DHAKA: The threat that climate change poses to Pacific Island nations shows that international action on the issue is overdue.European Union Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard said on Monday, reprots The Straits Times.On the eve of this week’s Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) in the

DHAKA: Philippine divers have recovered more dead bodies from a ferry that sank after colliding with a cargo ship, raising the death toll from the incident to 108.The Coast Guard said on Monday, reports The Straits Times.Twenty-nine more passengers are still unaccounted for, more than two

DHAKA: Syed Wali desperately wants to immunise his three young children against polio but fears the Islamic militants who banned the vaccine from this remote area in northwest Pakistan will catch him if he tries to smuggle it in.‘I can afford to bring the vaccine for my children, but

DHAKA: China said on Monday it was seriously concerned about any unilateral military action against Syria after US president Barack Obama delayed a military response to last month`s chemical weapons attack near Damascus until after a congressional vote.The United States has explained to

DHAKA: Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov says the information the US showed Moscow trying to prove that Syrian regime was behind an alleged chemical weapons attack is ‘absolutely unconvincing’.Lavrov said Monday ‘there was nothing specific’ in the evidence presented by

DHAKA: Egypt`s state prosecutor says he has referred ousted President Mohammed Morsi for trial on charges of inciting the murder of protesters.The accusations relate to violence outside the presidential palace in Cairo last December when at least seven people were killed in

DHAKA: More than a third of Britons say they or a family member have found it harder to secure work or a good salary because of increased competition from migrant workers.According to a survey by Lord Ashcroft, the former Conservative Party donor, 36 per cent of people said that they or

DHAKA: US state secretary John Kerry asserted on Sunday that the United States now has evidence of sarin gas use in Syria and said ‘the case gets stronger by the day’ for a military attack.A day after president Barack Obama stepped back from his threat to launch an attack, Kerry said

DHAKA: A Saudi newspaper is reporting that Russian resident Vladmir Putin suggested to his Syrian counterpart and ally Bashar Assad that he give up the presidency and leave the country.Israel Radio said Sunday, reports The Jerusalem Post.According to the radio, the newspaper claims

DHAKA: Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said the Syrian government, a strong ally of Tehran, had carried out chemical weapons attacks against its own people.The semi-official Iranian Labour News Agency reported on Sunday, says The Jerusalem Post.‘The people have been

DHAKA: Probable presidential candidate Omar Daudzai was appointed as Afghanistan’s acting interior minister on Sunday, putting him in a high-profile public role seven months before the country’s first democratic transfer of power.Daudzai will move back to Kabul from Islamabad, where

DHAKA: Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has said that his country is capable of confronting any external attack, a day after his US counterpart Barack Obama called for military action against him.‘Syria ... is capable of confronting any external aggression,’ state television quoted

DHAKA: Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that the Jewish State was prepared for ‘every possible scenario’ in neighbouring Syria after US president Barack Obama postponed a threatened missile strike.‘Israel is calm and sure of itself, the citizens of Israel

DHAKA: A powerful 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck off eastern Indonesia on Sunday, the United States Geological Survey said, but no tsunami warning was issued.The quake struck in waters near the Barat Daya islands in Maluku province, 411km east of Atambua and 425km south of Ambon.It was

DHAKA: More than 110,000 people have died in the conflict in Syria since March 2011, a rights watchdog said on Sunday.They said days after alleged gas attacks near Damascus shocked the world, reports The Straits Times.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the toll since the

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama’s decision to seek congressional authorisation for a military strike on Syria has sparked calls for the French Parliament to get the same privilege.The French Constitution does not require such a vote unless and until a French military intervention lasts

DHAKA: Analysis of samples taken by UN inspectors in Syria investigating an alleged use of chemical weapons could take ‘up to three weeks’.Ihe Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said on Saturday, The Jerusalem Post publishes the report on Sunday.‘The

DHAKA: Pope Francis has called for a day of fasting and prayer around the world next Saturday for peace in Syria, which will include a vigil on St Peter’s Square.‘May the cry for peace enter the hearts of everyone so that they may all lay down their weapons,’ the Pope told tens of

DHAKA: The leader of Turkey’s Felicity Party (SP), Mustafa Kamalak, has suggested that Muslim countries unite to establish an ‘Islamic NATO’ in the wake of recent atrocities in the Middle Eastern region.Lending support to deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Mursi, Kamalak said, ‘We

DHAKA: A provincial governor says a vehicle carrying employees of a private mining company has struck a roadside bomb in northern Afghanistan, killing eight.Parwan province leader Abdul Basir Salangi says five people also were wounded Saturday in Bagram district, dawn.com publishes this