DHAKA: Saudi women activists have called for a new day of defiance next month of the long-standing ban on women driving in the ultra-conservative kingdom.An online petition entitled ‘Oct 26th, driving for women’ had on Sunday gathered more than 5,800 signatories, as activists try

DHAKA: A mortar shell landed in the compound of the Russian embassy in central Damascus on Sunday but there was no immediate report of casualties.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, reports The Jerusalem Post.Rebels fighting to overthrow Syria’s president Bashar Assad have

DHAKA: French police have seized a record haul of 1.3 tonnes of pure cocaine found on board an Air France passenger plane.France interior minister Manuel Valls announced, reports The Straits Times.The drugs, seized on September 11, had been packed into 30 suitcases, Valls told a news

DHAKA: Turkish parliament speaker Cemil Cicek on Saturday departed Ankara to hold a two-day visit in Iran during which he was set to meet with various leaders of the Islamic Republic.Turkish daily Hurriyet reported, says The Jerusalem Post.Cicek met with his Iranian counterpart Ali

DHAKA: Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov on Sunday accused the United States of blackmailing Russia to support a tough United Nations resolution against Syria, and said the West is blinded by the idea of regime change in the war-torn country.‘Our American partners are beginning to

DHAKA: Iranian president Hassan Rohani said Sunday that any deal with the West would have to recognise Iran’s right to enrich uranium, as a record number of Iranian missiles capable of striking Israel were displayed at a military parade.The new Iranian president said on Sunday that

DHAKA: A bomb blast outside a church in the Pakistani city of Peshawar has killed at least 40 people and injured more than 40, medics say.A bomb disposal officer said two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside the church when people were coming out after Sunday Mass.The victims were

DHAKA: At least 59 people were killed and 175 injured in Saturday’s attack on a Nairobi shopping centre.A Kenyan government minister has said, reports the BBC.Joe Lenku said 1,000 people had managed to escape from the Westgate centre after the assault by suspected al-Shabab militants.He

DHAKA: A Chinese court has sentenced former leading politician Bo Xilai to life in prison after finding him guilty on charges of graft, accepting bribes and abuse of power.The Jinan Intermediate People`s Court announced the verdict against Bo on Sunday. It also ordered that all his

DHAKA: At least 65 people have been killed in car bombings targeting a funeral in the Iraqi capital, officials said.Police said a first car bomb went off near a funeral tent for a Shia man in the Baghdad neighbourhood of Sadr City on Saturday afternoon. A suicide bomber driving a car then

DHAKA: Two Indians were amongst those killed in a 26/11 style terror attack on an upscale mall in Nairobi in Kenya on Saturday. Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin tweeted to say that four others were also injured in the attack."4 Indians including 2 women, male

RIADH: Three more Bangladeshi pilgrims died while staying in Saudi Arabia to perform Hajj this year, according to an official disclosure.The deceased were identified as Golam Rabbani, 59, hailed from Chapanawabganj, Mosammat Afroja Begum, 85, hailed from Bramhanbaria and Abu Hanifa, 70,

DHAKA: A gun battle inside a shopping centre in the Kenyan capital Nairobi has left at least 20 people dead.The Kenyan Red Cross says, reports the BBC.The gunmen attacked Westgate centre, one of the city’s most exclusive. Dozens of shoppers fled, several are still feared trapped

DHAKA: Gunmen threw grenades and opened fire on Saturday killing at least 10 people in an attack targeting non-Muslims at an upscale mall in Kenya’s capital that was hosting a children’s day event, witnesses said.A local hospital was overwhelmed with the number of wounded being

DHAKA: An Israeli soldier has been abducted and killed by a Palestinian man in the West Bank.The Israeli military says, reports the BBC.The soldier was seized on Friday and his body found near the town of Qalqiliya on Saturday, a military spokesman told media.The spokesman was also quoted

DHAKA: A man wearing a uniform of the Afghan security forces has killed three Nato troops in the east of the country, the coalition says.More than 100 Nato soldiers have been killed in so-called ‘insider attacks’ in the country since 2007.A rise in such attacks last year eroded trust

DHAKA: At least six people have been killed and dozens wounded after black-clad masked gunmen attacked an upmarket shopping mall in the Kenyan capital, according to witnesses.An AFP television journalist saw three bodies laid out in front of Nairobi’s Westgate mall, and two more bodies

DHAKA: British authorities called yoga guru Ramdev on Saturday to Heathrow Airport here for a second round of questioning, a day after he was detained and quizzed by customs officials for over six hours on arriving in the UK.According to sources, his questioning by airport officials for a

DHAKA: The international chemical weapons watchdog says it has received ‘the expected’ account by Syria of its chemical arms programme.The announcement by the Organisation for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons comes before a deadline set for Damascus as part of a Russia-US deal.Syria

DHAKA: A gun battle inside a shopping centre in the Kenyan capital Nairobi has left at least four people dead.Armed police are exchanging fire with gunmen at the Westgate centre in the Westlands district, one of the city’s most exclusive shopping malls.One witness said the attackers