DHAKA: Communist insurgents in the southern Philippines torched three taxis barely an hour before their 48-hour Christmas truce took effect.Police said on Tuesday, reports The Straits Times.New People’s Army (NPA) guerrillas burned the three cabs of Holiday Taxi company in the city of

DHAKA: Nepal’s Maoists have agreed to join the country’s constituent assembly, ending a weeks-long impasse after they initially rejected the result of last month`s elections.A senior party leader said on Tuesday, reports The Straits Times.‘We have agreed to join the assembly and

DHAKA: Just six months after first leaking National Security Agency secrets in a move that triggered a revaluation of US surveillance policies, Edward Snowden is declaring ‘mission’s already accomplished’.Snowden told The Washington Post in his first in-person interview since his

DHAKA: The US is reviewing the paperwork it received from the United Nations about the diplomatic accreditation of senior Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade arrested earlier this month on visa fraud charges, an American official has said.‘We received the paperwork from the United

DHAKA: Syrian aircraft have killed more than 330 people in a nine-day bombing campaign on Aleppo, with the opposition National Coalition threatening to boycott next month’s planned Geneva peace talks if the attacks continue.The vicious campaign has seen aircraft drop barrels of TNT on

DHAKA: In a virtual re-run of the infamous Park Street rape case 20 months back, a minor girl was allegedly sexually assaulted inside a taxi in an upscale area of the city.Police said on Monday, reports NDTV.The 13-year-old girl, whose family lives on a pavement, was alleged to have been

DHAKA: Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood condemned a bomb attack on a security compound in the Nile Delta town of Dakahlyia which killed 12 people and wounded more than 100 early on Tuesday.‘The Muslim Brotherhood condemns in the strongest possible terms the attack on the police headquarters

DHAKA: China`s plan to relax its controversial decades-long, one-child policy has taken a significant step forward, with the country`s top legislative body poised to approve its implementation early next year.The changes to the rules, first announced last month, will mean couples will be

DHAKA: UN chief Ban Ki-moon has urged the Security Council to add 5,500 UN troops to the 7,000-strong force in South Sudan, amid escalating fighting there.His plea comes as new details emerge of alleged ethnic killings committed during more than a week of violence, reports BBC. Ban

DHAKA: Pakistani former military ruler Pervez Musharraf is due to go on trial on treason charges.He will appear before a special court in Islamabad - a day after his petition that only a military court could examine his actions was rejected, reports BBC.The charge relates to his decision

DHAKA: Mikhail Kalashnikov, the Russian gun designer whose AK-47 rifle became the weapon of choice for many national armies and guerrillas around the world, died Monday, the Kremlin announced on its website.He was 94.Kalashnikov designed his first machine gun in 1942 after suffering

DHAKA: At least 14 people were killed Tuesday night when two explosions hit an Interior Ministry building in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura, according to media reports from Egypt.Al Ahram, a semi-official news agency, reported that Health Ministry officials said 130 people also were

DHAKA: Iran wants to improve bilateral relations with the United States and other Western powers, president Hassan Rouhani said in an editorial published in a German newspaper on Monday, broaching an issue he has so far avoided since he took office.Rouhani won a landslide election victory

DHAKA: India on Monday successfully test-fired its nuclear-capable ‘Agni-III’ ballistic missile with a strike range of more than 3,000 km, as part of a user trial by the Army from Wheeler Island off Odisha coast.‘The test-fire conducted by Strategic Force Command (SFC) of the Army

DHAKA: Israeli Mossad agents operating in Ethiopia in 1962 unwittingly trained Nelson Mandela in hand-to-hand combat, weaponry and sabotage, according to a document released by Israel’s state archives.A letter from a Mossad official to the foreign ministry, dated October 11, 1962 titled

DHAKA: Journalists will no longer be allowed to enter police departments, a statement released from the Turkish police has said.‘Members of the press will not be allowed into the Police Departments all over Turkey as of December 22, 2013,’ a statement read, reports daily

DHAKA: Iran’s foreign minister and the EU’s top diplomat agreed during telephone call Sunday to postpone until after Christmas talks on implementing a landmark nuclear agreement.Iran’s chief negotiator said, daily Hurriyet publishes this report on Monday.‘During this telephone

DHAKA: South Sudanese troops are preparing to enter the rebel-held town of Bor, president Salva Kiir has said.Kiir told parliament the army was ‘ready to move’, adding that the counter-attack had been delayed to allow US citizens to be airlifted out, reports the BBC.Bor, in the

DHAKA: Russia has sent 25 armoured trucks and 50 other vehicles to Syria to help transport toxins that are to be destroyed under an international agreement to rid the nation of its chemical arsenal.Russia defence minister Sergei Shoigu said on Monday, reports The Jerusalem Post.In a

DHAKA: Syrian warplanes have killed more than 300 people, including 87 children, in an eight-day bombing campaign against rebel-held parts of the northern city of Aleppo.A monitor said Monday, reports daily Hurriyet.‘From December 15 to 22, 301 people have been killed, including 87