DHAKA: The leader of Iraq’s Kurds, Masoud Barzani, appealed to Germany for weapons to help Kurdish fighters battling militants of the Islamic State, and said foreign powers must find a way to cut off the group’s funding. The European Union on Friday gave a green light to EU

DHAKA: Iran’s foreign minister said on Saturday that he believed it was unlikely a final-status agreement would be reached with the West over the Islamic Republic’s disputed nuclear program within the time frame that has been allotted in the negotiations. ‘The chances that we will

DHAKA: Flash floods and mudslides following heavy rains have killed at least 53 people in Nepal over the past three days and cut off remote communities in the mountains. The government said on Saturday, reports dawn.com. The landslides and flooding were triggered by annual monsoon rains

DHAKA: Two BSF personnel were killed while four others injured when militants opened fired at their vehicle just outside the Awantipora IAF airfield in India’s Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday. Officials said a squad of Border Security Force (BSF) personnel was changing guard at the

DHAKA: He has already taken after his mother in the fashion stakes, causing clothes he wears to fly off the shelves of shops.Now Prince George is setting trends in the name game. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s choice for their son has seen it soar in popularity, making it into

DHAKA: Thousands of protesters have gathered in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad after arriving in big convoys from Lahore. Rally leaders Imran Khan and Tahirul Qadri demanded that prime minister Nawaz Sharif step down, alleging rigging in the 2013 elections. Qadri, an anti-government

DHAKA: The United States could help build Vietnam’s naval capacity if a ban on selling lethal weapons to the authoritarian nation is lifted. The most senior US military officer to visit Vietnam for decades said Saturday, reports The Straits Times. General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of

DHAKA: Twenty-seven people have died in separate incidents of landslide, cloudburst and flood in ecologically fragile India’s Uttarakhand in the past 24 hours as heavy monsoon rain continues to lash the state, according to the disaster management control room. Fourteen deaths due to

DHAKA: Militants in northern Iraq have massacred at least 80 men from the Yazidi faith in a village and abducted women and children.Islamic State (IS) fighters entered Kocho, 45km (30 miles) from Sinjar, on Friday afternoon, reportedly telling men to convert to Islam or die, reports

DHAKA: The Islamist terror group Boko Haram kidnapped at least 97 men and boys and killed 28 people this week in a raid on villages in Borno State in northeast Nigeria.  Boko Haram gunmen also injured 25 others during the raid in which scores of homes were burned, the sources said. The

DHAKA:  Pakistan's cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan said Saturday he would continue to lead protests in Islamabad along with thousands of his supporters until Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif steps down.Khan says the May 2013 general election that brought Sharif to power in a landslide

DHAKA: Nineteen people have been killed in the last 24 hours in landslides and incidents of house collapse as heavy rain continued in the hill state of Uttarakhand in India on Saturday.While 14 people have been killed in Yamkeshwar, Pauri and Lansdowne Tehsils of Pauri district, 2 people

DHAKA: Russia's defence secretary has assured his US counterpart that there are no military personnel in its controversial aid convoy for Ukraine, the US says.It said Sergey Shoygu told Chuck Hagel the convoy was not being used as a pretext to intervene further.The convoy, which aims to

DHAKA: The United Nations Security Council has taken a tough line against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, blacklisting six people including the group's spokesman and threatening sanctions against its financiers and weapons suppliers.The 15-member council unanimously adopted on

DHAKA: US warplanes carried out airstrikes in northern Iraq near ISIS-controlled Mosul Dam early Saturday morning, the Kurdish news agency Rudaw reported, citing eyewitnesses.CNN confirmed that a U.S. and Iraqi military operation aimed at retaking the country's largest hydroelectric dam

DHAKA: At least 14 people were killed in an attack when African Union peacekeepers entered a surburb of Somali capital Mogadishu on Friday. Major Abdullahi Farah said, “At least 14 people, mostly militia, died in the fighting this morning. The government’s aim is to secure the

DHAKA: Clashes have erupted in Pakistan after an attack on a convoy of protesters heading to the capital Islamabad, led by opposition politician Imran Khan. A crowd pelted the convoy with stones in the city of Gujranwala. Officials from Imran’s party said his vehicle was also shot at

DHAKA: EU foreign ministers are holding an emergency meeting in Brussels on Friday to discuss plans on providing arms to Iraqi Kurds against an extremist insurgency. France and the US have already begun to supply weapons to the Kurds, whose Peshmerga fighters are trying to halt an

DHAKA: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged the world to set up their business in his country and to manufacture more goods from there. He made the urge on Friday morning from Delhi's imposing Red Fort, during an extempore maiden Independence Day speech. Modi said there "Come, make

DHAKA: Narendra Modi said India had been shamed by a recent spate of rapes, as he made his first Independence Day speech as prime minister.He called on parents to take responsibility for their sons' actions, saying parents must teach their sons the difference between right and