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

DHAKA: EU diplomats meet on Monday to agree the names of more Russians to be targeted in a broadening of sanctions over Moscow's actions in Ukraine.   The US and other G7 states are also planning further steps against Russia, accusing it of destabilising Ukraine.   On Sunday,

DHAKA: The number of new cases of the Middle East respiratory symptom coronavirus spiked by 26 over the weekend, including 10 deaths, the Saudi Arabian Health Ministry said.   This brings the total number of known cases of MERS-CoV to 339 in Saudi Arabia, including 102 deaths,

DHAKA: Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has called the Holocaust ‘the most heinous crime’ in modern history. The remarks were released ahead of Israel’s Holocaust memorial day, reports the BBC. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Abbas ‘can’t say the Holocaust is

DHAKA: Public fears have been fuelled by a rapid rise in the number of fatalities from the respiratory infection, with 31 people dying this month, almost a third of the 94 deaths registered since the virus emerged in April 2012. A 63-year-old woman, who had also suffered chronic illness,

DHAKA: An Egyptian court sentenced 42 supporters of deposed president Mohamed Mursi on Sunday to prison terms ranging from three to 15 years on violence-related charges. An Egyptian judicial source said, reports The Straits Times. The verdict was delivered by Said Youssef Sabry, the

DHAKA: An investigation was under way on Sunday to find out why a British military helicopter crashed in southern Afghanistan, killing five troops. The Lynx helicopter crashed during a routine flight in Kandahar province on Saturday, causing the third biggest single loss of life for

DHAKA: The Afghan presidential election will go to a second round, after no candidate reached the 50% needed for an outright win, preliminary results show. Former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah won most votes with 44.9%. Former World Bank economist Ashraf Ghani came second with

DHAKA: Pro-Russian Ukrainian rebels holding captive an international team of military observers from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (Osce) said on Sunday they are ‘prisoners of war’ and brought them before the media in a news conference. The group of eight

DHAKA: A court in Egypt has sentenced 11 supporters of deposed president Mohammed Mursi to prison terms ranging from five to 88 years for rioting. The defendants were arrested during a wave of protests that followed the ousting of Mursi last year. In March more than 500 Mursi supporters

DHAKA: Syria still holds around eight per cent of its declared chemical weapons material, as the deadline for it to be handed over expired on Sunday, the task force overseeing the operation said. Sigrid Kaag, head of the joint Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons-UN team

DHAKA: India’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) distributed ‘Rs Zero’ notes to voters in Kurnool of India on Sunday. To protest against the distribution of cash by other political parties in India, AAP did that, reports The Times of India. It said that AAP workers distributed zero rupee

DHAKA: Eight people have been killed after fire swept through a rehabilitation centre for drug addicts in Russia’s eastern Altai region. Russian officials say, reports the BBC. Six people were injured in the Chisty List centre near the Krasilovo lake. The officials say the blaze

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama warned on Sunday that ethnic and religious conflicts could move Myanmar in a ‘very bad direction’. Obama praised the ‘courageous process’ of political reform taking place in a country formerly led by a military junta, but warned that