DHAKA: An Israeli soldier is missing in the Gaza Strip and is presumed dead, local media quote the military as saying. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said efforts were under way to identify one of seven Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza on Sunday. Nearly 600 Palestinians and 29 Israelis

DHAKA: South Korean police said Tuesday they had found the body of fugitive business tycoon Yoo Byung-Eun, the target of a months-long manhunt connected to April’s Sewol ferry disaster that claimed around 300 lives.   The heavily decomposed corpse of the 73-year-old Yoo was discovered

DHAKA: The call for an immediate ceasefire has started coming from the West. But not before few casualties on the Israeli side. This call did not come when over four hundred Palestinians including unarmed women and children were massacred.  The West was calling for a ‘responsible

DHAKA: Three people were killed in Taliban suicide bomb attack outside Kabul International Airport in Afghanistan on Tuesday. Police said the deceased are two foreign advisers and an Afghan interpreter. The identities of the foreign advisers were not clear immediately, reports the

DHAKA: At least eleven people were killed and 14 others are still missing after mudslides swept through two villages in southwest China on Monday following days of heavy rain. Rescuers are working to retrieve people still buried after mudslides struck the villages in Yunnan province,

DHAKA: At least 16 people, including soldiers, were killed and 81 injured in clashes between the Libyan army and Islamist fighters in the eastern city of Benghazi. “Most of the dead and injured are soldiers. Three civilians, including an Egyptian, were killed when a rocket hit their

DHAKA: At least 60 people have died due to encephalitis in the seven districts of north Bengal, India’s Health Services Director Biswaranjan Satpathy said. The region has been affected badly by the disease and the situation is 'alarming'. The 60 people have died during the period

DHAKA: Israel has pummelled Gaza for a 14th day, raising the Palestinian death toll to more than 570, as ceasefire efforts continue in Doha and Cairo. Washington urged Israel to take ‘greater steps’ to prevent innocent casualties, and UN chief Ban Ki-moon appealed for the violence to

DHAKA: Rebels in eastern Ukraine have handed over two flight-data recorders from the downed MH17 plane to Malaysian experts. A senior rebel leader signed them over to the Malaysian officials at a meeting in the city of Donetsk. The handover came hours after the UN Security Council voted

DHAKA: Indonesia is to name its new president, following a hotly-contested election that saw both candidates claim victory. Most “quick counts” after the 9 July election placed Joko Widodo, the popular Jakarta governor, in the lead. But his rival Prabowo Subianto, a former military

DHAKA: At least five people have been killed and 70 injured by an Israeli strike on a hospital in Gaza. Palestinians say, reports the BBC. Doctors say several Israeli tank shells hit the hospital’s reception, intensive care unit and operating theatres. Overnight, more than 30 members

DHAKA: The death toll from the crash of a coach carrying Polish holidaymakers outside the German city of Dresden climbed to 11 on Monday after another victim succumbed to his injuries. German police said, reports The Straits Times. The crash occurred in the early hours of Saturday

DHAKA: Pro-Russian rebels have allowed Dutch investigators to examine bodies from the crashed Malaysia Airlines plane at a railway station in eastern Ukraine. The three Dutch experts said the train might leave the town of Torez later. All 298 people on board flight MH17 died when it

DHAKA: A British parliamentary committee on Monday ruled out the possibility of ‘any kind’ of currency union between an independent Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom.The Committee for Scottish Affairs concluded in a report that Scotland would no longer be able to use the

DHAKA: Police in eastern China clashed in the middle of the night with Christian protesters massed around their church on Monday, but failed to carry out a government order to remove a cross from the building, according to witnesses and online accounts.Several people were injured in

DHAKA: Britain will push for EU sanctions targeting whole sectors of the Russian economy in the wake of the Ukraine plane disaster even if it means taking a short-term ‘hit’ to the economy, its ministers said on Monday. British deputy prime minister Nick Clegg said ‘the time has

DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry appeared to criticize Israel in candid remarks caught on an open microphone between television interviews Sunday. Kerry was heard talking about Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza to a State Department official identified as Jonathan Finer just before

DHAKA: Russian president Vladimir Putin said on Monday the downing of a Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine must not be used for political ends and urged separatists to allow international experts access to the crash site. ‘Everything must be done to guarantee the security

DHAKA: Dutch PM Mark Rutte says experts have arrived in Torez in Ukraine, where the remains of victims of the Malaysia Airlines plane crash are being stored. The three Dutch forensic scientists are aiming to start work on identifying the 196 bodies stored there on trains. Pressure is

DHAKA: Iran has turned all of its enriched uranium closest to the level needed to make nuclear arms into more harmless forms. The UN nuclear agency says, reports the BBC. The conversion of its stock of 20%-enriched uranium was part of a deal to curb Iran’s nuclear programme. The US