DHAKA: A draft resolution setting out a Palestinian timetable for a peace deal with Israel has been submitted to the UN Security Council.The document, presented by Jordan, calls for a deal within one year and Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories by the end of 2017.Jordan has

DHAHA: Cuban President Raul Castro has urged the US to end its trade embargo after the two countries opened formal talks on restoring diplomatic relations.He said the five-decade embargo "caused enormous human and economic damage".But only the US Congress has the power to lift the

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama has hailed a "new chapter" in US relations with Cuba, announcing moves to normalise diplomatic and economic ties.Obama said Washington's current approach was "outdated" and the changes were the "most significant" in US policy towards Cuba in 50 years,

DHAKA: In the aftermath of deadly Taliban attack on an army-run school in Peshawar, Pakistan’s military launched 20 air strikes including “dynamic targeting” killing 57 terrorists in Khyber Agency’s Tirah Valley, Army spokesman said on Wednesday.Director General Inter-Services

DHAKA: The Taliban gunmen who stormed a school on Tuesday in the Pakistani city of Peshawar killing 148 people, including 132 children, have been identified by the militant group. The Pakistani Taliban released the pictures as they issued a statement claiming the attack was justified

DHAKA: Pakistan’s powerful army chief General Raheel Sharif visited Kabul on Wednesday for talks with Afghanistan’s president on tackling insurgents, a day after Taliban militants killed 148 people at a Pakistani school.Sharif, accompanied by the head of Pakistan’s main

DHAKA: A seven-year-old boy died on Tuesday after being beaten brutally in a school in Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh, allegedly by his teacher. Araj, a nursery student, was allegedly thrashed for not doing his homework and not paying the school fee.Senior police officer MP Singh said at

DHAKA: Indian lawmakers and schools observed a two-minute silence over the massacre in Peshawar that claimed 141 lives on Tuesday.Dawn.com reports on Wednesday.Apart from the two-minute silence, the schools also held special prayers to commemorate the victims of the attack.The show of

DHAKA: The Afghan Taliban have condemned a raid on a school in Peshawar that left 141 dead in the country’s bloodiest ever terror attack, saying killing innocent children was against Islam.Survivors said militants gunned down children as young as 12 during the eight-hour onslaught

DHAKA: The Palestinian Islamic militant group Hamas must be removed from the EU’s terrorism blacklist, but its assets will stay frozen for the time being.A European court ruled on Wednesday, reports The Straits Times.The original listing in 2001 was based not on sound legal

DHAKA: Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday approved the removal of moratorium on death penalty after the carnage in Peshawar killed 141 people.Addressing an All Parties Conference (APC) in Peshawar, the premier announced that the moratorium on death penalty, which was

DHAKA: United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon will travel to Ebola-hit countries in West Africa this week to raise awareness about the health crisis.UN officials said on Tuesday, reports The Straits Times.Ban is to make the announcement at a year-end press conference at the United

DHAKA: Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has said he realises that he may be the last to hold the title.But he told the BBC it would be better that the centuries-old tradition ceased ‘at the time of a popular Dalai Lama’.The Dalai Lama suggested the UK had taken a soft

DHAKA: Jeb Bush, brother of for US president George W Bush, has taken his most definitive step yet toward running for president, announcing plans to "actively explore" a campaign and form a new political operation allowing him to raise money for like-minded Republicans.In a holiday

DHAKA: The Pakistani city of Peshawar is burying its dead after a Taliban attack at a school killed at least 132 children and nine staff.Mourners crowded around coffins bedecked with flowers, while other families waited at hospitals for news, reports BBC.Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif

DHAKA: Attacks against journalists have grown more "barbaric" in 2014 as 66 reporters were killed and kidnappings "soared," a leading media rights group said.In its annual report published on Tuesday, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said there was an "an evolution in the nature of

DHAKA: Pakistani officials say the siege at an army-run school in Peshawar is over, and authorities are now sweeping the area.At least 141 people, most of them children (132), died when Taliban gunmen attacked the school in the morning.The overwhelming majority of the victims were

DHAKA: Nobel Peace Prize 2014 winner Malala Yousafzai on Tuesday condemned the Peshawar attack and said that she is ‘heartbroken by senseless and cold-blooded act of terror’.‘I am heartbroken by senseless and cold-blooded act of terror,’ Malala said, BBC reported, according to

DHAKA: Kenya on Tuesday closed over 500 non-governmental organisations, including 15 for alleged fundraising for terrorism, as part of a security crackdown following repeated attacks.The government’s non-governmental organisation (NGO) coordination board said in a statement it had

DHAKA: France and Germany have condemned the Taleban attack on a school in Pakistan on Tuesday.French president Francois Hollande condemned what he described as a ‘vile’ attack that has killed at least 130 people, the majority children.‘No words can express the ignominy of such