DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry met Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif Sunday amid ongoing efforts to resolve the dispute over Iran’s nuclear programme.‘Secretary Kerry and foreign minister Zarif met on the margins of the Munich Security Conference this morning,’

DHAKA: Polls across Thailand closed peacefully despite a boycott by the country’s main opposition party, but voting disruptions in some districts including in Bangkok means there will be no results for at least three weeks.Voting was normal in the north and north-east, but in some parts

  DHAKA: Five people were injured on Sunday when motorcycle-riding men hurled a grenade into a church in the troubled southern Philippines in a city known for Muslim rebel activity, officials said. One of two men on the motorcycle threw the grenade into the Roman Catholic church in a

  DHAKA: Tourists travelling to India from up to 180 countries will no longer have to queue up at their local consulates to obtain visas under reforms expected to be approved this week. Local media reported on Sunday, says The Straits Times. Most foreigners currently have to wait

DHAKA: An Indonesian volcano that has been rumbling for months has witnessed a major eruption, killing at least 16 people, officials say. Among the dead on Mount Sinabung were a local television journalist and four high-school students and their teacher who were visiting the mountain to

DHAKA: Ukraine`s Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara and opposition leader Vitali Klitschko have clashed face to face at a security summit in Munich. The two men appeared in a discussion, during which Klitschko showed Kozhara images of injuries he said were inflicted by the police on

DHAKA: Voters are going to the polls under heavy security in an election that could push Thailand deeper into political turmoil and leave the winner paralysed for months by street protests. The risk of bloodshed at the ballot on Sunday remains high, a day after seven people were wounded

DHAKA: Six more cases of human infection with H7N9 bird flu have been reported in China, according to the World Health Organization. One of them was fatal, it said Friday in a news release.WHO cited reports it received Wednesday from the National Health and Family Planning Commission

DHAKA: Eleven people, including four schoolchildren, were killed Saturday after they were engulfed by scorching ash clouds spat out by Indonesia’s Mount Sinabung in its biggest eruption in recent days, officials said.Eight people were found dead in Sukameriah village, near Mount

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama plans to travel to Saudi Arabia in March on a mission to smooth tensions with Washington’s main Arab ally over US policy on Iran’s nuclear program and the civil war in Syria.A newspaper reported, The Jerusalem Post publishes this report on

DHAKA: Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov rounded on the European Union Saturday, accusing its leaders of interfering in Ukraine’s internal affairs and helping stoke violent anti-government protests.‘Why are many prominent EU politicians actually encouraging such actions although

DHAKA: The woman who calls herself the wife of fiery hardline Indian prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi said in a rare interview Saturday that she doesn’t ‘feel bad’ he has cut her out of his life.Modi, a 63-year-old opposition Hindu nationalist politician, has never

DHAKA: Several people have been injured by gunfire in the Thai capital, Bangkok, amid clashes involving anti-government protesters ahead of Sunday’s elections.The violence erupted during a stand-off between supporters and opponents of prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra.Anti-government

DHAKA: Nearly 1,900 people have been killed in Syria since peace talks opened in Switzerland on January 22.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, reports gulfnews.com.The group said at least 498 civilians were among those killed in Syria since the government and opposition joined

DHAKA: Tensions were high in Bangkok on the eve of controversial elections in politically-divided Thailand Saturday as opposition protesters sought to block ballot boxes being distributed in several parts of the country.Thailand is gearing up to stage touchpaper polls on Sunday despite a

DHAKA: Tens of thousands of people marched in Mexico City to protest constitutional reforms pushed through by president Enrique Pena Nieto that open the oil and gas industry to foreign investment.An estimated 65,000 people gathered on Friday for the protest in the Zocalo, the main square

DHAKA: United States president  Barack Obama expressed strong admiration of Pope Francis for promoting ‘a true sense of brotherhood and sisterhood and regard for those who are less fortunate’.He said in an interview aired on Friday, The Straits Times publishes this report on

  DHAKA: Anti-government protesters gathered in Bangkok’s busy tourist area of Chinatown for the third and final day of marches in the capital denouncing Thailand’s general election on Sunday amid fears of violence erupting during the vote. The government is pushing ahead with the

DHAKA: The Indian diplomat whose December arrest led to a major international dispute holds no immunity from US prosecution and should continue to faces charges of visa fraud, Manhattan federal prosecutors said in court papers. Dr Devyani Khobragade was arrested on December 12 on charges

  DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry has asked Russia to press its ally Syria into speeding up the removal of chemical weapons. The US says only about 4% of chemical weapons declared by the Syrian government have so far been removed. Kerry raised the issue with Russian foreign