DHAKA: Hundreds of migrants attempting the perilous journey across the Mediterranean are feared to have drowned after their overcrowded fishing boat capsized off Libya.Italy’s coastguard says, reports Al Jazeera.The boat had run into difficulty on Wednesday about 15 nautical miles off

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama and pro-Israel leaders exchanged concerns about how each side distorts the other’s arguments in the debate over the Iran nuclear deal, and how the distortions are creating divisions in the Jewish community.The meeting Tuesday evening at the White House

DHAKA: A convoy belonging to security forces in Indian-administrated Kashmir has come under attack by unidentified gunmen.Wednesday’s attack took place about 10km from the city of Udhampur, which houses a military base near the border with Pakistan.At least three people have been killed

DHAKA: Sixteen Colombian police officers died Tuesday when their Black Hawk helicopter crashed while taking part in a manhunt for the nation's most-wanted drug trafficker, the second deadly air accident affecting the U.S.-trained military in less than a week.Two other uniformed personnel

DHAKA: A video appearing to show a son of former Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi and other prisoners being abused in jail is being investigated.The video shows Saadi Gaddafi screaming as he is beaten by guards on the soles of his feet, reports BBC.Tripoli's public prosecutor said he

DHAKA: At least 27 people have died and 40 are injured after two passenger trains derailed within minutes of each other while crossing flooded tracks in Madhya Pradesh late on Tuesday night. More than 300 people were rescued overnight, reports NTDV. Here are the latest developments: Six

DHAKA: At least 11 people have died after a building collapsed near India's western city of Mumbai.Police say, reports the BBC.Many others are feared trapped beneath the three-storey building in Thane after the incident early on Tuesday.Reports say the municipality had declared the old,

DHAKA: The Myanmar government has appealed for international aid amid floods which have killed at least 46 people and affected more than 210,000.Four areas in the country have been declared disaster zones with widespread flooding and landslides caused by heavy monsoon rain.Many areas are

DHAKA: The head of the Afghan Taliban’s political office in Qatar has resigned, in the latest sign of a split in the group following Mullah Omar’s death.In a statement, Syed Tayyab Agha said he would step down, and criticized the way in which Mullah Omar’s successor, Mullah Akhtar

RIYADH: Minister of state for foreign affairs of Saudi Arabia Dr. Nizar Bin Obaid Madani, in a bilateral meeting on Monday, assured his Bangladesh counterpart Shahriar Alam about resuming issuance of Umrah Visas to Bangladeshis after the next Hajj.He also hinted about importing human

DHAKA: A Syrian government warplane has crashed in a marketplace in the north-western town of Ariha, killing at least 23 people.The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) activist group said the crash occurred amid bombing raids, reports the BBC.Ariha was one of the last

DHAKA: Nigeria’s army says it has rescued 178 people held by the Boko Haram group in Nigeria’s Borno state in raids that destroyed several camps in the country’s northeast.Army spokesman Colonel Tukur Gusau said in a statement on Sunday that 101 of the those freed were children, 67

DHAKA: Heavy monsoon rains in India have killed more than 100 people in the past week and forced tens of thousands of people to take shelter in relief camps.India’s home ministry has said, reports the BBC.A cyclone struck the state of West Bengal, killing 48 people in flood-related

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama is due to unveil what he called "the biggest, most important step we have ever taken" in tackling climate change.The aim of the revised Clean Power Plan is to cut greenhouse gas emissions from US power stations by nearly a third within 15 years, BBC

DHAKA: The Russian defence ministry has grounded its fleet of Mi-28 attack helicopters after a fatal accident at an air show on Sunday.One pilot died and another jumped clear as the helicopter crashed during an aerobatic display by the elite Berkut squadron in the Ryazan region, about

DHAKA: The aftermath of cyclone ‘Komen’ has hit large parts of India’s West Bengal, Odisha and Manipur states, causing floods and landslides in which over 60 people have died so far.The depression has reached Gangetic West Bengal. Rain will continue but intensity likely to be less.

DHAKA: Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas ordered security forces to prevent any revenge attacks or mass confrontations against Israel.Arab newspaper Rai al-Youm says, reports The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.According to the report, the Palestine security forces were instructed to prevent

DHAKA: Thousands of Israelis have held protests against hate crimes, as the parents and brother of a Palestinian baby burned to death by suspected Jewish settlers continued to fight for their lives in hospital.The firebombing of the family’s home in the occupied West Bank that killed

DHAKA: Two Turkish security troops have been killed and 24 wounded in a suicide attack by Kurdish PKK militants.The regional governor’s office says, reports the BBC.A tractor laden with explosives was driven at a military police station, reports by Turkish media say.The attack happened

DHAKA: 20 people have died in landslide caused by heavy rain in the Joumol village in Chandel district of Manipur in India, NDTV reported."Rescue teams are being sent to Juomol at the earliest and will reach by tomorrow morning because of heavy rains and landslides. The government is