Gaza truce under strain as Israel’s strikes kill dozens, toll mounts
Cargo jet plunges into sea at Hong Kong; 2 ground staff killed
DHAKA: Dr. Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian surgeon volunteering at a Gaza hospital, has invited US president Barack Obama to spend a night in Al Shifa’a Hospital to see the consequences of Israel’s deadly assault on the Palestinian enclave.Speaking to Al Arabiya News Channel, he
The world is watching as Israel is carrying out genocide at occupied Gaza strip. Everyday children, women and innocent citizen are being mercilessly murdered in the holy month of Ramadan; still the Islamic Ummah is doing little. Israel has definite plan to destroy Palestine race .
DHAKA: At least 14 children were killed along with their driver when a train hit the school bus carrying them in the Indian state of Telangana, police say. The passenger train rammed into the school bus, dragging it several hundred metres down the track, reports said. No one on the
DHAKA: More than 50 former Israeli soldiers have refused to serve in the nation’s reserve force, citing regret over their part in a military they said plays a central role in oppressing Palestinians, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday. “We found that troops who operate in the
DHAKA: The UN Human Rights Council has voted to launch an independent inquiry into Israel's offensive in Gaza, Israel continued its bombardment of the Gaza Strip in its operation against Hamas. The vote on Wednesday in Geneva came hours after the UN rights chief, Navi Pillay, told an
DHAKA: Forty-eight people died and ten people were injured after a TransAsia Airways flight crashed on the outlying island county of Penghu Wednesday, the airline confirmed Thursday morning. The 58 people on board included two foreigners, the airline said in a statement. The two --
DHAKA: Doctors in India have extracted 232 teeth from the mouth of a 17-year-old boy in a seven-hour operation.Ashik Gavai was brought in with a swelling in his right jaw, Dr Sunanda Dhiware, head of Mumbai's JJ Hospital's dental department, told the BBC.The teenager had been suffering
DHAKA: The foreign secretaries of Pakistan and India are set to meet in Islamabad next month in the neighbouring countries’ latest attempt at improving ties.The proposed meeting, announced by Pakistan’s foreign office on Wednesday, comes after Pakistan’s prime minister Nawaz
DHAKA: A French court has jailed three men for rioting after a pro-Palestinian rally in a mixed suburb of Paris degenerated into anti-Semitic violence.The three men, aged 21 and 28, were given sentences of between six and 10 months for their part in the rioting in Sarcelles on
DHAKA: The Red Cross announced a temporary ceasefire in two zones including Khan Younis and Sejaia of the Gaza Strip.According to a media report, says The Jerusalem Post.The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has not confirmed any reports of a ceasefire.The Red Cross intends to use such a
DHAKA: Pro-Russian rebels on Wednesday shot down two Ukrainian fighter jets in the insurgent-held area where Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was downed.The Ukrainian military said, reports The Straits Times.‘Terrorists have shot down two Ukrainian Su-25 jets,’ the press office for
DHAKA: Germany’s Lufthansa on Wednesday suspended flights to and from Tel Aviv for an additional 24 hours. The decision also applies to Germanwings, Austrian Airlines, Swiss and Brussels Airlines.‘At the present time no adequate authoritative new information is available that
DHAKA: A bomb blast in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna has killed at least 25 people.Nigeria police say, reports the BBC.The bomb targeted moderate Islamic cleric Dahiru Bauchi who had been travelling in the area, police added.He escaped unhurt. It is unclear who was behind the
DHAKA: A Transasia Airways plane carrying 58 people from south-western Taiwan’s Kaohsiung city has crashed into two houses on Wednesday, killing dozens of people.Transport minister Yeh Kuang-shih confirmed to reporters that 47 people are dead and 11 people are injured, reports The
DHAKA: A Transasia Airways plane carrying 58 people from south-western Taiwan’s Kaohsiung city has crashed into two houses on Wednesday, killing dozens of people.Transport minister Yeh Kuang-shih confirmed to reporters that 47 people are dead and 11 people are injured, reports The
DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday some progress had been made in efforts to bring an end to 16 days of fighting between Israel and Hamas.‘We have certainly made some steps forward. There is still work to be done,’ Kerry said shortly after arriving in
DHAKA: Iran said on Wednesday nuclear talks with six world powers would resume in early September, according to state television, after both sides agreed to continue talking for four more months to try to reach a final agreement on Tehran’s nuclear program. The preliminary accord had
DHAKA: Israel may be committing war crimes in Gaza, where its punitive house demolitions and killing of children raise the ‘strong possibility’ that it is violating international law. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said on Wednesday, reports The Jerusalem Post.
DHAKA: Islamic State militants claimed responsibility on Wednesday for an overnight suicide bombing in a Shia district of Baghdad which killed 33 people, one of the deadliest recent attacks in the Iraqi capital.The hardline Sunni Islamist group which has led an offensive through
DHAKA: Indonesia’s losing presidential election candidate, ex-general Prabowo Subianto, plans to challenge the result in the Constitutional Court. Prabowo team’s chief lawyer said on Wednesday, reports The Straits Times. The challenge had been widely expected, but many analysts