DHAKA: China and Indonesia demanded explanations from Australia on Friday over reports that Canberra`s missions were involved in a vast US-led surveillance network, as the row souring US-Europe relations spread in Asia.US Secretary of State John Kerry admitted US spying had sometimes gone

DHAKA: Niger says it will close illegal migrant camps in the north of the country after 92 people who died of thirst were found in the Sahara.All those involved in trafficking migrants would be "severely punished", the government said.The bodies of 52 children, 33 women and seven men were

DHAKA: Pirates operating off the Horn of Africa netted more than $400m (£251m) in ransom money between 2005 and 2012, a new World Bank and UN report says.It says the financiers behind the piracy, and not the pirates themselves, collect most of the cash.The money is then used to fund

other people wounded in a shooting at Los Angeles International Airport, officials say.The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said three of its staff had been injured, one fatally.The suspect - named by the FBI as 23-year-old Los Angeles resident Paul Anthony Ciancia - was

DHAKA: Germany and Brazil have asked the UN General Assembly to adopt a draft resolution calling for the right to privacy in the digital age.The draft calls for an end to excessive electronic surveillance, noting that the illegal collection of personal data "constitutes a highly intrusive

DHAKA: A US drone strike has killed Hakimullah Mehsud, the head of the Pakistani Taliban, in North Waziristan bordering Afghanistan, Pakistani sources have told Al Jazeera."We can confirm Hakimullah Mehsud was killed in the drone strike," said the source on Friday.Al Jazeera`s Kamal

DHAKA: UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has said that a proposed Geneva peace conference to end the war in Syria could not be held without the participation of the opposition."If the opposition does not participate there will be no Geneva conference," Brahimi said at a news conference

DHAKA: Thailand`s parliament has moved another step closer to passing controversial political amnesty legislation that opponents fear would allow ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to return.Thousands took to the streets on Friday to protest against the draft bill, raising fears of

DHAKA: Israeli artillery fire in the southern Gaza Strip has killed four Palestinian fighters and wounded others, officials from both sides said.The local commanders of Hamas` military wing were killed by tank fire, Palestinian officials said on Friday, while the Israeli army said five of

DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry has said that in some cases, US spying has gone too far.Mr Kerry is the most senior Obama administration official to have commented directly on an issue that has upset America`s European allies.He said he will work with the president to prevent

DHAKA: Syria has destroyed all of its declared chemical weapons production and mixing facilities, meeting a major deadline in an ambitious disarmament programme, the international chemical weapons watchdog said in a document.The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)

DHAKA: Stranded in the unforgiving expanses of Niger`s Sahara Desert after their vehicles broke down, 90 of people, almost all of them women and children, slowly died of thirst.The migrants had been trying to reach Algeria, Azaoua Mahaman of the Synergie nongovernmental organization said

DHAKA: Israeli warplanes struck a military base near the Syrian port city of Latakia this week, an Obama administration official told CNN on Thursday.An explosion at a missile storage site in the area was reported in the Middle Eastern press, but an attack has not been confirmed by the

DHAKA: China accused Japan of interfering in its recent naval exercises and said it may take unspecified further action if the meddling doesn`t stop.The tough talk comes amid a bitter dispute over competing claims to an uninhabited island group in the East China Sea.China defence ministry

DHAKA: Pakistani police said on Thursday they have arrested 18 suspects over the killing of 10 foreign climbers in the Himalayas in June, but warned that others remain at large.The June 22 attack was the deadliest assault on foreigners in the nuclear-armed country for a decade and was

DHAKA: The US has criticised Germany’s economic policies, saying that its export-led growth model is hurting the eurozone and the wider global economy.In its bi-annual report, the US Treasury said that domestic demand growth in Germany had been ‘anaemic’.It also reiterated its view

DHAKA; Four domestic Chinese flights were diverted on Thursday after bomb threats were received, state media reported, days after an attack rocked Tiananmen Square in the capital.The official Xinhua news agency reported that an unidentified suspect had been arrested in connection with the

DHAKA: Israel’s army arrested three senior members of the Islamist Hamas movement overnight, Palestinian security sources said on Thursday, in the second such arrest operation this week.The three men, Jamal Tawil, Hussein Abu Kwayk and Faraj Romana, were arrested in the West Bank city

DHAKA: A strong earthquake struck Taiwan on Thursday, shaking buildings in the capital Taipei and causing tremors across the island.The country’s Seismology Centre said the tremor, which struck shortly after 8pm local time, was measured at 6.3 magnitude with its epicentre in the

DHAKA: An Italian magazine said Thursday that a United States spy agency had eavesdropped on Vatican phone calls, possibly including when former Pope Benedict’s successor was under discussion, but the Holy See said it had no knowledge of any such activity.‘Panorama’ magazine said