DHAKA: Russia’s president Vladimir Putin has said he backs Egypt’s military chief Abdul Fattah al-Sisi in his ‘bid for the presidency’.Putin, meeting Field Marshal Sisi in Moscow to discuss an arms deal, said he was ‘aware’ of his decision to run.However, there has been no

DHAKA: India’s parliament erupted in mayhem on Thursday when a legislator fired pepper spray in the lower house in protest against a bill on a new state.Television footage showed pictures of lawmakers coughing, sneezing and holding scarves to their faces. Shouting protesters also broke

DHAKA: At least six people were killed and many more wounded Thursday in a car bomb attack close to the entrance of Mogadishu’s heavily-fortified international airport.Somalia police and witnesses said, reports Al Arabiya.The bomb went off near a checkpoint at the entrance to the

DHAKA: Gunmen have abducted a British teacher in Sana’a, in the second kidnapping this month of a British expat in violence-hit Yemen.A security official said on Thursday, reports gulfnews.com.The unidentified gunmen captured the teacher on Wednesday evening as he returned from work,

DHAKA: Thailand has sent around 1,300 Rohingya refugees back to Myanmar, a top official said on Thursday, dismaying rights campaigners who warned the minority Muslims faced persecution in the former junta-ruled country.Thousands of Rohingya, described by the United Nations as among the

DHAKA: Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday that Moscow had presented a draft UN Security Council resolution on ‘fighting terrorism’ in Syria in addition to its attempt at a resolution on aid access there.‘Terrorism is certainly no less acute a problem (than the

DHAKA: Afghanistan is preparing to release 65 detainees from Bagram detention centre despite the US condemning the decision and insisting they are "dangerous".US officials say they have evidence the men were responsible for carrying out attacks on Nato and Afghan troops, reports BBC.But

DHAKA:  African Union (AU) peacekeepers have uncovered a mass grave at a military camp occupied by Seleka rebels in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic (CAR).The find came a day after UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday there was "a distinct risk" the CAR

DHAKA: Boko Haram fighters killed 39 people and razed scores of homes when they stormed two villages in northeast Nigeria, firing indiscriminately on fleeing civilians, a state governor and witnesses said.Heavily armed groups in trucks attacked a mosque, markets and government buildings

DHAKA: Get off the roads, and stay off.That was the message in Georgia and the Carolinas as a snow and ice storm swept through Wednesday, bringing some of the Southeast`s most populous cities to a standstill.The warnings came as freezing rain brought heavy ice accumulations from Atlanta

DHAKA: Afghanistan has halted conservation work at a site once occupied by ancient Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban because the team involved is suspected of secretly trying to rebuild one of the statue’s feet.The United Nations said, reports The Straits Times.Any attempt to

DHAKA: International peacekeepers have failed to prevent the ethnic cleansing of Muslims in the Central African Republic.A human rights group says, reports the BBC.Militia attacks have led to a ‘Muslim exodus of historic proportions’, according to a report by Amnesty International.Aid

DHAKA: The UN has restarted its aid mission in the besieged rebel-held Old City of Homs after hours of talks aimed at saving a truce between warring parties.UN vehicles towed trailers of food into the city, and aid agencies prepared buses to transport fleeing civilians, reports the

DHAKA: A Taiwan official visiting China on Wednesday urged more efforts to build stable relations, a day after the two sides held their first government-to-government talks since splitting 65 years ago.Taiwan’s top official overseeing China policy, Wang Yu-chi, visited the tomb of

DHAKA: It appears prospects for an Israeli-Turkish rapprochement are once again growing more distant.During a news conference held on Tuesday, Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, reiterated his government’s position that any reconciliation between Ankara and Jerusalem would

DHAKA: Gunmen tossed hand grenades into the house of a slain Pakistani police officer on Wednesday, police said, killing nine men in an attack coinciding with peace talks between the government and Pakistan Taliban militants.There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the early

DHAKA: Peace talks between the Syrian government and opposition are not making much progress, the international mediator has acknowledged after a face-to-face meeting of the rival parties in Geneva.Negotiations intended to end Syria`s three-year-old civil war began with a week-long

DHAKA: At least six people have been killed in avalanches recently in the West, as the risk of snow slides remains high.Two people were killed in each of three states: Oregon, Utah and Colorado.In Oregon, two cross-country skiers were killed Tuesday in an avalanche about 10 miles

DHAKA: Officials from North and South Korea have begun their first high-level talks since 2007.The meeting - requested by Pyongyang - is taking place at the border village of Panmunjom.No agenda has been set but the issue of family reunions planned for later this month is expected to be

DHAKA: Algeria has begun three days of national mourning for the dozens of people killed in a military passenger plane crash in the north-east of the country.Just one person survived when the Hercules C-130 crashed into a mountain in Oum al-Bouaghi province, en route to Constantine, in