DHAKA: French investigators have abandoned a party funding inquiry against former president Nicolas Sarkozy, a judicial source said on Monday of a legal case that could have scotched his chances of running for a new term.Sarkozy, who many conservatives want to see lead the centre-right in

DHAKA: The United Nations told its staff in Yemen to stay home on Monday, a day after gunmen shot dead a German embassy security guard.International humanitarian organisations have also advised staff to limit their movements, an aid worker said, reports The Jerusalem Post.‘Staff should

DHAKA: Syria won foreign praise on Monday for starting to destroy its chemical arsenal, although an opposition activist said the world was merely giving president Bashar al-Assad time to kill more people with conventional weapons.An official from the international mission overseeing the

DHAKA: A sensationalist Russian news website on Monday published a photograph that it claims is the first to show US intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden since he emerged from a Moscow airport in August.In the blurry image published by Life News, a casually dressed man sporting a

DHAKA: India on Monday successfully test-fired its indigenously developed surface-to-surface nuclear capable ballistic missile Prithvi II from the Integrated Test Range in Indian state of Odisha.Inducted into SFC in 2003, the Prithvi II was the first missile to be developed by DRDO under

DHAKA: Four Saudi lawyers have made history by becoming the first women to practice law in the kingdom’s courts.Bayan Zahran, Jihan Qurban, Sarra Al Omari and Ameera Quqani were on Sunday given the licences that allow them to change their status from legal consultants to attorneys.The

DHAKA: Assailants fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a state-owned satellite station in the Maadi suburb of Cairo on Monday, wounding two people.Egypt security officials said, reports The Jerusalem Post.There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.Islamist militants have

DHAKA: Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Taliban last year for campaigning for girls’ education, said on Monday she hoped to become a politician to ‘change the future of my country’.The 16-year-old, whose continued fight for all children to go to school has made

DHAKA: Australia’s new prime minister said on Monday he would attend a Commonwealth summit next month despite calls for a boycott over the human rights record of host Sri Lanka.Conservative leader Tony Abbott indicated disagreement with Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper, who does

DHAKA: Japan has emerged from the ‘crossroads’ of economic stagnation, with deep reforms and a massive spending package expected to put it back on the growth track.Japan prime minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday, reports The Straits Times.Speaking to Asia’s top corporate executives

DHAKA: Gunmen have killed five Egyptian soldiers near the Suez Canal city of Ismailiya, say security officials.The gunmen opened fire on the soldiers while they were sitting in a car at a checkpoint north of the city, reports said, according to the BBC.Security forces have been repeatedly

DHAKA: Two people, one a police officer, were killed by a bomb apparently targeting anti-polio campaigners in Pakistan, say police.The blast struck a van near a hospital in Budh Bher suburb of the north-western city of Peshawar.A death toll of six was earlier given but corrected by

DHAKA: Iranian ambassador to Lebanon Ghazanfar Roknabadi played down in comments published Monday a possible visit by Iranian president Hassan Rouhani to Saudi Arabia during Hajj, saying the visit could occur following the Muslim religious pilgrimage.‘Due to the positivity (in ties)

DHAKA: Powerful typhoon Fitow has rammed into eastern China after triggering the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people.With winds up to 151km/h, the storm landed in Fujian province early on Monday, bringing heavy rains and causing widespread power cuts.At least two people have

DHAKA: Six people including four police were killed and 12 others injured in a bombing that targeted polio workers in northwest Pakistan on Monday.The blast took place on the outskirts of the violence-plagued city of Peshawar.The senior superintendent of police Najeeb-Ur-Rehman said that

DHAKA: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad`s regime deserves credit for complying with a chemical weapons deal, US Secretary of State John Kerry has said.He was speaking after international monitors said the destruction of Syria`s stockpile had begun.The mission was established under a UN

DHAKA: Sending a strong message, the Delhi Police on Monday dismissed two of its constables for attempting to sexually assault a young girl.A press release by the Delhi Police said: “Constables Amit Tomar and Gurjinder Singh have been dismissed to send a strong signal, that harshest

DHAKA: Twelve spectators remained in intensive care Sunday with four in critical condition after the truck shot into the audience at a Chihuahua, Mexico air show SaturdayWitnesses say they saw the driver hit his head on the inside of his truck just after a car-jumping stunt and before

DHAKA: At least 50 people were killed and more than 240 injured in Egypt in clashes between police and supporters of the deposed Islamist President Mohammed Mursi.More than 200 members of the Muslim Brotherhood were arrested in Cairo, where most of the deaths were reported.Supporters of

DHAKA: At least eight people were killed on Sunday by mortar fire that hit a Christian neighbourhood in central Damascus.Syrian state news agency SANA reported, says TDS.The attack on the Qassaa district in the Old City injured at least 24 people and damaged a church in the area, SANA