DHAKA: At least thirteen people have drowned after a boat carrying around 70 Indonesians capsized in the Strait of Malacca, Malaysian maritime authorities said on Thursday.A member of the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) told the Guardian the boat was found off the coast of

DHAKA: China will cut the number of its troops by 300,000, President Xi Jinping announced Thursday.It will be the country’s fourth cut of troops since the reform and opening-up in the 1980s, reports Xinhua.Xi revealed the information while delivering a speech at a gathering to

DHAKA: Five Chinese naval ships are currently positioned in the Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska.US officials confirm, reports the BBC.It is believed to be the first time Chinese military vessels have been seen operating in the area.Officials say they have been monitoring the ships'

DHAKA: Global plans to curb carbon dioxide are well below what's needed to keep temperatures from rising above 2 degrees according to a new analysis.It is the work of researchers from the Climate Action Tracker (CAT), a consortium of research institutions.They examined the commitments

DHAKA: Hungary's leader is to meet European leaders in Brussels for talks on the migrant crisis, with thousands still stranded at a Budapest railway station.Since Tuesday, migrants have been prevented from getting on trains to leave Hungary as EU states struggle to agree on how to deal

DHAKA: More than 13 million children are being denied an education due to conflicts in the Middle East, the UN has said, warning ‘the hopes of a generation’ would be dashed if they cannot return to classrooms.In a report on the impact of conflict on education in six countries and

DHAKA: Two Red Cross aid workers have been shot dead in northern Yemen by unknown assailants.The humanitarian organization said, reports Al Jazeera.A spokesperson for the International Committee for the Red Cross told Al Jazeera the workers, Yemeni nationals, were on their way from a

DHAKA: Malaysian police have said they will ask former PM Mohamad Mahathir to give a statement on allegations he made at a recent anti-government protest.Dr Mahathir’s accusations of ruling party leaders accepting bribes ‘warrant police action’, a spokesperson said, the BBC

DHAKA: A fire in an apartment building in northern Paris has killed eight people, including two children.French officials say, reports the BBC.The blaze in the 18th district of the French capital broke out in the early hours of Wednesday, and it took more than 100 firefighters to contain

DHAKA: Video footage has emerged that appears to show police in Texas shooting and killing a man who had his hands up.In the video, obtained by local media in San Antonio, Gilbert Flores is seen outside a house with his arms raised before shots are fired and he falls, reports the

DHAKA: Hundreds of migrants are stranded outside a major railway station in the Hungarian capital, Budapest, after police sealed off the terminal to stop them travelling through the EU.Government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs defended the closure, saying Hungary was trying to enforce EU law,

DHAKA: The head of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard is saying the US is still the ‘Great Satan’ as local media is reporting police have raided shops distributing American, Israeli and British apparel.The comments by gen Mohammad Ali Jafari, reported by the official Guard website on

DHAKA: Nepali police shot dead at least four protesters and killed a fifth on Tuesday as demonstrators threw stones and petrol bombs, angry at a new planned constitution.The government and major political parties hope that the constitution, in the works for seven years, will provide

DHAKA: In a breakthrough, Thailand’s prime minister announced Tuesday that a second foreign national believed to be the main suspect in the country’s worst bombing at a Brahma temple here that claimed 20 lives has been arrested near the Cambodian border.Thai premier general Prayut

DHAKA: Eighteen persons were killed and 12 others injured today when a bus fell 200 mts deep into a gorge at Nathpa on Hindustan-Tibet National highway, 185km from provincial capital Shimla.Fifteen persons died on the spot while three succumbed to their injuries on way to hospital and

DHAKA: A satellite image confirms that the main temple in the ancient city of Palmyra in northern Syria has been destroyed.The United Nations says, reports the BBC.There had been earlier reports of an explosion at the Temple of Bel in Palmyra, which is held by militants from the Islamic

DHAKA: The Taliban on Monday admitted covering up longtime leader Mullah Omar’s death for more than two years, saying he died in 2013 as was first claimed by the Afghan intelligence.The group had continued as recently as July to release official statements in the name of Omar, who had

DHAKA: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in a speech on terror accused Israel of being founded on the basis of terror and it continues that legacy to the present day. ‘This regime began its work on the basis of intimidation, terror and occupation, and is continuing (on) the same

DHAKA: Fighters from the Islamic State (IS) of Iraq and Syria have blown up part of the Temple of Bel in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra.Sources have told Al Jazeera.An Al Jazeera reporter in the Syrian city of Homs was told that IS, on Sunday, detonated more than 30 tones of

DHAKA: Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Razak has refused to resign after mass protests, and has called for national unity.Tens of thousands of people took to the streets at the weekend, urging Najib to step down over allegations he took hundreds of millions of dollars of public funds, BBC