DHAKA: A Canadian national has been arrested in Colombia after trying to board a flight to Toronto with a phony pregnant belly stuffed with cocaine, police say.The tourist caught the attention of a policewoman at Bogota`s International Airport who allegedly asked her how far along she

DHAKA: Russian President Vladimir Putin has made a direct personal appeal to the American people over the Syrian crisis.In an opinion article in the New York Times, he warns that a US military strike against Syria could unleash a new wave of terrorism.He says millions of people see the US

DHAKA: Nigeria’s president Goodluck Jonathan has sacked nine cabinet ministers, amid serious divisions in the governing party.Two weeks ago, seven of the country`s powerful state governors and former vice-president Atiku Abubakar formed a splinter-group in the PDP.They were angry after

DHAKA: The US is remembering the victims of the 9/11 attacks in a series of memorials marking the 12th anniversary.The 11 September 2001 attacks killed almost 3,000 people in New York, the Washington DC area and Pennsylvania.In New York, families of the victims are reading the names of

DHAKA: With the situation limping back to normalcy, the district administration on Wednesday decided to relax curfew for four hours from noon in three areas of riot-hit Muzaffarnagar.District magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma said curfew would be relaxed for four hours from 12 noon. Death

DHAKA: Six Egyptian soldiers were killed after explosions near a military intelligence building in the Sinai peninsula town of Rafah on Wednesday.Egypt’s state news agency Egynews reported, says CNN.The Sinai is a lawless area that has been the site of frequent attacks.Egypt has been

DHAKA: Russian Pantsir missile system deliveries to Syria are continuing under earlier signed contracts, said Alexander Denisov.The shipments of Pantsir missile systems to the United Arab Emirates will be completed this year, Denisov, Vysokotochny-High-Precision Complex Holding’s

DHAKA: Saudi Arabia suspended 18 Friday preachers last month, charging that their sermons referred to complex political issues related to events unfolding in Arab countries.All the preachers were investigated for failing to follow the religious purpose of the Friday sermons, Tawfeeq Al

DHAKA: Fighters from an al Qaeda-linked rebel group killed 12 members of the minority Alawite sect in central Syria after seizing their village.An opposition monitoring group said on Wednesday, reports The Jerusalem Post.Alawites are an offshoot sect of Shia Islam and have been

DHAKA: Pope Francis on Wednesday said atheists could take moral decisions just like religious people, in an unprecedented letter to a leftwing Italian daily, his latest attempt to reach out to non-believers.‘God’s mercy has no limits if we turn to him with a sincere and contrite

DHAKA: Russian president Vladimir Putin has approved the transfer of S-300 anti-aircraft missiles to Iran, according to the prestigious Russian daily newspaper Kommersant.The newspaper reported on Wednesday that the Russian government will revive the transfer three years after it

DHAKA: India’s cabinet will on Thursday consider a finance ministry proposal to borrow an additional US$4.3 billion from an arm of the World Bank, according to a cabinet agenda document.Under the proposal India would borrow the money from the International Bank of Reconstruction and

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama has postponed a congressional vote on military action in Syria, vowing to pursue diplomacy to remove the regime’s chemical weapons.Damascus has admitted for the first time that it has chemical weapons, and has agreed to abide by a Russian plan to hand

DHAKA: Toxic liquor has killed at least 12 people in central Pakistan, police and health officials said on Wednesday.The deaths occurred near the farming town of Rahim Yar Khan, where the men were drinking locally made liquor at a party.Eight of them died on Monday while four more

DHAKA: Attacks in Iraq killed six people Wednesday, including a school principal who was among several victims in a spate of shootings in the north.The latest bloodshed comes as authorities carry out wide-ranging operations targeting militants and implement tight restrictions on vehicle

DHAKA: Suspected Muslim insurgents killed five policemen in Thailand’s deep south on Wednesday in one of the most serious attacks since talks between a major Muslim rebel group and the government to end nearly a decade of conflict stalled.‘A special investigative unit was on duty when

DHAKA: Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad marks his 48th birthday on Wednesday with the threat of US-led strikes against his regime in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack apparently receding.A Syrian pro-regime site called on residents of the capital Damascus to demonstrate

DHAKA: Japan’s coastguard said it was ‘on high alert’ Wednesday, a year to the day since Tokyo nationalised islands that China says it has owned for centuries.Often-testy ties have soured dramatically over the last 12 months, with frequent confrontations between official ships from

DHAKA: The United States relaxed sanctions on Iran on Tuesday to make it easier for US humanitarian groups to work there and sports exchanges to occur between Americans and Iranians, a possible goodwill gesture after Iran elected a new moderate president.The move announced by the US

DHAKA: A government-appointed body that oversees Myanmar’s Buddhist monkhood has issued a directive intended to check the influence of a monk-led movement accused of stoking violence against minority Muslims.At least 237 people have died in sectarian violence since June last year and