DHAKA: British foreign secretary William Hague has quit from the post and will stay in the cabinet as Leader of the Commons, Downing Street has said.   Hague is to leave Parliament at the 2015 general election after 26 years as MP for Richmond, North Yorkshire, says BBC on Tuesday.  

DHAKA: Libya's main international airport Tripoli has been hit by a new rocket attack a day after fighting forced it to close on Monday.               At least one person was killed and six others injured in the attack and 12 planes were damaged in the attack, BBC reports.    

DHAKA: Egypt has proposed a ceasefire to end a week of cross-border fire between the Gaza Strip and Israel. The initiative urges a ceasefire starting early on Tuesday followed by a series of meetings in Cairo with high-level delegations from both sides.    However, an official from

DHAKA: A Ukrainian military transport aircraft has been shot down in the east, amid fighting with separatist rebels. Ukrainian officials say, reports the BBC. The An-26 plane was hit at an altitude of 6,500m, a statement on the presidential website said. It said the plane had been

DHAKA: Russia has invited monitors from the OSCE European security and rights body to two of its border crossings with Ukraine as a sign of goodwill. The foreign ministry said on Monday, reports The Straits Times. ‘In connection to the worsening situation in the region where Kiev is

DHAKA: A three-year-old girl who was pronounced dead in the Philippines has woken up at her own funeral.The Philippine Star reports, gulfnews.com says.The girl was declared clinically dead by medical personnel in Zamboanga del Sur, Mindanao, after suffering a fever, according to the

DHAKA: Pakistani rights activist Malala Yousafzai is meeting Nigeria president Goodluck Jonathan to press for more action to free the more than 200 girls held by militant Islamists.The militants’ leader has reiterated in a new video message that he is prepared to negotiate a prisoner

DHAKA: Seven fighters from the Lebanese group Hezbollah were killed in fighting with Sunni Islamist insurgents in a mountainous area on the Syria-Lebanon border in which at least 16 rebels were also killed. A monitoring group reported on Monday, reports The Jerusalem Post. The Syrian

DHAKA: The Arab League has called on the ‘international community’ to end Israeli air strikes on Gaza and to protect Palestinians, ahead of a foreign ministers’ meeting later on Monday. Israel pressed its campaign of punishing raids on Gaza for a seventh day on Monday, but held off

DHAKA: A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck off the coast of the southern Philippines on Monday.  The US Geological Survey (USGS) said, reports The Jerusalem Post.  There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.  The epicenter was 91 miles off the town of General Santos, the

DHAKA: Six people suffered minor burns after a fire broke out in the observation deck at New York City's Rockefeller Center Sunday night, a fire official said. A camera on an elevated part of the observation deck caught fire, sending embers falling onto people below, New York City Fire

DHAKA: Samsung Electronics said it has found ‘evidence of suspected child labour’ at a factory of its Chinese supplier Dongguan Shinyang Electronics. The firm conducted an investigation into the supplier after New York-based campaign group, China Labor Watch, accused it of hiring

DHAKA: Thailand’s military government said on Monday it would send home 100,000 refugees who have been living in camps for two decades and more along the border with Myanmar, a move rights groups say would create chaos at a tense time for both nations.Thailand’s military overthrew

DHAKA: Police in Argentina arrested at least 30 people Sunday after a World Cup celebration in downtown Buenos Aires got out of hand. Fans had gathered to celebrate Argentina's best performance in the World Cup in almost a quarter century. The celebrations went on peacefully without

DHAKA: Istanbul’s streets were brimming Sunday as around 1,000 pro-Palestinian Turks demonstrated against Israel’s latest round of airstrikes on Gaza, which have left over 100 Palestinians dead. Flags emblazoned with the recognisable Palestinian colours of red, black, white, and

DHAKA: At least 133 Sunni militants were killed on Sunday in fierce clashes with security forces across Iraq. The officials said this which reports the Times of India. The clashes with the Sunni militants, claiming to be from the Islamic State (IS), took place in al-Qadsiyah district in

DHAKA: Pope Francis called for a cease-fire in the Middle East before Sunday's Angelus prayer and said his meeting in June with the presidents of Israel and the Palestinian Authority was not a waste of time. "I exhort to all the interested parties and to all of those who have political

DHAKA: Thousands of Palestinians are fleeing northern parts of Gaza after Israel warned it was targeting the area in its campaign to stop rocket attacks. The UN says 17,000 people have sought refuge in its facilities as Israeli air strikes continue for a sixth day. Israeli forces have

DHAKA: At least eight people have been killed and around 25 others were injured in an explosion near a security compound in Egypt's Sinai region, near the border with Israel on Sunday. Security sources said the rocket was targeting North Sinai's main security compound but instead fell in

DHAKA: Deadly clashes raged on Sunday around Libya’s main international airport, closing it down, as the anti-Islamist militia that control it came under attack. Airport officials said, reports The Straits Times. The exchanges of fire with heavy weapons killed at least six people and