DHAKA: Organisers of the climate talks in Paris say a final text has been agreed after nearly two weeks of intensive negotiations.An official in the office of French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told the AFP news agency the draft would be presented to ministers at 10:30 GMT.No details

DHAKA: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is in New Delhi on a three-day visit amid expectations that a pact will be firmed up on India's first bullet train and over progress in the talks on a civil nuclear deal.Abe will hold the annual summit meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi

DHAKA: New Zealanders have picked a blue and black design with the silver fern as the preliminary winner in a referendum on a possible new national flag.The runner-up is a similar-looking red, white and blue design, reports the BBC.The final result will be announced on Tuesday after late

DHAKA:  A Spanish policeman was killed in an attack near the country's embassy in Kabul on Friday, prime minister Mariano Rajoy said in a statement on his party's Twitter account.Rajoy had said earlier the policeman had been wounded in the attack and had been transferred to a nearby

DHAKA: Saudi Arabia will go to the polls on Saturday in unprecedented municipal elections in which women will cast a ballot for the first time.Women are able to stand as candidates, despite the fiercely conservative kingdom being the only nation where women are not allowed to drive,

DHAKA: At least 22 people were killed by three truck bombs in a Kurdish-controlled town in northeastern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Friday.It said the death toll from the attack in Tel Tamer late on Thursday was likely to increase, reports the Jerusalem

DHAKA: A decision on a global climate deal will not be made until Saturday, international media report.It had been hoped a deal would be announced by Friday evening after French Foreign Minister and chair of the Paris talks, Laurent Fabius, said agreement was "extremely close".An

DHAKA: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) approved a $300m loan on Thursday to help clean Beijing’s notoriously polluted air, as it pledged to support Chinese government efforts to reduce coal use in and around the capital.Beijing officials issued their first “red alert” on Monday

DHAKA: The finance chief of so-called Islamic State has been killed in air strikes by the US-led coalition, a US military spokesperson has said.Muwaffaq Mustafa Mohammed al-Karmoush, aka Abu Salah, and two other senior leaders were killed in the strikes which took place in "recent weeks",

DHAKA: North and South Korea are holding high-level talks in the Kaesong joint industrial zone on the North Korean side of the border.It is the latest in a series of steps to improve relations after a tense standoff in August, reports the BBC.The confrontation began when two South Korean

DHAKA: US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump announced Thursday that he was postponing his planned trip to Israel which had been scheduled for the end of December.Trump posted on his Twitter account that he was postponing the trip, and his scheduled meeting with Israel Prime

DHAKA: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appeared on Thursday to claim the country has developed a hydrogen bomb, a step up from the less powerful atomic bomb, but outside experts were skeptical.Kim made the comments as he toured the Phyongchon Revolutionary Site, which marks the feats of

DHAKA: The death toll of Afghanistan’s Kandahar airport has reached 70, including women and children. Taliban fighters in a siege at Afghanistan’s Kandahar airport made the causalities.Official details about the number of casualties and the ongoing nature of the attack, which began on

DHAKA: Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the recent remarks of Donald trump regarding Muslims.‘The State of Israel respects all religions and strictly adheres to the rights of all it’s citizens,’ Netanyahu said in a statement released on Wednesday evening, The

DHAKA: Former boxing champion Muhammad Ali, one of the best-known US Muslims, appeared to join the chorus condemning the proposal by Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump to temporarily stop Muslims from entering the country.‘We as Muslims have to stand up to those who use

DHAKA: Facebook Inc chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said he supported Muslims in his community and around the world.Muslims in the United States and abroad have been criticized in the wake of attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California.‘As a Jew, my parents taught me that we must

DHAKA: Time Magazine has named German Chancellor Angela Merkel as its ‘Person of the Year’.The magazine cited her role in Europe’s crises over migration and Greek debt, reports the BBC.Merkel had provided ‘steadfast moral leadership in a world where it is in short supply’,

DHAKA: Gulf leaders have met for an annual summit in the face of plunging oil revenues, the war in Yemen and pressure for peace in Syria.The kings and emirs, gathering in Saudi Arabia, are expected to voice support for a bid to unify Syria’s opposition at separate talks due to get under

DHAKA: At least 11 people including children have died and 13 others remain missing after a boat carrying about 50 refugees sank in the eastern Aegean Sea.Greek authorities say, reports Al Jazeera.The coast guard said the accident occurred early on Wednesday when a wooden boat carrying

DHAKA: At least 46 security personnel, Taliban fighters and civilians have been killed in clashes in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar.Officials say, reports the BBC.Several people were also taken hostage in the Taliban assault on Kandahar airport, which began on Tuesday.The airport