Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday it would be "easier" if the EU blocked Ankara's bid to join the bloc, suggesting he could even hold a referendum on the matter.

The Pentagon under President Donald Trump is enjoying greater freedom to run its wars the way it wants -- and not constantly seek White House approval on important decisions.

A quarter of a century after the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia is finally set to pay off all the foreign debt it inherited from the vanished Communist empire.

Fighting at a dam held by the Islamic State jihadist group in northern Syria put it out of service yesterday, risking dangerous rising water levels, a technical source told AFP.

Iraq's military yesterday said that 61 bodies were recovered from a collapsed building that Islamic State had booby-trapped in west Mosul, but there was no sign the building had been hit by a coalition air strike.

A night guard was killed and a jewellery shop burglarised at New Market in Dhupchanchia municipality of Bogra some time early yesterday.

A man was killed in an alleged 'gunfight' between detectives in Brahmanbaria early yesterday, police said.

A four-member European Parliament (EP) delegation arrives in Dhaka today to talk with high government and political leadership and leaders of garment industries and stakeholders on trade relations between Bangladesh and EU and GSP facilities.

Air strikes have killed at least 200 civilians in west Mosul in recent days, officials said yesterday, as the number of people fleeing fighting against jihadists in the area topped 200,000.

Scientists have just turned on the "world's biggest artificial sun".

President Donald Trump suffered a stunning political setback on Friday in a Congress controlled by his own party when Republican

An elderly couple belonging to indigenous Marma community was murdered at their home in Bandarban's Lama upazila yesterday.

The fire at the Bangladesh Bank headquarters may have originated from an electric short circuit in a room on the 13th floor, according to a fire service probe committee.

Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee yesterday urged the government to take initiatives to ban political and criminal activities in the name of religion.

The body of the unidentified man, who was killed near a police box at the capital's Airport intersection on Friday, was torn apart when the bomb strapped to his body exploded, a forensic doctor said yesterday.

Panic-stricken families trapped inside Atia Mahal without electricity and gas since early Friday had only thought about getting out of the building alive until they were all safely evacuated by yesterday afternoon.

Israel's arrest of a Jewish teenager accused of masterminding dozens of anti-Semitic threats could encourage racism and ease pressure on US President Donald Trump to tackle anti-Semitism, Jewish groups have warned.

True to his pledge, President Donald Trump gave final approval on Friday for TransCanada to build the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline, overriding environmental concerns in favor of boosting jobs and energy supply.

United Nations peacekeeping missions, under threat from budget cuts if Washington's promise to slash its UN spending goes ahead, are already costing as little as possible, a UN official said Friday.

Russia and China on Friday proposed that a United Nations panel investigating chemical weapons use in Syria be extended to Iraq, a proposal Britain immediately rejected.