DHAKA: Saudi Arabia’s crown prince arrived in Paris Monday for talks with president Francois Hollande likely to touch on a Saudi-financed French package of arms for Lebanon and the wider jihadist threat in the region.Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz, who is also deputy prime minister

DHAKA: Pakistan’s national television channel is back on air after security forces removed anti-government protesters from its headquarters in Islamabad.Troops were sent in to regain control from demonstrators who had forced their way into the PTV offices.Earlier, fresh clashes

DHAKA: Anti-government protesters armed with rocks and wooden clubs clashed with police in Islamabad on Monday, hours after the powerful army called for a peaceful resolution to the political crisis rocking Pakistan.Opposition groups marched to the capital on August 15 in a bid to

DHAKA: Pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong have disrupted a speech given by a Beijing official explaining voting changes for the territory.They chanted slogans and held placards accusing Beijing of breaking its promise to allow Hong Kong to choose its leader directly.On Sunday the

DHAKA: Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong (HK) have disrupted a speech given by a Beijing official explaining new voting changes being introduced for the city.They chanted slogans and held placards accusing Beijing of breaking its promise to allow Hong Kong to choose its leader

DHAKA: A man killed three people at a primary school in central China on Monday and then committed suicide by jumping off a building, CNN reports.Six people were wounded in the attack at the school in Hubei province, the state-run news agency Xinhua reported, citing the local

DHAKA: The World Health Organization (WHO) said the effort to contain Ebola in Senegal is a top priority emergency.The government continued tracing everyone who came in contact with a Guinean student who has tested positive for the deadly disease in the capital, Dakar.Senegal faces an

DHAKA: President Barack Obama has come under renewed criticism over his foreign policy from both Democratic and Republican lawmakers as he wrestled with crises in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Ukraine.Republican lawmakers on Sunday seized on Obama's comment earlier this week when he said,

DHAKA: Iraqi forces have reached the besieged town of Amerli in northern Iraq, where thousands have been trapped by jihadists.The military officials confirmed the matter which reports the BBC.The apparent breakthrough came amid fresh US air strikes on Islamic State (IS) positions.

DHAKA: Leading American senators have called for the US to send weapons to help Ukraine fight what they say is "a Russian invasion".Robert Menendez, head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Russia's President Vladimir Putin must face a cost for his "aggression".Senator

DHAKA: Russian president Vladimir Putin has urged talks to discuss ‘statehood’ for eastern Ukraine. Russian media report, says the BBC. He went on to say it was ‘impossible to predict’ the end of crisis. His comments came after the EU gave Russian a one-week ultimatum to

DHAKA: Chinese authorities have ruled out open nominations for elections to choose Hong Kong’s leader. Authorities said two to three candidates will be nominated by a ‘broadly representative’ committee, reports the BBC. The decision is expected to limit elections to a selection of

DHAKA: European Union leaders chose Polish prime minister Donald Tusk as the new president of their Council and Italian foreign minister Federica Mogherini as the bloc’s new foreign policy chief. Outgoing European Council president Herman Van Rompuy said, reports The Jerusalem Post.

DHAKA: European leaders have named the Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk, as the next EU president and Italian foreign minister Federica Mogherini to head its diplomatic service, as the bloc faces a series of challenges topped by Ukraine. Tusk, who speaks only halting English and no

DHAKA: Residents of a besieged Iraqi town say they have prepared graves for their families and will kill their wives and children if the city falls to the Islamic State group.The Shia Turkmen of Amerli, a town in the north of Iraq, are resisting Islamic State fighters who have

DHAKA: The US military has attacked Islamic State positions around the besieged Iraqi town of Amerli, where thousands of Shia Turkmen have been cut off from food and water for nearly two months by the group.John Kirby, the US department of defence spokesman, said on Sunday that

DHAKA: The European Union has given Russia one week to reverse course in Ukraine or face new sanctions. European Council President Herman Van Rompuy said the EU was working urgently on further restrictive measures. Earlier, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said his country was

DHAKA: Eight persons were reportedly killed and 308 others got injured following clashes between police and protesters in Islamabad, capital of Pakistan, on Saturday night though police confirmed death of one.The clashes happened there over protesters’ march towards the prime

DHAKA: A cargo plane with six Ukrainians and one Russian on board crashed in Algeria’s far south early on Saturday. An Algerian transport ministry official said, reports The Straits Times. The Ukrainian Antonov-12 plane en route to Equatorial Guinea could have crashed for technical

DHAKA: Most of 24 trapped Nicaraguan gold miners have been freed after a mine collapse. Officials said, the BBC report says on Saturday. The miners were slightly dehydrated but otherwise in good health said Deputy Interior Minister Carlos Najjar. It is not known if the remaining miners