DHAKA: An explosion ripped through a train station in the southern Russian city of Volgograd on Sunday, killing at least 10 people.Russian news agencies said, reports The Straits Times.There was no immediate claim of responsibility after Sunday’s explosion.The cause of the blast was not

DHAKA: More than a million Americans will lose their unemployment benefits after an emergency federal programme expired on Saturday.Lawmakers failed to agree on an extension of the scheme before the US Congress began its winter recess.Former President George W Bush introduced the

DHAKA: The Israeli military fired about 20 shells into southern Lebanon on Sunday without causing any damage after rockets were launched in the opposite direction.A Lebanese security official said, reports The Voice of Russia.The barrage came after the Israeli military said it had

DHAKA: There is ‘no political solution in Syria’ with the presence of president Bashar al-Assad.French president Francois Hollande told pan-Arab al-Hayat newspaper, reports Al Arabiya.‘Assad is not fighting Islamists, he is placing blame on armed Islamist extremists to pressure the

DHAKA: A day after he took over as the chief minister of Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal Sunday sought ten days’ time to formulate a system to address grievances and problems of the people in Delhi.He said that he would accept the applications of the people visiting him only after a system is in

DHAKA: International pressure is bearing down on the two sides in South Sudan`s bloody conflict to launch peace talks, in an effort to keep the young nation from sliding into civil war.The push comes as 25,000 young men comprising a tribal armed group known as the White Army were

DHAKA: More than 500 Chinese lawmakers accused of election fraud have been forced from office, the country`s official Xinhua news agency reported.The officials were disqualified, dismissed or resigned on Saturday following elections in Hunan at the Hengyang municipal people`s congress,

DHAKA: In a message to Pope Francis, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said his government is ready to participate in next month`s peace talks but noted outside countries must stop supporting what he called terrorist groups in the country`s civil war, Syria`s state-run news agency said

DHAKA: Three foreign workers, including a Bangladeshi national, went missing after capsize of security platform in Alsafania coastal area of Saudia Arabia on Friday (Saudi Arab time).The identity of the missing person could not be known immediately but other two foreign workers are Indian

DHAKA: A Syrian government airstrike on a crowded market in the northern city of Aleppo has killed at least 21 people, activists say.Videos uploaded by activists showed extensive damage to the market and corpses being pulled from cars.Many more were reported wounded in the

DHAKA: Bahrain police have arrested Ali Salman, head of the main Shia opposition bloc Al-Wefaq that has spearheaded protests against the authorities in the Sunni-ruled kingdom.The group said on Saturday, reports The Straits Times.‘Al-Wefaq can confirm that sheikh Ali Salman has been

DHAKA: India is checking the tax status of Americans working at schools in the country, after the arrest this month of an Indian diplomat in New York.Devyani Khobragade was handcuffed and strip-searched while in custody.Her detention on charges of visa fraud and underpayment of her

DHAKA: US state secretary John Kerry will return to the Middle East next week for talks with Palestinian and Israeli officials on the peace process.A Palestinian official said on Saturday.‘Mr Kerry has told the Palestinian Authority he will return to the region on January 4 to discuss

DHAKA: The removal of deadly toxins from Syria under an international effort to rid the nation of its chemical arsenal will likely miss a December 31 deadline.The global chemical arms watchdog said, reports TDS.Bad weather and shifting battlefronts in Syria’s civil war have delayed the

DHAKA: Zimbabwe’s ambassador to Australia has asked Canberra for asylum, lashing out at her country’s ‘illegitimate’ government and voicing fears for her safety if she returns home at the end of her posting next week.Jacqueline Zwambila said July elections in Zimbabwe had been

DHAKA: Twenty-five thousand young men who make up a tribal militia known as the ‘White Army’ are marching toward a contested state capital in South Sudan, an official said on Saturday, dimming hopes for a cease-fire.Seeking an end to the nearly two-week crisis in which an estimated

DHAKA: Afghan security forces captured two Taliban commanders from Khinjan district of Baghlan province with Pul-e-Khumri as its capital 160 km north of Kabul on Friday night.Provincial police chief Aminullah Omarkhil said Saturday.‘Acting upon intelligence report, our police launched

DHAKA: Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has sent Pope Francis a private message, the Vatican said on Saturday, without disclosing its contents.The Vatican said a delegation headed by Joseph Sweid, a Syrian minister of state, held talks in the Vatican with the pope’s secretary of state,

DHAKA: A student was killed and 60 arrested as Egyptian police entered a Cairo university on Saturday to confront Islamist protesters who torched a building, amid an intensifying crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood.Egypt officials said, reports The Straits Times.The unrest followed

DHAKA: Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition party vowed on Saturday to contest crucial elections in 2015 even if the constitution is not amended first to allow her to become president.The military-drafted charter blocks anyone whose spouse or children are overseas