DHAKA: Egypt has told the Turkish ambassador to leave the country and downgraded relations between the two countries.Egypt’s foreign ministry blamed Turkey’s continued ‘interference’ in its country’s internal affairs, reports the BBC.Turkey’s diplomatic representation has been

KABUL (REUTERS) - Militants kidnapped 11 Pakistani teachers involved in a polio vaccination campaign for school children on Saturday, officials said, the latest in a string of attacks on health workers trying to eradicate the deadly disease.The teachers were taken from the private Hira

DHAKA: Syrian rebels, including from the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Nusra Front, have seized a key eastern oil field.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday, reports The Straits Times.‘Fighters from Al-Nusra and other groups have taken the Omar oil field in Deir Ezzor

DHAKA: The Pakistan Repatriation Council (PRC) has called on the government of Pakistan to repatriate the quarter of a million Pakistanis stranded in Bangladesh.At a meeting with the visiting Pakistani senator, Raja Zafarul Haq, PRC convener Syed Ehsanul Haq said the current Pakistan

 DHAKA: At least 11,000 people have been evacuated as a severe cyclone slammed into the north-eastern coast of Andhra Pradesh, packing strong winds and torrential rain and killing at least two people, according to officials.Heavy rain lashed the region and knocked out power to hundreds

DHAKA: Tehelka founder and editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal, accused of sexually assaulting a junior colleague in a five-star hotel earlier this month, was Friday booked for rape by Goa Police as the Union home ministry swung into action and sought details of the incident. The famed

DHAKA: 22 people have died in a pipeline explosion in the port of Qingdao in East China, according to local authorities and media.According to reports, the oil pipeline, owned by China`s oil refiner Sinopec ruptured and, while being repaired, caught fire and exploded.Chinese authorities

DHAKA: Andhra Pradesh is bracing for severe cyclonic storm, Helen, which is expected to hit the state`s coast this afternoon.Here are the latest developments:The storm, packing wind speeds of upto 120 kilometres per hour, is likely to cross the Andhra Pradesh coast near Machillipatnam

DHAKA: An extremely rare Leica camera with an estimated value of around $1.2m (£750,000) is set to be auction in Hong Kong on Friday.The gold-plated Leica Luxus II, dating from 1932, is one of only four of its kind ever made.Its Welsh owner, who died last year, showed it on BBC TV`s

DHAKA: Three women have been "rescued" from a south London house as police investigate claims they were held as slaves for about 30 years.Last month officers were contacted by Freedom Charity after it received a call from a woman saying she had been held against her will for decades.A

DHAKA: Firefighters among 26 people killed and dozens more are feared missing after the roof of a supermarket collapsed on shoppers in the Latvian capital, Riga. Two of those killed were emergency workers, officials said. At least 35 people have been injured.A criminal investigation has

DHAKA: Afghan President Hamid Karzai has told his countrymen that a vital security pact with the United States should not come into effect until after next year`s election and conceded there was little trust between the two countries.But the US replied that it was "neither practical nor

DHAKA: President Barack Obama took another step toward cementing an important political alliance with Bill Clinton on Wednesday, giving the 42nd president the nation`s highest civilian honor.Clinton received the Presidential Medal of Freedom along with 15 other luminaries in sports,

DHAKA: Saudi Arabia has asked its citizens to leave Lebanon due to the risk of political violence in the country, where twin suicide bombings near Iran`s embassy in Beirut killed 25 people this week.Riyadh has issued several similar calls in the past two years as the civil war in Syria

DHAKA: Four British men have been killed fighting alongside Al-Qaeda-linked fighters in Syria, it was reported Thursday, as fears rise of the growing threat from jihadists returning from the war.Three of the men, all thought to be from London, were killed in August as their group attacked

DHAKA: An Iraqi Shia militia said on Thursday it had fired six mortar bombs into Saudi Arabia’s desert as a ‘warning message’ to the kingdom to stop ‘interfering’ in Iraqi affairs.‘The goal was to send a warning message to Saudis to tell them that their border stations and

DHAKA: Pope Francis on Thursday said the Catholic Church will not accept a Middle East without Christians, who often find themselves forced to flee areas of conflict and unrest in the region.‘We will not resign ourselves to imagining a Middle East without Christians,’ he said after

DHAKA: A car bombing near a cafe in a packed market killed at least 30 people and wounded 40 others in a town northeast of Baghdad on Thursday.The blast struck in Saadiyah, a town in restive ethnically-mixed Diyala province, according to a police colonel and a doctor, both speaking on

DHAKA: Australian police and central bank websites fell victim to cyber attacks on Thursday with an Indonesian hacker claiming responsibility, reportedly demanding that Canberra apologise in an intensifying row over spying.The row, triggered by reports that Australian spies tried to tap

DHAKA: A US drone strike in northwest Pakistan killed six people including a senior leader of the ruthless Haqqani network, officials said, in only the second such strike outside the country’s lawless tribal districts.The missile attack hit a religious seminary that militants and