DHAKA: Court bailiffs in Hong Kong are clearing out a protest site near government offices after the high court granted an injunction.The bailiffs, backed by police officers, are removing barricades outside Citic Tower in the Admiralty area, but leaving the rest of the

DHAKA: At least four people are reported killed in what Israeli police say was a ‘terrorist attack’ at a Jerusalem synagogue. Two men armed with axes and knives carried out the attack in the Har Nof neighborhood. Police say they shot both the attackers dead inside the synagogue,

DHAKA: Scores of Myanmar students rallied illegally in Yangon Monday against a new education bill they describe as undemocratic, the latest in a series of protests that began during a visit by US president Barack Obama.Young activists, some holding banners reading ‘We need Academic

DHAKA: Russia and Iran have signed a set of documents on enhancement of cooperation in peaceful use of atomic energy. Sergei Kirienko, Head of ROSATOM, Russia’s state nuclear energy corporation and Ali Akbar Salehi, Vice- President of Iran and Head of Iran’s Atomic Energy

DHAKA: Pakistan’s prime minister Nawaz Sharif has rejected the use of a bulletproof car provided by rival India for next week’s summit of South Asian leaders in Kathmandu.A Nepalese official said on Monday, reports The Straits Times.Sharif ‘will be bringing his own car... all

DHAKA: Russia said on Monday several of its diplomats had been expelled from Poland and that a number of Polish diplomats had left Russia after Moscow took ‘adequate’ measures in return.It was unclear why the Russian diplomats had been expelled and no more details were immediately

DHAKA: Scientists and geologists who trekked a mountain in upper Terengganu have discovered what they believe to be fossils of three different types of dinosaurs that may have lived in the area 66 million years ago or earlier.The fossils are said to be unrelated to those found earlier

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama has condemned the killing of US aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig as ‘an act of pure evil’.The Islamic State (IS) militant group released a video showing a masked man standing over a severed head, which the White House confirmed was Kassig.His parents

DHAKA: The first passengers have travelled at an incredible 311 mph on a hovering bullet train in Japan.The maglev trains have been tested before between the cities of Uenohara and Fuefuki but now members of the public have been allowed on board for the first time.The 27-mile trip went

SINGAPORE: A Singapore court awarded imprisonment to two Bangladeshi nationals and fined as they tried to enter Malaysia from Singapore illegally. The convicts are Mohammad Ali of Feni and Yasin Ali of Noakhali. Earlier on July 5, they were nabbed by immigration police at Woodlands

DHAKA: The Islamic State (IS) terrorist group on Sunday released a video showing the simultaneous beheadings of at least 15 men described as Syrian military personnel.In the highly choreographed sequence, IS militants march the prisoners by a wooden box of long military knives, each

DHAKA: Asian powerhouse China will host world leaders for the G-20 summit in 2016, Australian prime minister Tony Abbott said on Sunday at the conclusion of two days of talks in Brisbane.Turkey takes over the presidency from Australia and will host the event in Antalya next year, but

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama on Sunday rejected any alliance with Bashar al-Assad against the Islamic State (IS) group, arguing that the Syrian president was illegitimate and that any such pact would backfire.‘Assad has ruthlessly murdered hundreds of thousands of his citizens.

DHAKA: A suicide bomber has targeted a prominent female Afghan politician, killing three civilians and wounding others in an attack on a Kabul convoy.Shukria Barakzai, a women’s rights advocate and ally of new president Ashraf Ghani, was lightly injured in the attack.‘(Ms Barakzai)

DHAKA: Russian president Vladimir Putin said on Sunday that there was a ‘good chance’ of resolving the conflict in Ukraine as Western leaders squarely blamed Moscow and threatened to slap more sanctions if it did not take action to end the crisis.Putin was speaking at a G-20

DHAKA: International Crimes Strategy Forum (ICSF) along with a number of UK based Bangladeshi progressive and pro-liberation organizations on Saturday staged demonstration in front of the Al-Jazeera’s London office.Sources said that they protested the news agency’s ‘biased’

DHAKA: Voters in Romania are set to elect a new president in a run-off vote which pits the social democrat prime minister against a centre-right candidate.Prime Minister Victor Ponta led in the first round with 40% to 30% for Klaus Iohannis, an ethnic German mayor, reports BBC.Ponta

DHAKA: Ukraine's president has ordered the withdrawal of all state services, including funding for hospitals and schools, from rebel-held areas.Petro Poroshenko issued a decree that also asks parliament to revoke a law granting self-rule to the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.Pro-Russian

DHAKA: A judge in north-eastern Brazil has sentenced three people to 20-23 years in jail after they were convicted of killing a woman and eating her.Jorge Beltrao Negromonte da Silveira received 23 years while his wife, Isabel Cristina Pires, and his mistress, Bruna Cristina Oliveira

DHAKA: America's top general has told US troops in Iraq that momentum is turning against Islamic State militants.Gen Martin Dempsey, on an unannounced visit, called the militants "midgets" but said the battle against them was likely to take years.The US has launched air strikes against