DHAKA: South Sudan`s army says it has regained control of the rebel-held town of Bentiu, handing the government control of Unity State`s oilfields where production had been halted.The army had earlier announced it was mobilising thousands of additional troops as it battled to recapture

DHAKA: Clashes between Syrian rebel and fighters from an al-Qaeda-linked group have killed nearly 500 people in northern Syria over the past week, according to a monitoring group.The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says that at least 482 people have been killed in the

DHAKA: Central African Republic`s interim President Michel Djotodia has resigned at a regional summit aimed at ending violence that has engulfed the country.PM Nicolas Tiengaye also resigned at the meeting in Chad.Thousands of people took to the streets in CAR`s capital, Bangui, most of

DHAKA: Kenya planes `kill Somali militants` from al-ShababKenya says it has carried out an air strike on an Islamist camp in Somalia, killing 30 militants, including al-Shabab commanders, reports BBC.The strike happened in Garbarahey, near the border with Kenya and Ethiopia.Local media

DHAKA: A US government review panel has determined a man from Yemen detained at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba for more than a decade can be released.Mahmud Mujahid, 33, had been accused of being an al-Qaeda fighter and bodyguard to Osama Bin Laden.He was held at the detention centre since 2002

DHAKA: A 14-year-old boy is being hailed as a hero in Pakistan for tackling a suicide bomber -- dying at the main gate of his school and saving schoolmates gathered for their morning assembly, reports CNN.Ninth-grader Aitazaz Hassan Bangash was on his way to the Ibrahimzai School on

DHAKA: A car bomb has exploded near a school in the central Syrian province of Hama, killing at least 18 people and wounding dozens more, according to a monitoring group.The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Thursday that the explosion took place in the village of

DHAKA: An escaped jail inmate turned himself in just so that he could warm up -- that`s how cold the U.S. has been this week.With the country swept with unforgiving weather since December due to a distorted polar vortex, Brimson in Minnesota plunged to minus 40 C on Wednesday while

    DHAKA: Devyani Khobragade, the Indian diplomat at the heart of a dispute that has strained ties between New Delhi and Washington, is on her way back to India from the United States, officials said.American authorities` arrest and strip-search of Khobragade, the Indian deputy

DHAKA: A suicide bomber has killed 22 Iraqi army recruits and wounded dozens of others in Baghdad, police say, a day after the country`s prime minister pledged to wipe out al-Qaeda from the country.A man with an explosive vest blew himself up on Thursday amid the recruits at the small

DHAKA: UK visas may be auctioned off to overseas millionaires or ‘sold’ in exchange for donations to hospitals and universities under new government proposals, a media report said Thursday.The proposals, which will be published next month, will form part of a report from the

DHAKA: The father of a Pakistani teenager killed after tackling a suicide bomber Thursday hailed his son for saving ‘hundreds’ of lives through his bravery.Aitzaz Hassan, aged around 15, died in hospital after stopping the bomber, who blew himself up, at the gates of his school in the

DHAKA: Turkish prime minister Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling party has seen its popularity slip since a corruption scandal erupted last month but remains comfortably ahead of the main opposition.The first major poll published since the affair showed on Thursday.The survey by Sonar research,

DHAKA: Konstantin Dolgov, the Russian foreign ministry’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Democracy and Supremacy of Law, has confirmed earlier Thursday his plans on visiting the Guantanamo detention camp on January 17.‘We believe that the American side won’t change the previously set

DHAKA: Philippine president Benigno Aquino Thursday sought Norway’s help in reviving failed peace talks with Maoist guerrillas, a senior presidential aide said, nearly a year after peace talks hosted by Oslo fell apart.Aquino met Norwegian foreign minister Borge Brende in the Philippine

DHAKA: Afghanistan is to release all but 16 of 88 prisoners regarded as a security threat by the United States.The White House has said, reports Sky News.Afghan officials have said they do not have enough evidence to try the other 72 detainees so they will be freed.The US is strongly

DHAKA: US energy secretary Ernest Moniz will no longer travel to India as planned next week, an official of the US Energy Department said on Wednesday, the most serious repercussion yet in a row over the arrest of an Indian diplomat in New York.‘I can confirm that Secretary Moniz is no

DHAKA: A suicide attacker in Karachi on Thursday killed one of Pakistan’s best-known police commanders, famed for his fearless work tackling militants in the city.Chaudhry Aslam, who had survived numerous assassination attempts in the past, died along with two other officers when a

DHAKA: A massive car bomb killed 18 people in the village of Kafat in Syria’s central Hama province on Thursday.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights NGO said, reports Al Arabiya.The monitoring group said women and children were among the dead in the blast, which also killed members

DHAKA: An Egyptian court sentenced 63 Muslim Brotherhood supporters to three years in jail each on Thursday on charges including rioting, thuggery and weapons possession during protests late last year in Cairo.An Egypt judicial source said, reports Today’s Zaman.It was the biggest