DHAKA: Five car bombs exploded across Baghdad on Thursday evening, killing at least 17 people, in attacks that have become more frequent in the Iraqi capital since a decade-old night time curfew was lifted earlier this year.The deadliest of the blasts, which appeared to be coordinated,

DHAKA: Defense officials have said that US Navy ships will accompany US-flagged commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, to make sure they are not interfered with by Iran.Iranian patrol boats surrounded a US cargo ship in the strait on Friday, reports the BBC.Earlier this week,

DHAKA: Nigerian troops have rescued about 160 more hostages from Boko Haram’s Sambisa Forest stronghold in northeast Nigeria.The country’s army told media on Thursday, reports the Times of India.“We are still trying to compute the actual number of those rescued. But tentatively

DHAKA: Two people have been rescued from the rubble of buildings in Kathmandu, five days after an earthquake that killed at least 5,500 in Nepal.A 15-year-old boy told the BBC he survived by drinking water from wet clothes and eating clarified butter, reports the BBC.Elsewhere, a woman

DHAKA: Police in southern Germany have thwarted a planned Islamist attack after detaining a married couple with suspected links to Salafist militants.The interior minister of the state of Hesse said on Thursday, reports The Straits Times.‘Investigations by the police indicate that we

DHAKA: A court in Pakistan Thursday sentenced 10 men to life imprisonment for attempting to kill Nobel-prize winning teenage activist Malala Yousafzai in 2012, officials said, though the chief suspect remains at large.Pakistani Taleban militants boarded the teenager’s school bus and

DHAKA: With its sewage system badly damaged, carcasses rotting in the rubble and thousands of people sleeping rough, experts say Nepal faces a race against time to ensure a devastating earthquake does not trigger a public health disaster.More than 5,500 people were killed in Saturday’s

DHAKA: Climbing will resume on Mount Everest by next week despite an earthquake-triggered avalanche that left 18 people dead on the world’s highest peak.A Nepalese government official said on Thursday, reports The Straits Times.‘The ladders will be repaired in the next two to three

DHAKA: Frustration is growing in parts of rural Nepal over the pace of relief efforts, with some badly-affected villages yet to receive any assistance.Survivors in some areas told the BBC that they were angry that aid neither food nor medicine has reached them.The UN has appealed for

DHAKA: The UN has launched a $415m (£270m) appeal for those affected by Nepal's earthquake, as frustration mounts at the pace of relief efforts, reports BBC.The UN said it wanted to support government efforts to provide emergency relief over the next three months.Saturday's 7.8-magnitude

DHAKA: Saudi Arabia’s new king has announced a major cabinet reshuffle that puts in place a new generation to succeed him.King Salman has appointed his nephew, the powerful Interior Minister Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, as crown prince, reports the BBC.The king’s son, Prince Mohammed

DHAKA: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered the execution of 15 people this year, including several top officials.South Korean intelligence says, reports the BBC.The agency told a parliamentary meeting on Wednesday that they were executed by firing squad on spying charges.Those

DHAKA: An unmanned Russian cargo spacecraft ferrying supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) is plunging back to Earth and apparently out of control.An official said on Wednesday, reports NDTV.‘It has started descending. It has nowhere else to go,’ an official familiar with

DHAKA: Nepalese riot police battled Wednesday to contain anger among survivors of an earthquake that killed more than 5,000 people as rescuers raced against time to find anyone else alive in the rubble of the capital Kathmandu.Supplies are running thin and aftershocks have strained nerves

DHAKA: A fire has broken out in woods near Ukraine's disused Chernobyl nuclear plant, the site of a meltdown in 1986.Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said about 400 hectares of forest was alight in the exclusion zone around the plant, reports bbc.com. Up to 200 firefighters, along with

DHAKA: A part of India slid about one foot to 10 feet northwards and underneath Nepal in a matter of seconds during the devastating 7.9-magnitude earthquake that hit the neighbouring country on Saturday, a US scientist has said."Saturday's slip took place over an area about 1,000 to 2,000

DHAKA: Venezuela says it will cut the working day for public sector workers to five-and-a-half hours to conserve energy, down from eight to nine hours.The initiative is part of a nationwide electricity rationing plan.Vice-President Jorge Arreaza said there had been a surge in energy

DHAKA: The death toll in the Nepal earthquake has reached 5057, reported the official Twitter handle of National Emergency Operation Centre, Nepal.The toll in could reach 10,000, said Prime Minister Sushil Koirala on Tuesday, ordering intensified rescue efforts and appealing for foreign

DHAKA: Some 250 people went missing after a mudslide in village near center of Nepal earthquake on Tuesday afternoon.An official of Nepal government confirmed the matter.BDST: 1940 HRS, APR 28, 2015AKA

DHAKA: At least 52 people are missing, feared dead after a landslide swept through a village in Afghanistan’s remote mountainous northeast on Tuesday.Officials said, reports The Straits Times.At least 25 women and 22 children are among those missing in the landslide in Khwahan district