DHAKA: Remains of about 50 mummies, including newborn babies, thought to belong to the 18th Pharaonic dynasty were found in a huge tomb in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings in Luxor. Egypt’s antiquities minister Mohamed Ibrahim said on Monday, reports The Jerusalem Post. Wooden coffins

DHAKA: The European Union agreed on Monday to impose sanctions on another 15 Russian and Ukrainian figures for their role in the Ukraine crisis. Diplomatic sources said, reports The Straits Times. The 15 will be subject to the same visa ban and asset freezes already imposed on more than

DHAKA: Al Jazeera Media Network has served Egypt with a $150m compensation claim on the grounds that its investments in the country have been damaged since July 2013. On Monday, the network lodged a formal ‘notification of dispute’ with the interim government of Egypt, reports Al

DHAKA: The United States on Monday imposed sanctions against seven Russian government officials and 17 companies linked to president Vladimir Putin in its latest action to punish Moscow for its intervention in Ukraine. The White House said the seven Russians, including Igor Sechin, head

DHAKA: Pro-Russian separatists have seized the local police headquarters in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kostyantynivka.   A spokeswoman for the Ukrainian Interior Ministry said on Monday, reports The Jerusalem Post.   ‘At 6:00am (0300 GMT) about 30 separatists came to the local

DHAKA: President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that Russia will be able to replace any defense industry imports lost due to the Ukraine crisis with its own products despite the close ties between arms and military equipment makers in Russia and Ukraine.   Putin told lawmakers he

DHAKA: Deadly attacks on Monday, including a spate of suicide bombings, killed 20 soldiers and policemen as they cast their ballots ahead of Iraq's first election since US troops withdrew.   The bombings in Baghdad, as well as north and west Iraq raise serious concerns about the

DHAKA: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi’s website http://teammodi.in/ was hacked after he had declared that ‘all infiltrators from Bangladesh would be sent back after May 16 if BJP is voted to power in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections’.   A

DHAKA: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi’s website http://teammodi.in/ has been hacked after his declaration ‘all infiltrators from Bangladesh would be sent back after May 16 if BJP is voted to power in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections’.   A

DHAKA: Saudi Arabia has deported around 427,000 foreigners over the last six months, figures from the interior ministry indicate.   The statistics also show that 12,635 expatriates are waiting at special centers for their deportation process to be completed in order to leave the

DHAKA: The pro-Russian mayor of the town of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine was left fighting for his life after being seriously wounded by gunfire on Monday.   Gennady Kernes was ‘hit by a bullet in the back’ during an attack by unknown gunmen, officials said, reports The Straits

DHAKA: Indian police said on Monday they had found the body of a murdered Briton wrapped in a plastic bag and dumped outside shops in New Delhi.   The 40-year-old man had a British passport in his pocket which police said bore the name Rodick Andrew Reymond.   The body was found on

DHAKA: China’s foreign ministry on Monday restated its opposition to placing sanctions on Russia over the crisis in Ukraine, after leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) major economies agreed to swiftly impose further punitive measures.   Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said China had

DHAKA: Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad has registered to stand in next month’s presidential election, which he is widely expected to win.   Syria parliament speaker Mohammed al-Lahham said on Monday, reports The Straits Times.   The June 3 vote will be held despite a raging

DHAKA: As three-month-old Asoma Khatu approached her final, laboured breaths, her neighbour Elia, a 50-year-old former farmer, dug through the strongbox holding some of the last medicines in this camp for Myanmar’s displaced Rohingya.   First, they got some paracetamol for the

DHAKA: An Egyptian court has sentenced 683 people, including Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie to death.   In a separate case, the same court also reversed 492 death sentences out of 529 it passed in March, commuting most of the death sentences to life in prison, media reported,

DHAKA: At least 12 people have been killed by tornadoes as a huge storm system swept across the central and southern United States.   Eleven of the victims were in several suburbs of Little Rock in Arkansas, a state official said.   One other person was killed in the town of Quapaw

DHAKA: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi declared that all infiltrators from Bangladesh would be sent back after May 16 if his party is voted to power in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. Counting of votes for all 543 Lok Sabha seats will be taken up

DHAKA: Microsoft is warning Internet Explorer users about active attacks that attempt to exploit a previously unknown security flaw in every supported version of IE. The vulnerability could be used to silently install malicious software without any help from users, save for perhaps merely

DHAKA: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has announced the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is entering a new phase, focusing on a larger underwater area.   Abbott says it has been 52 days since the plane disappeared and it is now highly unlikely that any debris