DHAKA: A special tribunal hearing a landmark treason case against Pakistan’s former military ruler Pervez Musharraf on Friday ordered him to appear in person on March 31 or face arrest.The court was due to indict Musharraf on Friday over his 2007 imposition of emergency rule, but

DHAKA: Interim president Adly Mansour said Egypt will have an elected leader in 21/2 months, in an interview published on Friday by the state-owned Al-Ahram daily.The presidential election is seen as a major milestone in a transitional roadmap outlined by the military-installed

DHAKA: Russia has blocked three major opposition news websites as well as the popular blog of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, the latest in a media crackdown that comes amid Moscow’s standoff with the West over Ukraine.The government’s media watchdog Roskomnadzor said late Thursday

DHAKA: Rescuers scouring the rubble of two Manhattan apartment buildings levelled in a gas explosion found the body of an eighth victim on Thursday, nearly 36 hours after the disaster.An unspecified number of people remain missing after Wednesday’s building collapse in East Harlem,

DHAKA: A knife attack in China`s southern Hunan province has killed at least three people, Chinese state media say.Men armed with knives attacked civilians on Friday morning on a street in Changsha, Hunan`s provincial capital, the media said.One attacker was shot dead by police, it was

DHAKA: The US has circulated a draft resolution to the UN Security Council that would declare Sunday`s planned referendum on independence for Ukraine`s Crimea region illegal but Russia has pledged to veto it, council diplomats said on Thursday.Diplomats said the one-page resolution would

DHAKA: A 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck early Friday in the sea that separates three of Japan`s main islands, about 100 miles southwest of Hiroshima, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.The quake happened at 2:07 a.m. and was centered in the Inland Sea at a depth of 80 kilometers, the

DHAKA: US officials helping with the search for Flight MH370 were shifting focus to the "Indian Ocean region".However, one official told the BBC that this did not necessary mean specific new leads.White House spokesman Jay Carney said fresh lines of investigation were the reason why the

DHAKA: Russian president Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia was not to blame for the crisis over Ukraine’s Crimea region.At a meeting with paralympic delegations in the Black Sea city of Sochi, Putin thanked officials for keeping politics out of the Winter Paralympics being

DHAKA: Pope Francis is celebrating his first year in office.The Argentinean-born pontiff is currently on a week-long spiritual retreat with cardinals and bishops in the Alban Hills near Rome.Italian opinion polls give Pope Francis the highest popularity rating of any recent

DHAKA: Two Muslim Brotherhood leaders, wanted in Egypt for allegedly inciting deadly violence, have been arrested in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.Judicial sources have said, reports gulfnews.com.The International Police (Interpol) arrested Akram Al Shaer, a former Egyptian lawmaker, in Saudi

DHAKA: Russia said on Thursday it was stepping up field training for tank, artillery and infantry units in three regions next to the Ukrainian border in a powerful display of military might.The move came as thousands of paratroopers also began exercises close to Ukraine on Thursday, while

DHAKA: Ukraine’s parliament on Thursday voted unanimously to create a new National Guard of 60,000 volunteers who could stand up in the face of Russia’s expansionist threat.The 262-0 vote in the Verkhovna Rada parliament came ahead of Sunday’s disputed referendum in Crimea, now

DHAKA: Thai police have discovered about 200 suspected Turkish refugees at a secret camp in the kingdom’s deep south, officials said on Thursday, describing the case as ‘unprecedented’.Thailand has long been a hub for people trafficking, with thousands of Rohingya boat people from

DHAKA: Four men convicted of raping and murdering a woman in New Delhi had their death sentences upheld on Thursday for a crime that caused a huge public backlash against an entrenched culture of violence against women in India.The Delhi High court upheld the order to hang the four handed

DHAKA: German chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday that Russia risked ‘massive’ political and economic damage if it refused to change course on Ukraine.‘Ladies and gentlemen, if Russia continues on its course of the past weeks, it will not only be a catastrophe for Ukraine,’

DHAKA: A major explosion caused by a gas leak flattened two Manhattan apartment buildings in a fireball on Wednesday, killing at least six people and injuring scores of others.New York Mayor Bill de Blasio called the incident ‘a tragedy of the worst kind’ because the smell of gas was

DHAKA: A total of 31 people were killed and nine were missing after two lorries carrying dangerous chemicals collided in a Chinese tunnel, triggering a huge explosion.China authorities said on Thursday, reports The Straits Times.A methanol leak from the front vehicle started a fire, which

DHAKA: No signs of the missing Malaysian jetliner have been found at a spot where Chinese satellite images showed what might be plane debris, Malaysia’s civil aviation chief said on Thursday, deflating the latest lead in the five-day hunt.‘There is nothing. We went there, there is

DHAKA: Thousands of workers marched in Argentina’s capital Wednesday seeking to double the minimum wage to cope with sky-high inflation.Prices have been rising steadily in recent months particularly since January, when the peso shed 18 percent of its value against the US dollar.Workers