DHAKA: The Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, has said he is confident he has the continuing support of key allies Iran and Russia.A fresh push is under way to resolve Syria’s four-year conflict, leading to speculation Assad could be forced out to reach a settlement.But Assad said

DHAKA: Kosovo and Serbia have signed a series of agreements in key areas, in a major step towards normalizing ties.Serbs in northern Kosovo will enjoy greater rights through one of the deals, while Kosovo gains its own international dialing code in another.The EU’s foreign policy chief,

DHAKA: At least three Indian security forces personnel were killed and six others injured in an ambush by the left-wing Naxalite rebels in India’s eastern state of Odisha Wednesday, a senior police official said."The incident happened near Sukma-Malkangiri border in the state's

DHAKA: Contrary to remarks made by visiting UK foreign secretary Phillip Hammond an Iranian official denied on Tuesday that his government’s policy towards Israel has changed and said that the Zionist regime should be annihilated.‘Our positions against the usurper Zionist regime have

DHAKA: At least 175 people have been executed in Saudi Arabia in the past year after unfair trials lacking basic safeguards.Amnesty International says, reports the BBC on Tuesday.A new report alleges the Gulf kingdom’s ‘faulty justice system facilitates judicial executions on a mass

DHAKA: European leaders should do more to open up and help migrants instead of using language that dismisses their rights.A UN expert on migrant rights has said, reports the BBC.Talking about ‘marauders’ and ‘swarms’ was an unsubtle way of dismissing their legitimacy, said

DHAKA: At least three people have been killed in clashes between rival armed groups in Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp, near the southern port city of Sidon.Fighting between the Jund al-Sham group and members of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement on Monday

DHAKA: South Korea has halted its propaganda broadcasts into North Korea as part of a deal to defuse tension.Seoul had begun the loudspeaker broadcasts, which infuriate Pyongyang, after a landmine at the border injured two of its soldiers earlier this month.The tensions bubbled over in a

DHAKA: Seven police officers were killed Monday in clashes with demonstrators in western Nepal.Police said, reports TDS.The incident took place as the demonstrators protested against a proposed new national constitution turned increasingly violent.‘So far we have confirmation that seven

DHAKA: The Maldives has put former president Mohamed Nasheed back in jail a month after his 13-year prison sentence was commuted to house arrest, his party said on Tuesday.The Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) said police and prison officials clashed with its supporters as they removed

DHAKA: Despite denials from Iran, Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas confirmed that he will be visiting Tehran for the first time since 2012.Speaking during a meeting with a delegation of Polish journalists in Ramallah, Abbas on Sunday said, ‘There will be a visit to Iran, but no date

DHAKA: A huge fire broke out Monday at a steel pipe plant near Tokyo’s Haneda airport, a fire department official said.Television images showed plumes of thick black smoke and flames shooting up into the air, reports japantoday.comThe blaze came just hours after a blast ripped through a

DHAKA: Islamic State militants have destroyed Palmyra's ancient temple of Baalshamin, Syrian officials and activists say.Syria's head of antiquities was quoted as saying the temple was blown up on Sunday. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that it happened one

DHAKA: Top-level talks between North and South Korea to defuse a border stand-off have continued for a second night, officials from the South say.The first session of talks lasted 10 hours, finishing just before dawn on Sunday. No details have emerged, BBC reported. Senior aides to the

DHAKA: Five people have died and eight others are injured after a lorry collided with the Bangalore-Nanded Express in Andhra Pradesh's Anantapur district early this morning.Karnataka Congress legislator from Devadurg, Venkatesh Naik, is among the people who were killed in the accident,

DHAKA: The British embassy in Iran has reopened, nearly four years after it was closed.Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond attended a ceremony in Tehran with Iranian diplomats to mark the reopening while Iran has also reopened its embassy in London, reports the BBC.The UK embassy was closed

DHAKA: North and South Korea are to hold a second round of top-level talks on Sunday to defuse growing tension.Officials from the South say, reports the BBC.The announcement was made after several hours of negotiations on Saturday.Senior aides to the two countries’ leaders met at the

DHAKA: Armed Islamic State (IS) of Iraq and Syria members have killed up to 50 soldiers and allied Shia fighters in two separate ambushes in Iraq’s Anbar province.A top provincial official said.Sabah Al-Karhout, president of the Anbar Provincial Council, told the media that the ambushes

DHAKA: Malaysian police have found 24 human skeletons - all believed to be victims of human trafficking - in newly discovered graves along the Thai border in the northern Malaysian state of Perlis.‘Following on from the operation in which we found ... bodies of illegal immigrants, 24

DHAKA: Planned high-level talks between India and Pakistan have been cancelled hours before they were due to start on Sunday, amid mutual recriminations.Pakistan said that it could not accept India's "preconditions" for the talks, while India denied that it was to blame, BBC