Myanmar, Bangladesh meet amid doubts about Rohingya repatriation planDHAKA/YANGON: Hamid Hussain, a 71-year-old Rohingya Muslim farmer, first fled Myanmar for Bangladesh in 1992. He went home the next year under a repatriation deal between the two neighbours, only to r...
Cryptocurrency rivals snap at Bitcoin’s heelsBitcoin may be the most famous cryptocurrency but, despite a dizzying rise, it's not the most lucrative one and far from alone in a universe that counts 1,400 rivals, and counting. Dozens of crypto un...
Gabon opposition leader prevented from flying to FranceGabon opposition leader Jean Ping was on Saturday prevented by the security forces from taking a flight to France over a judicial matter, he told AFP. "I was supposed to travel this evening but the se...
Iranian tanker sinks engulfed in flames, official says no hope of survivorsA Iranian oil tanker burst into flames from end to end and sank Sunday, eight days after a collision with a cargo ship off China, state media said. A Tehran official said even before news of the sinki...
Turkish passenger plane goes off runway metres away from seaA passenger plane late Saturday skidded off the runway just metres away from the sea as it landed at an airport in northern Turkey, local media images showed. The Pegasus Airlines flight had taken off...
Fire kills eight, wounds 50 at northern Portugal community centreFire ripped through a local community centre in northern Portugal late Saturday, killing eight people and injuring another 50, police said. "Around 70 people were having dinner in the building when th...
Liberia ruling party expels President Johnson SirleafMONROVIA: Liberia's ruling Unity Party has expelled the country's outgoing president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, whom they accuse of meddling in last year's presidential elections in which its candidate s...
India is on the hunt for 24 ‘untraceable’ historical treasuresNEW DELHI: The ancient temple of Kutumbari stood for centuries in Dwarahat in north India. Then one day in the 1960s, officials realized it had vanished from records - and later discovered it had disa...
China calls for cherishing Iran nuclear dealBEIJING: China on Saturday called on all sides to cherish the hard-won Iran nuclear deal after the United States decided to extend sanctions relief on Tehran. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang mad...
Rohingyas want to see security, rights ensured before return Myanmar: UNHCRDHAKA: Rohingyas who fled from the persecution of Myanmar security forces want to see a positive development including citizenship, security, and scope for enjoying their basic rights before they retu...
China rescuers recover two bodies, black box from Iranian tankerBEIJING: Chinese rescuers recovered two bodies and the "black box" from a stricken Iranian oil tanker which has been ablaze for the past week off the east coast of China, the transport ministry said....
14 die in two separate incidents in IndiaNEW DELHI: At least eight people were killed and more than 10 others injured after a passenger bus fell off a bridge into a pond in the southern Indian state of Karnataka Saturday, police said. The ac...
11 kg gold bars seized at Bangladesh’s airport, Japanese arrestedDHAKA: Customs officials at Bangladesh's main airport in Dhaka seized gold bars weighing about 11 kg, from a Japanese national who arrived here by a local Regent Airways flight from Singapore, an offi...
President Xi likely to visit Nepal in AprilKATHMANDU: Nepal's CPN-Maoist Centre leader Agni Sapkota on Saturday said that Chinese President Xi Jinping is likely to visit Nepal in April. At an event in Kathmandu, Sapkota said, "President Xi wil...