AP, Kabul An Afghan official says at least six police officers have been killed in a Taliban ambush on their convoy in northern Balkh province. Abdul Manon Raoufi, operational commander for police in the region, said on Monday that insurgents attacked the convoy Sund ...বিস্তারিত
AP, Hanoi Vietnam's coast guard in a rare move has seized a Chinese vessel for allegedly intruding in its waters, state media reported Monday. The Thanh Nien newspaper said that the vessel has been towed to the northern port city of Hai Phong, and that the ship, its ...বিস্তারিত
AP, Damascus A week after taking back the historic town of Palmyra, Syrian troops and their allies on Sunday captured another town controlled by the Islamic State group in central Syria, state media reported. The push into the town of Qaryatain took place under the c ...বিস্তারিত
AP, Johannesburg South African President Jacob Zuma on Friday apologized for a scandal over millions of dollars in state spending on his private residence and said he would abide by a Constitutional Court ruling that he should pay back some funds. In a nationally tel ...বিস্তারিত
AP, Hanoi Vietnam's police chief was elected Saturday by the National Assembly to become president — the second-highest post — and promised to "resolutely" protect the country's sovereignty amid an ongoing territorial dispute with longtime rival China. Public Secu ...বিস্তারিত
AP, Washington World leaders declared progress Friday in safeguarding nuclear materials sought by terrorists and wayward nations, even as President Barack Obama acknowledged the task was far from finished. Closing out a nuclear security summit, Obama warned of a pers ...বিস্তারিত
AP, Washington A U.S. drone strike in Somalia has targeted a key leader of the al-Shabab militant group who was involved in two attacks in Mogadishu more than a year ago that killed more than 30 people, at least three Americans among them, the Pentagon said Friday. Se ...বিস্তারিত
AP, Johannesburg Opposition lawmakers are heaping criticism on South African President Jacob Zuma after a court said he violated the constitution, but the institution that can oust him — the ruling African National Congress party — has yet to turn on its leader. The ...বিস্তারিত
AP, Rio De Janeiro Brazil's Supreme Court handed former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva a victory on Thursday, ruling against returning a corruption investigation involving the ex-leader back to a judge he accuses of unfairly targeting him. Brazil's highest court ...বিস্তারিত
AP, Istanbul Amnesty International says Turkey has forcibly returned hundreds of Syrian refugees to their homeland since mid-January. It said this practice exposes "fatal flaws" in an agreement between Turk and the European Union. The organization says its research o ...বিস্তারিত
