DHAKA: A 6.8-magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of northeastern Japan, the US Geological Survey (USGS) has said, but authorities have not issued a tsunami warning and there were no immediate reports of damage.The quake struck at 6.12am (21:12 GMT Tuesday) off the east coast of

DHAKA: A U.S. Marine Corps helicopter was reported missing in Nepal Tuesday while conducting disaster relief operations following the second deadly earthquake to strike the region in three weeks.The Huey was delivering tarps and rice to victims near Charikot. Six U.S. Marines and two

DHAKA: A major earthquake has struck eastern Nepal, near Mount Everest, two weeks after more than 8,000 people died in a devastating quake.At least 42 people have been killed and more than 1,000 injured, officials say. At least 17 have also died in India.The latest earthquake hit near

DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry began high stakes talks in the Russian resort of Sochi on Tuesday aimed at pushing President Vladimir Putin to fully implement a shaky Ukraine ceasefire.Kerry met with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov ahead of talks with Putin in the Black Sea

DHAKA: Indonesia has turned away a boat carrying hundreds of migrants believed to be from Myanmar and Bangladesh.Indonesia’s navy said it provided the vessel with food and water on Monday before sending it back out to sea.It said that it did so because the migrants wanted to reach

DHAKA: At least 19 people were killed in Nepal and 981 injured in an earthquake on Tuesday, home ministry official Laxmi Prasad Dhakal said, giving a first national estimate.Five died in Sindhupalchowk, the district to the east of Kathmandu that reported the most deaths in the April 25

DHAKA: A 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.Tremors were also felt across major swathes of north India, including Delhi, at about 12.40pm (local time), reports NDTV.Early reports suggest a magnitude of 7 on the Richter scale with

DHAKA: India Prime Minister Narendra Modi will take his global investment push to China this week, as Asia’s rival superpowers look to put aside a festering border dispute and identify areas of economic cooperation.Modi will fly out for his first visit as premier to China before heading

DHAKA: Europe’s first priority in confronting the Mediterranean migrant crisis is to save lives.EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini told the UN Security Council on Monday.‘Our first priority is to save lives and prevent further loss of lives at sea,’ Mogherini told the

DHAKA: Saudi Arabia is sending a ‘strike force’ to its border with Yemen, Saudi-owned media reported on Monday, hours after the kingdom’s forces and Houthi rebels in Yemen traded heavy artillery fire.The Saudi-owned Al Arabiya Hadath TV channel broadcast pictures of a column of

DHAKA: Francois Hollande arrived in Havana late on Sunday, the first French president to visit Cuba in more than a century, cementing Paris’ lead in the EU rapprochement with the communist island.Hollande is also the first Western leader to visit Cuba since a surprise announcement in

DHAKA: A government must not be afraid to make unpopular decisions if it benefits the country in the long run.Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Monday, reports The Straits Times.Datuk Seri Najib said that while policies like the Goods and Services Tax (GST) may not be popular,

DHAKA: The Karnataka high court acquitted on Monday former Tamil Nadu chief minister and AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa in a corruption case, clearing the decks for her return to the state's top job.Jayalalithaa had appealed against her conviction in the Rs 66.64-crore disproportionate

DHAKA: A second boat carrying hundreds of migrants, including Bangladesh and Myanmar nationals, were rescued off Indonesia's far west coast, an official said on Monday.Earlier ion Sunday, nearly 600 others reached there in a wooden vessel seeking refuge, said an international news

DHAKA: A powerful typhoon has hit the north-east Philippines, in Cagayan province, killing two people and cutting electricity supplies to many parts of the region.Warnings of flash floods, landslides and storm surges forced thousands of people to higher ground, reports bbc.comNoul is the

DHAKA: The European Commission will make the controversial proposal that EU member countries should take in refugees under an EU quota scheme.The UN estimates that 60,000 people have already tried to cross the Mediterranean this year, reports bbc.com.Migrants are being driven to make the

DHAKA: Thailand’s king Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world’s longest-reigning monarch, has left a Bangkok hospital after a seven-month stay.Crowds lined the streets and cheered as the 87-year-old king was driven from the capital, Bangkok, to the royal palace in the coastal town of Hua

DHAKA: Defense ministers from five European Union (EU) countries are meeting on Sunday for talks on a military campaign to stop human trafficking and reinforce the region’s defenses against the flow of migrants from North Africa.Officials from France, Germany, Poland, Italy and Spain

DHAKA: Pope Francis, who helped broker a historic thaw between the United States and Cuba, held talks with Cuban president Raul Castro on Sunday ahead of the pontiff’s trip to both countries in September.The brother of Cuba’s revolutionary leader Fidel arrived for a meeting that the

DHAKA: Rescuers Sunday brought ashore 469 migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh after their wooden boat arrived off Aceh in northwest Indonesia.An official said, reports The Straits Times.‘We received a report from fishermen this morning that there were boat people stranded in the waters