Two militants, a female and a boy, were killed in separate suicide blasts when Bangladesh Police raided their hideout here on Saturday. Counter terrorism and Transnational Crime unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) concluded their operation after 2 militants - a woman and a teenager were kille

Manila: Philippine disaster officials on Saturday ordered people living in coastal villages south of Manila to move to safer places as Typhoon Nock-ten is approaching the country. Speaking for the national disaster agency, Mina Marasigan told reporters that evacuation has got underway along the c

The evacuation of the last Opposition-held areas of the Syrian city of Aleppo was suspended on Friday after pro-government militias demanded that wounded people should also be brought out of two Shia villages being besieged by rebel fighters. The second day of the operation to take fighters and c

BEIJING China expressed dissatisfaction on Friday after exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama met President Pranab Mukherjee, saying it hoped India would recognise the Nobel Peace Prize winning monk as a separatist in religious guise.Mukherjee hosted the Dalai Lama and other Nobel Peace lau

US president-elect Donald Trump has said he will build safe zones in Syria and will make the Gulf states to pay for it. “We will build safe zones in Syria,” Trump said at a post-election victory rally in Pennsylvania last night. “When I look at what’s going on in Syria it’s so sad, it’s so sad. A

Washington: "Buy American and hire Americans" - US President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday said his government will follow these two simple rules and claimed that the treaties the US had signed with other countries suggest that it has been putting interests of others ahead of itself. At a 'Thank Y

Tokyo: Moscow seeks full normalisation of relations with Tokyo as it is imperative for the resolution of a peace treaty, the Russian President said on Tuesday. “We strive to sign a peace treaty. We want full-scale normalisation of relations,” Efe news agency quoted Vladimir Putin as saying in an

LAGOS (NIGERIA): Metal girders and the roof of a crowded church collapsed onto worshippers in southern Nigeria, killing at least 160 people with the toll likely to rise, a hospital director said Sunday. Mortuaries in the city of Uyo are overflowing from Saturday's tragedy, medical director Etete

HELSINKI (AP) — A gunman in Finland killed a local town councilor and two journalists in an apparent random shooting in a small town's nightlife district, police said Sunday. A local man was detained on suspicion of murder. The chairwoman of the Imatra town council and two female reporters were g

Beijing: At least 59 people have been killed in two separate Chinese coal mine blasts, according to death tolls reported by state media. An explosion on Saturday at a colliery in the northern Inner Mongolia region killed 32, Xinhua news agency said. A total of 181 people were working undergrou

Washington: Several Indian Americans are being considered for positions in the Trump administration as they all qualify on merit and ethnicity is not an issue, the highest ranking Indian-origin politician in the Republican party has said. “I know of several Indian Americans in consideration for p

Jerusalem: 23 people were arrested on suspicion of negligence or deliberately starting fires that swept across central and northern Israel. So far, the Israeli police released only the basic details about 10 of the detainees and is quiet with details identities of the remaining 13. The Israe

Washington: Mayor of New York City Bill de Blasio will sue the federal government if President-elect Donald Trump goes forward with his plan to establish a “Muslim registry.” In a speech delivered on Monday at The Cooper Union before hundreds of supporters, De Blasio slammed Trump’s controversial

Beijing: China has asked Muslim citizens to resolutely oppose religious extremism and stick to socialism with Chinese characteristics as it tightened security in the restive Muslim-majority Xinjiang province with stern measures. Chinese Muslims should resolutely oppose religious extremism, Wang Z

New York [USA]: As fighters advance on the besieged city of Mosul and the ISIS seemed to suffer huge losses, the terror outfit has now started targeting children and civilians. The terror group’s tactic of desperation as nearly 100,000 fighters advance toward Mosul is to simply lob mortars indisc

Los Angeles: A hijab-clad woman was allegedly accosted at a US store by another customer who called her a “terrorist” and told her to “get out” of the country, the latest in a series of hate incidents in which headscarf-wearing women have been targeted following Donald Trump’s win. The incident happ

A 6.7-magnitude earthquake jolted Akto County in Xinjiang province at 10.24 p.m. (Beijing Time) on Friday, local authorities said adding that there were no casualties. According to the China Earthquake Networks Centre, the quake struck at a depth of 10 km with its epicentre located at 39.27 degre

Forty-four people were killed and 103 injured when one Iranian passenger train collided with another at a station about 150 miles (250 km) east of the capital Tehran, state media reported. “I was sleeping when the crash happened. I thought it was an air strike … When I opened my eyes, there was bloo