DHAKA: Police in eastern China clashed in the middle of the night with Christian protesters massed around their church on Monday, but failed to carry out a government order to remove a cross from the building, according to witnesses and online accounts.Several people were injured in

DHAKA: Britain will push for EU sanctions targeting whole sectors of the Russian economy in the wake of the Ukraine plane disaster even if it means taking a short-term ‘hit’ to the economy, its ministers said on Monday. British deputy prime minister Nick Clegg said ‘the time has

DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry appeared to criticize Israel in candid remarks caught on an open microphone between television interviews Sunday. Kerry was heard talking about Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza to a State Department official identified as Jonathan Finer just before

DHAKA: Russian president Vladimir Putin said on Monday the downing of a Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine must not be used for political ends and urged separatists to allow international experts access to the crash site. ‘Everything must be done to guarantee the security

DHAKA: Dutch PM Mark Rutte says experts have arrived in Torez in Ukraine, where the remains of victims of the Malaysia Airlines plane crash are being stored. The three Dutch forensic scientists are aiming to start work on identifying the 196 bodies stored there on trains. Pressure is

DHAKA: Iran has turned all of its enriched uranium closest to the level needed to make nuclear arms into more harmless forms. The UN nuclear agency says, reports the BBC. The conversion of its stock of 20%-enriched uranium was part of a deal to curb Iran’s nuclear programme. The US

DHAKA: The UN Security Council has called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza after holding an emergency closed-door meeting on the crisis. The talks came after the UN chief described Israel’s shelling of a Gaza City suburb as ‘an atrocious action’. A total of 501 people have now

DHAKA: Israel says that 13 of its soldiers died since Saturday night, the biggest one-day loss for its army in years, BBC At least 87 Gazans were reported killed on Sunday - 60 of them in the district of Shejaiya alone. The total death toll in Gaza now stands at more than 425. Hamas

DHAKA: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the killing of dozens of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip by Israeli shelling as an "atrocious action" and called for an immediate end to almost two weeks of fighting. Ban's comments on Sunday came before a UN Security Council emergency

DHAKA: Gunmen on a motorcycle have killed at least four people and injured several others in the Kenyan city of Mombasa. Police were quoted by local media as saying that the gunmen had fired indiscriminately at passers-by. The port city has seen a wave of violence in recent months, with

DHAKA: Rescue workers have recovered flight recorders from the crash site of the Malaysian airliner shot down in eastern Ukraine but pro-Russian separatists are keeping hold of them. On Sunday afternoon, a video, reportedly recorded on Friday, was released by Ukraine's security services,

DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry alleged there is overwhelming evidence of Russian complicity in the downing of a Malaysia Airlines plane in Ukraine, BBC news.         Kerry called on Russia to take responsibility for the actions of the rebels, saying their handling of the

DHAKA: Britain’s Prince George celebrates his first birthday on Tuesday, capping a year in which the globetrotting infant became the trend-setting face of the modern royal family. The young prince will mark the occasion with a low-key party at the family home at Kensington Palace, in

DHAKA: Pro-Russian separatists say they have loaded a train with 196 bodies recovered from the crash site of the Malaysian airliner shot down in eastern Ukraine. International news agencies said on Sunday no bodies remained at the crash site, a day after media reported rebels putting

DHAKA: Amid uncertainty over government formation in the city, Delhi BJP president Satish Upadhyay on Sunday said his party is ‘fully ready’ to face fresh elections though many party MLAs are reluctant to go to polls again. At the same time, he said the party will explore taking a

DHAKA: People flee their homes by foot after heavy overnight bombardment killed dozens of Palestinians. Thousands of people fled Gaza's eastern district of Shujayea as heavy bombardment from the Israeli army continued into the morning, with the Palestinian death toll over the last 13

DHAKA: Malaysia Airlines have decided to retire the flight number MH17 as a mark of respect to its 298 passengers and crew who died in the deadly missile attack over Ukraine. The new designation for the route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur is to be known as MH19, a Malaysian Airlines

DHAKA: The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a wave of car bombs in mostly Shia areas of Baghdad which killed at least 27 people on Saturday. The hardline Sunni Islamist organisation which has led an offensive across northern and western Iraq said two of the explosions

DHAKA: Emergency workers in Ukraine say they have now found 196 bodies at the crash site of Malaysia airliner MH17. A total of 298 people were on board the plane, when it was reportedly hit by a missile over a rebel-held area in Donetsk region on Thursday. Western countries have

DHAKA: Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko urged the United Nations to label rebels fighting Ukrainian forces in the eastern regions of Luhansk and Donetsk as belonging to ‘terrorist organisations’. During a telephone conversation with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon,