DHAKA: The man convicted of murdering 77 people in attacks in Norway in 2011 has enrolled at the University of Oslo to study political science.Anders Behring Breivik, who is serving a 21-year sentence, has not been admitted to a degree-granting programme, but will study modules.The

DHAKA: Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has appeared on Russian TV to confirm that his country’s chemical weapons will be placed under international control.His comments, to Rossiya 24, came as US and Russian foreign ministers prepared to meet in Geneva to discuss the plan, proposed

DHAKA: There is a still a chance for peace in Syria and the world must not let it pass, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted as saying on Thursday.Speaking to students in Kazakhstan, Lavrov welcomed the Syrian government’s acceptance of Russia’s proposal that Damascus

DHAKA: The European Parliament on Thursday urged a ‘clear, strong, targeted and united’ international response, including ‘deterrent measures’ if needed, to the chemical weapons attack that left hundreds dead in Syria last month.In a resolution, the parliament noted that

DHAKA: The United States will insist that Syria take rapid steps to show it is serious about abandoning its vast chemical arsenal, a senior US officials said, as US state secretary John Kerry arrived in Geneva on Thursday for talks with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov.Among the

DHAKA: The UN food agency says one-third of all food produced in the world gets wasted, amounting to a loss of $750 billion a year.The Rome-based Food and Agricultural Organization said in a report Wednesday that food in developing countries is wasted mostly due to poor harvesting

DHAKA: Turkish prime minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday he was doubtful that president Bashar Assad would fulfil his pledge to put Syria’s chemical weapons under international control, and said he was buying time for new ‘massacres’.‘The Assad regime has not lived up to any

DHAKA: The United States’ decision to weigh military action against Syria and growing evidence that the government there was behind a chemical weapons attack prompted Russia to change its stance towards its Middle East ally.The British government said, reports The Straits Times.‘The

DHAKA: Prince William is to leave the military after more than seven years of service, Kensington Palace has announced.The Duke of Cambridge completed his final shift as an RAF search and rescue pilot on Tuesday.He will now focus on royal duties and charity work together with the Duchess

DHAKA: The Netherlands has made a formal public apology for thousands of summary executions carried out by Dutch troops in its former colony of Indonesia.Dutch ambassador to Indonesia Tjeerd de Zwaan apologised for the ‘excesses committed by Dutch forces’ between 1945 and

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama has exchanged letters with his new Iranian counterpart Hassan Rohani in recent weeks, and the two leaders may hold a meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York later this month.The Los Angeles Times quoted US officials as saying,

DHAKA: US state secretary John Kerry has arrived in Geneva to meet Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov as the UN tries to forge an international plan to disarm the Syrian government of its chemical weapons.Lavrov and Kerry will discuss efforts to agree a UN resolution on the issue, as well

DHAKA: Unemployment continues to rise in recession-hit Greece, with the overall rate reaching 27.9 percent in June. Even worse, 58.8 percent of people under age 25 are out of work.The Greek Statistical Authority reported on Thursday that the jobless rate had risen from 24.6 percent the

DHAKA: More than 200 members of the Rohingya minority fleeing Myanmar have been detained in southern Thailand after their boat ran aground.Thai district chief Watcharasak Chulayanon said the 219 men aboard swam ashore after their boat got stuck off on Wednesday off the coast of Satun

DHAKA: The UN nuclear watchdog is following reports that North Korea may have restarted a reactor capable of producing plutonium for weapons, but does not yet have a ‘clear understanding’ of the situation there.IAEA chief said on Thursday, reports Turkish daily Hurriyet.A US research

DHAKA: French foreign minister Laurent Fabius said on Thursday that UN inspectors who investigated an August 21 chemical weapons attack in Syria would ‘probably’ publish their report on Monday.Diplomats have said the report is unlikely to pin blame on either Syrian president Bashar

DHAKA: Russia has handed the United States a plan for the Syrian regime to hand over its chemical weapons in four stages, starting with Damascus becoming a member of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.The plan, first announced by Moscow this week, aims to avert

DHAKA: With normalcy returning to riot-hit areas of the district, curfew was relaxed for seven hours on Thursday.‘The administration has decided to relax curfew in three police station areas between 10am to 5pm,’ district magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma said, reports The Times of

DHAKA: Former Bihar deputy chief minister and the state’s BJP chief Sushil Kumar Modi became the first top ranking leader within the saffron party to directly attack LK Advani for his opposition to Narendra Modi’s prime ministerial candidature.‘Advaniji has failed to gauge the

DHAKA: The CIA has started to deliver arms to Syrian rebels, after long months during which such aid was promise, according to a report by the Washington Post.The report said that both Syrian and US officials confirmed that the arms transfer had begun, though no one was quoted as saying