DHAKA: The US State Department says it is ‘profoundly troubled’ by reports that a US teenager was beaten while in Israeli police custody in East Jerusalem. Tariq Khdair, 15, from Florida, is a cousin of Mohammed Abu Khdair, the Palestinian 16-year-old whose abduction and murder has

DHAKA: Gunmen killed at least 29 people in two separate attacks in coastal Kenya overnight. The interior ministry said on Sunday, reports The Jerusalem Post. ‘There were two attacks in Lamu and Tana River last night. In Lamu we have nine people dead and in Tana River we have 20. The

DHAKA: Japan is set to approve its first arms export following relaxation of its self-imposed ban, as the nation aims to boost its global military and economic presence.A report said on Sunday, according to The Straits Times.Mitsubishi Heavy Industries plans to export a

DHAKA: The Bharatiya Janata Party's campaign slogan may have been Abki baar, Modi sarkar, but, as Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi jocularly told Arun Jaitley in Parliament's Central Hall, the reality is "Abki baar, Jaitley sarkar". Jaitley, 61, is at the centre of politics in New

DHAKA: Gunmen killed at least 13 people in raids on two separate areas on the Kenyan coast. The Red Cross said on Sunday, reports The Straits Times. Four people lost their lives at the Hindi trading centre in Lamu county, near the scene of attacks in which 65 people were killed last

DHAKA: A day after 46 Indian nurses returned to Kochi in Kerala from war-torn Iraq, a special chartered flight carrying 200 more Indians from Najaf landed at the Delhi International Airport this morning. "The situation is very bad in Iraq. We thank the Indian embassy, they helped us in

DHAKA: At least 53 Boko Haram fighters were killed in Damboa in the northeasterly Borno state of the country, Nigeria's military claims.  Chris Olukolade, Nigeria's defence spokesman, said five soldiers and a senior military officer had also been killed in the exchange of fire on Friday

DHAKA: At least 11 people have died after the wall of a godown collapsed in Tamil Nadu's Thiruvallur district. One boy has been rescued alive from under the debris. Most of those killed are construction workers who had built hutments along the godown wall. Source: NDTV BDST: 1017 HRS,

DHAKA: Eleven people have been killed when a plane carrying members of a parachute club crashed in southern Poland. Rescue workers said only one of the 12 people on board survived and had suffered serious injuries. The Piper Navajo light aircraft had just taken off from an airfield in

DHAKA: The leader of the Islamic State jihadist group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, purportedly ordered all Muslims to obey him in a video released on Saturday on social media. The hitherto elusive Baghdadi, who on June 29 proclaimed a ‘caliphate’ straddling Syria and Iraq, made his appeal

DHAKA: The military chief of Syria's main Western-backed rebel group is warning that the country risks a ‘humanitarian disaster’ if allies do not send more aid to help his moderate forces stop advancing Islamic militants. Brig. Gen. Abdul-Ilah al-Bashir, commander of the Free Syrian

DHAKA: A Pakistani court on Saturday indicted five men, including a father and two brothers, for the brutal murder of a woman bludgeoned to death for marrying against their wishes. Farzana Parveen was battered to death outside the High Court in the eastern city of Lahore in May by more

DHAKA: Egypt has drastically raised fuel prices overnight to tackle a bloated subsidy system, in a potentially unpopular move that might blow back on newly elected president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. With the economy battered by three years of unrest, successive governments have said the

DHAKA: Jihadists who overran Mosul last month have demolished ancient shrines and mosques in and around the historic northern Iraqi city. Residents and social media posts said on Saturday, reports The Straits Times. At least four shrines to Sunni Arab or Sufi figures have been

DHAKA: An Iranian pilot has been killed while fighting in Iraq, state media reported Saturday, in what is thought to be Tehran’s first military casualty during battles against Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) jihadists. Iran’s official IRNA news agency did not say whether the

DHAKA: A suicide car bomb has killed at least four people near Somalia’s parliament, police and Somali media say. Reports say the bomb went off outside the main gate of parliament after guards shot at the bomber, according to the BBC. One report quoted al-Shabab militants praising the

DHAKA: A strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck western Indonesia on Saturday, US seismologists said, but no tsunami warning was issued and there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage. The quake struck at 4.39pm (0939 GMT) at a depth of 30 kilometres, 88 kilometres southeast

DHAKA: Saudi-owned al-Arabia television said on Saturday that two suspected al Qaida militants who had been surrounded inside a government building in southern Saudi Arabia after an attack on a border post with Yemen blew themselves up early on Saturday. The satellite channel gave no

DHAKA: Initial autopsy findings from the body of a Palestine youth from east Jerusalem who was kidnapped and killed by far-right Jews showed that he was burned alive. The Palestinian attorney-general is reported as saying, The Jerusalem Post. ‘The direct cause of death was burns as a

DHAKA: An Egyptian court sentenced Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and 36 other Islamists to life in prison Saturday, and confirmed death sentences for 10 others, most of them on the run. Badie, convicted of involvement in deadly protests, had already received death sentences in