DHAKA: Ukraine’s first post-independence president has warned the country is on the ‘brink of civil War’ as parliament debates an amnesty for protesters.Leonid Kravchuk, president from 1991 to 1994, opened the debate in parliament by urging everyone involved to ‘act with the

DHAKA: A final nuclear agreement between Iran and world powers can be achieved in a short period of time.Iranian president Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday, Tehran Times publishes this report on Wednesday.He made the remarks during a meeting with former UN secretary general Kofi Annan, who

DHAKA: A launch ceremony for education activist Malala Yousafzai’s book at a university in her native Pakistan was cancelled after pressure from the provincial government.Organisers and officials said on Tuesday, reports gulfnews.com.Malala, now 16, survived a Taliban assassination

DHAKA: Besieged since June, nearly 20,000 people in Damascus’ Yarmuk Palestinian camp are so desperate for food that many eat stray animals, and some women have resorted to prostitution, according to residents reached via the Internet.‘Many here have slaughtered and eaten cats and

DHAKA: Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has said an Israeli withdrawal from Palestinian territory should take place within a three-year period under any final Middle East peace deal.His remarks came as an April deadline loomed for faltering US-backed peace talks, which have been in

DHAKA: A Yale University study has found national capital Delhi the world’s most polluted city.It beats China’s Beijing, where pollution alerts prompted immediate government intervention.Delhi’s rising levels of pollution seem to have so far been ignored by government agencies.India

DHAKA: The United Nations Security Council voted Tuesday to not only continue its peacekeepers` mission in the tumultuous Central African Republic but to authorize the use of force by European Union troops there, the world body said.The decision came just over a week after the nation

DHAKA: A crisis in global education is costing governments $129bn a year, while 10 percent of spending on primary learning is lost on poor quality education that is failing children, a new report by UNESCO has said.The report, Teaching and learning: Achieving quality for all, released on

DHAKA: New Zealand prime minister John Key said on Wednesday he supported changing the national flag, but would hold a referendum before any decision was made to ditch the existing banner.The current flag has attracted criticism because one corner features the Union Jack, the symbol of

DHAKA: Australian prime minister Tony Abbott has criticised national broadcaster ABC for ‘taking everyone’s side but Australia’s’.Abbott said the publicly-funded broadcaster should show ‘some basic affection for the home team’, reports the BBC.The ABC has been at the forefront

DHAKA: President Barack Obama told Americans that 2014 should be the year to finally close the US prison at Guantanamo Bay as the United States winds down its military role in Afghanistan and shifts away from a "permanent war footing".In his annual State of the Union address on Wednesday,

DHAKA: Seven people were killed in Maharashtra when a luxury bus caught fire after colliding with a diesel tanker on the highway, late on Tuesday night.Fourteen others were injured in the accident, which took place at around 1 am near Manor on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway, when most

DHAKA: India’s opposition criticised ruling party leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday for avoiding any expression of regret for the killings of Sikhs in riots three decades ago, a sensitive issue that threatens to dog him in a tight election due by May.Gandhi said the government led by his

DHAKA: Former India captain and current Lok Sabha MP Mohammed Azharuddin, in all likelihood, would contest the upcoming election from a constituency in West Bengal.Azharuddin, who formally joined Congress in February 2009, had contested from Moradabad in western Uttar Pradesh in the last

DHAKA: Ex-Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic has refused to testify after former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic called him as a defence witness at his war crimes trial at The Hague.Denouncing the UN tribunal as ‘satanic’, Mladic said testifying could prejudice his own case,

DHAKA: India is set to become the first country since World War II to buy a military aircraft from Japan, helping prime minister Shinzo Abe end a ban on weapons exports that has kept his country’s defence contractors out of foreign markets. The two countries are in broad agreement on a

DHAKA: Thailand’s government vowed on Tuesday to push ahead with controversial elections this weekend, despite threats by opposition protesters to disrupt the polls in an attempt to stop the ruling party returning to power.The announcement came after talks between prime minister

DHAKA: Ukraine prime minister Mykola Azarov resigned on Tuesday in a bid to defuse the country’s deadly crisis and preserve its unity, finally giving into months of pressure from street protesters.Azarov said he had taken a ‘personal decision’ to resign to preserve Ukraine’s unity

DHAKA: The trial of Egypt’s former Islamist president Mohammed Mursi over his escape from prison in 2011 has begun, state media say.He was taken to the court in Cairo by helicopter from a prison in Alexandria, Mena news agency reports, says the BBC.Mursi, Egypt’s first freely-elected

DHAKA: Rahul Gandhi, whose family have dominated post-independence politics in India, forecast an unlikely victory for his beleaguered Congress party in upcoming elections as he gave his first ever television interview on Monday.The 43-year-old, the ruling Congress party’s de facto