DHAKA: Egypt has called for an immediate return to ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and said progress has been made in the negotiations involving Palestinian factions and Israel. Speaking from Gaza after several Israeli air strikes hit the enclave on Saturday morning, Al Jazeera's Andrew

DHAKA: US fighter jets and drones repeatedly bombed Sunni Islamic extremists in northern Iraq on Friday, targeting what officials described as ISIS artillery units and convoys advancing on the Kurdish regional capital of Irbil. The airstrikes ramped up America's involvement in Iraq where

DHAKA: A girl thought to have died in the Indian Ocean tsunami has been reunited with her family after being found alive nearly a decade later, her parents said Friday.  Raudhatul Jannah was just four when she was swept away as the disaster struck Indonesia on Boxing Day in 2004. After

DHAKA: The US and UN have condemned the resumption of attacks between Gaza and Israel on Friday, urging both sides to cease hostilities. Israel renewed strikes on Gaza soon after a three-day truce expired, saying it was in response to rocket fire by Hamas, which controls Gaza. White

DHAKA: The US says it has launched an air strike against militants from the Islamic State (IS) group in Iraq, reports BBC. The Pentagon said American aircraft attacked artillery that was being used against Kurdish forces defending the northern city of Irbil. President Barack Obama

DHAKA: The next supermoon is coming up on Sunday. It’ll be the closest, brightest supermoon of this year. It also presents the moon’s closest encounter with Earth for all of 2014.Full moon falls on  the day at 18:09 UTC (1:09 p.m. CDT in the U.S.). The moon will not be so close

DHAKA: Israel has hit the Gaza Strip with missiles and artillery for the first time in three days, while Palestinian fighters launched a barrage of rockets at Israel, just hours after a ceasefire between the two sides expired.At least three air strikes have hit different parts of Gaza

DHAKA: President Barack Obama was about to address the nation on Iraq Thursday night when the briefing was a delayed because of a security breach on the North Lawn of the White House. But this wasn't your normal breach, this was one of a pint-sized variety. A toddler forced the

DHAKA: A British investigator and his wife are being tried in China for illegally trafficking personal data. Peter Humphrey and his American wife Yu Yingzeng were arrested in August 2013. They are accused of illegally obtaining Chinese citizens' personal information and selling it to

DHAKA: A prominent leader of pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine resigned his post Thursday as fighting flared there, with militants reportedly downing a Ukrainian military plane. Alexander Borodai, prime minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, told reporters he was

DHAKA: Rockets from Gaza hit Israel early Friday morning, breaching a cease-fire that had held for more than two days, the Israeli military said. "Moments ago, 2 rockets fired from Gaza hit southern Israel. Terrorists have violated the cease-fire," the Israel Defense Forces wrote on

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama says he has authorized targeted airstrikes against Islamic militants in northern Iraq, if they threaten US interests.The US has already made humanitarian air drops to Iraqis under threat from fighters from the Islamic State.The Islamic State (IS) group

DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Afghanistan on Thursday for his second visit in under a month to push a deal between the country’s two presidential candidates on how to share power after an audit of a disputed election is complete.Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah

DHAKA: Australia may ease rules on a visa scheme aimed at luring investment from wealthy Chinese to help clear a backlog of applications and in the wake of complaints that disclosure requirements are too strict.Lawyers and migration agents said, reports The Straits Times.The

DHAKA: Former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, wanted by the United States for leaking extensive secrets of its electronic surveillance programmes, has been given a three-year residence permit by Russia.His Russian lawyer told reporters on Thursday, reports The Straits

DHAKA: French president Francois Hollande on Thursday pledged his country’s ‘support’ to forces battling Islamist militants in Iraq amid growing Western concern over an advance by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters.‘The President confirmed that France was

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama is considering airstrikes or airdrops of food and medicine to address a humanitarian crisis among as many as 40,000 religious minorities in Iraq who have been dying of heat and thirst on a mountaintop after death threats from the Islamic State in Iraq

DHAKA: With Indian Army working out on procedures for the safe release of a captured Indian Border Security Force jawan, according to the latest report, Pakistan Rangers will hand over the captured trooper Friday."We have sent a request note through our Wagah frontier and have also

DHAKA: A city in northwestern China's Xinjiang region has banned people with large beards or Islamic clothing from boarding buses, state media has said. Authorities in Karamay banned people wearing headscarves, veils, niqabs, or clothing with the Islamic star and crescent symbol from

DHAKA: Dozens of Jewish children have been traumatized by a gang of teenagers who stormed a Sydney school bus and allegedly hurled racial abuse and threats. New South Wales state police said five juveniles were arrested early Thursday over the incident on Wednesday afternoon.  However,