DHAKA: USA President Barack Obama said Iran should agree to at least a decade-long freeze on its nuclear activity if a landmark deal is to be finally reached, reports BBC.BBC adds, Obama, in an interview with Reuters, also said the odds were still against such an agreement

DHAKA: Police in northwest Pakistan have arrested more than 450 parents for refusing to vaccinate their children against polio.Officials said on Monday, reports The Straits Times.Riaz Khan Mehsud, deputy commissioner of Peshawar, the main town of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province,

DHAKA: Iraq has launched a military operation to recapture Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit from Islamic State (IS).Troops and militia were said to be attacking on different fronts, backed by airstrikes from Iraqi fighter jets, reports the BBC.The government says that its forces are

DHAKA: North Korea fired two missiles into the sea and vowed ‘merciless’ retaliation on Monday as the US and South Korea kicked off joint military drills denounced by Pyongyang as recklessly confrontational.The annual exercises always trigger a surge in military tensions and

DHAKA: Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will meet on Wednesday for a decision that could presage the first big split in its leadership.Sources say the party is likely to decide whether to remove founder members Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan from its top decision-making

DHAKA: A video has captured the moment US police shot and killed a homeless man after an altercation in downtown Los Angeles.The graphic film shows a violent struggle between the man and several officers in the city’s Skid Row area.As the police try to subdue him, a voice is heard

DHAKA: Islamic State released 19 Assyrian Christian captives in Syria on Sunday after processing them through a sharia court.A monitoring group, British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said this which reports the Times of India.More than 200 Assyrians remain in Islamic State

DHAKA: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has arrived in the US to argue against a possible nuclear deal with Iran.Netanyahu says the deal would be inadequate to prevent Tehran from acquiring a nuclear bomb.He is due to give a speech in Congress on Tuesday which was not agreed in advance

DHAKA: Holding placards declaring ‘I am not afraid’, some 10,000 Russians marched in Moscow on Sunday in memory of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov, whose murder has widened a split in society that some say could threaten Russia’s future.Families, the old and young walked slowly,

DHAKA: Thousands of supporters of Italy’s Northern League have poured into one of Rome’s biggest squares for a rally against immigration, the EU and Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s government.League leader Matteo Salvini accused Renzi of substituting the country’s interests to

DHAKA: A military assault on Islamic militants in the southern Philippines entered its fifth day on Saturday, with the toll rising to 24 guerrillas and two soldiers dead.Officials said, reports The Straits Times.Ten Abu Sayyaf militants were killed in a two-hour clash on Friday after

DHAKA: Russia has become a danger to Britain and the country must be prepared to take steps to defend itself and its allies.The former head of MI6 says, reports the BBC.Sir John Sawers, who recently retired after five years as chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, told BBC Radio

DHAKA: Protesters and police clashed in Kathmandu on Saturday at a demonstration by some 30,000 people led by the Maoist opposition to demand that political parties reach a consensus on a new constitution, in the biggest street march in Nepal in years.Police lobbed teargas shells and

DHAKA: Iraq’s national museum officially reopened Saturday after 12 years of painstaking efforts during which close to a third of 15,000 stolen pieces were recovered.The much-delayed reopening was brought forward in what officials said was a response to the destruction of priceless

DHAKA: The jailed leader of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) on Saturday made a ‘historic’ call to the separatists to hold a disarmament conference, a key step in efforts to end Turkey’s 30-year Kurdish insurgency.‘As we are ushering the 30 years of conflict towards

DHAKA: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has urged his army to prepare for war with the United States and its allies, state media said on Saturday, as Pyongyang ramps up the rhetoric ahead of US-South Korea military drills. Kim’s comments came after South Korea and the United States on

DHAKA: Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, was shot dead in central Moscow late on Friday ahead of a major opposition rally this weekend. Investigators and police said, reports The Straits Times. ‘In central Moscow, a man with

DHAKA: Senior officials from Iran and six powers negotiating with Tehran over its nuclear program will hold more talks in Montreux of Switzerland on March 5.The European Union said on Friday which reports the Jerusalem post.The talks between political directors will be preceded by a

DHAKA: The parents of a former Thai princess have been detained under the lese majeste law, the strict defamation rules that protect the royal family.Srirasmi Suwadee’s parents confessed that they had misused royal connections to have their former neighbour jailed on a bogus fraud

DHAKA: A boat carrying at least 10 people thought to be illegal immigrants has sunk off the coast of Macau and the rescue operation hampered by strong currents.Macau’s marine department said that four people had managed to swim to safety but the rest were missing, reports the NDTV.