DHAKA: The kidnappers of three yeshiva students last weekend are not terrorists, Israel’s parliament member Hanin Zoabi (Balad) said Tuesday. ‘They’re people who don’t see any way to change their reality and they are forced to use these means until Israel will wake up a little,

DHAKA: Afghan police hunted down and killed two Taliban insurgents who cut off the fingers of 11 elderly men who voted in the presidential election run-off.Officials said on Tuesday, reports The Straits Times.All voters in Afghanistan had their fingers marked with ink after voting to

DHAKA: UK foreign secretary William Hague will announce a plan on Tuesday which will lead to the re-opening of the British embassy in Iran's capital, Tehran. Full diplomatic relations with Iran were suspended after attacks on the British embassy in Iran in 2011. The election of a new

DHAKA: Egypt’s prime minister Ibrahim Mehleb was sworn in on Tuesday at the head of a new government that retained key economic and security ministers but created a new investment post to attract funds to an economy racked by years of political turmoil.Mehleb, followed by his

DHAKA: A bus carrying tourists plunged off a mountain road into a gorge in a Himalayan region in northern India, killing 11 people, police said Tuesday.“All the 11 dead are tourists, the toll could rise,” said B.S. Thakur, a senior state police officer.Around 40 others were

DHAKA: The United States on Monday asked Sri Lanka to quell an anti-Muslim riot that has killed three and wounded nearly 100 members of the minority community in two southern tourist regions of the country.“We urge the government to ensure that order is preserved and the lives of

DHAKA: Pakistani and Afghan leaders have discussed regional security amid air strikes against militants in Pakistan’s north-west tribal areas.Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Afghan President Hamid Karzai held talks by phone, on the second day of Pakistani air raids in North

DHAKA: US President Barak Obama notified Congress on Monday that about 275 U.S. military personnel are deploying to Iraq to provide support and security for U.S. personnel and the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. Obama also said the troops are equipped for combat and will remain in Iraq until

DHAKA: Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill has been served with an arrest warrant in relation to a fraud case, the head of the South Pacific country's anti-corruption body says. The warrant relates to allegations that O'Neill personally authorised the illegal payment of about

DHAKA: Chinese authorities executed 13 people on Monday for ‘terrorist attacks and violent crimes’ in the violence-wracked northwestern region of Xinjiang. State media said, reports The Straits Times. The announcement by Xinhua news agency said the 13 were involved in seven

DHAKA: The United States is considering US air strikes to help the Iraqi government fend off an Islamist insurgency as well as possible discussions with neighbouring Iran. US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday. Asked about the possibility of such strikes, Kerry said in an

DHAKA: Indonesian prosecutors sought a life sentence Monday for a former top judge accused of accepting bribes in more than a dozen cases involving regional election disputes, and of money-laundering. Former constitutional court chief judge Akil Mochtar was arrested last year by

DHAKA: A US warship entered the Gulf on Monday carrying hundreds of marines and Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft in case they are needed to protect Americans in Iraq. The Pentagon said, reports The Straits Times. ‘It’s presence in the Gulf adds to that of other US naval ships already

DHAKA: Ukraine says Russia has cut off all gas supplies to Kiev, in a major escalation of a dispute between the two nations. ‘Gas supplies to Ukraine have been reduced to zero,’ Ukraine energy minister Yuri Prodan said, reports the BBC. Russia’s state-owned gas giant Gazprom said

DHAKA: Violence between Buddhists and Muslims in southern Sri Lanka has left three people dead and at least another 78 seriously injured. Sri Lanka justice minister said on Monday, reports The Straits Times. ‘Three deaths have occurred,’ minister Rauf Hakeem told reporters in the

DHAKA: Sunni militants have seized the northern Iraqi buffer city of Tal Afar, officials and residents say. Militants led by ISIS, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, captured key cities including Mosul and Tikrit last week, but some towns were retaken. Fighting in Tal Afar began

DHAKA: A 38-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped at the weekend in a northern Indian state whose government is under fire over a string of sexual attacks.Police said on Monday, reports The Straits Times.The woman had gone out shopping for medicine on Friday night when three men lured

DHAKA: At least 48 people have died after suspected Islamist militants attacked hotels and a police station in a Kenyan coastal town. Officials say, reports the BBC. Witnesses in Mpeketoni said gun battles went on for several hours and reported seeing buildings set on fire. The town is

DHAKA: Russian gas exporter Gazprom said on Monday that Ukraine had failed to pay at least part of its gas debts by a 0600 GMT deadline and would now have to pay up front for deliveries, suggesting that supplies could be cut. Kiev and Moscow failed to agree overnight on the price of

DHAKA: The United States condemned Sunday a ‘horrifying’ massacre by militants said to have killed hundreds of Iraqi Shia air force recruits in the northern city of Tikrit, urging the country to unite. Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have overrun a