DHAKA:  US senators in a key committee have agreed on a draft resolution backing the use of US military force in Syria.The measure to be voted on next week sets a time limit of 60 days on any operation. The draft document also bans the use of any ground forces in Syria.Secretary of State

DHAKA: United States president Barack Obama says he is confident he will be able to work with Congress to pass a resolution authorising military intervention in Syria.The president indicated to reporters during a meeting with lawmakers at the White House on Tuesday that he is open to

DHAKA: The German office investigating Nazi war crimes said on Tuesday it would send files on 30 former Auschwitz death camp personnel to state prosecutors with a recommendation to bring charges.In a twilight bid for justice nearly 70 years on, chief investigator Kurt Schrimm said the

DHAKA: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asked the Swedish police on Tuesday to investigate what happened to a suitcase he suspects was stolen from him as he travelled from Sweden to Germany in 2010.Assange’s lawyer Per Samuelson told media that he had filed a criminal complaint with an

DHAKA: The Pentagon has announced that within the coming hour it will release information about the reported missile firings in the Mediterranean Sea.Earlier on Tuesday, agencies quoted Israeli military sources as saying Israeli and American naval forces had fired two missiles from the

DHAKA: An Egyptian military court on Tuesday sentenced 11 Muslim Brotherhood members to life in prison for violence targeting the army in the port city of Suez last month.Forty-five other Brotherhood members were handed five-year jail terms, and eight defendants were acquitted.The

DHAKA: A Syrian forensic medicine expert with evidence that president Bashar al-Assad’s administration used chemical weapons in an attack near Aleppo in March has defected to Turkey.Syrian opposition said Tuesday, reports daily Hurriyet.Abdeltawwab Shahrour, head of the forensic

DHAKA: An Indian report says a woman dies every hour in disputes over how much her family has paid in dowry to the groom for her marriage.The National Crime Records Bureau says more than 8,200 women were killed across India in such crimes last year, even though Indian law prohibits the

DHAKA: If the war in Syria suddenly stopped and reconstruction began Tuesday, around $73 billion would be needed to put the country back on track.A study published in Al-Watan newspaper said Tuesday, reports daily Hurriyet.Quoting Syrian real estate expert Ammar Yussef, the report said

DHAKA: India’s prime minister Manmohan Singh declared on Tuesday his embattled government has ‘nothing to hide’ and was ‘making all efforts’ to find missing files sought for a high-profile corruption probe.Singh told parliament more than 150,000 documents have already been

DHAKA: Fifteen militants were killed in the Sinai Peninsula by rocket fire, Egyptian state TV reported on Tuesday, after witnesses said army helicopters had attacked militant strongholds in the area.The state-run Nile TV gave no further details in a brief report, The Straits Times.The

DHAKA: The trial of four adult suspects accused of the fatal gang-rape of a student on a New Delhi bus in December will conclude on September 10.The presiding judge Yogesh Khanna said on Tuesday, reports The Straits Times.Dismissing pleas for more time by defence lawyers, the judge told

DHAKA: Two ballistic ‘objects’ that Russia said were launched toward the eastern coast of the Mediterranean on Tuesday fell into the sea.State-run Russian news agency RIA cited a source in Damascus as saying, reports Turkish daily Hurriyet.Israel later said it carried out a test of a

An Egyptian court has ordered the closure of four television channels, including one run by the Muslim Brotherhood, Ahrar 25.The Egyptian arm of al-Jazeera, Mubashir Misr, is one of those set to be shut down, along with the Islamist channels al-Quds and al-Yarmuk.Authorities have recently

DHAKA: Russia on Tuesday announced that its missile early warning system had detected the launch of two missiles from the central part of the Mediterranean Sea fired towards the Sea’s eastern coastline.The launches took place at 10:16am Moscow time (0616 GMT) and were detected by the

DHAKA: India plans to subsidise wheat, rice and cereals for some 800 million people under a US$20 billion scheme to cut malnutrition and ease poverty.The Food Security Bill, which is expected to be approved by India’s president, guarantees citizens a legal right to food.India has some

DHAKA: United States president Barack Obama this week plans to urge reluctant world leaders to back an American-led strike against Syria even though the prospects for military action depend on the votes of a fractured US Congress.The uncertainty surrounding Syria will hang over the

DHAKA: A five-year-old boy from China has become the Guinness world record holder for the youngest person to pilot a plane.He Yide, nicknamed Duoduo, made a 35-minute flight in an ultralight aircraft across the Beijing Wildlife Park Aug 31, Chinese media reported on Tuesday, says

DHAKA: Nelson Mandela’s discharge from hospital after nearly three months of treatment shows he has made ‘progress’.South Africa’s president has said, reports the BBC.Jacob Zuma said South Africans were ‘very happy’ that the anti-apartheid hero, 95, had returned home on

DHAKA: China has sacked the head of its state assets regulator, former top energy executive Jiang Jiemin.China’s official Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday, two days after the agency reported Jiang was the subject of a corruption probe, reports The Straits Times.Jiang is ‘suspected