DHAKA: China and South Korea have reaffirmed their opposition to North Korean nuclear tests during a visit by Chinese president Xi Jinping which is being seen as a snub to the North.It is the first time a Chinese leader has visited Seoul before Pyongyang.South Korean president Park

DHAKA: China’s president Xi Jinping arrived in Seoul Thursday for a state visit seen as a snub to Beijing’s traditional ally North Korea, whose nuclear weapons ambitions will dominate talks with South Korean leader Park Geun Hye. It was Xi Jinping’s first trip as head of state to

DHAKA: Saudi Arabia has deployed 30,000 soldiers to its border with Iraq after Iraqi soldiers withdrew from the area. The Saudi-owned al-Arabiya television reported on Thursday, says The Straits Times. The Dubai-based satellite channel said it had obtained a video showing some 2,500

DHAKA: Some four million people in South Sudan are likely to face critical food shortages next month, British aid agencies have warned. But the Disasters Emergency Committee says the cost of mounting an appeal to pay for aid might outweigh donations. South Sudan’s president has

DHAKA: Dozens of people have been injured in the largest clashes in occupied East Jerusalem in years, as Palestinians fought with police after the mutilated body of a boy was found dumped in a forest outside the city. The body may belong to Mohammed Abu Khdair, a 17-year-old from the

DHAKA: Two people were killed during Buddhist-Muslim violence in Myanmar’s second-largest city. Police said Thursday after security forces fired rubber bullets to disperse hundreds of rioters. Myanmar has been shaken by several waves of sectarian conflict in recent years that have

DHAKA: The Obama administration is stepping up security for some flights headed to the United States from Europe and the Middle East, reflecting heightened concern that terrorists are developing more sophisticated bombs designed to avoid airport screening. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh

DHAKA: The US special envoy for Afghanistan is stepping down, Secretary of State John Kerry announced Wednesday in a move which comes at a key juncture in troubled US-Afghan ties. James Dobbins, a veteran diplomat with deep ties to Afghanistan, is retiring after just over a year in

DHAKA: Iran has supplied Iraq with attack jets to help it counter an offensive by Sunni rebels led by the Islamist group Isis, strong evidence suggests. Russia supplied an initial delivery of the aircraft just a few days ago. But analysts at the International Institute for Strategic

DHAKA: Russia plans to issue a banknote dedicated to Crimea, a senior central bank official said on Wednesday, the latest expression of national pride over Moscow’s annexation of the Black Sea peninsula from Ukraine. ‘We plan to issue a banknote dedicated to Crimea, but it will be a

DHAKA: An influential global body that controls atomic exports is divided over establishing closer ties with India, meaning the nuclear-armed Asian power may have to wait a while longer before joining. Diplomatic sources said different opinions were voiced in a debate on relations with

DHAKA: Sri Lanka’s police called in a militant Buddhist monk for questioning Wednesday after he was accused of instigating deadly anti-Muslim riots that heightened religious tensions in the ethnically divided nation. Galagodaatte Gnanasara was summoned to the Criminal Investigations

DHAKA: Thailand’s ‘out of control’ ivory market is driving Africa’s elephant poaching crisis, conservationists warned Wednesday, accusing the kingdom of backsliding on its pledges. The number of ivory products on sale in Bangkok nearly trebled from 5,865 in January last year to

DHAKA: India’s new prime minister Narendra Modi has permitted Twitter unprecedented access to his administration in a drive to put social media at the heart of government. The US internet company said, reports The Straits Times. Modi deployed an army of supporters over Twitter and

DHAKA: China has banned civil servants, students and teachers in its mainly Muslim Xinjiang region from taking part in Ramadan fasting, government websites said, prompting condemnation from an exile group on Wednesday. China’s ruling Communist party is officially atheist, and for years

DHAKA: Nobel laureate Amartya Sen was not in favor of Narendra Modi forming the government but having won in the recent elections and as a democratic Indian, he believes Modi has every right to govern and govern well. Addressing a packed audience at Asia House in London on Monday, Sen

DHAKA: Women in Delhi aren’t safe from sexual predators even in broad daylight and in a relatively ‘safe’ area like Connaught Place. In a city where an estimated six rapes are reported every day, a 34-year-old woman was allegedly raped by a security guard in an office building in

DHAKA: The US Navy has promoted a woman to the rank of a four-star admiral for the first time in its 238-year history, a milestone for females in the American military. In a ceremony on Tuesday, Michelle Howard was promoted to vice chief of naval operations, the number two job in the

DHAKA: A Palestinian teenager from annexed east Jerusalem was kidnapped and killed early Wednesday in a suspected act of revenge for the murder of three Israeli teens. Israel’s army radio reported, says Hindustan Times. The radio said the youth was seen being forced into a car a

DHAKA: A Taliban suicide bomber in Kabul killed eight military officers Wednesday in an attack on an air force bus, Afghan officials said, in the latest strike against the national security forces as US troops withdraw. The blast came the day after presidential election results were