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

DHAKA: Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said a deal struck with world powers on Sunday had recognised Iran’s nuclear programme and in a final ‘step’ all sanctions on the Islamic republic would be lifted.Speaking on Iran’s Press TV, Zarif said the deal was an

DHAKA: A meeting of Afghan elders is expected to back a security pact letting thousands of US troops remain after combat operations end in 2014.Sources said more than 75% favour a deal being signed this year, contrary to what president Hamid Karzai wants.He told the opening session of the

DHAKA: A historic deal was struck early Sunday between Iran and six world powers over Tehran`s nuclear program that slows the country`s nuclear development program in exchange for lifting some sanctions while a more formal agreement is worked out.The agreement -- described as an "initial,

DHAKA: A string of government airstrikes on rebel-held areas in northern Syria on Saturday killed at least 44 people, activists said, as Al-Qaeda-linked rebels captured one of the country`s oil field in the east.Mr Rami Abdurrahman, the director of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for

DHAKA: Iran and six world powers meeting in Geneva have reached a deal on Tehran`s nuclear programme, foreign ministers say.No details have been released about the agreement, which has been reached after five days of negotiations.Negotiators from the UK, US, Russia, China, France and

DHAKA: A suicide bomber who attacked Iran’s Embassy in Beirut has been identified through DNA tests on his father.A Lebanese judge said on Saturday, after the man came forward when photos of suspects were published.The test on Adnan Abu Dahr showed that human remains at the scene of the

DHAKA: The Queen’s representative in Australia has reportedly become the first serving governor-general to publicly back the country becoming a republic.Quentin Bryce, 70, made the comments during a speech in Sydney in which she outlined a future vision for Australia.‘Perhaps one day,

DHAKA: Egypt has detained 39 people, including a US citizen, accused of torching a tram during a protest against the overthrow of Islamist president Mohammad Mursi.Egypt’s judicial sources said on Saturday, reports gulfnews.com.The accused, who were placed in 15-day preventive

DHAKA: Air strikes around the northern Syrian city of Aleppo killed at least 40 people on Saturday, most of them civilians.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, reports The Jerusalem Post.The pro-opposition monitoring group said there were at least six strikes on the outskirts of

DHAKA: Talks to lay the foundations for a new UN climate pact due in 2015 were deadlocked as they ran into overtime on Saturday, with nations at odds over stepping up finance for developing countries to ease the impact of global warming.The Warsaw meeting, which had been due to end on

DHAKA: Thousands of demonstrators protesting US drone strikes on Saturday blocked a main road in Peshawar used to truck Nato troop supplies and equipment in and out of Afghanistan.The protest was led by cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan and his party, the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf

DHAKA: Turkey declared Egypt’s ambassador ‘persona non grata’ and downgraded diplomatic relations to the level of charge d’affaires on Saturday, in a tit-for-tat move after Cairo expelled its envoy.Turkey’s foreign ministry said in a statement, reports The Straits Times.The

DHAKA: Syrian activists say two government airstrikes have killed at least 29 people in the north.Rami Abdurrahman, the director of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, says military warplanes targeted rebel positions in an opposition-held district of Aleppo city midday