DHAKA: At least 11 workers died and 18 others were injured when a large concrete beam collapsed on Tuesday at a construction site just outside Bangkok.Police said, reports The Straits Times.Two of the injured were in a critical condition in hospital, said Apiwat Kasorn of the Bang Phli

DHAKA: Israeli police early Tuesday entered the sensitive Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem`s Old City to disperse stone-throwing Palestinian protesters.A police spokesman said, reports The Straits Times.Police used stun grenades to disperse the Palestinians, Micky Rosenfeld told

DHAKA: Pakistani military officials said the air force has bombarded the suspected hideouts of Taliban militants in tribal areas near the Afghan border, killing at least 27 militants.Officials said on Tuesday the early-morning attack targeted areas of North and South Waziristan, in the

DHAKA: South Korean president Park Geun Hye announced on Tuesday the creation of a committee under her direct control to work out ‘systematic and constructive’ plans for reunification of the divided Korean peninsula.The presidential committee will include experts from every sector of

DHAKA: Ukraine’s interim president Olexander Turchynov is due to form a unity government, days after the ousting of president Viktor Yanukovych.The US has yet to endorse the new leader, but says ‘Mr Yanukovych is no longer actively leading the country’.Meanwhile, UK foreign

DHAKA: Thailand’s army chief warned on Monday the country risks ‘collapse’ unless it pulls back from escalating violence after attacks in recent days left three children dead in the kingdom`s worst political unrest since 2010.Twenty-one people have now been killed and more than 700

DHAKA: A top Pakistani minister on Monday offered to hold a cricket match with the Taliban as a way of reviving stalled talks on ending the militants’ bloody seven-year insurgency.Pakistan’s government entered into a formal dialogue with the Taliban earlier this month, but the process

DHAKA: A court in Russia has sentenced eight protesters for rioting and attacking police at a demonstration against Vladimir Putin’s inauguration for a third presidential term in 2012.Seven of the ‘Bolotnaya’ activists received prison terms of up to four years. An eighth, the only

DHAKA: Violence in Iraq, including shelling in the city of Ramadi and shootings in the north, has killed at least 17 people since Sunday.The single deadliest attack was a bomb that exploded on a highway between Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul on Sunday, killing three police and

DHAKA: Egypt’s military-backed interim government has resigned, prime minister Hazem Beblawi has announced.Beblawi gave no reason for the decision in his televised statement, reports the BBC.The state-run al-Ahram newspaper, citing unnamed sources, reported that outgoing housing

DHAKA: A top commander of the Pakistani Taliban was shot dead by unidentified gunmen on Monday in the militant stronghold of North Waziristan.Security sources and family members in the tribal region told media, reports Al Arabiya.Asmatullah Shaheen was on the Pakistan army’s list of

DHAKA: Fugitive Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, ousted after bloody street protests in which demonstrators were shot by police snipers, is wanted for mass murder.Authorities announced on Monday, reports The Straits Times.As rival neighbours east and west of the former Soviet

DHAKA: The current mix of low taxpayer base, increasing public spending, and resistance towards subsidy rationalisation is a recipe for trouble, said Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak.Revealing that only one out of every 10 Malaysians pays tax, Najib said there is an urgent need to

DHAKA: Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, the target of anti-government protesters who have blocked parts of Bangkok for weeks, has left the city and is staying 150km away.Her office said on Monday, without specifying the location, reports The Straits Times.The protests, punctuated

DHAKA: Israeli special forces have shot dead an American-Israeli prisoner - jailed for a brutal murder in the US - after he opened fire on prison guards.A police spokesman said Samuel Sheinbein had shot three security officers, critically injuring one, and barricaded himself the

DHAKA: Ukraine`s new interim President Oleksandr Turchynov has said the country will focus on closer integration with the EU.Turchynov was appointed following the dismissal of President Viktor Yanukovych by MPs on Saturday.Yanukovych`s rejection of an EU-Ukraine trade pact triggered the

DHAKA: The death toll from early morning air strikes on militant hideouts in the northwest rose to 38 on Sunday evening.Officials said, reports The Straits Times.‘There are confirmed reports that 38 terrorists including some important commanders were killed,’ a statement by the

DHAKA: Egyptian state prosecutors have accused ousted president Mohamed Mursi of leaking state secrets in a plot to destabilise Egypt.At the second hearing of his trial for espionage on Sunday, Mursi, along with 35 others including leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, was accused of

DHAKA: Ukraine’s parliament has voted to temporarily hand over the duties of president to the speaker of the assembly, Oleksander Turchinov, who told deputies to agree on the formation of a national unity government by Tuesday.‘This is a priority task,’ Turchinov said in parliament,

DHAKA: A radical Taiwanese independence group said on Sunday they had pulled down a statue of the founding father of the nationalist republic who fled from the Chinese mainland to the island more than six decades ago.The event, which was condemned by politicians and supporters of the