DHAKA: Students calling for full democracy for Chinese-ruled Hong Kong are hoping to take their protest to Communist Party rulers in Beijing and are expected to announce details of their new battle plan on Thursday.The move signals a shift in the focus of the protests in the former

DHAKA: The Republican Party has won control of the Senate in the US mid-term elections, increasing its power in the final years of Barack Obama's presidency.The party took Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Montana, North Carolina, South Dakota and West Virginia.Republican Senate leader Mitch

DHAKA: The presidents of Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal are due to arrive in Burkina Faso to press the military for a speedy handover of power to a civilian ruler.The African Union (AU) says the army acted unconstitutionally when it took over after President Blaise Compaore was forced to

DHAKA: Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko is set to chair a crisis meeting of his security chiefs, following elections in rebel-held areas which Kiev describes as a “farce”.In a TV address, Petro Poroshenko said Sunday’s polls in parts of the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk

DHAKA: A raid on a prison in central Nigeria’s Kogi state freed 132 inmates, the area governor’s office said Monday after the attack on the same facility stormed by Boko Haram Islamists two years ago.‘There were 145 prisoners at the time of the attack. One died, eight have been

DHAKA: India and Pakistan have held a daily military ceremony at their only land border crossing, a day after a suicide attack there killed dozens of people.Despite earlier plans to suspend the ritual at Wagah, Pakistan’s military said it wanted the nation to unite against

DHAKA: A suicide bomber killed at least 23 people in a procession of Shia Muslims marking the ritual of Ashoura in northeast Nigeria’s Yobe state on Monday.Witnesses said, reports The Straits Times.The attacker joined the line of Shia before setting off his device as they marched

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