DHAKA: British aid worker David Haines has been executed by ISIS militants, according to a video posted Saturday to a website associated with the group, making him the third Western captive to be killed by the Islamist extremist group in recent weeks.The ISIS video post showing

DHAKA: A ‘piecemeal’ World War III may have already begun with the current spate of crimes, massacres and destruction.Pope Francis has warned, reports the BBC.He was speaking during a visit to Italy’s largest military cemetery, where he was commemorating the centenary of World War

DHAKA: Sri Lankan rights activists have gone to the country’s highest court in a bid to stop the government summarily deporting Afghan, Iranian and Pakistani refugees.Their lawyer said on Saturday, reports The Straits Times.Six human rights defenders have petitioned the Supreme

DHAKA: Ukrainian prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Saturday accused Russian president Vladimir Putin of wanting to wipe out Ukraine as an independent country despite a truce deal.‘His aim is not just to take Donetsk and Lugansk,’ Yatsenyuk said at a conference in Kiev,

DHAKA: The US government has imposed new sanctions on major Russian banks, defence and energy companies, reports BBC.The measures are part of a joint effort with the European Union aimed at punishing Russia for what they say is its military intervention in Ukraine.They come despite a

DHAKA: Syrian government air raids on a rebel-held area near Damascus killed 42 people, including seven children.A monitoring group said this on Friday, giving an updated toll.Thursday’s air strikes were carried out in Douma, a satellite suburb northeast of the capital that has been

DHAKA: Al-Qaeda’s new South Asia branch has claimed responsibility for a raid on a Karachi naval yard that left a sailor and three attackers dead.They also added that they former military officials helped them.It is the first attack claimed by the fighter network’s new wing, whose

DHAKA: Four people were convicted Friday of plotting a knife attack that killed 31 people at a railway station in the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming.A court in the city said in an online statement the accused led a terrorist group that planned and executed the attack, which

DHAKA: The Pakistani army said Friday it had arrested the gunmen who tried to kill schoolgirl campaigner Malala Yousafzai in the country’s restive northwest in 2012.The teenage activist was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen but recovered and went on to earn international plaudits

DHAKA: Yahoo said the US government threatened to fine it $250,000 a day if the search giant failed to hand over user data.According to court documents, the National Security Agency (NSA) had demanded that Yahoo comply with new surveillance rules, something the company said was

DHAKA: Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria now have about 20,000 to 31,500 fighters on the ground. The Central Intelligence Agency said this which is much higher than a previous estimate of 10,000. Among those in Syria are 15,000 foreign fighters including 2,000 Westerners, some

DHAKA: Australia has raised its terror alert level to "high" for the first time since the national alert system was introduced in 2003, reports CNN. According to the four-level system, a reading of "high" means a terrorist attack "is likely," however the country's Prime Minister Tony

DHAKA: Pakistani authorities Thursday moved to protect two major cities from raging floodwaters, readying explosives to divert swollen rivers, in a crisis which has hit nearly two million people.The floods and landslides from days of heavy monsoon rains have now claimed more than 450

DHAKA: Ten Arab states, including heavyweight Saudi Arabia, agreed on Thursday in Jeddah to rally behind Washington in the fight against Islamic State jihadists, as it seeks to build an international coalition."The participating states agreed to do their share in the comprehensive

DHAKA: Scotland is on the ‘cusp of making history’ by voting for independence, the country’s first minister has predicted.Alex Salmond described the independence referendum as a ‘process of national empowerment’ and said the country was ‘rediscovering self confidence’ and

DHAKA: Russia has warned that US air strikes against militants in Syria would be a ‘gross violation’ of international law.A Russian foreign ministry spokesman said any such action, without the backing of the UN, would be ‘an act of aggression’, reports the BBC.‘The US

DHAKA: The publisher of Japan’s leading newspaper apologised to readers on Thursday for several serious errors in its reporting, retracting an article that claimed workers abandoned their posts during the Fukushima nuclear disaster.Asahi’s publisher Tadakazu Kimura, speaking at a

DHAKA: Americans on Thursday marked the 13th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, with somber ceremonies of remembrance in New York and Washington.President Barack Obama, his wife Michelle and vice president Joe Biden observed a moment of silence on the White House south

DHAKA: Russia still has around 1,000 troops in eastern Ukraine, a Nato military officer said on Thursday, casting doubt on reports of a reduction in Russian forces there.Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko said on Wednesday he had information that 70 percent of Russian troops who had

DHAKA: Hamas’s exiled deputy leader said Thursday the group could be forced to negotiate directly with Israel, ahead of planned talks in Cairo to consolidate a truce.But an Israeli minister dismissed any possibility of talking directly with the Islamist movement, whose charter calls