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

DHAKA: The G20 summit in Australia has entered its second and final day with the focus on boosting economic growth.Finance ministers from G20 countries drew up plans in February to boost global growth by 2% in five years.The first day was overshadowed by anger with Russia's President

DHAKA: Armed clashes have erupted in the Syrian town of Douma after hungry residents stormed food warehouses belonging to an Islamist rebel group.A monitoring group said on Saturday, reports The Straits Times.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the clashes on Friday began

DHAKA: Russian president Vladimir Putin is to walk out of a Group of 20 summit in Australia, an aide said on Saturday, after he faced scorn and scepticism from Western leaders over Ukraine despite venturing to paper over Europe’s deepest chill in relations since the Cold War.The

DHAKA: Islamic State militants withdrew on Saturday from the perimeter of Iraq’s biggest oil refinery after months fending off government troops seeking to retake the strategic complex.An army officer and Al-Hadath television station, reports The Jerusalem Post.The officer, speaking

DHAKA: Three Hong Kong student leaders were stopped from boarding a flight to Beijing on Saturday to take their fight for greater democracy directly to the Chinese government after airline authorities said their travel permits were invalid.The students, led by Hong Kong Federation of

DHAKA: Pakistan and Afghanistan pledged to begin a new era of economic cooperation on Saturday, with Afghan president Ashraf Ghani saying three days of talks had ended 13 years of differences.Ghani and Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif said collaboration on economic and energy

DHAKA: China has signed agreements worth US$7.8 billion with neighbouring Myanmar, state media reported on Saturday, as Beijing continues to assert its growing economic clout in South-east Asia.Deals overseen by Chinese premier Li Keqiang and Myanmar president Thein Sein on Friday

DHAKA: Leaders of the world’s most powerful economies on Saturday vowed to do all they can to ‘extinguish’ the deadly Ebola outbreak in west Africa.‘G-20 members are committed to do what is necessary to ensure the international effort can extinguish the outbreak and address

DHAKA: Tablets linked to the deaths of more than a dozen women who visited a sterilisation camp in eastern India are likely to have contained a chemical compound commonly used in rat poison.A senior official in Chhattisgarh state said on Saturday, reports The Straits Times.Preliminary

DHAKA: A 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck 150 kilometers (93 miles) north-northwest off the coast of Kota Ternate, Indonesia, on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The quake struck at 10:31 a.m. local time at a depth of 47 kilometers (29.2 miles), according to the USGS. No

DHAKA: British Prime Minister David Cameron has outlined plans to seize passports from British nationals linked to armed groups and stop them returning from fighting overseas.Cameron has also proposed landing bans on airlines that fail to comply with London's no-fly lists."We will

DHAKA: Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has said constitutional rules which bar her from running for president because her sons are half British are "unfair, unjust and undemocratic".At a news briefing with US President Barack Obama in Yangon, she said the reform process in

DHAKA: Israel eased restrictions at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque on Friday after US Secretary of State John Kerry announced agreement on steps to reduce tensions at the flashpoint compound.The site, which is holy to Jews as well as Muslims, has been the focus of months of unrest in