DHAKA: Russia says new EU sanctions against it over the Ukraine crisis will jeopardise security co-operation against terror. The Russian foreign ministry said the EU would bear the blame for the move which sees 15 officials and 18 entities subject to asset freezes and visa bans, reports

DHAKA: Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters have seized a Syrian army base in the northern province of Raqa, killing scores of troops and beheading some of them. A monitoring group said on Saturday, reports The Straits Times. The takeover of Division 17 base came as the UN

DHAKA: The death toll in Gaza has passed 1,000, Palestinian medical officials say, 19 days after Israel launched an offensive against Hamas militants. It comes amid a 12-hour humanitarian truce, which Gaza residents have been using to gather essential supplies and retrieve bodies buried

DHAKA: The first team of Pakistani climbers to reach the summit of the world’s second tallest mountain, K2, has arrived at the summit. K2 lies in Pakistan, near the northern border with China. The climbers made it to the summit at 02:30 (22:30 GMT on Friday), the BBC publishes this

DHAKA: The US embassy has shut in the Libyan capital Tripoli due to security concerns. US state department says, reports the BBC. Embassy staff were evacuated to neighboring Tunisia ‘due to the ongoing violence resulting from clashes between Libyan militias’, it adds. The state

DHAKA: Residents in Gaza are using a 12-hour humanitarian truce to return to their homes, gather essential supplies and search for those trapped in the rubble. At least 60 bodies have been recovered and taken to the Shifa Hospital morgue, with more thought to remain buried. Some 940

DHAKA: Syria’s Al-Qaeda affiliate has released a video of a US suicide bomber who blew himself up at an army post in the northwest of the country. Moner Mohammad Abu Salha, alias Abu Hurayra al-Amriki, was believed to be the first American national to carry out such an attack in

DHAKA: US secretary of state John Kerry will continue truce efforts in Paris on Saturday when France hosts diplomats from the United States, Britain, Germany, Italy, the European Union, Turkey and Qatar. A French diplomatic source said, reports The Jerusalem Post. Hamas wants an end to

DHAKA: Israeli tank shelling killed 18 Palestinians from a single family in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, the Gaza health ministry said, shortly before a 12-hour humanitarian truce agreed by Israel and Hamas went into effect. Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf Al-Qidra said

DHAKA: Israel and Hamas have begun a 12-hour humanitarian truce in Gaza. Israel said it would continue to "locate and neutralise" Hamas tunnels during the pause, which began at 08:00 local time (05:00 GMT), and vowed to respond if it came under attack. International efforts to negotiate

DHAKA: The European Union is set to adopt much tougher economic sanctions against Russia for its role in the Ukraine crisis, officials said. After discussions on broadening the sanctions from the current mix of asset freezes and travel bans, the legal instruments required to give effect

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama has told Central American leaders that migrant children flooding into the US without legitimate legal claims will be sent home. The presidents of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador met Obama at the White House on Friday to discuss the crisis at the US

DHAKA: Israel and Hamas agreed to a 12-hour cease-fire starting Saturday, temporarily halting more than two weeks of bloodshed that has claimed more than 800 mostly civilian lives. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Secretary of State John Kerry that Israel would agree to the truce,

DHAKA: Seven people are feared killed in an Indian Air Force helicopter crash near Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh on Friday. The helicopter allegedly sent a distress call shortly before 5 am when it was 37 kms north of Lucknow. After that, it lost contact with Air Traffic Controllers in

DHAKA: An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 struck on the coast of Alaska early on Friday, shaking people awake in the state capital city of Juneau but causing little, if any, damage, officials said. A geophysicist at the National Earthquake Information Center Jessica Turner said “We

DHAKA: There are no survivors from the Air Algerie AH5017 passenger jet that crashed in Mali. French President Francois Hollande said this which reports BBC on Friday. Hollande said one flight data recorder had been recovered, after French troops reached the crash site near Mali’s

DHAKA: At least 15 people were killed by alleged Taliban gunmen while they were travelling by road in the central Afghan province of Ghor.The attackers stopped two minibuses overnight, ordered the passengers out and shot them dead, according to the province’s police chief.The

DHAKA: Efforts to secure a ceasefire between Israel and the militant Hamas movement are intensifying as the death toll in 18-day-old conflict continues to climb. Gaza faced more Israeli shelling and air strikes overnight, while Israeli towns raised the alarm over Hamas rockets on Friday

DHAKA: On Friday, the US Sentencing Commission voted unanimously to allow nearly 50,000 nonviolent federal drug offenders to seek lower sentences. The commission's decision retroactively applied an earlier change in sentencing guidelines to now cover roughly half of those serving federal

DHAKA: The US says it has evidence that Russia has fired artillery across the border targeting Ukrainian military positions. Russia also intends "to deliver heavier and more powerful multiple rocket launchers" to pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine, the state department said. Russia has