DHAKA: Iran will only sign a final nuclear agreement if economic sanctions against the nation are removed on the first day of the deal's implementation, President Hassan Rouhani said Thursday.Six world powers and Iran reached a preliminary deal last week that aims to limit Tehran's

DHAKA: As many as four people are reported to have died after a man opened fire at the Palace of Justice in the Italian city of Milan before being arrested.Officials said the gunman, identified by local media as Claudio Giardiello, was a defendant in a bankruptcy case.The Ansa news agency

DHAKA: A man believed to be a defendant in a bankruptcy case on Thursday shot ‘at least one person dead’ in a Milan court.A prosecutor cited by Italian media said, reports The Straits Times.The sound of shots sparked panic, with lawyers fleeing the scene while police officers searched

DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry has warned Iran over its alleged support for Shia Houthi rebels in Yemen.He said the US would support any Middle Eastern country that felt threatened by Iran, and would not ‘stand by’ if Iran destabilized the region, reports the BBC.The US has

DHAKA: The man accused of bombing the Boston Marathon in 2013 has been found guilty of all 30 charges that he faced, many of which carry the death penalty.The jury in Massachusetts will now decide what sentence 21-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will receive.Three people were killed and more

DHAKA: Islamic State militants have freed more than 200 members of the Yazidi religious community they were holding in northern Iraq.Some 227 people had been released “among them women and children”, said Kurdish commander Westa Rasul, reports the BBC.He told his Pershmerga forces

DHAKA: Zimbabwean lawmakers urged the country to find a way of exporting a large number of elephants to avoid having to cull the animals, which they say are threatening communities neighboring the nation’s biggest game park.Hwange National Park, which covers 14,651 square kilometers,

DHAKA: A Pakistani court on Wednesday suspended the non-bailable arrest warrant against former military dictator Pervez Musharraf for the killing of cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi during the army siege of the Lal Masjid in 2007.The arrest warrant was challenged in the high court here which set

DHAKA: Fresh fighting has been reported in the southern Yemeni city of Aden between Houthi rebels and militiamen loyal to President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi.Several houses in the central Crater district were set on fire after being hit by rockets as the rebels advanced, reports the

DHAKA: New guidelines governing the Japan-US defense alliance will allow the two militaries to ‘cooperate seamlessly’.American Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Wednesday in Tokyo following a meeting with his Japanese counterpart, reports The Straits Times.On the second day of a

DHAKA: Myanmar’s president Thein Sein will host rare talks Wednesday with influential allies and rivals including opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi as she intensifies efforts to lift a constitutional ban on her bid for the presidency.The long-awaited talks in the capital Naypyidaw,

DHAKA: Eight members of a Maryland family were found dead in a house Monday when police went to check on the father, who had failed to show up for work.The man and seven children, whose ages ranged from 6 to 16, were discovered in the home, Princess Anne Police Chief Scott Keller said.No

DHAKA: Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarf will tour Pakistan and Oman to convey Iran’s deep concern about the humanitarian plight in Yemen due to the Saudi-led air raids.Foreign ministry spokesperson Marzieh Afkham said on Tuesday, reports the Times of India.The Saudi Air

DHAKA: The UN Security Council has demanded humanitarian access to the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk in Damascus.One UN official described the situation for the 18,000 refugees there as ‘beyond inhumane’.The situation has deteriorated since 1 April, when Islamic State (IS)

DHAKA: More than a 100,000 people have fled their homes after Saudi-led coalition air strikes began in Yemen, according to UNICEF.A spokesman from the UN agency, Rajat Madhok, told Al Jazeera that most of those who have been displaced are women and children.“Most displacements have

DHAKA: The Indian police say they have arrested a 28-year-old man wanted in connection with two sex attacks in Britain.Former nightclub bouncer Raminder Singh was arrested in New Delhi on Sunday after three years on the run, police joint commissioner Ravindra Yadav said in a statement

DHAKA: Fourteen people were injured in an explosion at a controversial chemical plant in the eastern Chinese city of Zhangzhou.The authorities said on Tuesday that it was the second accident at the site in two years, reports The Straits Times.Footage from an amateur video posted by

DHAKA: Twenty red sanders smugglers were killed in an alleged encounter with a joint team of special police and forest personnel in the Seshachalam forests of Chittoor district in India’s Andhra Pradesh in the early hours of Tuesday.The incident took place at Etagunta and Vacchinodu

DHAKA: The suspected mass graves of up to 1,700 captured Iraqi soldiers killed by the Islamic State group (IS) have been found in the city of Tikrit.The sites are near the former US Army base, Camp Speicher, reports BBC on Tuesday.Iraqi forensic teams have begun to excavate 12 graves

DHAKA: The United States and the Philippines will double the size of their annual war games this month, with some exercises to be staged close to a South China Sea flashpoint.The Filipino military said Monday, reports The Straits Times.The 10-day exercises between the long-time allies