DHAKA: A new Saudi Arabian pan-Arab news channel has stopped scheduled broadcasting less than 24 hours after going on air from studios in Bahrain.Alarab TV, owned by billionaire Saudi businessman, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, launched with the promise of politically independent news

DHAKA: A court in Egypt has upheld death sentences on 183 Muslim Brotherhood supporters over a 2013 attack on a police station near Cairo.The men were convicted over the deaths of at least 11 officers in Kerdasa.The attack took place after Egyptian military forces cracked down on

DHAKA: China is making it harder for its regional governments to get ad hoc cash transfers from central authorities in another step to reform its fiscal system and reduce wasteful public spending.China’s central government regularly transfers cash to regional authorities via fiscal

DHAKA: A three-year-old boy in the United States has shot his parents after being left within reach of a gun, the latest in a spate of firearm-related tragedies involving young children.The toddler was in a hotel room in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with his parents and two-year-old

DHAKA: South Sudan’s president Salva Kiir and rebel commander Riek Machar have signed a deal, committing to end the conflict that has devastated the country.The ceasefire agreement was signed at talks in Ethiopia, reports the BBC.But consultations will continue on the contentious issue

DHAKA: The UN Security Council demanded the immediate release of all hostages held by the Islamic State group, as Jordan vowed to do everything it can to save the life of a pilot captured by the militants.The 15-member council condemned on Sunday the "heinous and cowardly" murder of

DHAKA: Outspoken billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal on Sunday launched a pan-Arab satellite news channel aimed at challenging established networks in the region.From a studio lit in green and white, the Bahrain-based Alarab News Channel took to the air, leading with a story about

DHAKA: On the hugely popular ‘Arabs Got Talent’ TV show in Beirut last month, five young musicians in chequered black-and-white scarves brought the house down with a traditional Arabic song that left the judges weeping and earned a ticket straight to the finals.In the Gaza Strip there

DHAKA: Chilean president Michelle Bachelet has announced plans to end a total ban on abortions in the predominantly Roman Catholic country.Bachelet has tabled a bill in Congress to legalise abortion in cases of rape or when there is a threat to the mother’s or the baby’s life,

DHAKA: Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has said he is confident that agreement can be reached with creditors over repayment of Greece’s debts.Tsipras said in a statement issued to Bloomberg news agency that he had never intended to act unilaterally.German chancellor Angela Merkel

DHAKA: Thousands of pro-democracy protesters will rally on Hong Kong’s streets on Sunday for the first time since mass demonstrations shut down parts of the city for more than two months.The afternoon march through central Hong Kong is expected to draw 50,000 people, with the police

DHAKA: A video has been released online purporting to show the beheading of Japanese hostage Kenji Goto by Islamic State militants.The video comes less than a week after news of the beheading of another Japanese man, Haruna Yukawa.Mr Goto, 47, is a well-known freelance journalist and

DHAKA: United States politicians are calling for changes to a law that allows Europeans and other foreigners to enter the country without visas, citing fears that jihadists could exploit the rules to stage attacks on American soil.The visa waiver programme, which covers tourists from

DHAKA: German chancellor Angela Merkel has ruled out cancelling any of Greece’s debt, saying banks and creditors have already made substantial cuts.But Merkel told the Hamburger Abendblatt newspaper she still wanted Greece to stay in the eurozone, reports the BBC.Greece’s left-wing

DHAKA: India on Saturday succeeded for the first time in using a mobile launcher to test-fire a long-range missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead deep inside rival China.Although Saturday’s launch was the third test of the Agni V missile, it was the first time the weapon

DHAKA: All commercial flights worldwide could soon send out an automated signal every minute in times of distress to help rescuers find downed aircraft more easily. The new measures are in response to last year’s disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 en route from Kuala

DHAKA: Japan’s deputy foreign minister has said negotiation with the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria threatening to execute a Jordanian pilot and a Japanese journalist has become ‘deadlocked’. Local media reported on Saturday, reports The Straits Times. Yasuhide Nakayama, who

DHAKA: Greece’s new government dramatically escalated its battle with the country’s international creditors, saying it would no longer meet with European Union and International Monetary Fund auditors and rejecting fresh loans offered for February. Athens had been promised another

DHAKA: A chemical weapons expert with the Islamic State (IS) militant group in Iraq has been killed in a coalition airstrike, the US military has said. Abu Malik's training provided IS with "expertise to pursue a chemical weapons capability", a statement said. He served as a chemical

DHAKA: Eight people, all reported to be factory workers, died after a wall collapsed Saturday in an industrial plant in Vellore district of Tamil Nadu in India. The accident happened in the SIPCOT industrial area in Vaniyambadi after a waste treatment plant at the site burst open and the