DHAKA: Several thousand mourners on Wednesday joined the funeral procession for the wife and baby son of Hamas’s military commander Mohammed Deif, angrily demanding revenge against Israel. Firing Kalashnikovs into the air, they carried the bodies of 27-year-old Widad and her

DHAKA: Afghanistan on Wednesday ordered a New York Times correspondent to leave the country after he wrote an article saying government ministers and officials were threatening to seize power to end a stand-off over election results. The attorney general’s office said the article was

DHAKA: An Indian woman who has staged a 14-year hunger strike against rights abuses in the country’s northeast broke down in tears on Wednesday as she was finally released from a hospital jail. Irom Sharmila, known as the Iron Lady of Manipur for her unwavering and non-violent protest,

DHAKA: Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas met Jordan’s King Abdullah in Amman on Wednesday to discuss the latest developments in Gaza after the collapse of the latest ceasefire saw the resumption of hostilities. The violence shattered a 10-day period of calm, the longest break from

DHAKA: The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Wednesday issued notices to Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri during the hearing of a petition filed by the Lahore High Court’s Multan Bar Association. The petitioner had

DHAKA: A senior Fatah official is quoted by the pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat as saying that the Qatari government threatened to expel the Hamas political bureau chief, Khaled Mashaal, if the Palestinian Islamist group agreed to the Egyptian cease-fire proposal. Mashaal, who is based in Qatar,

DHAKA: Thousands of Pakistan’s anti-government protesters demanding resignation of prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday besieged the parliament building of Pakistan, trapping dozens of lawmakers inside. Canada-based cleric Tahirul Qadri asked his supporters to guard all entry and

DHAKA: Pakistan high commissioner to India on Wednesday justified his meetings with Kashmiri separatists in New Delhi notwithstanding India’s protestation, asserting that engagement with all stakeholders have been the ‘bottomline’ of Islamabad’s efforts to find a solution to the

DHAKA: British foreign secretary Philip Hammond on Wednesday voiced his ‘absolute horror’ at the apparent beheading of US journalist James Foley, which he said showed the ‘brutality’ of Islamic State jihadists.Hammond said the executioner in the beheading video appeared to be

DHAKA: China will require identification from passengers buying long-distance bus tickets in far-western Xinjiang.State media said on Wednesday, as police seek to monitor travel in a region beset by violence, reports The Straits Times.Authorities, nervous about unrest in the region which

DHAKA: The wife and child of Hamas military chief have reportedly been killed in Israeli air strikes on Gaza which have left 11 people dead.A Hamas official in Cairo said Israel had been targeting Mohammed Deif, the head of its armed wing, reports the BBC.Israel said about 50 rockets

DHAKA: An anti-government Pakistani cleric told his protesting supporters camped outside parliament on Wednesday not to allow anyone in or out of the assembly, which is in session with prime minister Nawaz Sharif in attendance.‘Don’t let all those inside come out and don’t let

DHAKA: Vietnam and Myanmar are testing three patients for the deadly Ebola virus after they arrived in the South-east Asian nations from Africa suffering fever.Health officials said, reports The Straits Times.Two Nigerians were sent to Ho Chi Minh City’s Tropical Diseases Hospital

DHAKA: Thailand’s coup leader is expected to be picked as prime minister by the kingdom’s new army-dominated national assembly, junta sources said on Wednesday, cementing the military’s hold on power in the politically turbulent nation. Army Chief Prayuth Chan-ocha is likely to be

DHAKA: A Japanese man born months before the Wright brothers carried out the first human flight was recognised on Wednesday as the world's oldest male at the age of 111.Sakari Momoi, a former high school principal who was born on February 5, 1903, received a certificate from Guinness

DHAKA: A huge landslide that engulfed homes in western Japan killed at least 27 people and left another 10 missing.The government said on Wednesday, reports The Straits Times.Dozens of houses were buried when a wall of mud thundered down a hillside in Hiroshima overnight, television

DHAKA: Liberia has imposed a night-time curfew and has quarantined an area of the capital Monrovia in a bid to halt the deadly Ebola outbreak.President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said the curfew would be from 21:00 local time to 06:00 (21:00-06:00 GMT).She said all movement would be blocked

DHAKA: An Israeli air strike killed the wife and child of Gaza military chief. Hamas made the allegation after a temporary ceasefire went up in smoke and Cairo truce talks froze on the day same, reports the DAWN. “The wife of the great leader was martyred with his daughter,” in a

DHAKA: At least 18 people have been killed and 13 went missing over a huge landslide engulfed homes in western Japan on Wednesday. Dozens of houses were buried when a wall of mud thundered down a hillside in Hiroshima overnight, television pictures showed, with national broadcaster NHK,

DHAKA: The Islamic State militant group has released a video online purporting to show the beheading of US journalist James Foley, missing since 2012.The militants said the killing was revenge for US air strikes against the Islamic State group in Iraq.Foley's mother Diane said on