DHAKA: Diplomatic efforts are under way to end renewed fighting in eastern Ukraine.French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel held urgent talks in the capital Kiev, presenting a new peace initiative.US Secretary of State John Kerry, who is also in Kiev, said

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama called the Dalai Lama a "good friend" and an inspiration for freedom.The president said this on Thursday which reports the Times of India.Speaking at a closely watched prayer event in Washington with the lama in the audience, Obama said Tibet’s exiled

DHAKA: Jordan’s Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh said their air strikes on Islamic State (IS) targets are ‘the beginning of our retaliation’ for the killing of a captured Jordanian pilot.He said Jordan was going after IS ‘with everything that we have’.Jordan had previously only

DHAKA: At least 66 people were killed as Syria’s regime pounded a rebel stronghold with air strikes after a barrage of opposition fire hit the capital Damascus on Thursday.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 12 children were among those killed in the opposition-held Eastern

DHAKA: The leaders of Germany and France launched a new diplomatic initiative over Ukraine on Thursday, announcing they would fly together to Kiev and Moscow with a proposal to resolve the conflict that could be ‘acceptable to all’. The coordinated trip by German chancellor Angela

DHAKA: Greece’s new finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has urged Germany not to humiliate the country over its debts. Varoufakis compared Greece’s plight with that of inter-war Germany, speaking ahead of a meeting with his German counterpart. Germany was burdened with massive debts

DHAKA: Al-Qaeda said Thursday that one of its top militants who threatened more attacks on France after the Charlie Hebdo killings has died in a US drone strike in Yemen. Harith al-Nadhari and three other militants were killed in a January 31 ‘crusader American drone strike against

DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry is to hold talks in Ukraine, as Washington mulls whether to start sending weapons to help Kiev fight pro-Russian rebels.Ashton Carter, the White House’s choice for defence secretary, earlier said he was ‘inclined’ to start supplying arms.The

DHAKA: Peter Greste, the Al Jazeera journalist freed after 400 days in an Egyptian prison, has arrived back in his Australian homeland. Greste called for the release of two colleagues still in custody after he arrived on Thursday in the Queensland state capital of Brisbane, where he was

DHAKA: Rocket salvoes hit a previously safe section of Ukraine's rebel stronghold of Donetsk on Wednesday, killing at least five people and damaging a hospital, six schools and five kindergartens, rebels said.The fighting between Russia-backed separatists and government troops in

DHAKA: Jordan’s King Abdullah II has promised to fight back hard against Islamic State, saying that the death of a Jordanian pilot at the militants’ hands will not be in vain.The remarks were made as the king held a crisis meeting with security chiefs, reports BBC.He cut short a US

DHAKA: Rescue teams in Taiwan were searching for 12 people missing Thursday after the spectacular crash of a TransAsia Airways propjet captured on dramatic video.At least 31 people died in the crash of the TransAsia Airways turboprop plane shortly after takeoff in Taipai.Flight 235 had

DHAKA: At least 12 people were killed and many more are feared trapped after a TransAsia Airways plane crashed into a river in New Taipei City, which encircles Taipei, on Wednesday.According to the latest update from the Taipei City Government at 1.52pm local time, 30 people remain

DHAKA: Myanmar on Wednesday condemned a United Nations official for using the term ‘Rohingya’ to describe a persecuted minority that the government refers to as Bengali, which implies they are illegal immigrants from neighbouring Bangladesh.UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in

DHAKA: Greece’s leaders have received a guarded welcome to their reported proposals for a debt deal, ahead of crunch talks with EU creditors.After a meeting in Rome with Greek PM Alexis Tsipras, Italian PM Matteo Renzi said his country would ‘give Greece a hand’ without always

DHAKA: At least nine people were killed and dozens are feared trapped after their TransAsia Airways plane crashed into a river in New Taipei City on Wednesday.News reports said, according to The Straits Times.Seventeen others, including two children, have been sent to hospitals in New

DHAKA: At least seven people were killed Tuesday evening after a Metro-North commuter train struck a Jeep just north of the train station, the MTA confirmed.At least 12 others were said to be injured in the crash.Aaron Donovan, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority,

DHAKA: A TransAsia Airways plane crash landed in a Taipei river, injuring more than 10 people, television reported on Wednesday.No other details were immediately available.Source: sbs.com.auBDST: 0955 HRS, FEB 04, 2015

DHAKA: Jordan has begun executing fighters on death row at dawn as part of an "earth-shattering" response to the burning alive of one of its fighter pilots by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group.Just hours after a video emerged online on Tuesday purporting to show

DHAKA: Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis is to visit the European Central Bank in Frankfurt on Wednesday.An ECB spokesman told the media, reports The Straits Times.The spokesman gave no details of the timetable of the visit or whether Varoufakis would meet ECB chief Mario Draghi.But