DHAKA: A week-long truce in Gaza has collapsed in tatters with both sides blaming each other after Palestinian fighters launched rockets into Israel and Israel attacked "terror sites" inside the enclave.The Israeli military launched attacks on at least 10 sites in Gaza on Tuesday,

DHAKA: An Indonesian couple reunited with their daughter 10 years after a tsunami snatched her from their arms claimed Tuesday to have found their son, who was also swept away in the disaster. Jamaliah and her husband Septi Rangkuti had an emotional reunion Monday with the teenager they

DHAKA: Pope Francis was deeply grieved, the Vatican's official broadcasting service said on Tuesday, after the deaths of three relatives killed when their car slammed into the back of a truck on a highway in central Argentina.A nephew of the Pope, Emanuel Bergoglio, who was driving

DHAKA: Three relatives of Pope Francis, two great nephews and their mother, have been killed in a traffic accident in Argentina.The police said on Tuesday, reports The Straits Times.The dead include a baby of eight months and a two-year-old toddler, police commissioner Carina Ferreyra

DHAKA: Israel on Tuesday ordered the military to respond after three rockets from Gaza struck the south as the two sides were observing a 24-hour truce.An Israeli official said, reports The Straits Times.Speaking to media, the official said prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu ‘ordered

DHAKA: An erupting volcanic island that is expanding off Japan could trigger a tsunami if its freshly-formed lava slopes collapse into the sea.Scientists said on Tuesday, reports guldnews.com.The small, but growing, island appeared last year and quickly engulfed the already-existing

DHAKA: India’s separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Tuesday met Pakistan high commissioner Abdul Basit in Delhi.Angered by the meeting, people protested outside the Pakistan high commission in New Delhi with some protesters being detained, according to reports, says The Times

DHAKA: A Chinese aircraft was forced to delay its landing after two air traffic controllers nodded off, reports said on Tuesday, sparking a wave of online anger about airline safety.The Boeing 737 was preparing to land at Wuhan airport in central China but had no response from the

DHAKA: China has reprimanded 15 Xinjiang officials for violations that include adhering to religious faith, state media said on Tuesday, amid a crackdown on what the government calls illegal religious activities in the unruly western region.One official in the southern city of

DHAKA: Taking a step further towards scrapping the Planning Commission, prime minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday invited ideas from the people on the new institution to replace the plan body.The government also announced creation of a special open forum on the website mygov.nic.in for

DHAKA: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s (PTI) top leadership on Tuesday refused to meet and hold talks with government negotiators, saying that it was too late to negotiate now.Credible government sources told Dawn that after the PTI leadership’s refusal to talk to government

DHAKA: Central banks purchased 118 tones in net gold in Q2 2014, representing a 28% year-over-year increase, according to the World Gold Council. In May 2014, the European Central Bank and other European central banks signed the fourth Central Bank Gold Agreement (CBGA). The agreement

DHAKA: Pakistan Army has put its troops in Islamabad on ‘high alert’ in case of any untoward incident takes place as Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf enters red zone are after the expiry of their deadline. The troops were deployed in the federal capital under Article 245 of the Constitution,

DHAKA: Sri Lanka will not grant visas to United Nations investigators probing war crimes allegedly committed during the island’s decades-long separatist conflict. President Mahinda Rajapakse said on Tuesday, reports The Straits Times. ‘We will not allow them into the country,’

DHAKA: Israel has been preventing Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) workers from entering Gaza to investigate allegations of war crimes and human rights violations, claims a media report backed by group members’ statements.Both human rights organizations have been

DHAKA: 20 people died in flood-related incidents in Uttar Pradesh on Monday with several rivers flowing above the danger mark and posing a threat to more than 1,000 villages in the affected districts in India.  So far, 48 people have died from flood-related incidents in the state.

DHAKA: Twenty people, including eight children, were killed on Monday night when a speeding train rammed into a packed autorickshaw at a railway crossing between Semra and Sugauli stations in Bihar's East Champaran district in India.  The mishap took place at a manned railway crossing

DHAKA: The Gaza ceasefire has been extended for a further 24 hours after talks in Cairo, BBC reports.  The previous ceasefire came into effect last Wednesday, but was due to expire at midnight (21:00 GMT) on Monday. Officials say that 2,016 Palestinians and 66 Israelis have died since

DHAKA: Unidentified war planes may have carried out overnight air strikes on the Libyan capital Tripoli. Local media say, reports the BBC. Residents reported seeing jets fly over the city and hearing explosions. The government said it did not have any ‘convincing indications to

DHAKA: Many people died when rockets and mortars hit vehicles moving refugees from the Luhansk area of eastern Ukraine. The Ukrainian military says, reports the BBC. Ukraine has blamed pro-Russian rebels but they have denied carrying out the attack, near the village of Novosvitlivka. A