines can be identified."The secretary of defense and I

DHAKA: About 400 migrants have died in an attempt to reach Italy from Libya when their boat capsized, survivors said on Tuesday. The tragedy was the latest in the Mediterranean where the death toll from shipwrecks has surged this year. The boat, carrying about 550 migrants, flipped

DHAKA: Iran will submit a four-point peace plan for resolving the crisis in Yemen to the United Nations on Wednesday.Iran’s English-language television channel Press TV reported on Tuesday, said The Straits Times.The channel gave no further details. Iranian foreign minister Mohammad

DHAKA: More than 20 passengers were injured when an Asiana Airlines Airbus A320 overran a runway in western Japan on Tuesday evening.Officials and local media said, reports The Straits Times.The South Korean carrier’s Flight OZ162, which took off at Incheon airport, was attempting to

DHAKA: Washington is ‘aggressively’ warning Beijing over the repercussions of its demand that US tech firms should hand over their encryption keys if they want to do business in China.A top US official said on Tuesday, reports The Straits Times.The statement by US commerce secretary

DHAKA: Chinese premier Li Keqiang on Tuesday praised the former Japanese government official who issued a landmark apology over the wartime sexual slavery of Asian women, hailing his ‘bravery’ in facing history.Li greeted a trade delegation led by Yohei Kono, who as the country’s

DHAKA: Armed tribesmen seized control of Yemen’s only gas export terminal Tuesday after an army unit assigned to protect it surrendered.A military source said, reports The Straits Times.The tribesmen decided to organize their own protection for the Balhaf plant, operated by Yemen LNG,

DHAKA: The Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria group has lost control of ‘25 to 30’ percent of the territory it holds in Iraq after coalition air strikes and an Iraqi offensive.The Pentagon said Monday, The Straits Times publishes this report on Tuesday.The radical group took control

DHAKA: About 70 army personnel were found to be involved with the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria militant group.Malaysian officials said on Monday, reports The Straits Times.Deputy defense minister Datuk Abdul Rahim Bakri told the parliament that the figure was based on confirmation

DHAKA: Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton formally launched her second presidential bid with a video on her website, putting her forward as a champion of everyday Americans.The 2-minute video was a stark contrast from the stodgy one that she used in her 2008 campaign. While the

DHAKA: Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has formally entered the 2016 race for the White House in a bid to become the first woman US president.She launched her campaign website on Sunday, telling Americans she wanted to be their ‘champion’.Clinton ran for the Democratic

DHAKA: A 65-year-old Berlin woman who already has 13 children is pregnant again with quadruplets.German media reported on Sunday, reports The Straits Times.The Russian and English teacher's pregnancy follows several attempts abroad at artificial insemination over the last year and a half,

DHAKA: Gunmen killed two people and wounded a third in an attack at the South Korean embassy in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Sunday which was claimed by the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria group.The gunmen opened fire on the embassy compound from a passing car, killing two people

DHAKA: A Kenyan student died and over 100 others were injured after an electricity transformer explosion caused a stampede on Sunday, amid tension a week after gunmen stormed another university campus.Officials said, reports The Straits Times.The student who died was among others who

DHAKA: Pope Francis used the word ‘genocide’ on Sunday to describe the mass murder of Armenians in a move likely to severely strain diplomatic ties with Turkey.‘In the past century our human family has lived through three massive and unprecedented tragedies,’ he said during a

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama has said that partisanship over the Iran nuclear deal has gone too far.He rebuked the stance of some Republicans in the US Congress, reports the BBC.Some Republicans have argued against the deal, saying that Iran has received too many concessions.An

DHAKA: Kenya has urged the United Nations to remove a camp housing more than half a million Somali refugees within three months.The country made the urge as part of a response to the recent killing of 148 people by Somali gunmen at a Kenyan university, reports the Aljazeera.Kenya has in

DHAKA: An Egyptian court sentenced Mohamed Badie, head of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, and 13 other senior members of the group to death for inciting chaos and violence.The court also ordered a life term to a US-Egyptian citizen for ties to the Brotherhood.The men were among thousands