DHAKA: Russia will show the UN Security Council evidence it has received from Syria’s government pointing to the use of chemical weapons by rebels in the Damascus suburbs.Russian news agencies quoted foreign minister Sergei Lavrov as saying on Wednesday, reports The Jerusalem

DHAKA: The head of the UN inspection team that visited Syria following the August 21 chemical weapons attack in eastern Damascus said on Wednesday that his team plans to return to the war-torn country as early as next week.CNN reported, says The Jerusalem Post.The team intends to follow

DHAKA: Police say there are multiple deaths after a Via Rail passenger train and a transit bus collided at a crossing in Canada’s capital, Ottawa.Witnesses said on Wednesday the front end of the double-decker bus was ripped off by the impact, reports gulfnews.com.Ottawa Fire spokesman

DHAKA: An Iranian official said on Wednesday that he saw an ‘opening’ in Iran’s nuclear dispute with the West, a news agency reported, in the latest signal that Tehran expects fresh movement to break a decade-old deadlock.The United States and its allies believe Iran is seeking a

DHAKA: A majority of Europeans and Americans strongly oppose their countries intervening militarily in Syria’s 30-month-old civil war, according to a transatlantic poll published on Wednesday.‘Transatlantic Trends’, an annual survey of public opinion in the United States and Europe,

DHAKA: Egypt partially reopened its border crossing with the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, a week after it was closed in response to a deadly attack on an Egyptian military headquarters near the frontier.Witnesses said two buses took 100 passengers into Egypt through the Rafah crossing, the

DHAKA: The French senate has overwhelmingly approved a proposal to ban beauty contests for girls under 16 to prevent what a parliamentary report called the ‘hyper-sexualisation’ of children.The proposal was backed by 146 lawmakers and there was only one dissenting vote on Tuesday

DHAKA: Jordan’s King Abdullah II held talks on the Syrian crisis with Chinese president Xi Jinping on Wednesday, he said during a state visit.In a meeting with Xi at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, the king described China as ‘a team member of the United Nations Security

DHAKA: Taliban gunmen shot and killed the head of the Independent Election Commission in Afghanistan’s northern Kunduz province on Wednesday, a day after he warned that deteriorating security threatened next year’s presidential elections.Amanullah Amaan began his work during the first

DHAKA: The Syrian regime has handed Russia new materials implicating rebels in a chemical attack outside Damascus on August 21, Russian deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Wednesday after talks in Damascus.‘The corresponding materials were handed to the Russian side. We were

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama said on Tuesday that Iran’s new president Hassan Rohani appears to want to open a dialogue with the United States and that he is willing to test whether this is the case.Obama’s comment in an interview with Spanish-language network Telemundo was the

DHAKA: ‘Occupy Wall Street’ returned to the streets of New York on Tuesday to mark the second anniversary of the birth of the social protest movement.Some 250 people gathered at midday in Zuccotti Park in Manhattan’s downtown financial district, where the movement first gained

DHAKA: A Philippine police chief who was reported abducted on Tuesday by Muslim rebels has emerged free hours later after convincing his captors to surrender in a twist to a nine-day hostage standoff in the south of the country, officials said.Philippine interior secretary Mar Roxas and

DHAKA: An unpublished UN report on female police officers in Afghanistan found accounts of pervasive sexual assault and harassment by their male colleagues, according to Afghan and Western officials familiar with the report.The report, which the United Nations has circulated only among

DHAKA: An 11-year-old was allegedly gang-raped by five teenagers high on sniffing glue in India’s Guwahati town of Assam province.The police have detained the five suspects, whose parents claimed their children ‘are less than 16 years old’, reports Hindustan Times.The five allegedly

DHAKA: Fifteen seamen were in the hospital on Tuesday after a fire broke out on a Russian nuclear submarine, federal investigators said, contradicting earlier reports that nobody was hurt in Monday’s blaze.The fire started during welding works on the navy submarine Tomsk, which was

DHAKA: A car bomb exploded on the Syrian side of the main Bab al-Hawa crossing with Turkey on Tuesday and at least a dozen people were taken to nearby hospitals.Syrian opposition activists on the border said, reports The Jerusalem Post.The explosion occurred at a roadblock manned by

DHAKA: North Korea on Tuesday rejected the findings of a UN human rights inquiry as part of a political plot ‘fabricated and invented by forces hostile’ to Pyongyang.North Korean ambassador So Se Pyong, addressing the UN Human Rights Council, said, reports The Jerusalem Post:‘Such a

DHAKA: China’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday that the government would take a serious look at a report by UN investigators which confirmed the use of sarin nerve agent in an August 21 gas attack outside the Syrian capital.Ministry spokesman Hong Lei made the comment at a daily news

DHAKA: Russia and France’s foreign ministers have disagreed over who is to blame for the chemical weapons attack in Syria.After talks in Moscow, France’s Laurent Fabius said the UN’s report into the August incident left no doubt that the Syrian government was responsible.But