DHAKA: Rebel gunmen have shot their way into the heavily fortified Chechen capital, Grozny, in a night-time attack which left as many as 16 people dead. Arriving at 01:00 (22:00 GMT Wednesday) in cars, they fired on a traffic police checkpoint before attacking a media building and a

DHAKA: Police in Kenya are holding 77 Chinese nationals accused of running a cyber crime centre from upmarket houses in the capital Nairobi. Reports said Thursday, according to The Straits Times. The Daily Nation newspaper said Kenyan police believed the gang were ‘preparing to raid

DHAKA: Ten Pakistani children have been infected with HIV after receiving tainted blood transfusions, officials said Thursday, in a ‘shocking’ case highlighting the abysmal state of blood screening in the country. The children, aged from five to sixteen, all suffer from the

DHAKA: Russia president Vladimir Putin said on Thursday some countries would like Russia to be dismantled like Yugoslavia was but Moscow would not let it happen. In his annual state-of-the-nation address at the Kremlin, Putin also said events in Ukraine showed that Russia's policy was

DHAKA: A US space capsule that could help get humans to Mars is due to make its maiden flight later. Orion will be launched on a Delta rocket out of Cape Canaveral in Florida on a short journey above the Earth to test key technologies. The conical vessel is reminiscent of the Apollo

DHAKA: Islamic State militants have set up training camps in eastern Libya, the head of the US Africa command says. Gen David Rodriguez said there could be "a couple of hundred'' IS fighters undergoing training at the sites. He said the camps were at a very early stage, but the US was

DHAKA: An employee of China’s central bank shot and killed two colleagues on Wednesday at a branch in the northeastern province of Liaoning.The Xinhua state news agency reported, says The Straits Times.Incidents of gun violence are rare in China as firearms are tightly controlled and

DHAKA: The US-led coalition has inflicted serious damage on Islamic State (IS), carrying out around 1,000 air strikes so far in the two countries, but the fight against the militants could last years.US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday, reports The Straits Times.The

DHAKA: Several people have been killed in a suicide car bomb blast next to a UN convoy in Somalia. Police say, reports the BBC. The bomber drove between the convoy and its security escort near the airport in the capital, Mogadishu, police said. The United Nations and the British and

DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday hosts the first high-level meeting of the 60-member coalition trying to crush the Islamic State (IS) militant group. Kerry, Iraqi prime minister Haider al-Abadi and foreign ministers from European, Arab and other countries will meet at

DHAKA: Hong Kong students vowed to stay put at protest sites in key parts of the Asia financial centre on Wednesday in their demand for electoral reforms, defying calls by leaders of the civil disobedience movement Occupy Central for them to retreat. Hundreds remained at the main protest

DHAKA: Iran has conducted air strikes against Islamic State (IS) targets in eastern Iraq during recent days, a Pentagon spokesman says. Rear Adm John Kirby said the US, which has conducted its own air strikes in Iraq, was not co-ordinating with Iran. A senior Iranian military official

DHAKA: More than 180 supporters of the banned Muslim Brotherhood have been sentenced to death in Egypt over a 2013 attack on a police station near Cairo.The attack took place on the same day as Egyptian security forces broke up protest camps set up by Brotherhood supporters, leaving

DHAKA: The head of Al-Azhar, one of the most prestigious centres of Sunni Islam learning, on Wednesday condemned ‘barbaric crimes’ committed by the Islamic State (IS).Militants of the extremist Sunni Islam group are acting ‘under the guise of this holy religion and have given

DHAKA: Hong Kong’s pro-democracy occupation is entering its death throes with radical splinter groups pushing for more direct action but others urging retreat.Analysts said Tuesday, reports The Straits Times.But regardless of how the occupation ends, the protests have already had a

DHAKA: Lebanese security forces have detained a wife and son of Islamic State (IS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi near the border with Syria.The army says, reports the BBC.The pair, whose names were not given, were picked up by military intelligence after entering Lebanon 10 days ago.The

DHAKA: Egypt’s public prosecutor appealed on Tuesday against a court decision last Friday to drop charges against former president Hosni Mubarak, his interior minister and six aides over the killing of protesters in the 2011 uprising, citing flaws in the ruling.‘A study of the

DHAKA: Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels have ‘agreed in principle’ on a ceasefire in the eastern war-torn region of Lugansk, one of the former Soviet state’s two separatists provinces.The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said, reports The Straits

DHAKA: Gunmen have killed some 36 quarry workers near the north Kenyan town of Mandera. Aid workers and officials say, reports the BBC. The attackers separated Muslims from non-Muslims and shot the Christians dead, residents said. Earlier, one person was killed in a bar popular with

DHAKA: The first ten months of 2014 have been the hottest since record keeping began more than 130 years ago, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in USA.Though, that may be hard to believe for people in places which saw a record early