DHAKA: An Algerian military transport plane has crashed in the north-east of the country, killing more than 100 people.Algerian media say, reports the BBC.The plane crashed in a mountainous area in Oum al-Bouaghi province, said private TV station Ennahar.Its source said that contact was

DHAKA: Three back-to-back explosions occurred inside Shama Cinema in Pakistan’s Peshawar on Tuesday, killing 11 people and leaving at least 19 others injured.According to DawnNews, multiple explosions occurred when a show was ongoing in the cinema. Approximately 70 people were watching

DHAKA:Sushil Koirala was sworn in as Nepal’s prime minister on Tuesday, after winning the backing of fellow legislators and tasked with steering the strife-torn Himalayan nation towards stability.Koirala, head of the country’s biggest political party the Nepali Congress, took his oath

DHAKA: Iranian president Hassan Rouhani hit out on Tuesday at Western assertions that a military solution to a nuclear dispute with Tehran remained an option and pledged that Tehran would press on ‘forever’ with what he called peaceful atomic research.In a speech marking the 35th

DHAKA: Indian leaders are set later on Tuesday to celebrate the eradication of polio, marking one of the country’s biggest public health success stories that was once thought impossible to achieve.President Pranab Mukherjee, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as well as the health minister

DHAKA: Suspected militants blew up a pipeline that transports gas to an industrial area in Egypt’s Sinai on Tuesday, the fourth such attack this year.Egypt’s security officials said, reports The Straits Times.Attacks in the Sinai peninsula, namely against soldiers and policemen but

DHAKA: Kyairiel Mikhail is just 13 months old but is already heavier than his three-year-old sister and five-year-old brother.He was born 2.7kg, within the normal range.Now, the one-year-old weighs 17.6kg, after losing 0.5kg in the past few weeks.‘Doctors have carried out a series of

DHAKA: French President Francois Hollande has arrived in the US for a state visit, as he and President Barack Obama tout their co-operation on issues from Iran to trade and climate change.In articles published jointly in US and French newspapers, they said "our deepening partnership

DHAKA: China and Taiwan are about to begin the highest-level talks since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949.Wang Yu-chi and Zhang Zhijun, the top cross-strait officials from each side, will meet at the four-day talks in Nanjing, reports BBC.Taiwanese officials said they would raise

DHAKA: The second round of Syria peace talks has got off to a stormy start against a backdrop of continued rescue of civilians from the beseiged city of Homs.Members of Syria`s government and opposition delegations blamed each other in Geneva on Monday for mortar attacks on convoys

DHAKA: An overloaded passenger boat has capsized in a river in eastern India, leaving 29 people confirmed dead as rescuers searched for others feared missing.An Indian official said on Monday, reports The Straits Times.Scuba divers aided by rescue helicopters pulled dozens of people from

DHAKA: A presidential panel has agreed to transform Yemen into a six-region federation as part of its political transition.State news agency Saba reported, says Al Jazeera.The final approval on creating a ‘federal state of six regions’ came at a meeting of a committee, headed by

DHAKA: Thai police on Monday arrested an anti-government protest leader, their first such move after months of defiant rallies in Bangkok aimed at ousting Yingluck Shinawatra’s beleaguered government.Protest leaders have flouted arrest warrants and an emergency decree to deliver caustic

DHAKA: An Arab-Iranian poet and human rights activist, Hashem Shaabani, has been executed for being an ‘enemy of God’ and threatening national security, according to local human rights groups.Shaabani and a man named Hadi Rashedi were hanged in unidentified prison on January 27,

DHAKA: Taliban insurgents have set tough terms for peace talks with the Pakistani government, demanding the release of all imprisoned fighters and the withdrawal of troops from the tribal areas.Pakistan officials said on Monday, reports The Straits Times.The militants outlined their

DHAKA: The presidents of France and the United States issued a joint call on Monday for other nations to join them in seeking an ‘ambitious’ agreement to curb climate change.Presidents Barack Obama and Francois Hollande, writing in an article in the ‘Washington Post’ and ‘Le

DHAKA: Gunmen on motorcycles shot dead eight people, including an eight-year-old girl, at a faith healer`s house in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, police and doctors said.At least 12 others were also wounded in the shooting on Sunday in Baldia Town, as dozens of people waited for

DHAKA: The second round of peace talks between the Syrian government and opposition representatives is due to begin in Geneva on Monday.The first round of talks ended last month with no firm agreements and with both sides trading insults, reports BBC.However, UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said

DHAKA: South Korea and the US have announced that their annual military drills will take place from 24 February to 18 April, despite anger from North Korea.Pyongyang warned against the planned drills last week, calling them "exercises of war", reports BBC.Meanwhile, the US said it was

DHAKA: New violence and looting in the Central African Republic`s capital, Bangui, left at least nine people dead, including two more lynchings of minority Muslims.The latest assaults in the former French colony included mob attacks and an assassination attempt targeting the former