DHAKA: Malaysia prime minister Najib Razak said his patience should not be interpreted as a weakness, and added that he believes Malaysians want more space to debate issues without fear of being arrested.He was asked in an interview about his inaction over controversial issues that are

DHAKA: Gunmen have killed at least 42 soldiers in separate attacks in the Iraqi cities of Fallujah and Mosul.Police sources told Al Jazeera that 22 soldiers who had been kidnapped in Fallujah on Friday were killed on Saturday night.In a separate incident, fighters kidnapped troops from a

DHAKA: Tension prevailed in some areas of the city on Sunday after a clash between two communities over the construction of a water kiosk near a mosque left seven people injured even as police registered cases against 200 people in connection with the violence. Security has been

DHAKA: The Afghan presidential election front-runner, Abdullah Abdullah, has won the backing of a key rival, forming the contest’s first major coalition.Zalmai Rassoul, the successor favoured by outgoing president Hamid Karzai, pledged his support for Abdullah, the top candidate from

DHAKA: UK prime minister David Cameron has promised Britain ‘will do what we can’ to help find more than 200 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls. He made the comments as he held a sign bearing the ‘#Bring Back Our Girls’ slogan on the BBC's Andrew Marr show. Cameron is the latest

DHAKA: Seven policemen were on Sunday killed and two others injured when Maoists carried out a landmine blast in India’s Maharashtra state’s Gadchiroli district. The incident occurred at 9:40am when the policemen were moving for an operational task in the forest between Pavimuranda

DHAKA: The head of Samsung Group, South Korea’s largest business empire, underwent an emergency operation Sunday after developing symptoms of heart failure, hospital officials said. Lee Kun Hee, 72, was admitted to a hospital near his home in Seoul Saturday night due to a respiratory

DHAKA: India’s frontrunner for prime minister Narendra Modi urged voters to turn out in record numbers to throw the scandal-plagued Congress party from power as a bitter, marathon election campaign drew to a close. Modi, from the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, made his final appeal

DHAKA: The ruling African National Congress party (ANC) has won a landslide victory in South Africa's fifth democratic election, the country's Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has said. Addressing the country in a glitzy ceremony on Saturday evening in Pretoria, Pansy Tlakula,

DHAKA: Austrian drag act Conchita Wurst has been crowned the winner of the 59th annual Eurovision Song Contest held in Denmark's capital, Copenhagen. The singer, whose real name is Tom Neuwirth, won with the song Rise Like a Phoenix, collecting 290 points. The Netherlands finished

DHAKA: Pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine's two eastern regions are to hold "self-rule" referendums - a move condemned by Kiev and the West. Self-proclaimed leaders in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions are going ahead with the vote despite Russian President Vladimir Putin's call to

DHAKA: Campaigning has ended in India's marathon general election, two days before the final votes are cast. In the closing phase of the contest, several major parties held rallies in Uttar Pradesh, a battleground northern state which is among the last to vote. Rahul Gandhi, of the

DHAKA: The lawyer for a doctor accused of helping the US find Osama Bin Laden has told the BBC that he has quit the case after receiving frequent death threats. Lawyer Samiullah Afridi also cited US pressure on Pakistan for the release of Dr Shakil Afridi as another reason for his

DHAKA: At least 22 people have died at different locations near the Iraqi capital in a fresh wave of attacks, as the country waits for the results of recent elections to be announced. Police officials said the deadliest attack of the day happened on Saturday afternoon when a suicide

DHAKA: On the last day of campaigning in the world's largest election, Rahul Gandhi stepped into Narendra Modi’s chosen poll battlefield, Varanasi, and targeted him directly. ‘Modi ji please change your poster - say that you will respect women and stop sending the police or tapping

DHAKA: At least 17 persons including seven women were killed and five others injured today when a private bus they were traveling in fell into a deep gorge in Chamoli district in Uttarakhand state of India. Fifteen were killed on the spot and two succumbed to injuries on way to a

DHAKA: Sarajevo’s city hall, housing the national library, has been re-opened 22 years after it was destroyed by shelling during the Bosnian War. The iconic building was hit by a mortar and burned down during the Bosnian Serb siege of the city in 1992. It was restored to mark the

DHAKA: Afghanistan started using its first ever satellite on Saturday in a bid to boost its national broadcasting and telecommunications infrastructure as well as its international connectivity. Afghanistan’s telecommunications sector and a growing digital media industry are among the

DHAKA: A mini-sub hunting for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 will be back in the search zone within days, an official said on Saturday, as the Australian ship carrying the device prepared to leave on the mission. Australian vessel Ocean Shield is carrying the US Navy Bluefin-21

DHAKA: US First Lady Michelle Obama has said the mass kidnap of Nigerian schoolgirls is part of a wider pattern of threats and intimidation facing girls around the world who pursue an education. She said she and her husband Barack Obama were ‘outraged and heartbroken’ over the