DHAKA: An unidentified gunman has shot and killed Iran`s deputy industries minister, according to state news agency IRNA.Safdar Rahmatabadi, who was also the minister for mines and trade, was shot twice in his head and chest on Sunday in an eastern neighbourhood of Tehran, IRNA

DHAKA: Typhoon Haiyan has made landfall in Vietnam, days after leaving thousands feared dead and widespread devastation in the Philippines, meteorologists confirm.The Vietnamese national weather forecast agency said Haiyan made landfall in northern province of Quang Ninh at 5:00am local

DHAKA: A Twitter account Iran experts believe is run by the office of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei criticised France on Sunday after Paris expressed reservations about a proposed deal to end a decade-old dispute over Tehran`s nuclear programme.A message posted in English on the

DHAKA: Palestine president Mahmoud Abbas met with Egypt’s intelligence chief Mohamed al-Tohami on Saturday in Cairo.Palestinian news agency WAFA reported, The Jerusalem Post publishes this report on Sunday.Abbas and Tohami discussed the situation in the Palestinian territories, Israeli

DHAKA: A Russian opposition group says its activists have thrown tomatoes at Dutch King Willem-Alexander and his wife, Queen Maxima, as they arrived for a concert in Moscow.Eduard Limonov, the leader of the banned National Bolshevik party, said two of its activists hurled tomatoes at the

DHAKA: Syria’s opposition is edging towards agreeing to international peace talks in Geneva but wants approval from fighters inside the country first to give the process more legitimacy.Sources at talks in Istanbul said late November 9, Turkish daily Hurriyet publishes this report on

DHAKA: Officials say they have banned teenage education activist Malala Yousafzai’s book from private schools across Pakistan, calling her a tool of the West.Malala attracted global attention last year when the Taleban shot her in the head in north-west Pakistan for criticising the

DHAKA: A Syrian lawmaker who was kidnapped by opposition jihadist fighters earlier this year has been executed.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said on Sunday, reports The Straits Times.A parliamentary source in Damascus, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed that

DHAKA: Thousands of Thai pro-government ‘red shirts’ massed in Bangkok on Sunday in their first show of force since a wave of opposition protests against a controversial political amnesty Bill.Television footage showed a sea of people decked out in red, many bussed in from the

DHAKA: More than 600,000 people were evacuated as super typhoon ‘Haiyan’ veered towards Vietnam, authorities said on Sunday, after the storm smashed through the Philippines killing thousands and causing widespread devastation.‘We have evacuated more than 174,000 households, which is

DHAKA: Britain’s foreign secretary William Hague said on Sunday that talks on Iran’s nuclear programme could reach a deal within the next few weeks, despite the failure of negotiations in Geneva.‘On the question of will it happen in the next few weeks, there is a good chance of

DHAKA: Saudi health authorities announced on Sunday a new death caused by the Middle East respiratory syndrome (Mers) coronavirus, bringing to 53 the number of fatalities in the kingdom from it.The Health Ministry gave no details on the latest death in the country most affected by the

DHAKA: Iran inaugurated the production line of a new domestically manufactured missile, named the ‘Sayyad-2’, during a ceremony in Tehran on Saturday.The ‘Sayyad-2’ is a medium-range missile which is capable of destroying various types of helicopters, drones, and other targets at

DHAKA: Indian PM Manmohan Singh will boycott this week’s Commonwealth summit in Colombo, officials say, amid a row over Sri Lanka’s human rights record.Indian media said Manmohan had written to Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa to say he will be represented by his foreign

DHAKA: International Atomic Energy Agency director general Yukiya Amano will hold talks with senior Iranian officials in Tehran on Monday with the aim of ‘strengthening dialogue and cooperation’, the agency said.It was announced in Vienna as Iran and six world powers, in broader

DHAKA: Iran’s president Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday that its ‘rights to enrichment’ of uranium were ‘red lines’ that would not be crossed and that the Islamic Republic had acted rationally and tactfully during nuclear negotiations, Iranian media reported.‘For us there are

DHAKA: Belgium raised the standing of the Palestinian diplomatic delegation in Brussels from ‘general delegation’ to ‘mission’ status.‘The raising (of status) reflects Belgian and European support for the two-state solution,’ Belgian foreign minister Didier Reynders said in a

DHAKA: US state secretary John Kerry said on Sunday that world powers had moved closer towards a deal during negotiations with Iran on reining in Teheran’s nuclear programme and that ‘with good work’ the goal could be reached.Kerry made the statement at a news conference after a

DHAKA: Clashes among foreign workers, Saudi residents and security forces in a Riyadh neighbourhood killed two people and wounded 68 as Saudi Arabia pushes a tough countrywide crackdown on improperly documented foreign labourers.Riyadh police said early Sunday, reports gulfnews.com.Police

DHAKA: Former Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed has won a bitterly-contested presidential elections, but has failed to secure an outright majority to avoid a run-off, official results showed.Nasheed received 45.08 percent of the popular vote and is set for a run-off with Abdulla Yameen,