DHAKA: The last of Syria’s declared chemical weapons have been shipped out of the country for destruction.The international watchdog OPCW says, reports the BBC.‘The ship has just left the port,’ the head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Ahmet Uzumcu,

DHAKA: A Spanish judge says he will wrap up a corruption probe into King Felipe VI’s sister Princess Cristina and her husband Inaki Urdangarin on Wednesday, opening up the prospect of a historic criminal trial. Less than a week after 46-year-old Felipe VI took the crown from his father

DHAKA: European Union foreign ministers agreed on Monday to impose an asset freeze and travel ban on 12 Syrian government ministers, accusing them of ‘responsibility for serious human rights violations’.The ministers’ names will only be published in the EU’s Official Journal on

DHAKA: A South Korean soldier who killed five members of his unit has been captured after a failed suicide attempt. South Korea defence officials say, reports the BBC. The soldier, identified only as Im, shot himself in the chest and was being sent to hospital, they said. His capture

DHAKA: Militant Islamist groups in Syria are recruiting children as young as 15 and sending them into battle after promising them a free education. A Human Rights Watch (HRW) report said on Monday, reports The Straits Times. The report said the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS),

DHAKA: An Egypt court jailed three al-Jazeera journalists for seven years accusing them for supporting Muslim Brotherhood. A court in Cairo convicted Peter Greste, Mohammed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed of spreading false news and supporting the banned Islamist group.  Though, the trio had

DHAKA: Malaysia’s highest court has dismissed a bid by Christians for the right to use the word ‘Allah’, ending a long legal battle that has caused religious tensions in the Muslim-majority country. The Catholic Church had been seeking to reverse a government ban on it referring to

DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry has arrived in Iraq’s capital, Baghdad as Sunni insurgents expand their control of towns across north-western Iraq. In Egypt on Sunday, Kerry warned that Sunni militants Isis’ ‘ideology of violence and repression is a threat not only to Iraq

DHAKA: Sri Lankan Muslims called off a planned protest on Monday to denounce a series of attacks by Buddhist extremists after police warned their action could further inflame religious tensions. The Sri Lanka Thawheed Jamaath (SLTJ) said they were calling off their demonstration in the

DHAKA: Authorities in China’s far-flung western region of Xinjiang have detained 380 people and busted 32 terror cells in a month-long crackdown on violence. China state media said on Monday, following an upsurge in attacks blamed on Islamist militants, reports The Straits Times.

DHAKA: An Egypt court will deliver verdicts in the case of three al-Jazeera journalists detained since December. Peter Greste, Mohammed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed are accused of spreading false news and supporting the Muslim Brotherhood. They deny the charges. The case has caused an

DHAKA: The Israeli military said it had attacked nine targets in Syria in response to the killing of a 15-year-old boy in a strike in the occupied Golan Heights on the border between the two countries on Sunday.    The air strikes targeted Syrian army positions, including a military

DHAKA: Over 100 ulema from various schools of thought declared on Sunday Zarb-i-Azb, the military operation being carried out against terrorists and militants in North Waziristan Agency, as jihad.  The decree (fatwa) was issued after a meeting of religious scholars which was organized

DHAKA: The Israeli military said it had attacked nine targets in Syria in response to the killing of a 15-year-old boy in a strike in the occupied Golan Heights on the border between the two countries on Sunday.     The air strikes targeted Syrian army positions, including a military

DHAKA: The Iraqi government appears to have lost control of its western borders after Sunni militants reportedly captured crossings to Syria and Jordan.     Officials said the rebels took two key crossings in Anbar on Sunday, a day after seizing one at Qaim, a town in the province that

DHAKA: The British army has a global reputation for efficiency and performance, but new figures published on Sunday suggest that its soldiers might be getting a little soft. More than 32,000 soldiers failed a basic fitness test at some point in the past three years, and more than 22,000

DHAKA: Most Spaniards want their new king, Felipe, to play a greater role in politics and build bridges between the country’s divided parties and regions. A poll showed on Sunday, reports The Straits Times. Spain’s monarchy has tried stay out of the intricacies of factional

DHAKA: Iraqi forces have made a ‘tactical’ withdrawal from three western towns, a security spokesman said on Sunday, as Sunni militants widened an offensive that has already overrun swathes of territory. ‘The military units’ withdrawal (from Al-Qaim, Rawa and Ana) was for the

DHAKA: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei expressed strong opposition on Sunday to US intervention in Iraq, saying Iraqis themselves were able to bring an end to the violence there. Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported, says The Jerusalem Post. Khamenei, who has the

DHAKA: Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant on Sunday restarted its trouble-plagued water decontamination system for the first time in three months. The utility said, reports The Straits Times. Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco) has been forced to repeatedly switch off its Advanced