DHAKA: A Russian document circulating at the United Nations has proposed a constitutional reform process in Syria, lasting 18 months, to be followed by presidential elections.The document does not say whether Syrian President Bashar al-Assad should remain in power during that time.It says

DHAKA: Myanmar President Thein Sein has congratulated Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition party on its success in polls.His spokesman told the BBC.With about 47% of seats declared, the National League for Democracy (NLD) has taken over 90% of the vote.Suu Kyi has written to the leadership

DHAKA: The Chinese and Thai air forces will this month hold their first joint exercises, China’s defense ministry said on Wednesday, in another sign of army-led Thailand’s increased engagement with Beijing.The ‘Falcon Strike 2015’ drills will take place at the Korat Royal Thai Air

DHAKA: France and Iran will sign several agreements, including in the air transport sector, during a visit by President Hassan Rouhani to Paris next week.The French presidency said on Tuesday, The Jerusalem Post publishes this report on Wednesday.‘Several accords will be signed by

DHAKA: A strong, 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Chile on Tuesday night, but there were no immediate reports of damage.The Chilean emergency office said, reports The Jerusalem Post.The US Geological Survey said the quake, initially reported as magnitude 6.8 and then 6.6,

DHAKA: The Maldives government announced Tuesday an end to a state of emergency, which was imposed last week after an alleged attempt to assassinate President Abdulla Yameen.‘Maldives lifts State of Emergency with immediate effect,’ the foreign ministry said on Twitter, reports

DHAKA: The death toll from an attack at a US-funded police training facility in Jordan has risen to six.The Jordanian Embassy in Washington said on Monday, reports The Jerusalem Post.The death toll rose ‘after a Jordanian victim succumbed to wounds sustained during the shooting’,

DHAKA: A Jordanian policeman has shot dead two American instructors and a South African at a police training centre outside Amman.Officials say, reports the BBC.Government spokesman Mohammad Momani said the assailant wounded two other Americans and four Jordanians, before being killed by

DHAKA: The election victory in Bihar province should not be used to disrupt the upcoming winter session of India Parliament set to begin November 26.India union parliamentary affairs minister M Venkaiah Naidu told the Opposition on Monday, reports Hindustan Times.Talking to reporters

DHAKA: Croatia’s conservative opposition has won the Balkan country’s first parliamentary election since joining the European Union in 2013, but without enough votes to rule alone.The state electoral commission said on Monday that with 99 percent of the vote counted, the

DHAKA: Myanmar’s ruling party conceded defeat in the country’s general election on Monday, as the opposition led by democracy figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi appeared on course for a landslide victory that would ensure it can form the next government.‘We lost,’ Union Solidarity and

DHAKA: India on Monday test-fired its nuclear-capable strategic ballistic missile Agni-IV, capable of hitting a target at a distance of 4,000 kms, from a test range off the Odisha coast as part of a user trial by the armed forces.Supported by a mobile launcher, the sleek missile was

DHAKA: India Prime Minister Narendra Modi will Monday evening attend a meeting of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s parliamentary board, the party’s top-decision making group of 12 leaders, called to discuss the impact of its mammoth defeat in Bihar.Bihar’s unambiguous verdict on

DHAKA: A riot has erupted at a controversial offshore refugee-detention facility in Australia following the death of an asylum seeker.Immigration officers and refugees confirmed on Monday a standoff between detainees and officers at the detention camp on Christmas Island, located more

DHAKA: Russia says it has flown 11,000 tourists home from Egypt in the past 24 hours, and more will return on Sunday.Moscow announced on Friday that it was suspending all flights to Egypt after a Russian plane crashed in Sinai - having initially dismissed suspicions that a bomb brought

DHAKA: Votes are being counted in Myanmar's first openly contested national election for 25 years.Turnout is thought to have been 80% in the poll - seen as a further big step away from decades of military rule, reports BBC.Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) is expected

DHAKA: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held talks in Cairo on Sunday with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi about the latest developments in the Palestinian territories.Abbas briefed Sisi on ‘continued Israeli violations against the Aksa Mosque in particular and Palestinians

DHAKA: David Cameron is to warn European leaders he will ‘think again’ about the UK staying in the EU if his demands for reform are ‘met with a deaf ear’.The PM will deliver his warning on Tuesday to coincide with a letter to the European Council president setting out the changes

DHAKA: With JD(U)-led Grand Alliance well on the road to win a thumping majority in the Bihar provincial assembly polls, India PM Narendra Modi on Sunday called up JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar and congratulated him on his victory in state elections.Modi said in a tweet, ‘Had a telephone

DHAKA: Nine more people have died of their injuries following last week's fire at a Romanian nightclub, bringing the number of deaths to 41, officials say.Seven people died in hospitals in the capital Bucharest, while another two passed away in the Netherlands, where they had been