Sunday, 27 Apr, 2025

International

Prince George to celebrate first birthday

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

Ukraine rebels take bodies from crash site

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

BJP ready to face fresh polls in Delhi

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

Many flee Israeli shelling on east Gaza

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

No more MH17 flight

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

ISIS claims wave of Baghdad bombings

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

196 bodies found in Malaysia air crash

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

Ukraine urges UN to call rebels as terrorists

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,

‘Israel is more barbaric than Hitler’

DHAKA: Turkey’s prime minister has accused Israel of ‘barbarism that surpasses Hitler’ during its ground invasion of Gaza. Recep Tayyip Erdogan made the comment during a campaign speech in the Black Sea port city of Ordu, reports independent.co.uk. He is running for the presidency

Islamists mount ‘heaviest’ assault on Libya airport

DHAKA: Islamist militia launched their heaviest assault so far on Libya’s main airport on Sunday, two days after a truce with the rival ex-rebels that control it collapsed. A security official said, reports The Straits Times. ‘The airport was attacked this morning with mortar

MAS releases full list of passengers

DHAKA: Excerpt of latest media statement from Malaysia Airlines on downing of MH17: The latest number of passengers and their nationalities of those onboard MH17, as of July, 19 2014: Netherlands: 192 (including one dual Netherlands/US citizen) Malaysia: 44 (including 15 crew members

Philippine typhoon death toll nears 100

DHAKA: The death toll from Typhoon Rammasun in the Philippines rose to 94, with six missing, as another storm brought rains to the ravaged areas.Philippines authorities said on Sunday, reports The Straits Times.The reports of fatalities came in as repairmen struggled to restore

‘Part time’ students’ hope dashed down in Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR: Several hundreds of Bangladeshi students have been facing embarrassing situation being allured of ‘part time’ job facilities.Recently a number of Bangladeshi students have raised this allegation.A Bangladeshi student Saklain (not real name) of Kalayanpur, Dhaka has

73 children killed in Israeli terror attack

DHAKA: At least 73 children killed by Israeli fire in the Gaza Strip. The spiraling number of children killed in the latest conflict between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas in Gaza has raised international concern.On Saturday, a group of international and Palestinian rights

US widow wins $23.6bn tobacco payout

DHAKA: A Florida jury has awarded the widow of a chain smoker who died of lung cancer punitive damages of more than $23 bn in her lawsuit against the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, the nation's second-biggest cigarette maker.The judgment, returned on Friday night, was the largest in

Cameron in Russia sanctions warning

DHAKA: Tougher EU sanctions against Russia will be needed if Moscow does not change its "approach" to the downing of the Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine, David Cameron has indicated.Amid claims Russia-backed rebels were involved, the prime minister said the EU should stand up for

Bombings kill 27 in Iraq

DHAKA: A series of bombings, including three over a span of less than 10 minutes, have killed at least 27 people across the Iraqi capital, aljazeera reports.The attacks on Saturday were among the most significant in Baghdad since fighters led by the Islamic State group captured

Israel to expand ground incursion

DHAKA: The battle between Israel and Gazan militants is growing, as the Israel Defense Forces announced early Sunday that it will expand its ground offensive.On Saturday, Hamas Islamist fighters infiltrated nearby parts of Israel via underground tunnels and clashed with Israeli

Ukraine PM blams Russia for downed MH17

DHAKA: It takes professionals to shoot down an airliner and not a group of ‘drunken gorillas’, Ukrainian prime minister Arseny Yatseniuk told a German newspaper on Saturday, claiming that Russia was behind the downing of Malaysia Airlines MH-17. ‘Very professional staff is needed

‘Russia not providing enough support’

DHAKA: Britain on Saturday said Russia was not exerting enough influence over pro-Moscow separatists in eastern Ukraine to get them to allow international access to the Malaysian plane crash site. Britain foreign secretary Philip Hammond said it seemed increasingly likely that