DHAKA: A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Japan’s Okinawa island on Sunday. Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said, reports The Straits Times. The quake struck at a depth of about 6.2 miles, 125 miles north-northeast of Okinawa’s capital city of Naha. No tsunami

DHAKA: Israel carried out fresh attacks on southern Gaza Strip amidst a hunt for one of its missing soldiers believed to be captured by Hamas, as the new wave of violence raised the Palestinians toll to 1669. Israel also threw cold water over efforts to reach a solution to the crisis

DHAKA: Surrogacy campaigners have called for clearer regulation after a Thai woman was left with a Down's syndrome baby when his parents refused to take him. The boy, whose twin sister was taken to Australia by the unidentified couple, needs urgent medical care. The surrogate mother in

DHAKA: The soldier that Israel claimed Hamas militants captured Friday, as a temporary cease-fire to the conflict in Gaza rapidly unraveled, is dead, Israel's military said. "Lieutenant Hadar Goldin ... was killed in battle in the Gaza Strip on Friday, August 1," the Israel Defense

DHAKA: Israel is prepared to continue fighting Hamas in the Gaza Strip after the army completes its primary mission of destroying cross-border tunnels from the Palestinian territory, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said. In a news conference in Tel Aviv on Saturday, Netanyahu said

DHAKA: A small group of Philippine workers flew home from strife-torn Libya on Saturday, grateful to have escaped the conflict but anxious about bleak job prospects in their own country. The 21 Filipinos, red-eyed and weary from lack of sleep and a long journey, arrived at Manila airport

DHAKA: A recount of votes in the Afghan election has been suspended again, despite being scheduled to restart on Saturday after the Muslim Eid holiday. The breakdown came despite late night phone talks between US Secretary of State John Kerry and candidates Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf

DHAKA: A senior adviser to rebels in eastern Ukraine has confirmed that extrajudicial killings have been carried out ‘to prevent chaos’. Igor Druz told the BBC such ‘executions’ sent an important signal to the rest of the rebel forces. He also said Ukraine’s government was a

DHAKA: More than 400 Chinese nationals were evacuated from Libya on Saturday, state media said, after hundreds of their compatriots fled the country as the violence there escalated. Libya is descending into a civil war spiral that is ‘much worse’ than the unrest that toppled dictator

DHAKA: Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) jihadist fighters killed at least 23 Iraqi soldiers and members of allied Shia militia in a flashpoint area south of Baghdad. Iraq army sources said on Saturday, reports The Straits Times. ISIS militants firing salvos of mortar rounds began

DHAKA: Indian right-wing party also government ally Shiv Sena Saturday said filing sexual assault charges has ‘become a fashion’ in an article backing a police officer accused of rape. The hardline nationalist outfit, a key ally of prime minister Narendra Modi’s government based in

DHAKA: A severe storm hit South Korea’s southern regions Saturday, forcing flights to be grounded and causing property damage. Weather authorities said, reports The Straits Times. The storm, packing winds of up to 90 kilometres an hour swept in from the Pacific dumping heavy downpours

The GAZA crisis is taking heavy toll on life and property of innocent Palestinians. Everyday hundreds of people unarmed women and children are getting killed, property getting destroyed, utility services water supply, electricity, sewerage getting badly damaged. Mosques and other places

DHAKA: A massive landslide in northeastern Nepal left at least seven people dead and dozens missing on Saturday, putting several villages at risk of flash floods due to debris blocking a major river. Nepal officials said, reports The Straits Times. The landslide struck in the early

DHAKA: The US Congress approved US$225 million in emergency funding for Israel’s ‘Iron Dome’ missile defense system, sending the measure to president Barack Obama to be signed into law. The House of Representatives approved the funding by a 395-8 vote late on Friday, several hours

DHAKA: Chinese media says at least 65 people have been killed and 120 injured in a blast at a workshop in Kunshan, a city in eastern Jiangsu Province, where more than 200 workers were operating. The Xinhua state news agency said it occurred at 7.37am (23:37 GMT) on Saturday morning at a

DHAKA: Former U.S. president Bill Clinton said he "could have killed" Osama bin Laden in remarks to an audience in Australia the day before al-Qaeda's 2001 attacks on the United States, according to an audio tape that emerged this week. Clinton and officials from his administration have

DHAKA: A campaign for a baby with Down's Syndrome left with his surrogate Thai mother by an Australian couple has raised over $120,000 (£70,000). The six-month-old boy, named Gammy, also has a congenital heart condition and needs urgent medical treatment. Pattaramon Chanbua was left to

DHAKA: Hamas says it does not know the whereabouts of an Israeli soldier it had been accused of capturing in Gaza. The Islamist group's military wing says it lost contact with some fighters in the area and that they and Hadar Goldin, 23, may have been killed. His supposed capture and

DHAKA: Israel declared a Gaza ceasefire over on Friday and killed more than 50 Palestinians in renewed shelling, saying militants had breached the truce shortly after it began and apparently captured an Israeli soldier. The 72-hour break announced by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry