DHAKA: A rocket hit the Libyan government’s head offices, where new prime minister Ahmed Miitig was to hold a cabinet meeting, causing damage but no casualties. A Libyan official said on Wednesday, reports The Straits Times. The projectile struck the third floor of the building near

DHAKA: Ten people died on Wednesday after a minibus carrying 16 passengers plunged into a mountain gorge in Russia’s North Caucasus. Rescue officials said, reports The Straits Times. ‘According to preliminary information, there are seven children and three adults among the dead. Six

DHAKA: Germany is to investigate allegations by US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden that the US government bugged Chancellor Angela Merkel’s phone. Federal prosecutor Harald Range informed the German parliament’s legal affairs committee that an investigation would be held into

DHAKA: Spain’s king-in-waiting Prince Felipe vowed on Wednesday to work for a ‘united and diverse’ nation in his first public remarks since King Juan Carlos announced his abdication. While stressing his respect for Spain’s parliament, which has yet to proclaim him monarch, the

DHAKA: The White House on Wednesday urged China to account for those who were killed, detained or went missing in connection with the crackdown around Tiananmen Square 25 years ago and said it honoured the memories of those who gave their lives in that protest. ‘The United States will

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama told Ukraine’s president-elect Petro Poroshenko on Wednesday that the US was committed to his country in the long term, as pro-Russia separatists continued to battle Ukrainian troops in the country’s east. ‘The United States is absolutely committed

DHAKA: Almost 800 babies and children were buried in a mass grave in Ireland near a home for unmarried mothers run by nuns, according to new research Wednesday which throws more light on the Irish Catholic Church’s troubled past. Death records suggest 796 children, from newborns to

DHAKA: The Taliban on Wednesday released dramatic footage of their handover of army sergeant Bowe Bergdahl to US forces after five years in captivity. ‘Don’t come to Afghanistan again. Next time, nobody will release you,’ one of the gun-toting militants is heard telling Bergdahl in

DHAKA: Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama marked the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing on Wednesday by urging China to embrace democracy and offering prayers for the protest ‘martyrs’. The Dalai Lama, reviled by Beijing as a separatist, made

DHAKA: Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has won Egypt’s presidential elections by a huge majority, the country’s election commission has said. The former military chief, who last July overthrew Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mohammed Mursi, won 96.91 of legal votes cast in

DHAKA: Beijing tightened security around Tiananmen Square on Wednesday, the 25th anniversary of the June 4, 1989, crackdown on student-led protests. Dozens of riot police and police patrol cars could be seen parked around the square, as well as at intersections several blocks away on the

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama is to discuss economic support for Ukraine when he meets president-elect Petro Poroshenko in Warsaw. Obama has said he will offer US support as Kiev tries to settle a gas bill with Russian supplier Gazprom or risk a cut in supply, reports the BBC.

DHAKA:  Election officials began counting votes in Syria's presidential election early on Wednesday as polls closed in government-held areas. State-run media reported that voting closed at midnight and that officials began the process of checking the number of votes against lists of

DHAKA: A Pakistan air force fighter plane crashed at a bus terminal on the outskirts of Karachi on Tuesday, killing at least four people and injuring nine. Pakistan officials said, reports The Straits Times. The accident happened in the Baldia Town district just west of Karachi,

DHAKA: Thailand’s junta said on Tuesday that it was ending a curfew in the major tourist resorts of Pattaya, Koh Samui and Phuket imposed after last month’s military coup. The measure will be scrapped ‘to create a favourable climate for tourism’, the military said in a televised

DHAKA: Nato head Anders Fogh Rasmussen dismissed presidential elections in Syria as a ‘farce’ on Tuesday, saying they did not meet international standards. ‘The Syrian presidential election is a farce,’ Rasmussen said as he went into a Nato defence ministers meeting, reports The

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama launched a European tour on Tuesday shaped by the escalating separatist insurgency in eastern Ukraine and worries among former Soviet satellites about Russia’s new expansionist threat. Obama landed in Warsaw for celebrations of the 25th anniversary of

DHAKA: Opponents of Thailand’s military coup are risking arrest by flashing the three-finger salute from the ‘Hunger Games’ movies to defy a junta that has banned all public protests. The gesture has become the unofficial symbol of resistance against a military regime that has

DHAKA: Japan prime minister Shinzo Abe may visit North Korea, Japan said on Tuesday, days after announcing a deal to re-open the probe into Japanese citizens kidnapped by spies in the Cold War. Any such visit would be controversial, especially in Seoul and Washington, which have led the

DHAKA: A new road connecting Siliguri in West Bengal with neigbouring countries Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal will be constructed at a cost of Rs. 1,400 crore.India's West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said in Jalpaiguri on Monday.“We will be developing a new road connecting