DHAKA: The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a wave of car bombs in mostly Shia areas of Baghdad which killed at least 27 people on Saturday. The hardline Sunni Islamist organisation which has led an offensive across northern and western Iraq said two of the explosions

DHAKA: Emergency workers in Ukraine say they have now found 196 bodies at the crash site of Malaysia airliner MH17. A total of 298 people were on board the plane, when it was reportedly hit by a missile over a rebel-held area in Donetsk region on Thursday. Western countries have

DHAKA: Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko urged the United Nations to label rebels fighting Ukrainian forces in the eastern regions of Luhansk and Donetsk as belonging to ‘terrorist organisations’. During a telephone conversation with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon,

DHAKA: Turkey’s prime minister has accused Israel of ‘barbarism that surpasses Hitler’ during its ground invasion of Gaza. Recep Tayyip Erdogan made the comment during a campaign speech in the Black Sea port city of Ordu, reports independent.co.uk. He is running for the presidency

DHAKA: Islamist militia launched their heaviest assault so far on Libya’s main airport on Sunday, two days after a truce with the rival ex-rebels that control it collapsed. A security official said, reports The Straits Times. ‘The airport was attacked this morning with mortar

DHAKA: Excerpt of latest media statement from Malaysia Airlines on downing of MH17: The latest number of passengers and their nationalities of those onboard MH17, as of July, 19 2014: Netherlands: 192 (including one dual Netherlands/US citizen) Malaysia: 44 (including 15 crew members

DHAKA: The death toll from Typhoon Rammasun in the Philippines rose to 94, with six missing, as another storm brought rains to the ravaged areas.Philippines authorities said on Sunday, reports The Straits Times.The reports of fatalities came in as repairmen struggled to restore

KUALA LUMPUR: Several hundreds of Bangladeshi students have been facing embarrassing situation being allured of ‘part time’ job facilities.Recently a number of Bangladeshi students have raised this allegation.A Bangladeshi student Saklain (not real name) of Kalayanpur, Dhaka has

DHAKA: At least 73 children killed by Israeli fire in the Gaza Strip. The spiraling number of children killed in the latest conflict between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas in Gaza has raised international concern.On Saturday, a group of international and Palestinian rights

DHAKA: A Florida jury has awarded the widow of a chain smoker who died of lung cancer punitive damages of more than $23 bn in her lawsuit against the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, the nation's second-biggest cigarette maker.The judgment, returned on Friday night, was the largest in

DHAKA: Tougher EU sanctions against Russia will be needed if Moscow does not change its "approach" to the downing of the Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine, David Cameron has indicated.Amid claims Russia-backed rebels were involved, the prime minister said the EU should stand up for

DHAKA: A series of bombings, including three over a span of less than 10 minutes, have killed at least 27 people across the Iraqi capital, aljazeera reports.The attacks on Saturday were among the most significant in Baghdad since fighters led by the Islamic State group captured

DHAKA: The battle between Israel and Gazan militants is growing, as the Israel Defense Forces announced early Sunday that it will expand its ground offensive.On Saturday, Hamas Islamist fighters infiltrated nearby parts of Israel via underground tunnels and clashed with Israeli

DHAKA: It takes professionals to shoot down an airliner and not a group of ‘drunken gorillas’, Ukrainian prime minister Arseny Yatseniuk told a German newspaper on Saturday, claiming that Russia was behind the downing of Malaysia Airlines MH-17. ‘Very professional staff is needed

DHAKA: Britain on Saturday said Russia was not exerting enough influence over pro-Moscow separatists in eastern Ukraine to get them to allow international access to the Malaysian plane crash site. Britain foreign secretary Philip Hammond said it seemed increasingly likely that

DHAKA: Iraqi president Jalal Talabani flew back to his Kurdish fiefdom of Sulaimaniyah on Saturday after more than 18 months in Germany for medical treatment. Sources in his Patriotic Union of Kurdistan said, reports The Straits Times. The 80-year-old head of state arrived on a private

DHAKA: Police shot dead a teenage boy on Saturday in restive Indian Kashmir during a protest against Israel's military offensive against Gaza. India officials said, reports The Straits Times. The youngster’s death marked the first fatality in a string of demonstrations across the

DHAKA: Malaysia on Saturday said vital evidence at the Ukrainian site where flight MH17 went down had been tampered with, calling it a ‘betrayal’ of the lives lost in the disaster. ‘The integrity of the site has been compromised, and there are indications that vital evidence has

DHAKA: Dutch police on Saturday sent teams to visit relatives of those killed in the Malaysia Airlines crash in Ukraine to collect DNA and other data to help identify the dead. ‘We sent out 80 investigators this morning, working in pairs, to visit 40 addresses,’ national police

DHAKA: Thousands of demonstrators marched Saturday to demand arrests in the case of a six-year-old girl allegedly raped in a school in the southern Indian city of Bangalore. Two staff members at the private school are accused of the rape on July 2, the latest in a string of sexual