DHAKA: Iraqi forces still control the country's largest oil refinery, state-run media reports, contradicting earlier claims, CNN breaking.   Earlier, the ISIS rebels claimed that the have controlled country’s largest oil refinery.** Iraqi rebels seize key oil refinery  BDST: 1210

DHAKA: A trio of earthquakes struck in the South Pacific Ocean Tuesday morning southeast of Raoul Island, New Zealand, the U.S. Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of damage. Two quakes, with magnitudes of 6.9 and 6.3, hit within minutes of each other, according to

DHAKA: Iraqi Kurdish President Massoud Barzani gave his strongest-ever indication on Monday that his region would seek formal independence from the rest of Iraq. “Iraq is obviously falling apart,” he told CNN's Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview. “And it’s obvious that

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama has called Russian president Vladimir Putin to support peace and help de-escalate tension in Ukraine. “Obama spoke to Putin and urged him to support peace instead of allowing the provision of arms and materiel across the border and continuing support

DHAKA: Hundreds of journalists are due to gather in London to protest against the seven-year jail terms given to three al-Jazeera journalists in Egypt. Earlier on Monday a court in Cairo found Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed guilty of spreading false news. The trio had

DHAKA: Pakistan’s Supreme Court overturned a high court ruling to lift a travel ban slapped on Pervez Musharraf last year, a setback to the former military ruler facing multiple trials including one for high-treason. The Sindh high court in a judgment of June 12 had allowed 70-year-old

DHAKA: Pro-Russia rebels in eastern Ukraine said they will observe a ceasefire until Friday morning, responding to the Ukrainian forces' unilateral ceasefire. The rebel announcement was made in Donetsk by Alexander Borodai, a leader of the self-styled "Donetsk People's Republic" which is

DHAKA: Iraqi Sunni rebels have fully captured the country's main oil refinery at Baiji, north of Baghdad, news BBC.  The refinery had been under siege for 10 days with the militant offensive being repulsed several times. The complex supplies a third of Iraq's refined fuel and the

KOLKATA: Nur Hossain, the prime accused of Narayanjganj 7-murder case, along with his two accomplices, has been sent to the jail custody for 14 days.After that, they will be extradited to Bangladesh with the help of the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), sources

DHAKA: An explosion has struck a public health college in Nigeria’s second city of Kano, in the north.Nigeria police say, reports the BBC.At least seven people were killed in the blast at the Kano School of Hygiene, they add.The city is known to have been targeted in the past by the

DHAKA: A top Afghan election official accused of fraud resigned Monday, raising hopes of ending a political deadlock that threatens to derail the country’s presidential succession as Nato troops withdraw.Zia-ul-Haq Amarkhail, head of the secretariat of the Independent Election

DHAKA: Israel prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned Israel’s enemies throughout the Middle East on Monday that Israel would strike back if any of them attempt to harm the Jewish state.Speaking at a meeting of his Likud Beytenu faction in the Knesset, Netanyahu praised the Shin

DHAKA: The last of Syria’s declared chemical weapons have been shipped out of the country for destruction.The international watchdog OPCW says, reports the BBC.‘The ship has just left the port,’ the head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Ahmet Uzumcu,

DHAKA: A Spanish judge says he will wrap up a corruption probe into King Felipe VI’s sister Princess Cristina and her husband Inaki Urdangarin on Wednesday, opening up the prospect of a historic criminal trial. Less than a week after 46-year-old Felipe VI took the crown from his father

DHAKA: European Union foreign ministers agreed on Monday to impose an asset freeze and travel ban on 12 Syrian government ministers, accusing them of ‘responsibility for serious human rights violations’.The ministers’ names will only be published in the EU’s Official Journal on

DHAKA: A South Korean soldier who killed five members of his unit has been captured after a failed suicide attempt. South Korea defence officials say, reports the BBC. The soldier, identified only as Im, shot himself in the chest and was being sent to hospital, they said. His capture

DHAKA: Militant Islamist groups in Syria are recruiting children as young as 15 and sending them into battle after promising them a free education. A Human Rights Watch (HRW) report said on Monday, reports The Straits Times. The report said the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS),

DHAKA: An Egypt court jailed three al-Jazeera journalists for seven years accusing them for supporting Muslim Brotherhood. A court in Cairo convicted Peter Greste, Mohammed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed of spreading false news and supporting the banned Islamist group.  Though, the trio had

DHAKA: Malaysia’s highest court has dismissed a bid by Christians for the right to use the word ‘Allah’, ending a long legal battle that has caused religious tensions in the Muslim-majority country. The Catholic Church had been seeking to reverse a government ban on it referring to

DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry has arrived in Iraq’s capital, Baghdad as Sunni insurgents expand their control of towns across north-western Iraq. In Egypt on Sunday, Kerry warned that Sunni militants Isis’ ‘ideology of violence and repression is a threat not only to Iraq