DHAKA: Iran president Hassan Rouhani will attend the yearly United Nations General Assembly in New York later this month, Iranian media reported on Wednesday, an event his predecessor used to make incendiary statements on the world stage.A relatively moderate cleric, who has said he wants

DHAKA: Syria’s deputy foreign minister said on Wednesday the regime would not give in to threats of a US-led military strike against the country, even if a third world war erupts.In an exclusive interview with media, Faisal Muqdad said the government had taken ‘every measure’ to

DHAKA: Al Jazeera has accused the armed forces of interfering with its satellite broadcasting signals in Egypt.The Qatar based news agency, citing a ‘panel of experts’ on Tuesday, claims to have identified four locations where it believes satellite jamming signals are being broadcast

DHAKA: The Nastoichivy destroyer of the Russian Baltic Fleet and the Smetlivy escort ship of the Black Sea Fleet will join the Russian naval unit in the Mediterranean within the next few days.Said a Russian Navy Main Staff source, reports The Voice of Russia.‘The Smetlivy escort ship

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama says the international community and Congress’s credibility are on the line if a chemical attack on civilians in Syria goes unanswered.Obama is seeking congressional and international support for military action against the regime of Syrian president

DHAKA: UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon calls on the international community to return peace and accord to Syria, as the Syrian people deserve this.Speaking to students of St Petersburg State University on Wednesday, Ban said he expected to discuss the issue of Syria at the G20 summit on

DHAKA: Pope Francis asked for a big turnout at a Vatican vigil on Saturday for peace in Syria and thanked the world’s faithful and non-believers for their support.‘May the cry for peace ring out loud around the world,’ the pope told tens of thousands of faithful in St Peter’s

DHAKA: Overland oil supplies to Nato troops in Afghanistan resumed through Pakistan on Wednesday with stepped up security after a four-month hiatus due to attacks.Pakistani officials said, reports The Straits Times.Pakistani contractors stopped driving oil supplies from Karachi on the

DHAKA: The organisers of the Miss World beauty pageant in Indonesia insisted on Wednesday the show would go on, as Islamic hardline protests began to spread across the country days before the contest starts.Hardliners have started mobilising to protest at the decision to host the contest

DHAKA: Russian president Vladimir Putin on Wednesday struck a more conciliatory tone ahead of this week’s G-20 summit, saying Moscow would take ‘decisive’ action if the West proves who used chemical weapons in Syria.Putin’s comments came as lawmakers in the United States began

DHAKA: Russian president Vladimir Putin on Wednesday struck a more conciliatory tone ahead of this week’s G-20 summit, saying Moscow would take ‘decisive’ action if the West proves who used chemical weapons in Syria.Putin’s comments came as lawmakers in the United States began

DHAKA: Radiation levels around tanks storing contaminated water at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have risen by a fifth to a new high, officials say.Ground readings near one set of tanks stood at 2,200 millisieverts (mSv) on Tuesday, the plant operator and Japan’s nuclear

DHAKA: An attack on a Shia family living near Baghdad has left at least 16 people dead, Iraqi officials sayThey were killed after militants bombed two adjacent houses belonging to brothers from a Shia family in Latifiya, 40 km south of the Iraqi capital.At least five women and six

DHAKA: The French government says punitive action against Syria in response to its alleged use of chemical weapons would ‘balance’ a situation that has seen gains for Syrian president Bashar Assad.Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, the French government spokeswoman, said Wednesday that the

DHAKA: According to top-secret US intelligence documents, Al-Qaeda has hired specialists to find ways of effective fighting against US drones, which has inflicted huge losses upon the terrorist network by killing an estimated 3,000 people over the past decade.During the past decade,

DHAKA: Russian president Vladimir Putin has warned America and its allies against taking one-sided action in Syria.He said any military strikes without UN approval would be ‘an aggression’, reports the BBC.US president Barack Obama has called for punitive action in response to an

DHAKA: Ariel Castro, who kept women captive at his home in Cleveland, Ohio, has been found dead in his cell, US media say.Prison officials are quoted as saying he was found hanging at a prison in Orient, Ohio, late on Tuesday.Castro, 53, held three women against their will for about a

DHAKA: At least 60 people have been killed in a series of car bomb attacks and shootings in mainly Shia districts of Iraq`s capital Baghdad, officials say.Worst hit was the northern district of Husseiniya, where two explosions in quick succession in the evening near shops and restaurants

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