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

DHAKA: Two journalists with Iraq’s Sharqiya television were ‘assassinated’ in the northern city of Mosul on Saturday.The channel said, reports The Straits Times.A police officer and a doctor said the two men, named by Sharqiya as correspondent Mohammed Karim al-Badrani and cameraman

DHAKA: India’s army, which says it has been locked in a nearly two-week battle with dozens of suspected Pakistan-backed rebels, said Saturday it killed seven militants in 24 hours in disputed Kashmir.The military says it has been fighting 30 to 40 rebel infiltrators who crossed the

DHAKA: Syrian government forces shelled a vulnerable Sunni community in a coastal province dominated by president Bashar Assad’s Alawite sect on Saturday, activists said, raising fears that residents of the isolated town could face mass killings by pro-Damascus militias.Two Syrian

DHAKA: Kenya’s military spokesman confirmed the names of the four attackers implicated in the four-day-long siege at the Westgate Mall, which killed more than 60 people last month.Major Emmanuel Chirchir confirmed that the attackers are Abu Baara al-Sudani, Omar Nabhan, Khattab al-Kene

DHAKA: Saying the United States government shutdown was having a ‘heartbreaking’ impact on ordinary Americans, president Barack Obama on Saturday renewed his call on congressional Republicans to end the five-day stalemate and pass a funding Bill without conditions.Republicans in the

DHAKA: At least five civilians, including three children, were killed overnight in a NATO airstrike in eastern Afghanistan after they went hunting for birds with air guns.Angry locals at the scene of the strike near Jalalabad city, the capital of Nangarhar province, shouted ‘Death to

DHAKA: Gunmen killed at least 12 Libyan soldiers in an attack on a checkpoint near the city of Bani Walid, a former stronghold of supporters of Muammar Gadhafi.Libya security officials said on Saturday, reports TDS.Two years after Gadhafi was overthrown and killed in a civil war, the

DHAKA: Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday he supported moderate president Hassan Rohani’s diplomatic initiative at the UN General Assembly last week but that some of what occurred there was ‘not proper’.In his first comments since Rohani, committed to

DHAKA: Unidentified foreign forces have launched a night-time raid on a militant base in the south Somali town of Barawe from the sea, reports say.A spokesman for the al-Shabab Islamist group told media that a fighter had been killed in the raid, reports the BBC.Reports speak of residents

DHAKA: Negotiations on a sweeping free trade pact between the US and the EU have been postponed because of a partial government shutdown in America.US officials had been due in Brussels next week to discuss the deal aimed at boosting bilateral ties.US President Barack Obama earlier

DHAKA: Clashes have erupted between supporters of Egypt’s ousted President Mohammed Morsi, opponents and security forces in the capital, Cairo, and Alexandria.The BBC’s Quentin Sommerville in Cairo said there had been heavy gunfire and explosions in the city centre.State TV reported

DHAKA: Vo Nguyen Giap, the Vietnamese general who masterminded victories against France and the US, has died aged 102.His defeat of French forces at Dien Bien Phu in 1953 made him the first military commander to defeat a major Western power in Asia.He went on to oversee the Tet Offensive

DHAKA: A church has been set on fire in the Kenyan port of Mombasa as rioters protest against killing of Muslim cleric Ibrahim “Rogo” Omar.“They have burnt the Salvation Army church and we are now trying to repulse them with tear gas,” AFP quotes a senior police officer as

DHAKA: Israel’s prime minister says Iranians “deserve better” than their current government and that their lives could get worse if it gains nuclear weapons.In an interview with BBC Persian, Benjamin Netanyahu warned: “If they get nuclear weapons this brutal regime will be

DHAKA: A cross-party panel of the Italian Senate has gathered to decide whether to expel Silvio Berlusconi over his conviction for tax fraud.The former prime minister, who dominated the country’s politics for nearly two decades, is expected to lose his seat in the Senate.He threatened

DHAKA: The first cyclone to threaten the US coast this year has formed over the Gulf of Mexico and was forecast to sweep through offshore oil installations before hitting the mainland between Louisiana and the Florida Panhandle, the US National Hurricane Centre said.Some energy companies