DHAKA: Syrian president Bashar Assad will meet with Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Damascus on Wednesday.Lebanese newspaper A-Safir reported Sunday, according to Iranian news agency Fars, says the Jerusalem Post.Far quoted Iranian diplomatic sources as saying Zarif was

DHAKA: The Taliban attacked an Afghan army base in the country’s eastern Kunar province early on Sunday, killing 19 soldiers and kidnapping seven.The spokesman for the provincial governor said, reports The Straits Times.The spokesman, Abdul Ghani Musamem, said the attack occurred in the

DHAKA: A suicide bomber has killed two Lebanese soldiers and a civilian with a car bomb near an army checkpoint in northeast Lebanese city of Hermel, security sources have said.The latest bombing, in a country destabilised by the civil war in neighbouring Syria, was the third such attack

DHAKA: The UN Security Council has unanimously approved a resolution on access to humanitarian aid in Syria - the first time it has united on the issue.The resolution says both Syrian government and opposition forces must allow aid convoys to reach civilians across the country.The agreed

DHAKA: BJP`s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi said Hindu migrants from Bangladesh must be accommodated in the country and detention camps would be done away with once his party comes to power."As soon as we come to power at the Centre, detention camps housing Hindu migrants from

DHAKA: Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has been hailed by thousands of opposition supporters in central Kiev after being freed from detention.She has suffered from a back injury and addressed them from her wheelchair."You are heroes," she told the crowd on Independence

DHAKA: Two Bangladeshi expatriates were killed in an encounter between two rebel groups in Bengazi of Libya on Friday afternoon.The deceased were identified as Shafiqur Rahman, 33, of Pirojpur district and Abul Kalam, 32 of Barguna district.Director of Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare

DHAKA: Egypt’s deposed Islamist president Mohamed Mursi called on his followers on Saturday to continue their ‘peaceful revolution’, during his trial on charges related to jailbreaks and attacks on police.Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood still stages diminishing weekly protests despite

DHAKA: A member of Ukraine’s Parliament said on Saturday that president Viktor Yanukovych has promised to submit his resignation in response to violence that left nearly 100 dead in anti-government unrest.Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) opposition party lawmaker Mykola Katerynchuk told

DHAKA: Wading into a foreign policy issue for the first time, Narendra Modi on Saturday asked China to shed its ‘expansionist mindset’, making it clear that no power on earth can snatch Arunachal Pradesh from India.‘China should shed its expansionist policy and forge bilateral ties

DHAKA: The UN special envoy for Syria will try to break the stalemate between the Syrian government and the opposition at a final session of talks in Geneva. Lakhdar Brahimi will mediate a last face-to-face meeting with both sides on Saturday morning. Negotiations reached an impasse as

DHAKA: Iran agreed on Sunday seven more ‘practical steps’ with the United Nations nuclear watchdog in talks seeking further safeguards to enhance transparency on Teheran’s nuclear drive.An Iranian nuclear official said, reports The Straits Times.‘Seven more practical steps in

DHAKA: France president Francois Hollande begins a three-day visit to the United States on Monday, hoping to leave a scandal behind as he seeks to shore up business ties and revive France’s stagnant economy.Deeply unpopular at home and fresh from a much-publicised split with longtime

  DHAKA: The heaviest snow in decades in Tokyo and other areas of Japan has left at least seven dead and more than 1,000 injured across the country. Reports said on Sunday, according to The Straits Times. As much as 27 centimetres of snow was recorded in Tokyo by late Saturday, the

DHAKA: The UN has demanded that the Vatican ‘immediately remove’ all clergy who are known or suspected child abusers, in a report released on Wednesday.The UN watchdog for children’s rights denounced the Holy See for adopting policies allowing priests to sexually abuse thousands of

DHAKA: The US National Security Agency (NSA) bugged the phone of former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder from at least 2002.A German newspaper reported on Wednesday, compounding the most serious row between the allies in a decade, reports The Straits Times.The reason for the snooping

DHAKA: Philippine president Benigno Aquino has compared China’s efforts to claim disputed territories with those of Nazi Germany’s, while urging world leaders not to make the same mistake of appeasement, according to the New York Times.The Philippines has accused China of becoming

DHAKA: The White House on Tuesday called on Egypt to release journalists and academics detained in the country, saying the matter is ‘of deep concern’ to the US administration.‘These figures, regardless of affiliation, should be protected and permitted to do their jobs freely in

DHAKA: South African gold producer Harmony Gold launched a rescue operation on Wednesday to free 17 miners trapped a mile underground after a fire at its Doornkop mine near Johannesburg.The company said it had made contact with eight miners, who had managed to flee to a refuge bay at a

DHAKA: Thailand’s army will increase the number of troops in the capital ahead of Sunday’s election, which anti-government protesters say they will disrupt as part of their campaign to overthrow prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra.The government’s decision to press ahead with the