DHAKA: Malaysia says weather conditions in the southern corridor where debris possibly related to the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was spotted by satellite are very challenging.‘In the area where the possible objects were identified by the Australian authorities, there are

DHAKA: Unidentified gunmen have kidnapped a Tunisian diplomat in Tripoli, Tunisia’s foreign minister said, one of a string of diplomatic abductions in the Libyan capital this year.Three years after Libya’s revolt to topple Muammar Gaddafi, the North African country is struggling to

DHAKA: Australian prime minister Tony Abbott voiced increasing hope on Sunday of finding out what happened to Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 and the 239 people on board after unidentified debris was sighted in the search zone.‘It’s still too early to be definite, but obviously we have

DHAKA: William Hague has warned Russia that it faces long-term ‘isolation and stagnation’ over the crisis in Ukraine.The foreign secretary said it was time to consider a ‘new state of relations’ different to that of the past 20 years.Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, he said the UK

DHAKA: Russian troops have smashed their way into a Ukrainian airbase in Crimea with armoured vehicles, automatic fire and stun grenades, while Ukrainian forces abandoned a naval base after attacks by pro-Russian protesters.The facilities at Belbek and Novofedorovka had been among the

DHAKA: Violence has broken out at the end of an anti-austerity protest attended by tens of thousands of people in the Spanish capital Madrid.Dozens of youths threw projectiles at police, who responded by charging at them, BBC reported.Demonstrators were protesting over issues including

DHAKA: Two Chinese military planes have arrived in Perth in Australia to join international search operations for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet.Crews are set to scour southern areas of the Indian Ocean for a fourth day, BBC reported. Two sets of satellite images showing floating

DHAKA: Turkish Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek has defended his government`s ban on Twitter, accusing the website of failing to comply with court orders.Mehmet Simsek told the BBC that no company should see itself as above the law.The government banned the website on Friday, after users

DHAKA: The US should increase its military presence in Poland and in other Nato members in central and eastern Europe in light of the Ukraine crisis.Polish defence minister Tomasz Siemoniak said on Saturday, reports The Straits Times.Siemoniak said Washington was open towards the idea but

DHAKA: Libyan troops fought with rebels occupying oil ports on Saturday after fighters attacked an army base where military reinforcements were preparing for an offensive to break the blockade.Local residents said, reports The Jerusalem Post.Anti-aircraft gunfire and explosions were heard

DHAKA: At least five militants were killed and eight arrested during a search operation by security forces at Balochistan’s Kech district in Pakistan on Saturday morning.A security official claimed, reports dawn.com.The official, who requested anonymity since he was not authorized to

DHAKA: The Russian foreign ministry said on Saturday sanctions imposed by the European Union on 12 Russians and Ukrainians over Crimea were ‘divorced from reality’.‘It’s a pity that the European Council made a decision that is divorced from reality,’ the ministry’s spokesman

DHAKA: US First Lady Michelle Obama stepped out for her second full-day in Beijing stressing the importance of education, in particularly studying abroad, as well as encouraging young adults to embrace freedom of speech, which she said is a ‘birthright’.She also noted the stake the US

DHAKA: China is investigating new satellite images of debris in the southern Indian Ocean, potentially from missing flight MH370.Malaysian officials say, reports the BBC.Malaysia’s acting transport minister read out the news as he was handed it during at his daily briefing, saying one

DHAKA: Thousands of Algerian opposition supporters have called for a boycott of next month’s presidential election, during an unprecedented mass rally.Islamist and secular opposition parties at the rally denounced 77-year-old president Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s attempt to win a fourth

DHAKA: Russian president Vladimir Putin has ‘lost Ukraine for good’ with his move to annex Crimea, former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko said in her first live television appearance since returning to the country.Tymoshenko, who spent three years in jail on what she said were

DHAKA: Pope Francis has launched a stinging attack on the mafia, warning gangsters that they will go to hell unless they repent and stop doing evil.‘Blood-stained money, blood-stained power, you can’t bring it with you to your next life. Repent,’ he said, reports the BBC.He was

DHAKA: Russian president Vladimir Putin has signed a law formalising Russia’s takeover of Crimea from Ukraine, despite fresh sanctions from the EU and the US.The European Union’s latest measures target 12 people involved in Russia’s annexation of the peninsula.Earlier, Ukraine and

DHAKA: Two weeks. Two gut-wrenching, frustrating, mysterious weeks.That`s how long it`s been since 227 passengers and 12 crew members boarded Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, destined for Beijing. A routine trip, it seemed, to catch up relatives in time for the weekend, start on a work

DHAKA: Thousands of people celebrated in the Crimean capital of Simferopol after the region broke away from Ukraine and was formally accepted into the Russian Federation.Celebrations continued into early Saturday, hours after the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, signed a treaty making