DHAKA: The United States has sent a handful of military advisers to Somalia in recent months to help bolster an African Union force fighting Islamist militants there.Officials said on Friday, The Times of India publishes this report on Saturday.The deployment marks the first stationing of

DHAKA: A shocking ad on one of Latin America’s biggest online marketplaces, offering ‘blacks for sale for one real’, has sparked outrage in Brazil and a police investigation.The ad featured a photo of two black children, and suggested any blacks purchased could ‘serve as

DHAKA: Former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon has died aged 85 after spending eight years in a coma following a stroke.Sharon was a giant of the Israeli military and political scene, but courted controversy throughout his long career.He was being treated at the Sheba Medical Center

DHAKA: A senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard Commander said Saturday that Hezbollah in Lebanon has upgraded its capabilities in recent years and is now able to carry out pinpoint missile strikes on targets throughout Israel.Speaking in an interview with Iran’s Fars News Agency, Commander

DHAKA: India said Saturday there was ‘no standoff’ with Washington after it expelled a US diplomat in a row over the arrest of an Indian consular official in New York.‘There is no standoff between India and the US,’ Indian foreign minister Salman Khurshid told reporters in New

DHAKA: Residents of a militant-held city on Baghdad’s doorstep began slowly returning on Saturday amid a tense calm as the UN Security Council backed Iraq’s efforts against Al-Qaeda-linked extremists.Most businesses reopened in Fallujah and government security operations in nearby

DHAKA: India’s new anti-graft party has signed up tens of thousands of members in a nationwide recruitment drive as it seeks to build support ahead of general elections.An official said on Saturday, reports The Straits Times.The Aam Aadmi (Common Man) Party plans to contest seats in the

DHAKA: A Pakistani teenager who sacrificed his life to stop a suicide bomber, saving the lives of hundreds of students, has been handed the country`s highest award for bravery.Aitzaz Hassan, 15, a student in Hangu district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has become a national hero after

DHAKA: Seven people were wounded, one seriously, after gunmen opened fire on anti-government protesters in Bangkok early on Saturday, heightening fears of more violence when protesters try to ‘shutdown’ the capital next week in their long-running bid to overthrow prime minister

DHAKA: Ukraine’s ex-interior minister and current opposition leader Yuriy Lutsenko is in intensive care in hospital on Saturday after being beaten in fresh clashes that erupted between pro-European Union demonstrators and club-wielding police.Dozens of nationalist demonstrators

DHAKA: A patient in Naivasha District Hospital in Kenya who spent time in morgue a day after being declared dead is still alive.The authorities have launched an investigation into how a man declared dead in a hospital woke up alive in its morgue the next day.Shocked mortuary workers at

DHAKA: Iran and the EU have appeared to make progress in resolving outstanding differences on how to implement a landmark nuclear deal, but the United States said discussions were not yet finalised.Iran`s deputy foreign minister, Abbas Araqchi, met a senior EU official in Geneva on Friday

DHAKA: A senior American official has said the United States is "very open" to building a new relationship with Cuba.However, Edward Alex Lee of the US state department stressed that any improvement should go hand-in-hand with more political freedom on the communist-run island, reports

DHAKA: South Sudan`s army says it has regained control of the rebel-held town of Bentiu, handing the government control of Unity State`s oilfields where production had been halted.The army had earlier announced it was mobilising thousands of additional troops as it battled to recapture

DHAKA: Clashes between Syrian rebel and fighters from an al-Qaeda-linked group have killed nearly 500 people in northern Syria over the past week, according to a monitoring group.The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says that at least 482 people have been killed in the

DHAKA: Central African Republic`s interim President Michel Djotodia has resigned at a regional summit aimed at ending violence that has engulfed the country.PM Nicolas Tiengaye also resigned at the meeting in Chad.Thousands of people took to the streets in CAR`s capital, Bangui, most of

DHAKA: Kenya planes `kill Somali militants` from al-ShababKenya says it has carried out an air strike on an Islamist camp in Somalia, killing 30 militants, including al-Shabab commanders, reports BBC.The strike happened in Garbarahey, near the border with Kenya and Ethiopia.Local media

DHAKA: A US government review panel has determined a man from Yemen detained at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba for more than a decade can be released.Mahmud Mujahid, 33, had been accused of being an al-Qaeda fighter and bodyguard to Osama Bin Laden.He was held at the detention centre since 2002

DHAKA: A 14-year-old boy is being hailed as a hero in Pakistan for tackling a suicide bomber -- dying at the main gate of his school and saving schoolmates gathered for their morning assembly, reports CNN.Ninth-grader Aitazaz Hassan Bangash was on his way to the Ibrahimzai School on

DHAKA: A car bomb has exploded near a school in the central Syrian province of Hama, killing at least 18 people and wounding dozens more, according to a monitoring group.The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Thursday that the explosion took place in the village of