DHAKA: The British embassy in Iran has reopened, nearly four years after it was closed.Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond attended a ceremony in Tehran with Iranian diplomats to mark the reopening while Iran has also reopened its embassy in London, reports the BBC.The UK embassy was closed

DHAKA: North and South Korea are to hold a second round of top-level talks on Sunday to defuse growing tension.Officials from the South say, reports the BBC.The announcement was made after several hours of negotiations on Saturday.Senior aides to the two countries’ leaders met at the

DHAKA: Armed Islamic State (IS) of Iraq and Syria members have killed up to 50 soldiers and allied Shia fighters in two separate ambushes in Iraq’s Anbar province.A top provincial official said.Sabah Al-Karhout, president of the Anbar Provincial Council, told the media that the ambushes

DHAKA: Malaysian police have found 24 human skeletons - all believed to be victims of human trafficking - in newly discovered graves along the Thai border in the northern Malaysian state of Perlis.‘Following on from the operation in which we found ... bodies of illegal immigrants, 24

DHAKA: Planned high-level talks between India and Pakistan have been cancelled hours before they were due to start on Sunday, amid mutual recriminations.Pakistan said that it could not accept India's "preconditions" for the talks, while India denied that it was to blame, BBC

DHAKA: A military jet taking part in a British air show crashed into a busy main road, killing seven people and injuring more than a dozen others, police said Saturday.The Hawker Hunter fighter jet, which was participating in the Shoreham Airshow near Brighton in southern England, hit

DHAKA: More than 2,000 migrants and refugees have been rescued from boats off the coast of Libya in one of the biggest single-day operations mounted, Italy's coastguards have said.Distress calls came from more than 20 vessels, reports BBC.More than 2,000 people have died this year in

DHAKA: The Venezuelan president has declared a state of emergency in a border region near Colombia following an attack by smugglers in which three soldiers and a civilian were injured.Nicolas Maduro said there would be 60 days of martial law in five municipalities of the state of

DHAKA: A 60-kg British-era copper chandelier at the main entrance of 17th century Taj Mahal crashed down recently, prompting the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to initiate a probe into the matter. The six-feet high and four-feet wide chandelier, gifted by Lord Curzon and installed

DHAKA: Three people have been injured after a heavily armed man opened fire in a ‘terrorist attack’ on a high-speed train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris, before he was overpowered by two American passengers.The man had a Kalashnikov, an automatic pistol, ammunition and a box cutter

DHAKA: North and South Korea are to hold top-level talks amid growing tension, the South’s presidential office has said.Senior aides to the two countries’ leaders will meet at the Panmunjom truce village on the border at 0900 GMT, the Blue House said, reports the BBC.North Korea had

DHAKA: At least 65 civilians have reportedly been killed in atmosphere strikes by a Saudi-led bloc on a Yemeni city of Taiz.More than half of a passed were women and children, according to assist organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).Taiz has been a stage of heated clashes between

DHAKA: A deputy leader of Islamic State (IS), Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali, has been killed in a US military strike in northern Iraq, the White House says.Hayali, also known as Hajji Mutazz, is described by US officials as the second in command of the group, reports bbc.comThey said he was

DHAKA: Rebels from Greece’s governing left-wing Syriza are to break away and form a new party.Prime Minister and Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras stood down on Thursday, paving the way for new elections, reports BBC.The move came after he lost the support of many of his own MPs in a vote on

DHAKA: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered front-line military units to enter "a wartime state" after an exchange of fire with South Korea.Country's state-run Korean Central News Agency reported Friday.The announcement, employing bellicose language typical of North Korea, adds to

DHAKA: India’s ruling party BJP President Amit Shah and three other senior leaders were trapped in the lift of the state guest house in Patna for around 40 minutes."The lift got stuck between the two floors and its metal doors also got jammed at around 11.30 pm last night. There was no

DHAKA: Chinese emergency workers raced to put out four new fires that had broken out close to the site where two massive explosions in a warehouse storing dangerous chemicals killed 114 people last week.The official Xinhua news agency said on Friday that one of the "ignition points" came

DHAKA: Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has announced he is resigning and has called an early election.Tsipras, who was only elected in January, said he had a moral duty to go to the polls now a third bailout had been secured with European creditors, reports BBC.The election date is

DHAKA: Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is set to call a snap election for 20 September, according to Greek media.Tsipras has faced a rebellion within his ruling Syriza party over a new bailout deal which has been agreed with international creditors.Greece received the first

DHAKA: Yemen’s conflict has left it on the brink of famine, the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) has warned.Food shortages, lack of fresh water, and low fuel stocks have created a ‘perfect storm’ for the Yemeni people, the WFP's Ertharin Cousin said, reports the BBC.The