DHAKA: The current round of peace negotiations on Syria is due to end in Switzerland later on Friday, with little or no progress expected on core issues. After a week of talks at the UN headquarters in Geneva, the opposing sides are still stuck on the question of how to proceed, reports

DHAKA: The current round of peace negotiations on Syria is due to end in Switzerland later on Friday, with little or no progress expected on core issues. After a week of talks at the UN headquarters in Geneva, the opposing sides are still stuck on the question of how to proceed, reports

DHAKA: Accused bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should be put to death if he is found guilty of planting devices that killed three people and wounded 264 at the Boston Marathon last year, the US government`s chief prosecutor has said. Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement on Thursday

DHAKA: An influential cleric who supported the Afghan Taliban in their war against US-led forces has been shot dead in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, officials said on Thursday.‘Two unknown gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead Maulana Abdullah Zakiri’ as he was on his way to a

DHAKA: Anti-Congress protests broke out in New Delhi on Thursday over Rahul Gandhi’s remarks on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.Sikh groups protested outside the AICC office in the national capital, breaking barricades and chanting anti-Congress slogans.Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi had

DHAKA: Malaysia’s prime minister has appealed for unity and an end to ‘the politics of hate’ amid soaring racial and religious tensions in the Muslim-majority country.Prime Minister Najib Razak, weakened by an election setback last May, is seen as widely under pressure from

DHAKA: New Tunisian tourism minister Amel Karboul resigned just hours after being sworn in amid controversy surrounding her 2006 visit to Israel.Tunisia’s official news agency said on Wednesday, The Jerusalem Post publishes this report on Thursday.At the close of her swearing in

DHAKA: A new Telangana state will come into being in two weeks come what may, K Chandrasekhara Rao or KCR, a key politician of the region said Thursday as a majority in the Indian state Andhra Pradesh assembly rejected the plan, posing a moral dilemma for the Centre.‘By February 15,

DHAKA: Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich has gone on sick leave with a respiratory ailment, his website said on Thursday, with the issue of a new prime minister still undecided.‘The president of Ukraine has been officially registered as sick with an acute respiratory ailment and a

DHAKA: The Syrian government has been ‘deliberately and unlawfully’ demolishing thousands of homes.A new report by Human Rights Watch says, reports the BBC.Satellite images appear to show large-scale demolitions with explosives and bulldozers in opposition strongholds in Damascus and

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama and Jordan’s King Abdullah will discuss Syria and the Middle East at a February 14 summit at a retreat in California.The White House said on Wednesday, reports The Jerusalem Post.Obama had met Chinese President Xi Jinping at the same location last June,

DHAKA: Militants stormed an office of Iraq’s human rights ministry in northeast Baghdad on Thursday and took a number of civil servants hostage.Iraq security officials said, reports The Straits Times.The attack was mounted by eight armed men, said police and an interior ministry

DHAKA: The US Justice Department will decide this week whether to seek the death penalty for suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, accused of setting off two pressure-cooker bombs at the finish line of the world-renowned race.US Attorney General Eric Holder told the Senate

DHAKA: UAE jewellers this month reported the strongest gold sales in seven years, but a spate of arrests at various airports has sparked confusion over the amount of gold passengers can carry out of the country.Although the UAE does not impose any restrictions, failure to declare

DHAKA: US senor advisor for Myanmar affairs Judith Cefkin is likely to arrive here on a two-day visit on February 2.US department of state said on Thursday that she will be visiting United Kingdom, Bangladesh and Myanmar from January 30 to February 8.During her visit, this US envoy will

DHAKA: Egyptian prosecutors on Wednesday referred to trial 20 journalists working with Al-Jazeera television network, including four foreigners accused of ‘airing false news’.The 16 Egyptians have been charged with belonging to a ‘terrorist organisation ... and harming national

DHAKA: India’s air monitoring centre denied on Wednesday that pollution in New Delhi was worse than in Beijing, following scrutiny of the Indian capital’s winter smog, which shrouds the city each year.A report in the New York Times last week and fresh research by scientists at Yale

DHAKA: The two rival delegations at the Geneva peace talks have reportedly made first steps towards discussing a transitional government in the war-torn country.Syria’s opposition National Coalition spokesman Louay Safi said on Wednesday, reports The Voice of Russia.Safi called

DHAKA: At least 37 Philippine rebels have been killed in a two-day offensive in the south.Philippines military says, reports the BBC.President Benigno Aquino said the offensive would protect villages from rebels in Maguindanao province.The insurgents involved in fighting oppose a recent

DHAKA: Libya’s interior minister escaped unscathed from an assassination attempt in Tripoli on Wednesday.The Lana news agency reported, says The Straits Times.Seddik Abdelkarim, who is also deputy prime minister, was in his car when ‘unknown gunmen fired a barrage of bullets’ at the