DHAKA: A senior western official said on Sunday that relief on EU sanctions on oil shipping insurance was included in a deal between Iran and six world powers over its disputed nuclear programme.‘Insurance on oil shipments is included’ in the agreement reached earlier on Sunday

DHAKA: The United Arab Emirates on Sunday welcomed Iran`s deal with six world powers to restrain its nuclear programme.UAE state news agency WAM said, reports The Jerusalem Post.‘The cabinet hopes this would represent a step towards a permanent agreement that preserves the stability of

DHAKA: In what appears to be a gruesome case of corporal punishment, a three-year-old student of a pre-primary school in Saroornagar was allegedly locked in an empty room for more than four hours for three days.The child is believed to be in a state of shock and depression.The parents

DHAKA: The top commander of the so-called Free Syrian Army Riad al-Asaad went missing in Turkey almost 10 days ago, according to Iranian media reports.The report, which surfaced on Iran’s Al-Alam, said the news was announced by the commander’s family.Asaad was reportedly about to have

DHAKA: French lawmakers will next week consider a bill that punishes the clients of prostitutes and has sparked fierce debate in a country with a long history of liberal attitudes to sex.The bill, which the government says is aimed at preventing violence against women, has come under fire

DHAKA: People in the Middle East will lose sleep over a nuclear deal between global powers and Iran, a Saudi foreign policy adviser said on Sunday, signalling the deep unease Sunni Muslim Gulf states have over Western rapprochement with their Shia foe.At the time the adviser spoke, Saudi

DHAKA: Iran struck a historic deal on Sunday with the United States and five other world powers, agreeing to a temporary freeze of its nuclear programme in the most significant agreement between Washington and Tehran after more than three decades of estrangement.The deal commits Iran to

DHAKA: European Union president Herman Van Rompuy on Sunday hailed the ‘courage’ shown by Iran and world powers in their deal to curb Teheran’s nuclear programme, but also urged its ‘punctual’ implementation.‘It is now crucial to ensure punctual implementation of the agreement

DHAKA: The Saudi health ministry on Sunday announced a new Mers death, raising to 55 the number of people killed by the coronavirus in the country with the most fatalities.A 37-year-old Saudi man died in Riyadh, the ministry said on its website, reports The Straits Times.The World Health

DHAKA: Fierce clashes between regime troops and rebels near an opposition stronghold east of Syria’s capital Damascus has killed more than 70 combatants.A monitoring group reported on Sunday, reports daily Hurriyet.Saturday’s fighting in the Eastern Ghouta region killed 28 jihadists

DHAKA: At least two security personnel were killed and five others wounded on Sunday in a bomb attack on a convoy in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal areas.The attack came in the Mir Ali area of Miranshah, the main town in the North Waziristan tribal region, a hub of Taliban and Al-Qaeda

DHAKA: More than 11,000 children have died in Syria’s civil war in nearly three years, including hundreds targeted by snipers, a new report says.Summary executions and torture have also been used against children as young as one, the London-based Oxford Research Group think tank

DHAKA: The Iranian Navy will take delivery of new domestically manufactured warships, hovercrafts, and helicopters next week, the commander of the Navy announced during a press conference held ahead of the National Navy Day, which falls on November 28 this year.Rear Admiral Habibollah

DHAKA: Iranian president Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday the deal reached with six world powers in Geneva ‘recognised Iran’s nuclear rights’ by allowing it to continue to enrich uranium and that Tehran’s enrichment activities would proceed similar to before.He said in a statement in

DHAKA: Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday the deal reached with world powers in Geneva was the basis for further progress, and the prayers of the Iranian nation had contributed towards its success.‘This can be the basis for further intelligent actions,’

DHAKA: Afghanistan’s president Hamid Karzai says he won’t immediately sign a security deal with the United States, ignoring a recommendation by an assembly of Afghan elders and leaders that he do so by the end of the year.Hamid Karzai spoke after the Loya Jirga issued its statement on

DHAKA: Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s government denounced world powers’ nuclear agreement with Iran on Sunday as a ‘bad deal’ that Israel did not regard itself as bound by.‘This is a bad deal,’ an official in Netanyahu’s office said, reports The Jerusalem

DHAKA: Tens of thousands of pro and anti-government demonstrators are due to mass in Bangkok on Sunday as Thailand faces its most significant political street action since bloody rallies in 2010.Authorities expect about 50,000 anti-government protesters will be on the streets by the

DHAKA: A volcano in western Indonesia has erupted eight times in just a few hours, ‘raining down rocks’ over a large area and forcing thousands to flee their homes.Indonesia officials said on Sunday, reports The Straits Times.Mount Sinabung has been erupting on and off since

DHAKA: Rescuers have found more bodies at the scene of oil pipeline blasts in eastern China, bringing the death toll in one of the country`s worst industrial accidents this year to 52.The Qingdao government information office said on its microblog Sunday that four more bodies had been