DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry threw down a challenge to recalcitrant Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Thursday, saying now was the time when they had to choose whether to make peace.‘You can facilitate, you can push, you can nudge, but the parties themselves have to make

DHAKA: Ukraine on Thursday accused both ousted pro-Kremlin president Viktor Yanukovych and Russian security agents of being responsible for February unrest in Kiev that claimed nearly 90 lives.Acting interior minister Arsen Avakov said Yanukovych issued the ‘criminal order’ to fire at

DHAKA: A bomb has targeted the convoy route of Pakistan’s former military ruler, Pervez Musharraf, within minutes of him passing.Pakistan police say, reports the BBC.They said it was an attempt to target the former president, however, no casualties were reported.The blast struck a

DHAKA: Strict building codes and the preparedness of millions of Chileans who live along an arc of volcanoes and fault lines likely kept the death toll -- only six by Wednesday afternoon -- low after an 8.2-magnitude earthquake rumbled offshore and prompted a tsunami, observers

DHAKA: A powerful 7.6 magnitude earthquake has rocked northern Chile, just over 24 hours after an 8.2 tremor killed six people, destroyed 2,600 houses and led to mass evacuations.A tsunami alert in Chile and Peru was again issued, but was later lifted after waves of 2.4ft (0.7 meters) hit

DHAKA: As many as four people were killed and 14 were wounded after a gunman in uniform opened fire at Fort Hood on Wednesday, shutting down the sprawling Army base and inciting a huge police response, a member of Congress said. The shooting echoed the deadly rampage carried out there in

DHAKA: Chile’s army has been deployed to the northern city of Iquique after some 300 inmates escaped from a women’s jail following an 8.2-magnitude earthquake.Officials said about 26 had so far been captured since the quake at 20:46 local time (23:46 GMT) on Tuesday.Chile’s

DHAKA: Palestine on Wednesday submitted applications to join international organizations and treaties.The applications were handed over to the representatives of the UN, Switzerland and Holland by Palestine foreign minister Riad Malki, reports The Jerusalem Post.The move came one day

DHAKA: Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday expressed confidence of defeating Narendra Modi in Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency in the general election, saying that he had not chosen a ‘safe’ seat since his main objective was to beat the BJP’s prime ministerial

DHAKA: Australia’s highest court on Wednesday recognised the existence of a third ‘non-specific’ gender that is neither male nor female, in a landmark ruling campaigners said will help end years of discrimination.The High Court ruled that not everyone should be forced to identify as

DHAKA: Saudi Arabia has introduced a series of new laws which define atheists as terrorists, according to a report from Human Rights Watch.In a string of royal decrees and an overarching new piece of legislation to deal with terrorism generally, the Saudi King Abdullah has clamped down on

DHAKA: A suicide bomber blew himself up at the Afghan interior ministry Wednesday, killing six police officers just three days before the country’s presidential election, which the Taleban have vowed to disrupt.The attack came as the three leading candidates to succeed president Hamid

DHAKA: A police brigadier-general has been killed in a twin bomb blast near Cairo University.Egyptian state media say, reports the BBC.Four others were also injured in the attack, the health ministry confirmed.The explosives were planted next to a police post, officials at the scene said.

DHAKA: French president Francois Hollande’s former partner, Segolene Royal, has joined the government in a major reshuffle by the ruling Socialists.She will serve as environment minister in the cabinet of the new prime minister, Manuel Valls, reports the BBC.Valls was appointed to the

DHAKA: South Korea says it is analysing what it believes to be a North Korean drone that crashed on a border island shortly after an exchange of artillery fire with North Korea.The drone crashed on Baengnyeong island on Monday afternoon.It fell as the two Koreas traded fire into each

DHAKA: African and European leaders will tackle the conflict in the Central African Republic at a special meeting on the sidelines of a summit in Brussels on Wednesday.The European Union has officially launched its military mission to CAR, unveiling plans to send 1,000 troops to bolster

DHAKA: Chile has declared two northern regions hit by a 8.2 magnitude earthquake to be disaster areas.At least six people are known to have died and tens of thousands of people have been evacuated.The quake struck at 20:46 local time (23:46 GMT) about 86km north-west of the mining area of

DHAKA: A Thai court accepted a new case on Wednesday against prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, compounding her many legal problems as she resists pressure to step down over five months of sometimes violent street protest.Twenty-four people have already died in the crisis, including an

DHAKA: The Kremlin confirmed on Wednesday that Russian president Vladimir Putin has finalised the divorce from his wife of 30 years, Lyudmila, following the couple’s sudden split last summer.Putin’s official biography, which described him as recently as March 27 as ‘Married. Wife

DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry cancelled plans to travel on Wednesday to Ramallah after both the Israelis and the Palestinians announced moves likely to scuttle the peace talks.‘We are no longer travelling tomorrow,’ a senior State Department official said, shortly after