DHAKA: German unemployment registered a small unexpected rise in August, due to a scaling back of job creation schemes, but the labour market overall remains stable.Official data showed on Thursday, reports The Straits Times.The number of people registered as unemployed in Europe’s top

DHAKA: A team of chemical weapons experts dispatched by the United Nations to Syria arrived Thursday at in rebel-held territory outside Damascus, activists said, and began preparations for a third day of investigations into an alleged gas attack by the Syrian regime.Activists said the

DHAKA: At least six people died and dozens were injured in a car bomb that exploded in the Syrian city of Raqqa.Al-Jazeera quoted activists as saying, reports The Jerusalem Post.The aftermath of the bomb is shown in an unverified video published on YouTube by ‘RMC activists, with people

DHAKA: Russia will send two ships to the east Mediterranean to strengthen its naval presence because of the ‘well-known situation’ there.Interfax news agency said on Thursday referring to the Syria crisis, reports The Jerusalem Post.The agency quoted a source in the armed forces’

DHAKA: Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad has vowed that his country would emerge ‘victorious’ in any confrontation with the United States and its allies, in comments published Thursday by a Lebanese daily.Washington and other Western powers have warned of imminent military strikes

DHAKA: A UN team of inspectors investigating an apparent poison gas attack in Syria will leave the country by Saturday morning.UN secretary-general Ban Ki Moon said on Thursday in Vienna, reports The Straits Times.‘They will continue investigation activities until tomorrow Friday and

DHAKA: Police in India have arrested Yasin Bhatkal, the alleged head of the Indian Mujahideen (IM) militant group, which has been blamed for a string of recent attacks, officials say.The group is thought to be behind deadly blasts in the cities of Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai and

DHAKA: Life may have started on Mars before arriving on Earth, a major scientific conference has heard.New research supports an idea that the Red Planet was a better place to kick-start biology billions of years ago than the early Earth was.The evidence is based on how the first molecules

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama said he had not yet signed off on a plan to attack Syria, but action appeared likely after Washington stopped seeking a UN mandate.Political uproar in London, meanwhile, cast doubt on whether Britain will join American military action to punish President

DHAKA: Panama says an undeclared Cuban weapons cargo found on a North Korean ship is an "undoubted violation" of the United Nations` arms embargo on Pyongyang.A draft report by UN experts sent to Panama after the seizure of the ship in July confirmed a breach of sanctions, the ministry of

DHAKA: A co-ordinated wave of bombings has torn through Shia Muslim areas in and around the Iraqi capital, killing at least 86 people and wounded 263, police and medical sources said, extending the worst wave of sectarian bloodshed in Iraq for at least five years.The blasts, which came in

DHAKA: The United States has concluded Syria carried out chemical weapons attacks against its people, President Barack Obama said Wednesday, a claim that comes amid a looming diplomatic showdown over whether to strike against Bashar al-Assad`s military.Obama`s declaration to "PBS

DHAKA: NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said that a variety of sources pointed to president Bashar al-Assad`s forces being responsible for the use of chemical weapons in Syria.Speaking after a meeting of NATO ambassadors in Brussels, Rasmussen said any use of such weapons

DHAKA: Envoys from Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States started talks on Wednesday on a British drafted UN Security Council resolution that could allow military action against Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.Diplomats said, reports The Straits Times.Britain wants the

DHAKA: Egypt should not ban the Muslim Brotherhood or exclude it from the political process after the army’s overthrow of Mohamed Mursi, the interim prime minister said, in a softening of state rhetoric against the group.The apparent about-turn adds to speculation that the government is

DHAKA: Iraqi premier Nuri al-Maliki dismissed Western military action in neighbouring Syria as a ‘dead end’ on Wednesday as he put his own country on high alert ahead of widely-expected strikes.His remarks came as the United States and its allies weigh military intervention in Syria

DHAKA: Iraqi premier Nuri al-Maliki dismissed Western military action in neighbouring Syria as a ‘dead end’ on Wednesday as he put his own country on high alert ahead of widely-expected strikes.His remarks came as the United States and its allies weigh military intervention in Syria

DHAKA: Iran has installed hundreds more centrifuges that could enable it to enrich uranium faster since May, a UN atomic watchdog report showed on Wednesday, as long-stalled talks were due to resume.‘Iran has continued to install IR-2m centrifuges in one of the units’ at the Natanz

DHAKA: The UK prime minister David Cameron has held an emergency meeting on Syria, after Britain drafted a UN Security Council resolution authorising ‘necessary measures’ to protect civilians in the country.David Cameron said the resolution condemned the ‘chemical weapons attack by

DHAKA: Pope Francis has phoned an Argentine woman to comfort her and tell her she is not alone after she wrote a letter to him saying she was raped by a policeman.Pope Francis has brought an informal, friendly style to the papacy since his election in March, including a habit of