DHAKA: The Islamic State group has issued a video purporting to show a militant threatening to kill two Japanese hostages unless Japan pays a ransom.In the video, a masked man criticizes Japan for pledging aid to countries fighting Islamic State (IS).He says he will kill the two men

DHAKA: Wealth amassed by the richest 1% will overtake the amount owned by the rest of the people in the world, according to a study by charity group Oxfam.The richest 1% of people will see their share of global wealth increase to more than 50% in 2016 at the current rate of growth.Their

DHAKA: A suicide bomber killed four people and wounded dozens Sunday in an attack at a bus station in Potiskum, northeastern Nigeria.The police and hospital sources said this which reports the Times of India.“We have evacuated four dead bodies and 48 injured persons from the scene of

DHAKA: Boko Haram fighters kidnapped at least 60 people in a deadly attack in northern Cameroon on Sunday.The police said, the incident happened in the latest cross-border raid by the Nigeria-based Islamist group.It came a day after neighboring Chad deployed troops to combat Boko Haram

DHAKA: An Israeli air strike has killed six members of Hezbollah in the Syrian sector of the Golan Heights.The Lebanese militant movement said this which reports the BBC.Among those reported dead were the son of a late military leader, a current commander, and at least one

DHAKA: Suspected Boko Haram gunmen have kidnapped 40 boys and young men in a remote village in northeast Nigerian Borno state on New Year's Eve.Residents who fled the isolated settlement said on Saturday, reports The Straits Times.Scores of Boko Haram militants stormed the Malari

DHAKA: At least 38 people were killed and 56 people hurts as a suicide bomber has attacked Sunni fighters in Madain, a town roughly 20 kilometers southeast of Baghdad on Wednesday.The bomber attacked on the members of the Sahwa (Awakening) movement while they gathered to receive

DHAKA: Japan’s parliament re-elected Shinzo Abe on Tuesday to serve another term as prime minister after his party won a snap election earlier this month. Abe won 328 votes out of the 470 cast by lawmakers in a special session of the lower house on Tuesday. Since the ruling Liberal

DHAKA: A black teenager has been shot dead by police in St Louis of USA.It is near where Michael Brown was killed in August triggering national protests.St Louis County police said the man who was shot had pulled a gun at a petrol station and pointed it at an officer, reports the BBC.A

DHAKA: Taliban gunmen have shot dead 12 people working to clear landmines in southern Helmand province.Afghan police say, reports the BBC.In the capital, Kabul, a suicide bomber attacked a bus carrying Afghan soldiers, and the Taliban said it killed a senior Supreme Court official.And

DHAKA: Fighting between government troops and pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine has left more than 300 people dead in less than a month, taking the overall toll to 4,634. The UN said on Saturday in its latest report on the conflict, reports The Straits Times. Some 10,243 people have been

DHAKA: Islamic State’s self-declared police force in western Syria decapitated four men after accusing them of blasphemy. A rights group monitoring the Syrian conflict said on Saturday, reports The Straits Times. The men were beheaded in the countryside east of the city of Homs by the

DHAKA: Torrential downpours triggered a landslide on Indonesia’s main island of Java, killing at least 17 people and leaving nearly 100 others missing, with persistent rain hampering rescue efforts. Officials said Saturday, reports The Straits Times.Hundreds of rescuers were

DHAKA: Pakistan police foiled a major terror attack on Saturday in central Punjab province, killing at least four suspected Taliban militants.Officials said, reports The Straits Times.Heavy weapons and explosives - including four suicide jackets, 12 rockets, 40 hand grenades, 328kg of

DHAKA: The wife of Thailand’s Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn, Srirasmi, has resigned her royal position, the palace has announced. A statement said King Bhumibol Adulyadej had accepted Princess Srirasmi’s written request. Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn had asked the government to strip

DHAKA: The suspect behind the pro-Islamic State (IS) Twitter account has been arrested in India’s Bengaluru on Saturday. The arrest came after the Bengaluru Crime Branch initiated probe on Friday based on a Channel 4 story.  The UK-based channel late Friday night released a second

DHAKA: Bank of America is being forced to hand over more than $1 million to a Florida couple after the bank flooded them with hundreds of loan collection calls for years. In a complaint filed in July, attorneys for Nelson and Joyce Coniglio said that the couple had been on the receiving

DHAKA: The US Senate has approved a new annual defence bill expanding the military campaign against Islamic State (IS). The bill approves a general Pentagon budget of $496bn (£316bn) plus $64bn for US wars abroad. The measure also authorises the training and equipping of moderate

DHAKA: Torrential rains set off a mudslide down the hills into a village in central Indonesia, killing eight people and leaving more than 100 missing, officials said Saturday. About 105 houses were swept away by the landslide late Friday in Jemblung village in Banjarnegara district of

DHAKA: A major storm that pummeled northern California and the Pacific Northwest with heavy rain and high winds and killed two people. The storm has moved south overnight, prompting evacuation orders in areas prone to floods and mud flows, reports the Straits Times. The National Weather