DHAKA: A supporter of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood was killed and at least two were wounded during a clash with police in a town south of Cairo on Sunday.Egypt security and medical sources said, reports The Jerusalem Post.They said supporters of deposed Islamist president Mohamed Mursi

DHAKA: Suicide car bombers attacked an elementary school and a police station in a small northern Iraqi village on Sunday, while another on foot detonated his payload among Shia pilgrims in Baghdad, killing at least 27 people including children.Iraq officials said, reports The Straits

DHAKA: Iran has unveiled two new domestically-made nanomedicines for the treatment of cancerous diseases and some skin-related illnesses.The medicines were unveiled during the opening ceremony of the sixth nanotechnology exhibition on Saturday, attended by presidential office chairman

DHAKA: US state secretary John Kerry on Sunday said two high-profile raids in Libya and Somalia showed the United States’ unflinching determination to hunt down those responsible for terrorism.‘We hope that this makes clear that the United States of America will never stop in its

DHAKA: Thirty three inmates of a juvenile home in northwest Delhi escaped, out of which 14 have been arrested.India police said on Sunday, reports The Times of India.The incident was reported at Seva Kutir, a juvenile home located at Mukherjee Nagar area of northwest Delhi.‘At 8:30pm on

DHAKA: Authorities in south-eastern China issued their highest weather alert and evacuated more than 400,000 people as typhoon Fitow approached on Sunday with wind speeds of up to 150 kilometres per hour at its centre.The eastern province of Zhejiang evacuated some 289,000 from ships or

DHAKA: Iran has allowed Syria’s regime to station fighter jets on its territory to keep them safe from foreign attack, German intelligence services believe according to a media report Sunday.News portal Spiegel Online said the report, marked ‘classified’, pointed to close military

DHAKA: Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenage activist who was shot by the Taliban last year, has been invited to Buckingham Palace.Malala, 16, will attend a reception on Youth, Education and the Commonwealth being hosted by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip on October 18, the palace

DHAKA: Libya demanded an explanation from Washington on Sunday for the ‘kidnap’ of a citizen in an unauthorised commando raid on its territory that netted a top Al-Qaeda suspect.‘The Libyan government has been following the reports of the kidnap of one of the Libyan citizens wanted

DHAKA: Germany on Sunday handed over command of its northern Kunduz camp to Afghan security forces, a milestone in the drawdown from a more than decade-long military deployment.About 100,000 German troops have served in Afghanistan since 2002, and 54 have died there, 35 of them in combat,

DHAKA: Argentina`s President Cristina Kirchner has been ordered to rest for a month after doctors found she has a traumatic brain injury linked to an August incident, her spokesman said.Kirchner, 60, "sustained the head injury August 12 and had tests at the time which showed nothing,"

DHAKA: In two raids nearly 3,000 miles apart, U.S. military forces went after two high-value targets over the weekend. And while officials have yet to say whether the operations were coordinated or directly related, they show Washington`s reach, capability and willingness to pursue

DHAKA: U.S. special operations forces captured Al Qaeda leader Abu Anas al Libi in the capital of Tripoli, U.S. officials say, in a mission that was conducted with the knowledge of Libya`s government. He had been living in that still unsettled nation, more or less in the open, for over a

DHAKA: An attack on Shia pilgrims in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, has left at least 51 people dead and more than 100 injured, an interior ministry official says.The attack in Adhamiyah district came as pilgrims walked to a Shia shrine and followed a day of violence elsewhere.In the mainly

DHAKA: The Republican-led United States House of Representatives unanimously approved a Bill on Saturday that would retroactively pay 800,000 furloughed workers once the now five-day-old government shutdown ends.The measure now goes to the Democratic-led Senate for concurrence, reports

DHAKA: Pope Francis on Saturday met Father Franz Jalics, a priest whose kidnapping and torture by Argentina’s brutal military dictatorship led to accusations that the future pope failed to help.The Vatican has firmly denied these claims and there have since been many reports of the

DHAKA: The United States believes Iran is a year or a more away from being able to produce a nuclear weapon.US president Barack Obama said in an interview released on Saturday by the Associated Press, describing the estimate as ‘conservative’, reports TDS.‘Our assessment continues

DHAKA: Gunmen have attacked a military checkpoint south-east of the Libyan capital Tripoli killing 15 soldiers, the authorities say.A military official said the attack was near Bani Walid, a stronghold in 2011 of supporters of former leader, Muammar Gaddafi, reports the BBC.Several more

DHAKA: Tunisia’s ruling Islamist Ennahda party and the opposition on Saturday signed a roadmap for the creation of a government of independents within three weeks.An international media correspondent said, reports TDS.The document, drawn up by four mediators, foresees the nomination of

DHAKA: The Egyptian authorities have warned Muslim Brotherhood supporters against attempts to stage violent protests as security is being tightened in Cairo and other cities.Egypt interior ministry said in a statement that it was ‘determined to counter violence and offences by people