DHAKA: President Obama on Tuesday will announce an expansion of a $763 million US plan to help West Africa nations fight the spread of the Ebola virus, officials said. Adding to an existing project, the project calls for more doctors and health care providers, more portable hospitals

DHAKA: The US has carried out airstrikes in Iraq in support of troops who were being attacked by Islamic State (IS) fighters, reports BBC quoting the US military sources.It said that the attacks took place on Sunday and Monday near Mount Sinjar and south-west of Baghdad.They were the

DHAKA: About 500 migrants are feared dead after their ship was rammed by another boat near Malta last week, a migration body said.Two Palestinian survivors told the International Organization for Migration (IOM) that the boat had been intentionally sunk by traffickers, reports

DHAKA: About 1,300 troops from 15 countries, including the US and other Nato members, have begun a military exercise near Lviv in western Ukraine.The US says the drill had been planned before the current crisis in eastern Ukraine, where government forces have been battling pro-Russian

DHAKA: Thirty countries have pledged to help Iraq fight Islamic State (IS) militants ‘by all means necessary’.A joint statement by foreign ministers taking part in a major conference in Paris talks said support would include ‘appropriate military assistance’, reports the

DHAKA: The United States on Monday ruled out any possibility of future military coordination with Iran in a US-led coalition against fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).But it will be held out the prospect of separate talks with Teheran on Iraq, describing the

DHAKA: The naked bodies of two British tourists were found on a Thai beach on Monday, the police said, sparking a murder probe on the popular resort island of Koh Tao.The unidentified man and woman, both aged 24, were found stripped, with several wounds to their bodies close to a

DHAKA: United States president Barack Obama plans to ask Congress to approve his request for US$88 million to fund a major Ebola offensive in West Africa that would include greater military involvement.The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, reports The Straits Times.Obama is due to

DHAKA: French president Francois Hollande says the global threat posed by Islamic State (IS) militants must meet a global response.He was opening an international summit of foreign ministers in Paris aimed at combating the jihadist group, reports the BBC.About 40 countries, including 10

DHAKA: Hillary Rodham Clinton has returned to Iowa for the first time since her 2008 presidential campaign, telling Democrats that voters face a choice between ‘the guardians of gridlock’ and those who push for shared opportunity and prosperity. Former president Bill Clinton joined

DHAKA: Four foreign nationals believed to be linked to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have been arrested by counter-terrorism police in central Sulawesi, in the first known instance of foreign radicals travelling to the archipelago to establish links with local groups in

DHAKA: A boat filled with up to 250 migrants heading for Europe has sunk on off the Libyan coast and many passengers have died, aljazeera reports.  Only 26 people have been rescued after the boat sunk near Tajoura, east of the capital Tripoli, said Libyan navy spokesman Ayub Qassem, 

DHAKA: Several Arab countries have offered to take part in air strikes against Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq, US officials say. But any action is subject to approval from the Iraqi government, they add. US Secretary of State John Kerry says he is "extremely encouraged" by

DHAKA: Construction has begun on a giant observation tower in the heart of the Amazon basin to monitor climate change. The Amazon Tall Tower Observatory is expected to rise 325m from the ground. Its instruments will gather data on greenhouse gases, aerosol particles and the weather in

DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet foreign ministers from around the world in Paris on Monday to discuss how to defeat Islamic State (IS) militants. French President Francois Hollande said the beheading of a British aid worker showed the world must act against IS. About

DHAKA: US law enforcement is investigating a new phenomenon of women from the American heartland joining Islamic State (IS) as president Barack Obama vows to cut off the militants' recruiting at home. At least three Somali families in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area have female relatives

DHAKA: New Delhi authorities cut power and water supplies to homes of former ministers and lawmakers, including India’s last federal civil aviation minister, after they ignored repeated eviction warnings. Reports said Sunday, according to The Straits Times. Congress Party ally and

DHAKA: Forty people have now died as a result of a building collapse at the megachurch of one of Nigeria’s most famous preachers and televangelists. The country’s main rescue body said on Sunday, reports The Straits Times. ‘It’s now 40 dead,’ Ibrahim Farinloye, southwest

DHAKA: A Syrian air strike on an Islamic State (IS) training camp in the jihadist-held east killed 17 militants and a child. A monitoring group said in a new toll Sunday, reports The Straits Times. The Saturday strike hit dormitories in the camp in the Euphrates valley town of Tibni in

DHAKA: Pope Francis married 20 couples on Sunday, some of whom had already lived together and had children, in the latest sign that the Argentine pontiff wants the Catholic church to be more open and inclusive. In the first wedding he has performed in his 18-month-old papacy, Pope