DHAKA: An UN-backed tribunal of Cambodia on Thursday ordered two top Khmer Rouge leaders have been jailed for life after being convicted of crimes against humanity. Nuon Chea served as Pol Pot’s deputy and Khieu Samphan was the Maoist regime’s head of state. They are the first

DHAKA: At least 47 people were killed when two car bombs exploded in a Shia neighbourhood in the Iraqi capital, aljazeera reports.  Police said the first attack on Wednesday evening was a double car bombing in a shopping area of Sadr City in the east of Baghdad. Late on Wednesday,

DHAKA: Israel's is willing to extend a ceasefire that ended a month of fighting in Gaza beyond a Friday deadline, an Israeli official has said. The official, quoted by the Reuters news agency, said: "Israel has expressed its readiness to extend the truce under its current terms,"

DHAKA: Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes tribunal is to deliver its verdict in the trial of the last two surviving top Khmer Rouge leaders. Nuon Chea, 88, and Khieu Samphan, 83, are charged with crimes against humanity. The verdict comes more than three decades after the Maoist regime's

DHAKA: Russian President Vladimir Putin has named a new target as global sparring over Ukraine grows: food.In a decree signed Wednesday, Putin banned food and agricultural imports from countries that have imposed sanctions against his country, reports CNN.The retaliatory move comes

DHAKA: Myanmar’s opposition said on Wednesday almost five million people had signed a petition seen as a step towards ending a constitutional ban on veteran activist Aung San Suu Kyi running for president. Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) hailed the petition, publicised

DHAKA: European spacecraft Rosetta became the first ever to catch up with a comet on Wednesday, a landmark stage in a decade-long space mission that scientists hope will help unlock some of the secrets of the solar system. Rosetta, launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) in 2004,

DHAKA: The United Nations is ready to help rebuild Gaza but for the last time, UN chief Ban Ki-moon warned Wednesday. Ban opened a special meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with an appeal for a lasting peace as a 72-hour ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was holding for a

DHAKA: The federal government this month quietly stopped publicly reporting when hospitals leave foreign objects in patients’ bodies or make a host of other life-threatening mistakes. The change, which the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) denied last year that it was

DHAKA: Saudi Arabia has banned its male citizens from marrying women from four countries, including, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Chad and Myanmar. A Saudi police officer said, reports The Times of India. The announcement comes as a part of Saudi Arabia’s efforts to prohibit Saudi men from

DHAKA: The death toll from an earthquake that devastated a remote region of China jumped to nearly 600 people on Wednesday, authorities said, as volunteer rescuers were warned away. Rescue efforts in the south-western province of Yunnan, where the 6.1-magnitude quake struck Sunday, were

DHAKA: Turkish prime minister, and presidential hopeful, Recep Tayyip Erdogan sparked an outcry Wednesday after using what critics said was a racist slur against Armenians in a television interview. During a live interview on the private NTV channel late Tuesday, Erdogan complained that

DHAKA: Islamic Jihad’s senior representative, Ziad al-Nakhaleh announced while in Cairo for cease-fire talks that the issue of disarming the Palestinian groups in the Gaza Strip would not be discussed during the indirect talks with Israel. ‘This issue is non-negotiable,’ he

DHAKA: Iran and six world powers will probably discuss a potential deal on Tehran’s nuclear program on the sidelines of the annual UN General Assembly (UNGA) in September. The state news agency IRNA quoted a senior Iranian negotiator as saying, reports The Jerusalem Post. Negotiations

DHAKA: 5-year-old boy's run as mayor is over in a tiny tourist town in northern Minnesota of United Sates of America.Robert "Bobby" Tufts lost his bid for a third consecutive term as mayor of Dorset on Sunday. Tufts was defeated when the name of sixteen-year-old Eric Mueller of Mendota

DHAKA: Tens of thousands are gathering for peace ceremonies in Hiroshima to mark the 69th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of the city, as anti-nuclear sentiment runs high in Japan. Ageing survivors, relatives, government officials and foreign delegates, including US Ambassador to

DHAKA: A US general has been killed in an attack by an Afghan soldier at a British-run military academy near Kabul, US officials say. Maj Gen Harold Greene is the highest ranking US military official to have been killed since US-led combat operations in Afghanistan began. At least 15

DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry has urged Israel and the Palestinians to take advantage of the Gaza truce to move towards broader negotiations. Kerry told the BBC the situation could concentrate minds on the need to negotiate a "two-state solution". A 72-hour humanitarian truce

DHAKA: A United States Army major general was killed on Tuesday by an Afghan soldier, shot at close range at a military training academy on the outskirts of Kabul, officials of the American-led coalition said Tuesday. The officer was the highest-ranking member of the American military to

DHAKA: A 5.3 magnitude earthquake hit central South Africa on Tuesday, killing at least one man and trapping some miners underground, according to emergency services. The US Geological Survey said the tremor was centred in Orkney, a town around 120 km southwest of Johannesburg, an area