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A special judge’s court has found BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia guilty of corruption and sentenced the former prime minister to five years in prison in a charge that she and her supporters describe as a politically motivated attempt to shut her out of election. Amid heightened security across Bangladesh and...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department announced one of its largest-ever takedowns of a global cyber crime ring on Wednesday, saying it had indicted 36 people accused of trafficking in stolen identities and causing more than $530 million in losses to consumers. The cyber crime network, operating as an...

A new investigation by the Associated Press has revealed that a whopping 40 percent of 87 American defense contractors who were recently targeted by Russian hackers clicked on fake links sent to them via email, possibly exposing classified information in the process. It’s no secret that both American and Russian intelligence agencies...

MUSCAT (AFP) - Qatar signed a memorandum of understanding with Oman on the development of bilateral investment and trade on Sunday (Jan 28), nearly eight months into a crisis between the emirate and its Arab neighbours. The Omani news agency ONA said the agreement signed in Muscat covers a wide...

A 15-year-old female student at a Texas high school was wounded and her 16-year-old male classmate was arrested after a shooting on Monday morning. The Ellis County sheriff's office said on Twitter that the 'shooter is in custody' after the shooting in Italy, some 45 miles south of Dallas, which...

A giant mushroom-shaped cloud rises into the air from Mayon volcano, where Philippine volcanologists have raised the alert level one notch higher than the initial warning scientists issued last week. A giant mushroom-shaped cloud shot up from the Philippines' most active volcano on Monday, turning day into night as it...

NEW DELHI — India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomed Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu in Hebrew and stressed the close friendship between the two leaders and their countries as officials from both sides signed several agreements Monday on defence, trade, energy and agricultural ties. The Israeli prime minister arrived in India on Sunday...

WASHINGTON:  Amid increased bonhomie between Russia and Pakistan, the White House believes that Moscow does not have a great influence on Islamabad, a senior Trump Administration official has said. "I don't particularly believe that there is a great deal of influence that Russia is asserting (over Pakistan) even though I do...

RIYADH: Saudi authorities detained 11 princes after they gathered at a royal palace in Riyadh in a rare protest against austerity measures that included suspending payment of their utility bills, Saudi media reported on Saturday. The government information service, the Centre for Inter­­national Communication, said it was checking the report....

TEHRAN: At least two more people have been killed on Tuesday amid ongoing nationwide anti-government protests that began last week in various cities across Iran. Iranian state television confirmed on Tuesday that six demonstrators were killed during a raid on a police station in Qahdarijan. According to state media, the...

Afghanistan's Interior Ministry says at least 40 people have been killed and 30 wounded by a suicide bomber who attacked a news agency in Kabul. Interior Ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimi said the suicide bomber blew himself up inside the building on the west side of the Afghan capital. Rahimi said...

GAZA CITY: Two Palestinians were killed as youths clashed with Israeli soldiers on the Gaza border on Friday in a new protest against US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, the health ministry said. The third Friday since US President Donald Trump's controversial announcement on Jerusalem was again billed by...