DHAKA: Iranian president Hassan Rouhani on Thursday said the foreign ministry would lead nuclear negotiations with world powers.Iran’s state news agency IRNA reported, says The Jerusalem Post.Negotiations have previously been conducted by the head of the country’s Supreme National

DHAKA: Thousands of Indonesian workers rallied in Jakarta on Thursday to demand an increase in wages of 50 percent next year, Bloomberg reported. Inflation, which is at a four-year high, has driven up living costs.About 20,000 workers from the Confederation of Indonesian Labour Unions

DHAKA: The driver of a car used in an attempt to blow up Egypt’s interior minister died during the attack on Thursday.A senior security official told the state-run Al-Ahram newspaper, reports The Jerusalem Post.Osama al-Saghir, head of Cairo security, said the minister’s armoured

DHAKA: More than 400 million Chinese are unable to speak the national language Mandarin, and large numbers in the rest of the country speak it badly.China state media said on Thursday, as the government launched another push for linguistic unity, reports The Straits Times.China’s ruling

DHAKA: Iran will support Syria ‘to the end’ in the face of a possible US-led military strike against the regime of Syrian president Bashar Assad as punishment for his alleged use of chemical weapons against civilians.The commander of the Islamic Republic’s Quds Force vowed on

DHAKA: Egypt’s interior minister said a bomb attack on his convoy on Thursday was ‘not the end but the beginning’ of a new wave of terrorism, but that the authorities would win out.Responding to a question on whether the attack marked the start of ‘a new wave of terrorism’,

DHAKA: Pope Francis, in a letter to Russian president Vladimir Putin for the G20 conference, on Thursday urged world leaders to ‘lay aside the futile pursuit of a military solution’ in Syria.‘Rather, let there be a renewed commitment to seek, with courage and determination, a

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama said on Thursday he and Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe shared the view that chemical weapons use in Syria was a violation of international law that must be addressed.Obama and Abe met on the sidelines of a Group of 20 summit in St Petersburg as

DHAKA: Senior Muslim Brotherhood leader Amr Darrag condemned an assassination attempt on Egyptian interior minister Mohamed Ibrahim on Thursday.‘The bombing allegedly targeting the minister of interior today is regrettable and the alliance strongly condemns it,’ Darrag said in a

DHAKA: Highly radioactive water leaking from a storage tank at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant may have seeped into groundwater flowing towards the Pacific Ocean.The plant’s operator said Thursday, reports daily Hurriyet.It is the first time that Tokyo Electric Power

DHAKA: A pint-sized android has uttered the first robotic words in space, showcasing Japan`s drive to combine cutting-edge technology with cuteness.The wide-eyed and bootie-wearing ‘Kirobo’, roughly the size of a Chihuahua, broadcast a message from inside the International Space

DHAKA: A member of the military wing of Hamas was killed in a ‘Jihadist mission’ east of Gaza city on Thursday morning.Palestinian news agency Ma’an reported, says The Jerusalem Post.The Kassam Brigades member was identified by Gaza emergency services as 24-year-old Mohammad Lufi

DHAKA: Egyptian police killed two attackers who were trying to assassinate the interior minister in Cairo on Thursday.Egypt security officials said, reports The Jerusalem Post.Security sources had earlier said his convoy had been targeted by a bomb, but that the minister was unhurt.BDST:

DHAKA: The UN special envoy for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, will hold discussions on the sidelines of a Group of 20 summit to push for an international conference to be held on ending Syria’s civil war.UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon said in a statement that Brahimi was on his way to St

DHAKA: Dozens of people have been injured as more than 130 vehicles were involved in a series of crashes in thick fog on the A249 Sheppey crossing in Kent in England.Eight of those hurt in the collisions, which took place at about 07:15 BST, have serious injuries, reports the BBC.Early

DHAKA: Hezbollah is preparing to defend Damascus from an invasion by the Syrian rebels following a possible US strike, as well as preparing for retaliation against Israel if the situation in the area calls for it.Lebanese sources told Saudi newspaper Okaz on Thursday, reports The

DHAKA: A bomb wounded 11 people, mostly children, when it exploded outside a Pakistani girls’ school on Thursday, a doctor said.The bomb went off at the end of the school day as pupils walked into a street lined with fabric shops in the northwestern town of Bannu, which has been a

DHAKA: A blast near the home of the Egyptian interior minister in Cairo’s Nasr City district injured at least four people, but the minister was not nearby at the time.The cause of the blast, in an area just outside central Cairo, was not immediately clear, the sources said, reports The

DHAKA: Russia is warning that a United States strike on Syria’s atomic facilities might result in a nuclear catastrophe, and is urging the United Nations to present a risk analysis of such a scenario.The warning comes from Russia’s foreign ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich.He

DHAKA: China warned on Thursday that a military strike on Syria would hurt the global economy, in particular by causing oil prices to rise, and reiterated its calls for a political solution to the civil war.‘Military action would have a negative impact on the global economy, especially