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

DHAKA: Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has stepped aside, ending political deadlock in Baghdad as the government struggles against insurgents.He resigned on state TV to make way for Haider al-Abadi, who was asked by Iraq's president to form a government.Maliki had been under intense

DHAKA: Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday launched a blistering new assault on social media, comparing the likes of Twitter to a ‘scalpel in the hand of a surgeon’ and a ‘knife in the hand of a murderer’.Although many other world leaders are enthusiastic

DHAKA: India prime minister Narendra Modi is expected to unveil an ambitious financial inclusion scheme on Independence Day on Friday to provide bank accounts to 15 crore poor persons with an overdraft facility of Rs 5,000 and accident insurance of Rs 1 lakh.The-two phase

DHAKA: Raking up the Kashmir issue, Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday said it is the ‘main source of tension’ in India-Pakistan relations and sought its peaceful resolution to explore new ways to bolster bilateral ties. ‘We want peaceful resolution of Kashmir with

DHAKA: Malaysia has declared August 22 as a national day of mourning for victims of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, when the remains of 15 victims will be brought back to Malaysia on a special flight.Making the announcement Thursday, deputy prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin said,

DHAKA: A fiery Pakistani cleric Tahir ul-Qadri has will be allowed to lead his supporters on an anti-government protest march to the capital.A senior policeman said on Thursday, reversing an earlier government decision, reports The Straits Times.Tahir ul-Qadri has spent the last week

DHAKA: While the plane they were flying plunged 5,000 feet, a Jet Airways pilot was asleep and the co-pilot was busy on an iPad checking out flight information.Both have been suspended by aviation regulator DGCA which is now investigating the incident, reports NDTV.A total of 280

DHAKA: Israel and the Palestinians have begun a fresh five-day ceasefire in Gaza, agreed at the end of a three-day truce.As the ceasefire was announced, Israel launched air strikes in response to alleged rocket fire from Gaza.There were no more reports of violence overnight, and the two

DHAKA: Pope Francis has landed in South Korea, beginning his first visit to Asia since he took over the papacy in March 2013. During his trip, he will beatify Korean Catholics who died for their faith and attend a Catholic youth festival. The South Korean Catholic Church is one of the

DHAKA: Saudi Arabia has handed over a check for $100m to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to help finance the UN's centre to combat global terrorism. The UN chief welcomed the gift at a ceremony in his office and said the recent upsurge in terrorism in a number of countries and regions -

DHAKA: Fire erupted in right engine of Jet Airways flight headed to Bhopal from Delhi. All passengers evacuated safely, reports TOI BDST: 0944 HRS, AUG 14, 2014

DHAKA: A mass evacuation of Yazidis hiding from extremist fighters on Iraq's Sinjar Mountains is unlikely following an assessment by the U.S. State Department and military that found far fewer people trapped than previously feared. Once believed to be in the tens of thousands, the number

DHAKA: Brazilian presidential candidate Eduardo Campos died Wednesday when a small plane carrying him to a campaign stop crashed into a residential neighborhood, state media reported. All seven people aboard the the Cessna 560XL were killed when the aircraft crashed in the coastal city