DHAKA: At least 200 top Turkish civil servants, many from the intelligence, finance and transport sectors, have quit their posts to run in parliamentary elections later this year.The flurry of resignations came ahead of the deadline on Tuesday for government officials to step down if

DHAKA: Police have arrested a gunman in the killing of three people in the town of Chapel Hill in North Carolina.US news reports said, according to The Straits Times.The shooter, identified as Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, was being held in Durham County Jail on three counts of first-degree

DHAKA: Over 20 people have died in violence in eastern Ukraine as the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany prepare for peace talks.Nineteen Ukrainian soldiers were killed, many in a town that pro-Russian rebels say they have surrounded.Five people were reported killed by

DHAKA: At least two people have been killed in a pile-up involving about 100 cars on a bridge near South Korea’s Incheon International Airport on Wednesday.Another 42 people were injured in the incident, eight of them in critical condition, the BBC reports.The cause is not clear, but

DHAKA: More than 200 migrants are dead after the motorboats they were travelling on sank in the Mediterranean Sea.The UN’s refugee agency says, reports the BBC.‘Nine were saved after four days at sea. The other 203 were swallowed by the waves,’ UNHCR’s spokeswoman in Italy,

DHAKA: More than 200 migrants are missing after their boats sank in the Mediterranean Sea, according to survivors of the latest tragedy in the area.International agencies said Wednesday, reports The Straits Times.Nine survivors landed on the Italian island of Lampedusa on Wednesday, out

DHAKA: The leader of an anti-corruption party who won a stunning victory in the Delhi state elections will be sworn in as the capital’s chief minister on Saturday.Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), or Common Man’s party, won 67 of the 70 assembly seats.Kejriwal himself won

DHAKA: Kejriwal has sought an appointment with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, where he is expected to extend the invitation.The meeting is likely to take place at 10:30am on Thursday, sources said.Senior AAP leader Manish Sisodia said today that all union cabinet ministers, the

DHAKA: British diplomatic staff in Yemen have been withdrawn and the embassy closed due the security situation in the country.The Foreign Office has said, reports the BBC.Embassy staff and its premises are at ‘increased risk’ and all Britons who remain in Yemen should leave

DHAKA: An American woman held hostage by Islamic State was reported dead on Tuesday as US president Barack Obama vowed to ‘find and bring to justice’ the militants who captured her.Carl and Marsha Mueller, the parents of Kayla Jean Mueller, released a statement on Tuesday saying they

DHAKA: The United Arab Emirates resumed air strikes on Tuesday against the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria group which it had suspended after the militants captured a Jordanian pilot in December.The military said, reports The Straits Times.‘Aircraft of the F-16 squadron based in

DHAKA: The United States said on Tuesday it was ‘deeply disappointed and concerned’ over the decision by Malaysia’s highest court to send opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim to jail for five years on a politically charged sodomy conviction.‘The United States is deeply disappointed

DHAKA: Niger’s parliament has voted to send troops to Nigeria to join the fight against militant Islamist group Boko Haram.The vote took place after Boko Haram attacked a prison and detonated a car bomb on Monday in the town of Diffa, near Niger’s border with Nigeria.MPs said

DHAKA: Malaysia’s top court has upheld opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim’s conviction for sodomy.Anwar was accused of having sex with a male aide in 2008. Sodomy is illegal in Muslim-majority Malaysia, but very few people are ever prosecuted.The popular politician was sentenced to

DHAKA: Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad says his government is receiving messages from the US-led coalition battling the jihadist group, Islamic State.Assad told the BBC that there had been no direct co-operation since air strikes began in Syria in September.But third parties, among

DHAKA: After leading his party to an outsized win in Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal received a congratulatory call from India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who tweeted this information.Arvind Kejriwal, who will return for a second term as Chief Minister, reportedly told the PM that he would

DHAKA: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is leading in the counting of votes that has begun at 8:00am (Indian time) on Tuesday, for the Delhi assembly election.Barring one constituency, results for the rest of the 69 seats are likely to be declared by 1.30pm, reports TOI.This time, 673 candidates

DHAKA: Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria has withdrawn some of its insurgents and equipment from areas northeast of the Syrian city of Aleppo, rebels and residents say, adding to signs of strain in the Syrian provinces of its self-declared caliphate.The group, which has recently

DHAKA: At least 1,500 Russian troops and convoys of military hardware entered Ukraine over the weekend.The Ukrainian military said on Monday, reports The Strait Times.‘One thousand five hundred Russian soldiers and 300 pieces of military equipment, including Grad missile systems,

DHAKA: Russian President Vladimir Putin said the conflict in Ukraine will continue if rival groups there do not agree among themselves.The president said this in comments published on Monday ahead of a proposed summit with French, German and Ukrainian leaders, reports the NDTV. The