DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Afghanistan on Thursday for his second visit in under a month to push a deal between the country’s two presidential candidates on how to share power after an audit of a disputed election is complete.Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah

DHAKA: Australia may ease rules on a visa scheme aimed at luring investment from wealthy Chinese to help clear a backlog of applications and in the wake of complaints that disclosure requirements are too strict.Lawyers and migration agents said, reports The Straits Times.The

DHAKA: Former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, wanted by the United States for leaking extensive secrets of its electronic surveillance programmes, has been given a three-year residence permit by Russia.His Russian lawyer told reporters on Thursday, reports The Straits

DHAKA: French president Francois Hollande on Thursday pledged his country’s ‘support’ to forces battling Islamist militants in Iraq amid growing Western concern over an advance by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters.‘The President confirmed that France was

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama is considering airstrikes or airdrops of food and medicine to address a humanitarian crisis among as many as 40,000 religious minorities in Iraq who have been dying of heat and thirst on a mountaintop after death threats from the Islamic State in Iraq

DHAKA: With Indian Army working out on procedures for the safe release of a captured Indian Border Security Force jawan, according to the latest report, Pakistan Rangers will hand over the captured trooper Friday."We have sent a request note through our Wagah frontier and have also

DHAKA: A city in northwestern China's Xinjiang region has banned people with large beards or Islamic clothing from boarding buses, state media has said. Authorities in Karamay banned people wearing headscarves, veils, niqabs, or clothing with the Islamic star and crescent symbol from

DHAKA: Dozens of Jewish children have been traumatized by a gang of teenagers who stormed a Sydney school bus and allegedly hurled racial abuse and threats. New South Wales state police said five juveniles were arrested early Thursday over the incident on Wednesday afternoon.  However,

DHAKA: An UN-backed tribunal of Cambodia on Thursday ordered two top Khmer Rouge leaders have been jailed for life after being convicted of crimes against humanity. Nuon Chea served as Pol Pot’s deputy and Khieu Samphan was the Maoist regime’s head of state. They are the first

DHAKA: At least 47 people were killed when two car bombs exploded in a Shia neighbourhood in the Iraqi capital, aljazeera reports.  Police said the first attack on Wednesday evening was a double car bombing in a shopping area of Sadr City in the east of Baghdad. Late on Wednesday,

DHAKA: Israel's is willing to extend a ceasefire that ended a month of fighting in Gaza beyond a Friday deadline, an Israeli official has said. The official, quoted by the Reuters news agency, said: "Israel has expressed its readiness to extend the truce under its current terms,"

DHAKA: Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes tribunal is to deliver its verdict in the trial of the last two surviving top Khmer Rouge leaders. Nuon Chea, 88, and Khieu Samphan, 83, are charged with crimes against humanity. The verdict comes more than three decades after the Maoist regime's

DHAKA: Russian President Vladimir Putin has named a new target as global sparring over Ukraine grows: food.In a decree signed Wednesday, Putin banned food and agricultural imports from countries that have imposed sanctions against his country, reports CNN.The retaliatory move comes

DHAKA: Myanmar’s opposition said on Wednesday almost five million people had signed a petition seen as a step towards ending a constitutional ban on veteran activist Aung San Suu Kyi running for president. Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) hailed the petition, publicised

DHAKA: European spacecraft Rosetta became the first ever to catch up with a comet on Wednesday, a landmark stage in a decade-long space mission that scientists hope will help unlock some of the secrets of the solar system. Rosetta, launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) in 2004,

DHAKA: The United Nations is ready to help rebuild Gaza but for the last time, UN chief Ban Ki-moon warned Wednesday. Ban opened a special meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with an appeal for a lasting peace as a 72-hour ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was holding for a

DHAKA: The federal government this month quietly stopped publicly reporting when hospitals leave foreign objects in patients’ bodies or make a host of other life-threatening mistakes. The change, which the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) denied last year that it was

DHAKA: Saudi Arabia has banned its male citizens from marrying women from four countries, including, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Chad and Myanmar. A Saudi police officer said, reports The Times of India. The announcement comes as a part of Saudi Arabia’s efforts to prohibit Saudi men from

DHAKA: The death toll from an earthquake that devastated a remote region of China jumped to nearly 600 people on Wednesday, authorities said, as volunteer rescuers were warned away. Rescue efforts in the south-western province of Yunnan, where the 6.1-magnitude quake struck Sunday, were

DHAKA: Turkish prime minister, and presidential hopeful, Recep Tayyip Erdogan sparked an outcry Wednesday after using what critics said was a racist slur against Armenians in a television interview. During a live interview on the private NTV channel late Tuesday, Erdogan complained that