DHAKA: The US State Department said in a press conference that it disagrees with prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s assertion during his UN speech on Monday that ‘ISIS and Hamas are branches of the same poisonous tree’. ‘Obviously, we’ve designated both as terrorist

DHAKA: Israel defense minister Moshe Ya’alon said on Tuesday that Hamas ‘did not intend’ to initiate hostilities against Israel in the days leading up to Operation Protective Edge, though the Palestinian Islamist group ‘was planning to carry out kidnappings of Israelis in the West

DHAKA: The global loss of species is even worse than previously thought, the London Zoological Society (ZSL) says in its new Living Planet Index.The report suggests populations have halved in 40 years, as new methodology gives more alarming results than in a report two years ago.The

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi vowed on Monday to expand and deepen their countries' strategic partnership and make it a model for the rest of the world. In a joint ‘vision statement’ issued after their first meeting at a White House dinner,

DHAKA: Hong Kong’s civil disobedience protests will not change China’s position on political reform and are instead affecting the city’s emergency services, economy and international reputation. Hong Kong chief executive Leung Chun-Ying said in his first comments since the start of

DHAKA: Efforts to recover the bodies of at least 24 climbers have been suspended again after the eruption on Japan's Mount Ontake intensified.  The volcano was shooting out even more ash, smoke and rocks than before, BBC reports.  At least 36 people are thought to have died in

DHAKA: The team looking for missing flight MH370 has released detailed images of the seabed - revealing features such as extinct volcanoes and 1,400-metre depressions for the first time, BBC reports.  The collection of data from one of the most secret parts of the world is a by-product

DHAKA: A senior adviser to US President Barack Obama said that Afghanistan will sign a deal on Tuesday to allow American soldiers to remain in the country past the end of the year. John Podesta, speaking to a news conference at the US embassy in Kabul, said he didn’t know if newly

DHAKA: Pro-democracy protesters have again urged Hong Kong’s leader to step down saying he will be condemned by history, as huge crowds continue to bring parts of the territory to a standstill. On Monday night, tens of thousands blocked streets, singing and chanting, reports the BBC.

DHAKA: The imprisoned former chief minister of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Jayaram Jayalalitha appealed against her sentence, BBC reports.  One of India's most colourful and controversial politicians, Jayalalitha was jailed for four years on corruption charges at the weekend. In a

DHAKA: Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have closed in on a key Kurdish town in Syria, right next to the border with Turkey. They prompting the government in Ankara to deploy tanks to protect its territory, reports Aljazeera. The news comes as activists

DHAKA: At least 32 people were killed and 10 seriously injured when a bus collided with a cargo truck in southern South Sudan.Hospital officials said on Monday, reports dailymail.co.uk.Officials said it was still not clear what caused the accident early on Monday morning on a road that

DHAKA: Taiwan’s president threw his weight behind Hong Kong’s democracy protesters on Monday, saying he was ‘very concerned’ by events in the city and urging China to proceed with ‘peaceful and cautious measures’.Chaotic protests saw Hong Kong police fire tear gas on

DHAKA: India prime minister Narendra Modi has ordered government officers to work on father of nation Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday, a national holiday, to clean ministries, including toilets, in a nationwide cleanliness drive.Modi plans to honour the independence hero by launching on

DHAKA: The ranks of Hong Kong democracy protesters who have paralysed parts of the city swelled into their tens of thousands on Monday, digging in for another night of confrontation with the police in their campaign for free elections.In the worst unrest since the former British

DHAKA: India’s finance minister Arun Jaitley may have to cancel a trip to the United States in October after he was moved to an isolation ward of a government-run hospital to help him recover from an infection that followed a stomach operation to treat diabetes.Jaitley is due to

Hong Kong’s government said it has withdrawn riot police from main streets where thousands of protesters were camped out in a massive civil disobedience campaign, and urged the crowds to disperse peacefully.This comes after a violent weekend when police used pepper spray, tear gas

DHAKA: Firefighters, police and troops resumed search operations on a volcano in central Japan on Monday, after four confirmed fatalities with at least 27 other people feared dead.More than 500 rescuers returned to Mount Ontake after the search had been called off on Sunday afternoon

DHAKA: Ashraf Ghani has been sworn in as Afghanistan's president in a ceremony at the presidential palace in Kabul.It comes after six months of deadlock amid a bitter dispute over electoral fraud and a recount of votes.Under a US-brokered unity deal Ghani takes over the presidency and

DHAKA: A group of Taliban suicide bombers has attacked a local government headquarters in Afghanistan's eastern Paktia province, killing 10 people, as the country's new president was preparing to be sworn in.A fighter detonated an explosives laden vehicle at the entrance of a