DHAKA: Ukraine’s acting president announced on Monday that the ex-Soviet nation’s troops have been given orders to withdraw from Crimea following the peninsula’s seizure and annexation by Russia.‘The national security and defence council has reached a decision, under instructions

DHAKA: A court in Egypt on Monday sentenced 529 supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Mursi to death after a mass trial, judicial sources said.Islamist backers of Mursi are facing a deadly crackdown launched by the military-installed authorities since his ouster in July, with

DHAKA: Russian troops on Monday seized control of a new Ukrainian military base in Crimea, throwing stun grenades and tying up the hands of Ukrainian marines.The Ukrainian defence ministry said, reports The Straits Times.The Russian troops stormed the naval base in Feodosia in eastern

DHAKA: Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has escalated his salvo against the ‘double standards’ of Twitter, while also defiantly warning Facebook and YouTube to ‘obey Turkish laws’.‘Twitter obeys the American Constitution, British, German, Chinese, and Russian (laws).

DHAKA: The death toll rose to four and 18 people were missing on Sunday from a landslide in Washington state that buried homes and cars under mud and debris up to 5m deep, authorities said.Eight people were also injured when rain-soaked embankments along State Route 530 near Oso,

DHAKA: Nato`s military commander in Europe has issued a warning about the build-up of Russian forces on Ukraine`s border.Supreme Allied Commander Europe Gen Philip Breedlove said Nato was in particular concerned about the threat to Moldova`s Trans-Dniester region, BBC reported.Russia said

DHAKA: Taiwanese police have clashed with hundreds of students who occupied government headquarters to protest at a trade deal with China.Police used water cannon and dragged out students one by one, clearing the building by dawn on Monday, BBC reported.More than 30 people were arrested

DHAKA: More nations have joined the search in the southern Indian Ocean for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, amid concern that rain will hamper search efforts.Ten planes were set to scour the area for possible debris picked up earlier by radar echoes and satellite imagery, reports

DHAKA: Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday congratulated the military for downing a Syrian warplane near its border and warned of a ‘heavy’ response if its airspace was violated.‘Our response from now will be heavy if you violate our airspace,’ Erdogan said

DHAKA: Turkey’s president said on Sunday the government would soon lift its ban on Twitter, which has sparked criticism at home and abroad.‘It is not legally possible to shut down the Internet and such platforms (as Twitter),’ president Abdullah Gul told reporters in Ankara before

DHAKA: Crimea’s rebel leader urged Russians across Ukraine on Sunday to rise up against Kiev’s rule and welcome Kremlin forces whose unrelenting march against his flashpoint peninsula has defied Western outrage.The call came amid growing anxiety among Kiev’s Western-backed rulers

DHAKA: Turkish anti-aircraft fire shot down a Syrian warplane on Sunday as it bombed rebels fighting to seize control of a border post in northwestern Syria.An NGO said, reports The Straits Times.‘Turkish air defences targeted a Syrian fighter bomber as it struck areas of the northern

DHAKA: Russian president Vladimir Putin’s troops are ready to attack Ukraine at any time.Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council chief Andriy Parubiy warned on Sunday, reports The Straits Times.‘The aim of Putin is not Crimea, but all of Ukraine... His troops massed at the

DHAKA: Malaysia says it has received new satellite images from France showing potential debris from missing flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean.This is the third set of images in a week of possible debris in the area.Australia is coordinating the search and earlier said it was

DHAKA: Australian officials said on Sunday that a wooden cargo pallet along with belts or straps have been spotted in the remote Indian Ocean by one of the aircraft deployed in the hunt for a missing Malaysian jet.The objects were seen by a civilian aircraft assisting in the search for

DHAKA: Kiev braced for a unity rally on Sunday after elite Russian forces stormed one of Ukraine`s last Crimean bases in a march that has defied both sanctions and global isolation.Saturday’s takeover involving machinegun fire into the air and stun grenades provided the most spectacular

DHAKA: Malaysia says weather conditions in the southern corridor where debris possibly related to the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was spotted by satellite are very challenging.‘In the area where the possible objects were identified by the Australian authorities, there are

DHAKA: Unidentified gunmen have kidnapped a Tunisian diplomat in Tripoli, Tunisia’s foreign minister said, one of a string of diplomatic abductions in the Libyan capital this year.Three years after Libya’s revolt to topple Muammar Gaddafi, the North African country is struggling to

DHAKA: Australian prime minister Tony Abbott voiced increasing hope on Sunday of finding out what happened to Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 and the 239 people on board after unidentified debris was sighted in the search zone.‘It’s still too early to be definite, but obviously we have

DHAKA: William Hague has warned Russia that it faces long-term ‘isolation and stagnation’ over the crisis in Ukraine.The foreign secretary said it was time to consider a ‘new state of relations’ different to that of the past 20 years.Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, he said the UK