DHAKA: At least 15 people have been killed and more than 200 injured when a UN-run school used as a shelter in Gaza was shelled.The Gaza health ministry says, reports the BBC.Hundreds of Palestinians were in the school in Beit Hanoun, fleeing heavy fighting in the area.It is the fourth

DHAKA: Algeria’s national airline, Air Algerie, says it has lost contact with one of its planes flying from Burkina Faso to Algiers across the Sahara.Algerian aviation officials said the plane had crashed, but gave no further details, reports the BBC.Contact was lost about 50 minutes

DHAKA: The UN says militant Islamist group Isis has ordered all women and girls in Mosul, northern Iraq, to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM). UN official Jacqueline Badcock said the fatwa, or religious edict, applied to females between the ages of 11 and 46. She said the

DHAKA: UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos has expressed extreme concern at the situation in Gaza, describing a ceasefire as ‘vital’. She said the conflict meant 44% of Gaza was a no-go area for Palestinians, and residents were running out of food. More than 710 Palestinians and 30

DHAKA: Russia will cooperate with the investigation into the downing of a Malaysian airliner a week ago and is satisfied that the Netherlands, rather than Ukraine, is leading the effort.The country’s ambassador to Malaysia said on Thursday, reports The Straits Times.Liudmila

DHAKA: Iraqi MPs have elected Kurdish politician Fouad Massoum as president, succeeding Jalal Talabani.Massoum, 76, is a founding member of Talabani’s Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party.Since 2003 Iraq’s president has always been a Kurd, while the prime minister is a Shia and the

DHAKA: An Air Algerie plane with 110 passengers and six crew members on board that went missing after taking off from Burkina Faso has crashed into the Niger.Reports in the Algerian media said, according to NDTV. The aircraft was bound for Algiers.Air Algerie earlier said it lost

DHAKA: British investigators have started examining the second black box from Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 which was shot down over Ukraine.The transport ministry said Thursday, reports The Straits Times.The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) in Farnborough, southwest of

DHAKA: Turkey is working with international partners to negotiate both a cease-fire in the Gaza conflict and access for humanitarian aid. The Turkish foreign minister said on Thursday, reports The Jerusalem Post. ‘The US, Turkey, Qatar and Egypt have been working for the last five

DHAKA: Norway has taken exceptional security measures after being informed of a possible imminent ‘terrorist attack’ by militants who have fought in Syria. The country’s intelligence chief said Thursday, reports The Straits Times. The move comes as concerns are mounting in Europe

DHAKA: A powerful Ukrainian rebel leader has confirmed that pro-Russian separatists had an anti-aircraft missile of the type Washington says was used to shoot down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 and it could have originated in Russia. In an interview with media, Alexander Khodakovsky,

DHAKA: Air Algerie said it lost contact with one of its aircraft nearly an hour after takeoff from Burkina Faso on Thursday bound for Algiers.‘Air navigation services have lost contact with an Air Algerie plane Thursday flying from Ouagadougou to Algiers, 50 minutes after

DHAKA: Suicide attackers have mounted a bomb and gun attack on a prison convoy in Iraq, killing 51 prisoners and nine police officers.Security sources say, reports the BBC.Roadside bombs exploded as the convoy was taking the prisoners from the town of Taji to the capital, Baghdad,

DHAKA: Dr. Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian surgeon volunteering at a Gaza hospital, has invited US president Barack Obama to spend a night in Al Shifa’a Hospital to see the consequences of Israel’s deadly assault on the Palestinian enclave.Speaking to Al Arabiya News Channel, he

The world is watching as Israel is carrying out genocide at occupied Gaza strip. Everyday children, women and innocent citizen are being mercilessly murdered in the holy month of Ramadan; still the Islamic Ummah is doing little. Israel has definite plan to destroy Palestine race .

DHAKA: At least 14 children were killed along with their driver when a train hit the school bus carrying them in the Indian state of Telangana, police say. The passenger train rammed into the school bus, dragging it several hundred metres down the track, reports said. No one on the

DHAKA: More than 50 former Israeli soldiers have refused to serve in the nation’s reserve force, citing regret over their part in a military they said plays a central role in oppressing Palestinians, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday. “We found that troops who operate in the

DHAKA: The UN Human Rights Council has voted to launch an independent inquiry into Israel's offensive in Gaza, Israel continued its bombardment of the Gaza Strip in its operation against Hamas.  The vote on Wednesday in Geneva came hours after the UN rights chief, Navi Pillay, told an

DHAKA: Forty-eight people died and ten people were injured after a TransAsia Airways flight crashed on the outlying island county of Penghu Wednesday, the airline confirmed Thursday morning. The 58 people on board included two foreigners, the airline said in a statement. The two --

DHAKA: Doctors in India have extracted 232 teeth from the mouth of a 17-year-old boy in a seven-hour operation.Ashik Gavai was brought in with a swelling in his right jaw, Dr Sunanda Dhiware, head of Mumbai's JJ Hospital's dental department, told the BBC.The teenager had been suffering