DHAKA: Most of pro-Russian rebels and their top commander had fled their eastern stronghold of Slavyansk in Kiev’s biggest success of the nearly three-month campaign. Ukraine’s interior minister said on Saturday, reports The Straits Times ‘This morning, intelligence reported that

DHAKA: Aung San Suu Kyi’s Myanmar opposition party faced calls to inject new blood into its ageing top ranks as it opened a landmark conference on Saturday dedicated to its youth wing. The Nobel Peace Prize winner’s National League for Democracy (NLD), founded after a bloody

DHAKA: A special Air India flight with 137 people on board, including the 46 nurses freed by insurgents in Iraq, arrived in Kochi on Saturday morning at 11.57 am, spelling relief for the Indian government and families of the stranded Indians. The plane reached Mumbai at 8.47am for

DHAKA: More than 400 trucks carrying fuel and oil were burning on roads west of Kabul, Afghanistan, police spokesman Hashmatullah Stanekzai said Saturday. Emergency crews tried to contain the damage, he said. Residents and local news reporters posted images online of a line of red fire

DHAKA: The German authorities have summoned the US ambassador in Berlin after a man was arrested on suspicion of spying. The US diplomat "was asked to help in the swift clarification" of the case, the foreign ministry said. German officials confirmed the arrest but released no other

DHAKA: Some 46 Indian nurses who were freed by militants in war-torn Iraq have returned on Saturday.     Indian newspapers published the report quoting Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy.    But fate of 10 Bangladeshi nurses, who were with the 46 Indian women in Iraq, is unknown as

DHAKA: All 46 Indian nurses held captive by Sunni insurgents in Iraq have been freed and will return to India on Saturday. The nurses are with Indian officials and are being taken to Erbil airport, from where they will return to Kerala on a special flight. Kerala chief minister Oommen

DHAKA: Hamas has offered to halt its rocket attacks if Israel stops its air raids on the Gaza Strip. A source with the Palestinian militant group said Egyptian intelligence officials had brokered a potential ceasefire, after escalating clashes. Israel says sporadic shelling from Gaza

DHAKA: At least 17 suspected militants were killed Thursday in security raids in Rafah city of Egypt’s North Sinai province.A security source confirmed the matter, reports the New Indian Express.Egyptian troops killed 12 militants, who are believed to be members of Al Qaeda-inspired

DHAKA: An Indian passenger train set a new speed record of 160 kilometres an hour (100 miles an hour) on Thursday during a test between Indian capital city of New Delhi and Agra, reports Times of India. Thursday's test, part of Indian government's plans to upgrade the ageing rail

DHAKA: The UK drew up plans to train and equip a 100,000-strong Syrian rebel army to defeat President Bashar al-Assad, BBC Newsnight can reveal. The secret initiative, put forward two years ago, was the brainchild of the then most senior UK military officer, General Sir David Richards.

DHAKA: Hurricane Arthur, packing winds of 100mph, has made landfall in the US state of North Carolina, as thousands abandon their 4 July holiday plans. The first hurricane of the season, now a Category 2 storm, reached land between Cape Lookout and Beaufort at 23:15 local time (03:15

DHAKA: The extremist Sunni militant group that recently declared a caliphate in parts of Syria and Iraq wrested control of a major Syrian oil field in a sweeping land grab Thursday. A string of villages and towns along the Euphrates River fell like dominoes to the Islamic State in Iraq

DHAKA: Saudi Arabia has sent 30,000 soldiers to its border with Iraq after Iraqi soldiers withdrew from the area, media reports. The country aims to guard its 800km border with Iraq, where Islamic State fighters and other Sunni Muslim rebel groups seized towns and cities in a lightning

DHAKA: Amnesty International has warned of a catastrophic decline in human rights in Egypt, a year after the military ousted president Mohammed Mursi.The campaign group says at least 16,000 people have been detained in the last year alone as part of the government's bid to silence

DHAKA: A key suspect has accused Spanish King Felipe VI’s brother-in-law Inaki Urdangarin of embezzling public funds, according to written testimony submitted by the prosecutor Thursday.Accountant Marco-Antonio Tejeiro, a fellow suspect in the fraud case facing Urdangarin, offered

DHAKA: New Ukrainian defence minister Valeriy Heletey has vowed to hold ‘a victory parade’ in Crimea, restoring the country’s territorial integrity.Addressing parliament in Kiev, he said, ‘Believe me, there will be a victory parade, there will be for sure, in Ukraine’s

DHAKA: China and South Korea have reaffirmed their opposition to North Korean nuclear tests during a visit by Chinese president Xi Jinping which is being seen as a snub to the North.It is the first time a Chinese leader has visited Seoul before Pyongyang.South Korean president Park

DHAKA: China’s president Xi Jinping arrived in Seoul Thursday for a state visit seen as a snub to Beijing’s traditional ally North Korea, whose nuclear weapons ambitions will dominate talks with South Korean leader Park Geun Hye. It was Xi Jinping’s first trip as head of state to

DHAKA: Saudi Arabia has deployed 30,000 soldiers to its border with Iraq after Iraqi soldiers withdrew from the area. The Saudi-owned al-Arabiya television reported on Thursday, says The Straits Times. The Dubai-based satellite channel said it had obtained a video showing some 2,500