DHAKA: Police in Thailand said on Tuesday, July 15, 2014, that they had arrested 5,064 people for illegal gambling during the World Cup, a sharp increase from four years ago. As well as 4,679 gamblers, the authorities have detained 258 bookmakers and 127 betting slip runners since the

DHAKA: The Israeli was killed in a rocket attack on an Israeli position near the Erez crossing with Gaza, the army said.Hamas’s Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades armed wing said it carried out the attack.It was the first Israeli death of the conflict after nearly 1,000 rockets and mortar

DHAKA: Mexico police have rescued more than 450 children they believe were abused at a children’s home in Zamora in the state of Michoacan. They were allegedly subject to sexual abuse and forced to beg on the streets, reports the BBC. The owner Rosa del Carmen Verduzco and eight

DHAKA: New Israeli air strikes in Gaza on early Wednesday killed several people, medics said, bringing the death toll from Israel’s operation in the besieged Palestinian territory to 202. A strike on a house in the southern city of Rafah killed two men, emergency services spokesman

DHAKA: Libya’s main airport has turned into a battlefield between rival militias, a sign of anarchy in the oil producer. Until Saturday night, the airport was a hub for Libyans coming home for the Muslim fasting month and expatriates going on vacation, reports the Times of India. The

DHAKA: The Iranian foreign minister has said he held good talks with his US counterpart over Tehran’s nuclear program. Mohammad Javad Zarif met US secretary of state John Kerry in Vienna on Tuesday, less than a week before a July 20 deadline on reaching an agreement on ending the

DHAKA: Chinese president Xi Jinping invited India on Tuesday to attend a summit of the Apec trade group in November, sending a message of cooperation during the first meeting between the new leaders of the world’s most populous countries. But behind the smiles at Xi’s 80-minute

DHAKA: The death toll in Tuesday’s derailment on the Moscow metro has risen to 19. The Russian emergency ministry says, reports the BBC. Scores were injured, some seriously, when a packed commuter train braked abruptly between stations in the west of the city in the morning rush hour.

DHAKA: Israel has resumed its air strikes on Gaza after its brief ceasefire was met with continuing rocket fire. Israel had earlier accepted an Egyptian truce proposal for the conflict and stopped operations on Tuesday morning. However, the armed wing of Hamas, which controls Gaza,

DHAKA: Iraq’s parliament has elected Salim al-Jabouri as speaker, breaking weeks of political deadlock amid a jihadist-led Sunni rebellion in the north and west. The main Sunni Arab bloc in the Council of Representatives had nominated the moderate Islamist for the position. Despite

DHAKA: The death toll in Tuesday’s derailment on the Moscow metro has risen to 12. The Russian emergency ministry says, reports the BBC. Scores were injured, some seriously, when a packed commuter train braked abruptly between stations in the west of the city in the morning rush hour.

DHAKA: At least 89 people have been killed in a car bomb explosion at a busy market in eastern Afghanistan’s Paktika province. The defence ministry says, reports the BBC. Officials say the attacker drove a 4x4 vehicle into the market in Orgun district and detonated the explosives.

DHAKA: Hong Kong’s leader formally proposed electoral reforms to Beijing on Tuesday, although he stopped short of recommending specific changes ahead of an election in the Asian financial centre in 2017 for its next chief executive. Leung Chun-ying’s report to the Standing Committee

DHAKA: Iraqi security forces advanced into militant-held Tikrit on Tuesday in an assault aimed at revitalising flagging efforts to retake the city. Officials said, reports The Straits Times. Security forces began the attack on Tuesday morning and have succeeded in retaking government

DHAKA: Many people are feared dead in a car bomb explosion at a busy market in eastern Afghanistan’s Paktika province. The attacker drove a 4x4 vehicle into the market in Orgun district and detonated the explosives, a senior official told the BBC. The market was crowded, full of

DHAKA: Prime Minister David Cameron appointed Philip Hammond as foreign secretary on Tuesday as he reshuffles his cabinet ahead of the 2015 general election. ’Philip Hammond is the new Foreign Secretary,’ Cameron said on his official Twitter feed, reports The Jerusalem Post.

DHAKA: The Modi government is committed to lower taxes, India’s finance minister Arun Jaitley told The Times of India in his first interview to a newspaper after the Budget. It was an article of faith with him as well as the prime minister that lower taxes gave people money to spend

DHAKA; The newly-appointed chairman of Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) Yellapragada Sudershan Rao appears to be a votary of the caste system. In a blog written in 2007, Rao had said that the ‘positive aspects of Indian culture are so deep that the merits of ancient systems

DHAKA: A train has derailed in the Russian capital Moscow, killing at least three people, injuring many more and leaving some passengers trapped. Officials say, reports the BBC. A statement from the metro said only that a train derailed on the network’s blue line, without providing

DHAKA: The Philippines evacuated eastern coastal areas, suspended ferry services and closed schools in parts of the main Luzon island on Tuesday, as the strongest storm to hit the country since Typhoon Haiyan last year charted a direct course for the capital Manila. Typhoon Rammasun,