DHAKA: The Thai opposition is to hold a mass rally in the capital Bangkok as its campaign to bring down the government of Yingluck Shinawatra continues.Anti-government protesters have been holding huge demonstrations in the city for several weeks.On Saturday the main opposition Democrat

DHAKA: Mozambique`s civil aviation institute has said that it believes that the pilot of a plane that crashed last month deliberately caused the accident.Mozambican Airlines`s flight TM470 left the capital Maputo bound for Angola on 29 November but crashed over Namibia, killing all 33

DHAKA: The Nelson Mandela foundation on Saturday quashed reports that the former president received training from Israeli agents in 1962.‘Media have picked up on a story alleging that in 1962 Nelson Mandela interacted with an Israeli operative in Ethiopia,’ the foundation said in a

DHAKA: A police chief, who works at a department investigating financial crimes, has been found dead in his car in Ankara on Saturday.Police launched an investigation into the incident. Hakan Yüksekdağ was a police officer in Ankara Police Department, working on financial crimes.Turkish

DHAKA: Fighters from Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamist sect armed with anti-aircraft guns and grenade launchers attacked a barracks in the volatile northeast and battled soldiers for several hours.The military said, reports TDS.The army said it used troops and planes to repel Friday’s

DHAKA: The body of a British doctor who died in Syrian custody earlier in the week arrived in Lebanon Saturday ahead of repatriation to the United Kingdom.The body of Dr Abbas Khan crossed the eastern Masnaa border into Lebanon at around 3:00pm, a security source told TDS.An official from

DHAKA: At least 15 military servicemen were killed in an ambush in western Iraq, including several top-ranking officers.Security sources told Al Jazeera.The killings took place on Saturday in the Huran valley of the Sunni Muslim-dominated province of Anbar, when a convoy of the 7th army

DHAKA: Two United States astronauts on Saturday stepped outside the International Space Station for the first of three spacewalks to fix a broken equipment cooling system.Nasa said, reports The Straits Times.‘Today’s spacewalk has officially begun,’ said a Nasa commentator as the

DHAKA: Several cities in south Yemen were virtually paralysed on Saturday as an armed clash between southern militants and security forces wounded six people, witnesses and police said.Schools and public offices were closed and shops shuttered on the second day of a protest movement over

DHAKA: A top South Sudan army commander based in the key oil-producing Unity state appears to have defected to rebel forces.The country’s army spokesman said on Friday, The Straits Times publishes this report on Saturday.‘We have lost contact with the commander... and there are

DHAKA: China has denounced Japan’s plans to boost military purchases, accusing it of playing up regional tensions as an ‘excuse’ to ramp up defence spending.The cabinet of hawkish Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe agreed Tuesday to spend 24.7 trillion yen between 2014 and 2019 , a

DHAKA: The Saudi health ministry announced on Saturday a new MERS death, raising to 56 the number of people killed by the coronavirus in the country with the most fatalities.The victim was a 73-year-old Saudi man, who suffered from chronic illnesses, the ministry said on its website,

DHAKA: Thailand’s main opposition Democrat Party has announced it will boycott snap elections set for 2 February.Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva told a news conference it would not be fielding candidates, saying, ‘Thai politics is at a failed stage’, reports the BBC.Thai prime

DHAKA: Sixteen people, including the sons of two ministers, were charged on Saturday in connection with a Turkish corruption investigation that prime minister Tayyip Erdogan has called a ‘dirty operation’ aimed at undermining his rule.Suleyman Aslan, the general manager of state-owned

DHAKA: UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon urged Philippine typhoon survivors to ‘never despair’ as he pledged on Saturday to rally global backing to help them recover from one of their country’s deadliest disasters.‘Never despair. The UN is behind you. The world is behind you,’

DHAKA: India external affairs minister Salman Khurshid said Saturday that India and the US are in talks to resolve the stand-off over the alleged mistreatment of Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade and both sides would not want their close ties to be hurt by this ‘one

DHAKA: A Chinese rocket launched Bolivia’s first telecommunications satellite early on Saturday with the president of the South American country declaring it a success.The Long March-3B carrier rocket blasted off from the Xichang satellite launch centre in China’s south-western

DHAKA: Egypt’s deposed president Mohamed Mursi and 132 others, including members of Hamas, will stand trial for a prison break and the murder of officers during the 2011 uprising, prosecution sources said.The other defendants include leaders of Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood, who also

DHAKA: The leader of the most powerful rebel group in Syria, Ahrar al-Sham, says he will not recognise any agreement reached in the Geneva peace conference planned for January.Hassan Aboud, speaking to Al Jazeera from an undisclosed location inside Syria, said the group would

DHAKA: British prime minister David Cameron on Saturday expressed Britain’s ‘unconditional admiration’ for the families of the victims of the Lockerbie bombing on the attack’s 25th anniversary.Pan Am Flight 103 blew up over the Scottish town of Lockerbie on December 21, 1988,