DHAKA: A stand-off involving pro-Russian soldiers at a Ukrainian military base outside the Crimean city of Sevastopol has reportedly ended without incident.A BBC correspondent saw two lorries from Russia`s Black Sea Fleet outside the gates, surrounded by armed men, reports BBC.But no

DHAKA: Saudi Arabia has listed the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organisation along with two al-Qaeda-linked groups fighting in Syria.The decree against the Brotherhood, whose Egyptian branch supported the deposed Egyptian president, Mohamed Morsi, was reported on Saudi state

DHAKA: A passenger flight carrying 239 people from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing is missing and would likely have run out of fuel, Malaysia Airlines said Saturday."At the moment we have no idea where this aircraft is right now," Malaysia Airlines Vice President of Operations Control Fuad

DHAKA: Venezuela has expelled Panama`s ambassador and three other diplomats amid growing tensions over opposition protests.The officials were given 48 hours to leave the country, reports BBC.It comes a day after Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro broke diplomatic relations and froze

DHAKA:  We`re leaving. No, you`re not.That`s where the crisis in Ukraine stood Thursday after lawmakers in Crimea voted in favor of leaving the country for Russia and putting it to a regional vote in 10 days, reported CNN.This act drew widespread condemnation, with Ukrainian interim

DHAKA: The Ukraine city of Sevastopol has declared itself a subject of the Russian Federation, hours after the semi-autonomous parliament of Crimea voted to do the same.The city, on the Crimean peninsula and home to the Black Sea fleet of the Russian navy, made the announcement late on

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama has urged President Vladimir Putin to seek a diplomatic solution to the crisis in Ukraine, in a lengthy telephone call.In their hour-long conversation, the Russian leader said Moscow-Washington relations should not suffer, reports BBC.Russian troops have

DHAKA: Saudi state television has for the first time broadcast the ‘confessions’ of a jihadist who returned from Syria, as the Muslim kingdom distances itself from Islamist radicals in that country’s conflict.Sulaiman al-Subaie, 25, who grew popular in his homeland for his posts on

DHAKA: The European Union on Thursday froze the assets of ousted Ukraine leader Viktor Yanukovych, ex-premier Mykola Azarov and 16 former ministers, businessmen and security chiefs, all on grounds of fraud.All 18 listed in the EU’s Official Journal were targeted as people ‘subject to

DHAKA: China’s health ministry on Thursday dampened speculation that the country could dump its one-child policy and allow families to have two.The world’s most populous country has restricted most families to one child since the late 1970s, but its ruling Communist party said in

DHAKA: The US is imposing visa restrictions on Russians and Crimeans who it says are threatening Ukraine.In addition, the White House said Thursday that president Barack Obama has signed an executive order authorizing sanctions on groups and individuals ‘responsible for activities

DHAKA: Gunmen were preventing a group of 40 military observers from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) from entering Crimea on Thursday for a monitoring mission.A Western diplomatic source said, reports The Straits Times.‘They are stuck but they are not

DHAKA: The Ukrainian region of Crimea could adopt the Russian rouble as its currency and ‘nationalise’ state property as part of plans to join the Russian Federation.A regional official was quoted as saying on Thursday, reports The Straits Times.Interfax news agency cited Rustam

DHAKA: The Ukrainian region of Crimea could adopt the Russian rouble as its currency and ‘nationalise’ state property as part of plans to join the Russian Federation.A regional official was quoted as saying on Thursday, reports The Straits Times.Interfax news agency cited Rustam

DHAKA: An Egyptian court on Thursday suspended the murder trial of Mohamed Mursi after his lawyers requested new judges, sources said, third such case against the deposed president to be put on hold.The case is part of a relentless crackdown the government has been waging against Mursi

DHAKA: MPs in the southern Ukrainian region of Crimea have voted to formally become part of the Russian Federation.Parliament said the decision would be put to the Crimean people for their verdict in a referendum on 16 March.A government minister in Kiev said they believe it would be

DHAKA: Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni on Thursday launched legal action over the publication of potentially compromising tapes secretly recorded during his 2007-12 term as French president.The Straits Times publishes this report.Lawyers for Sarkozy filed

DHAKA: The Libyan government says former leader Col Muammar Gaddafi’s son, Saadi, has been extradited from Niger and is now in custody in Tripoli.Pictures posted on the internet showed him having his head and beard shaved, reports the BBC.Saadi Gaddafi, the former head of Libya’s

DHAKA: Qayoum Karzai, the older brother of Afghanistan`s President Hamid Karzai has dropped out of the race for next month’s presidential elections.Thursday’s announcement comes after weeks of speculation that the elder Karzai would bow out in favour of Zalmai Rassoul, his brother`s

DHAKA: At least five soldiers from the Afghan army have been killed in a Nato air strike in eastern Afghanistan.They were killed in the early hours of Thursday in the Charkh district of Logar province.Nato confirmed the "unfortunate incident" and said it was investigating the