DHAKA: Pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine have admitted they are holding four international monitors and said they may free them soon. Interfax says, reports the BBC. ‘We’ll clarify who they are, where they were heading and why, and will set them free,’ the self-proclaimed

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama has outlined his vision for the country's foreign policy for the rest of his presidency, saying that the country will still lead, but will show more restraint before embarking on more military missions abroad. In a speech on Wednesday, the US president

DHAKA: The area where acoustic signals thought linked to the missing Malaysian plane were detected can now be ruled out as the final resting place of flight MH370, Australian officials say. The Bluefin-21 submersible robot had finished its search of the area and found nothing, they said.

DHAKA: Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the former Egyptian army chief, is on course for a sweeping victory in the country's presidential election, early provisional results suggested. Sisi won 96.2 percent of about 21 million votes cast, state television reported early on Thursday, with the

DHAKA: Libyan warplanes have bombed bases in Benghazi as part of a self-declared campaign by a renegade former general to purge the North African country of armed groups. A media witness and an air force official in Benghazi said two jets bombed a base belonging to the February 17th

DHAKA: Myanmar began a parliamentary session on Wednesday that will see lawmakers debate the first of four proposed laws that aim to protect the country’s majority Buddhist identity by regulating religious conversions and interfaith marriages.  The proposals come amidst rising

DHAKA: Thailand’s information technology ministry blocked Facebook on Wednesday and planned to hold talks with other social networking sites to stem protests against the military government, a senior official said. ‘We have blocked Facebook temporarily and tomorrow we will call a

DHAKA: Families of passengers aboard missing flight MH370 on Wednesday accused Malaysia of withholding crucial satellite data, saying a long-awaited report is incomplete and does not prove the plane crashed in the Indian Ocean. Authorities on Tuesday released a 47-page summary of

DHAKA: Sultan of Perak, Sultan Azlan Muhibbuddin Shah has passed away on Wednesday at the age of 86. His passing was announced by Perak Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir. Zambry said the Sultan would be laid to rest at the royal mausoleum in Kuala Kangsar after Asar prayers

DHAKA: Thailand’s junta has appointed as advisers two retired generals with palace connections, putting powerful establishment figures hostile towards former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra firmly in the ascendant in the country’s long-running power struggle. Hoping to show things

DHAKA: When Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif returned to Islamabad after attending Narendra Modi’s swearing-in ceremony, he carried with him a gift from the new Indian prime minister for his mother. The gift had Nawaz’s daughter Maryam gushing in admiration. ‘Thank u v much PM

DHAKA: Egypt’s presidential election has been extended by one more day in an effort to boost low turnout that threatened to undermine the credibility of the vote likely to be won by the former army chief Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. The decision followed lower-than-expected turnout in the

DHAKA: Fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has described himself as a trained spy specializing in electronic surveillance, dismissing claims he was a mere low-level analyst. In an interview with NBC, he reiterated that he had worked undercover overseas for the CIA and NSA,

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama has announced a pullout plan for Afghanistan that will leave 9,800 troops in the country after 2014, overriding previous plans of a complete withdrawal by the end of the year. Obama announced the two-year plan on Tuesday saying the US would complete its

DHAKA: Google is to start building its own self-driving cars, rather than modifying vehicles built by other manufacturers. The car will have a stop-go button but no controls, steering wheel or pedals. Pictures of the Google vehicle show it looks like a city car with a "friendly" face,

DHAKA: At least 31 security personnel have been killed following an attack on a military base in Nigeria by Boko Haram fighters, security sources and witnesses said.  The attack on the base in the northeast Nigerian town of Buni Yadi in Yobe State on Tuesday happened not far from where

DHAKA: At least 21 people have died in a fire at hospital for the elderly in southwestern South Korea, the National Emergency Management Agency said Wednesday morning. Police said they were questioning a man in his 80s in connection with possible arson at the facility. The death toll

DHAKA: A 25-year-old woman was stoned to death by her family outside one of Pakistan’s top courts on Tuesday in a so-called ‘honour’ killing for marrying the man she loved. Pakistan police said, reports The Straits Times. Farzana Iqbal was waiting for the High Court in the eastern

DHAKA: Iranian officials say they have confirmed the country’s first two cases of Mers, a deadly virus first reported two years ago in Saudi Arabia, its neighbour on the western side of the Gulf. Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Corona-Virus (Mers) causes coughing, fever and sometimes

DHAKA: Thailand’s junta said on Tuesday that former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra had been released from military detention and allowed to return home, in the first official confirmation of her whereabouts since she was detained last week.Yingluck, who led the former Puea Thai