DHAKA: Gunmen armed with dynamite freed at least 50 inmates in a raid on a prison in central Nigeria’s Kogi state, the same facility attacked by Boko Haram militants in 2012.Police said Monday, reports The Straits Times.‘They blew up the thing with dynamite,’ national police

DHAKA: Thailand’s junta leader on Monday threatened to tighten controls of the media unless they stop ‘presenting news’ about former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, after photographs of the billionaire cuddling a panda went viral.Thaksin, who was ousted in a 2006 coup as prime

DHAKA: At least 24 people have been killed and scores are missing after a boat said to be carrying migrants sank off the north coast of Istanbul.Turkey officials say, reports the BBC.The accident took place at the confluence of the Bosphorus and the Black Sea.A large rescue operation is

DHAKA: Thailand’s military government vowed on Monday to bring peace to the Muslim-dominated south within a year, despite stalled peace talks aimed at ending an insurgency that has cost thousands of lives in the past decade.Sporadic violence has killed more than 5,700 people in

DHAKA: India and Pakistan have suspended a daily military ritual on their main land border crossing after a suicide attack that killed dozens of people, the first time the colourful parade has been called off since the two countries went to war in 1971.India’s home ministry said the

DHAKA: Two Chinese officials bought corpses from grave robbers to meet government cremation quotas, local media reported, as Beijing pushes to enforce its controversial and highly sensitive burial policies.The officials from Guangdong province bought the bodies from a man who stole

DHAKA: Burkina Faso’s military has said it will install a transitional government, days after it seized power as president Blaise Compaore’s resigned.The move came after soldiers had fired shots at the state TV station and barricaded the capital’s main square as thousands of

DHAKA: Burkina Faso’s state TV has gone off air, shortly after witnesses heard gunshots at its headquarters.An unconfirmed report said soldiers fired in the air to disperse protesters before taking control of the TV offices in the capital, Ouagadougou.Elsewhere in the city, soldiers

DHAKA: At least 45 people have been killed after an explosion near the Wagah border, DawnNews reported.Nearly 70 people have also reportedly been injured in the explosion.‘We received 35 bodies including those of women and children and 60 to 70 were wounded,’ deputy medical

DHAKA: Children armed with whistles will soon be patrolling villages in central India to try to shame those defecating in the open.A report said Sunday, according to The Straits Times.Madhya Pradesh state government is expected soon to launch the unusual sanitation initiative, in which

DHAKA: The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) jihadist group has in recent days executed more than 200 members of an Iraqi tribe that fought against it.Officials and a tribal leader said on Sunday, reports The Straits Times.Accounts varied as to the exact period in which the Sunni

DHAKA: Ebola cases are continuing to rise ‘frighteningly quickly’ in areas of Sierra Leone.An international campaign group has said.The Africa Governance Initiative (AGI) found that in rural parts of the country the virus is spreading nine times faster than two months ago.In

DHAKA: Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine are holding elections denounced by the West as ‘illegitimate’.Presidential and parliamentary polls are being held in the two self-proclaimed people’s republics in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.Ukraine, the US and EU say they will

DHAKA: Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine are preparing to hold elections which the West has denounced as illegitimate. Presidential and parliamentary polls are being held in the two self-proclaimed ‘people’s republics’ in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Ukraine, the US

DHAKA: Despite India’s strong reservations about a Chinese nuclear submarine at the Colombo port in September, it is learned that Sri Lanka has permitted another Chinese attack submarine to dock at a Lankan port.According to the information received, the second docking is likely to

DHAKA: Burkina Faso military chiefs have backed Isaac Zida as transitional president.An army statement says, reports the BBC.The statement appears to end confusion over who has succeeded president Blaise Compaore, who stood down amid unrest.Lt-Col Zida appeared on television overnight to

DHAKA: The leader of Nigeria’s Islamic extremist group Boko Haram has denied agreeing to any cease-fire with the government and said more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls all have converted to Islam and been married off.In a new video released late Friday night, Abubakar Shekau dashed

DHAKA: Islamic State (IS) militants have killed at least 50 members of a western Iraqi tribe in Anbar province.Iraq’s officials and tribal leaders say, reports the BBC.The deaths are thought to be in retaliation for the Al Bu Nimr tribe’s resistance to the jihadists.The news comes

DHAKA: Burkina Faso’s longtime ruler Blaise Compaore, who resigned on Friday amid mass protests against his 27-year rule, has arrived in neighbouring Ivory Coast.Ivorian military sources said on Saturday, reports The Straits Times.The sources, who asked not to be identified, said

DHAKA: At least 100 militants from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group have been killed in three days of fighting for the strategic Syrian border town of Kobane.A monitor said on Saturday, reports The Straits Times.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the deaths