DHAKA: Iran wants to become a major exporting nation following the lifting of international sanctions.Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday, adding that economic growth was crucial to defeating extremism in the Middle East, reports The Jerusalem Post.Rouhani is on a four-day

DHAKA: An Afghan policeman drugged and shot dead 10 of his comrades in the central province of Uruzgan.An official said, reports Al Jazeera.‘The policeman who had connections with armed militants first poisoned his comrades and than shot all of them during the night in a checkpoint,’

DHAKA: Peace talks between the warring parties in Syria, which were scheduled to open on Jan. 25, will instead begin in Geneva on Jan. 29 and last for six months.The United Nations’ Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura has said, reports Hurriyet Daily News.De Mistura told reporters that the

DHAKA: Prime Minister David Cameron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have spoken by phone and agreed progress has been made in Britain's renegotiation with the EU.Number 10 said both leaders saw there was genuine goodwill across Europe for Cameron’s aims, but accepted there was work

DHAKA: India is celebrating its 67th Republic Day on Tuesday with the ceremonial parade in ‘Rajpath’.President of France Francois Hollande will attend the event as a chief guest amidst unprecedented security in the wake of the attack on Pathankot air force base.Hollande will be the

DHAKA: At least 60 have died due to an unusually cold weather that caused record-low temperatures in Taiwan’s greater Taipei area.The Taipei government said the cold wave that pushed temperatures to a 16-year record low of 4 degrees Celsius (39.2 degrees Fahrenheit) in the capital was

DHAKA: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has promised to "bury" the Islamic State (IS) militant group, whose local offshoot has clashed with government forces and Taliban fighters.In a BBC interview, Ghani said IS was "not an Afghan phenomenon" and its atrocities had "alienated the people",

DHAKA: A travel ban on cars in New York City has ended as the east coast of the US begins digging out from the weekend’s massive snowstorm.But in Washington DC, the metro is set to remain closed and air travel in the region faces further disruption, reports the BBC.As householders dug

DHAKA: Syrian pro-government forces recaptured the rebel-held town of Rabiya in the western coastal province of Latakia on Sunday.Syrian state television and a Britain-based monitoring group said, reports The Jerusalem Post.The advance, with the backing of Russian air strikes and directed

DHAKA: A magnitude-7.1 earthquake hit southern Alaska early Sunday (January 24), awakening residents and shaking buildings in this earthquake-prone region.The earthquake struck about 1:30am (Alaska time) and was centered 30 miles east of Pedro Bay and 160 miles southwest of Anchorage,

DHAKA: At least 19 people were reportedly declared dead in a massive blizzard in the East Coast of the United States. Life has come to a standstill in 11 states where "snow emergency" was declared on Saturday, a day after Winter Storm Jonas hit parts of the US, reports the ibtimes.co.inOf

DHAKA: A massive snowstorm has brought much of the eastern US to a standstill, affecting some 85 million people.The blizzard has dumped 40in (102cm) of snow in some areas, with 11 states declaring emergencies, reports the BBC.All non-essential travel is banned in New York, with officials

DHAKA: Islamic State (IS) militants have threatened attacks on Spain in their latest propaganda video, declaring, ‘We will recover our land from the invaders’.A map was previously shared showing the areas IS plans to have under control by 2020, including Spain and large parts of Asia

DHAKA: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and visiting Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping said on Saturday (January 23) their countries had agreed to expand economic and political ties, calling it a ‘new season’ in bilateral relations.‘We are happy that President Xi visited Iran after the

DHAKA: On the 119th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday (January 23) put in the public domain, for the first time, 100 files on the freedom fighter that have been classified till now.PM Modi had, in his meeting with members of the Bose

DHAKA: Britain’s government should not shy away from talking to Russia about peace in Syria, though relations with Moscow are strained.Prime Minister David Cameron told Al Jazeera.A British inquiry on Thursday said that Russian President Vladimir Putin ‘probably’ approved the

DHAKA: A massive blizzard bringing more than 2ft (61cm) of snow and punishing winds is advancing up the US East Coast.More than 50 million people across more than a dozen states have been warned to stay at home as it moves north, reports the BBC.The nation's capital, Washington, could lie

DHAKA: Four people were shot dead Friday at a school and a second location in an aboriginal community in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, police said.Royal Canadian Mounted Police said at a news conference Friday night that four people were dead and others were critically wounded at

DHAKA: A total of 42 migrants are reported to have drowned overnight in two separate shipwrecks in the Aegean Sea near Greece.One boat went down off the coast of the small Greek islet of Kalolimnos, killing 34 people, including 11 children. Another eight people died after a boat sank off

DHAKA: Saudi Arabia’s grand mufti has ruled that chess is forbidden in Islam, saying it encourages gambling and is a waste of time.Sheikh Abdulaziz al-Sheikh was answering a question on a television show in which he issues fatwas in response to viewers’ queries on everyday religious