DHAKA: More than 200 people have been killed in flooding caused by heavy rain across large swathes of India and Pakistan, reports say.At least 110 people were killed by downpours in Pakistani-administered Kashmir and Punjab, officials said.About 100 people also died in

DHAKA: There has been fresh shelling near Donetsk airport in eastern Ukraine, raising fears that a recently agreed ceasefire may collapse.The truce held for much of Saturday but shelling in Mariupol, which killed one woman, was followed by the Donetsk airport blasts early on

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama is to set out his "game plan" against Islamic State militants in a speech on Wednesday. Mr Obama, who has been criticised for failing to outline a strategy, told NBC TV the US would degrade IS, shrink their territory and "defeat them".US jets bombed IS

DHAKA: A senior aide to Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko said on Sunday Kiev had reached agreement during the Nato summit in Wales on the provision of weapons and military advisers from five member states of the alliance.‘At the Nato summit agreements were reached on the provision

DHAKA: The United States needs to do more to help control West Africa’s deadly Ebola outbreak to stop it becoming a global crisis that could one day threaten Americans.US president Barack Obama said in an interview.Obama told NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ that the outbreak, which has

DHAKA: Iran president Hassan Rouhani re-entered Iran’s feverish debate on internet censorship and gender segregation Sunday, saying neither policy was in the country’s interest.Rouhani was elected last year having pledged to be more moderate on social issues after his

DHAKA: Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama criticised Russia’s president Vladimir Putin as ‘self-centred’ in a German newspaper interview Sunday, saying Putin seems to want to ‘rebuild the Berlin Wall’.‘His attitude is: I, I, I,’ the Dalai Lama said,

DHAKA: The British government is scrambling to respond to a lurch in the opinion polls towards a vote for Scottish independence this month by promising a range of new powers for Scotland if it chooses to stay within the United Kingdom. British finance minister George Osborne said on

DHAKA: Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas is set to announce the end of the unity agreement in place between Fatah and Hamas factions. The Egyptian news website al-Dostor reported on Sunday, says The Jerusalem Post The report states that he will make the announcement on Sunday at a

DHAKA: Myanmar has called off an election scheduled for the end of this year to fill 35 vacated seats in parliament. The Union Election Commission announced on Sunday, reports The Straits Times. Election Commission Chairman Tin Aye said that the election would be cancelled because the

DHAKA: The US is carrying out a series of air strikes on Islamic State militants close to the vital Haditha dam in western Iraq.US officials say, reports the BBC.The strikes are to protect the Iraqi forces and Sunni tribesmen in control of the dam.The US has carried out scores of air

DHAKA: Severe flooding from an intense monsoon season has left more than 250 people dead and hundreds more homeless across parts of South Asia and China. Dozens more have been injured or are missing.In Pakistan, flash flooding has killed 110 people and injured nearly 150 others in

DHAKA: Ukrainian government forces have been hit by an artillery attack near the port of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine, in the first significant violation of a ceasefire declared little more than 24 hours earlier.The Reuters news agency early on Sunday said an industrial facility, a

DHAKA: The Ukrainian and Russian presidents have agreed that a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine is ‘largely holding’. Ukraine’s Petro Poroshenko said he spoke by phone to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to discuss steps to make Friday’s truce durable, reports the BBC. Some

DHAKA: The death toll in the Jammu and Kashmir floods has risen to 160 as the floods, the worst the state has seen in 60 years, affected a staggering 2,500 villages.India’s union home minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said as he assured help to deal with the grim situation,

DHAKA: Abandoning his pledge to act by the end of summer, US president Barack Obama has decided to delay any executive action on immigration until after the November congressional elections.White House officials said, reports Yahoo news.The move is certain to infuriate immigration

DHAKA: A 3000-year-old bronze sword has been discovered in a local river by an 11-year-old child in east China’s Jiangsu Province.Yang Junxi discovered the rusty sword on July 2 when he was playing near the Laozhoulin River in Gaoyou County.While washing hands in the river, Yang

DHAKA: At least 36 people were killed and dozens injured when two passenger buses collided along a busy road in north-western Tanzania.Tanzania police said Saturday, TDS publishes this report on Saturday.Officers said it was still not clear what caused the accident on Friday afternoon

DHAKA: Syrian war planes hit a bakery run by Islamic State in the city of Raqqa, killing at least 17 people, in air raids on Saturday that also hit a major training camp used by the group for a second day running.A group monitoring the war said, reports The Jerusalem Post.The air

DHAKA: An Egyptian prosecutor charged ousted president Mohamed Mursi and several of his aides on Saturday with endangering national security by leaking state secrets and sensitive documents to Qatar.Relations between Qatar, a Gulf Arab state, and Egypt have been tense since mid-2013,