DHAKA: Palestine`s delegation to the United Nations has cast a ballot for the first time in a routine General Assembly vote, an act the envoy said brought his nation a step closer to full UN membership.The chief Palestinian UN observer, Riyad Mansour, participated in the 193-nation

DHAKA: Voting in Nepal`s Constituent Assembly election has been slightly disrupted, after a small roadside bomb exploded 50 metres away from a polling booth in Kathmandu.The attack has stoked fears that some left-wing groups would not allow the vote to go forward.Voting began on Tuesday

DHAKA: Two separate roadside bombs in southeastern Afghanistan have killed nine children - including seven from the same family, officials have said.On Monday, a roadside bomb killed seven children from the same family in Afghanistan`s Paktika province, said the governor`s spokesman

DHAKA: Floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains in central Vietnam have killed at least 34 people, left 11 others missing and displaced more than 80,000 from their homes, disaster officials said.Television footage on Sunday showed inundated houses and streets in the town of Hoi An

DHAKA: Eight people have died as tornadoes and heavy storms ripped across several American states, destroying hundreds of homes and flattening large parts of one town.About 80 tornado reports were received during Sunday and Monday, along with 358 reports of damaging winds and 40 reports

DHAKA: United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said on Monday he expected a long-delayed peace conference on Syria’s bloody conflict will be held in ‘mid-December’ with a specific date to be set next week.‘I am not able to announce at this time any date. Our target is

DHAKA: Former US president Bill Clinton hopes there will be a woman in the White House in his lifetime.He told a Chinese audience on Monday, reports The Straits Times.His wife Hillary, who earlier this year stepped down as US state secretary, has not yet said, whether she plans another

DHAKA: French president Francois Hollande was meeting the Palestinian leadership on Monday to discuss the faltering Middle East peace process after a day of talks in Israel focused heavily on Iran.After being warmly received in Jerusalem following France’s strong stance in world talks

DHAKA: A Syrian government delegation met Russian officials on Monday to discuss plans for an international peace conference on the conflict in the Middle East nation.The United States, Russia and the United Nations are trying to convene the conference in Geneva to try to end the civil

DHAKA: Up to 12,000 Afghan Taliban fighters have been killed, wounded or captured this year, according to a United Nations report, which said violence in the wartorn nation was at a three-year high.US-led Nato forces are to withdraw the bulk of their 75,000 troops from Afghanistan by the

DHAKA: Russian officials say the 94-year-old designer of the AK-47 assault rifle has been hospitalised.The health department of the province of Udmurtia said in Monday’s statement carried by the Interfax news agency that Mikhail Kalashnikov is in an emergency unit, reports The Straits

DHAKA: Two volcanoes have erupted in Indonesia, prompting warnings for flights and evacuation preparations.State volcanologist Surono said Mount Sinabung in North Sumatra province unleashed volcanic ash as high as 8,000 meters, the highest of its eruptions in recent days.The 2,600-meter

DHAKA: Qatar’s construction industry is rife with abuse of migrant workers who are ‘treated like cattle’ and live in squalid accommodations.Amnesty International said on Sunday while calling on world soccer`s governing body to help with the situation, The Jerusalem Post publishes

DHAKA: An Egyptian police officer was shot dead in Cairo on Sunday by unknown assailants, the interior ministry said in a statement, three days after a three-month curfew and state of emergency were lifted.Officer Mohamad Mabruk, in charge of following up on the Muslim Brotherhood in the

DHAKA: Britain’s Prince Harry was due to arrive in South Africa on Monday as he makes his way to Antarctica for a gruelling trek to the South Pole.The royal is taking part in a 335km race between three teams of four wounded military personnel, representing Britain, the United States and

DHAKA: A prominent Syrian rebel leader has died from wounds suffered in an air raid on the city of Aleppo, in a blow to the armed opposition to president Bashar Assad.Activists said on Monday, reports The Jerusalem Post.Abdelqader Saleh, head of the Islamist al-Tawhid Brigades, which is

DHAKA: A passenger plane crashed at an airport in the Russian city of Kazan, killing all 50 people on board.The Boeing 737 had taken off from Moscow and was trying to land but exploded on impact at about 19:20 local time (15:20 GMT), officials said.The Emergencies Ministry said there were

DHAKA: A cargo train traveling south of Egypt`s capital slammed into vehicles crossing the tracks early Monday, killing at least 24 people, many from the same family returning from a wedding party.Ahmed el-Ansari, the emergency services chief, told The Associated Press the identities of

DHAKA: British Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing has died aged 94.Her best-known works include The Golden Notebook, Memoirs of a Survivor and The Summer Before the Dark.She became the oldest winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature when in 2007 she won the award for her life`s work

DHAKA: Pakistan announced on Sunday it would put former military ruler, General Pervez Musharraf, on trial for treason, punishable by death or life imprisonment, for imposing emergency rule in 2007.‘Following the judgement of the Supreme Court and a report submitted by an inquiry