DHAKA: A French appeals court ruled on Tuesday that an investigation could proceed into former president Nicolas Sarkozy for allegedly duping L’Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt into donating election campaign funds, a lawyer for her family said.The decision means continued legal

DHAKA: Kenya’s Citizen TV reported on Tuesday that troops had killed ‘six of the remaining attackers’ at a Nairobi shopping mall, but did not give further details and the report was unsourced.‘Security forces killed six of the remaining attackers,’ the channel said in a brief

DHAKA: Lawyers for four men sentenced to death for raping and murdering a young woman on a New Delhi bus challenged the convictions and death sentences at a High Court hearing on Tuesday.The brutal attack in December sparked public debate and fury over chronic sexual violence faced by

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama on Tuesday is expected to signal his willingness to engage with the new Iranian government if Teheran makes nuclear concessions long sought by the US and Western allies.Obama will address the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday morning, reports The

DHAKA: An ex-FBI agent has agreed to plead guilty to leaking information to a reporter about an al-Qaeda bomb plot and to child pornography charges.Donald Sachtleben, 55, is to be sentenced to 12 years in prison.The May 2012 disclosures jeopardised an international intelligence operation

DHAKA: Cambodia’s parliament has approved a new five-year term for long-serving PM Hun Sen, despite a boycott by the opposition over disputed elections.Hun Sen, in power since 1985, is expected to be sworn in on Tuesday.The opposition, who have demanded an independent inquiry into

DHAKA: Kenyan security forces say they have taken control of all floors of the Nairobi shopping centre attacked by suspected al-Shabab militants.The interior ministry said it was "unlikely" any hostages were left in the building.At least 62 people have been killed with more than 170

DHAKA: Iran on Monday was finally taking control of its civilian nuclear reactor at Bushehr, a project begun 37 years ago by West Germany, wracked by setbacks, and finished by Russia.The Islamic republic’s atomic agency chief Ali Akbar Salehi confirmed Russia was handing over the

DHAKA: A bomb exploded near an ambulance taking a pregnant woman to hospital in Iraq on Monday, wounding her and killing two people, the police and a doctor said.The blast near the northern city of Mosul also wounded the ambulance driver and killed a medic and a relative travelling with

DHAKA: The Iranian authorities have pardoned 80 prisoners ahead of president Hassan Rohani’s visit to the United Nations in New York this week.The Iranian media reported on Monday, says The Straits Times.In a tentative sign that hardline policies are starting to soften following

DHAKA: China’s disgraced former politician Bo Xilai is appealing against his sentence, reports say.The former party chief of Chongqing was sentenced to life imprisonment on Sunday. He was found guilty of bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power.The popular politician was removed from

DHAKA: Pussy Riot band member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova declared a hunger strike on Monday to protest at death threats and what she described as conditions of slave labour at her Russian prison camp.In a letter released to the media, she painted a harrowing picture of the Gulag-style

DHAKA: Monsoon rains worsened by Typhoon Usagi pounded the Philippines for the third day on Monday, causing floods and landslides that left 18 people dead and others stranded on rooftops, officials said.The most severely affected area was the province of Zambales, about 80km north-west of

DHAKA: Syrian president Bashar Assad says his government will allow international experts access to its chemical weapons sites but that rebels might block them from reaching some of the locations.In an interview with Chinese state TV broadcast on Monday, Assad said Damascus is dedicated

DHAKA: A court in Egypt has banned ‘all activities’ by the Muslim Brotherhood.The Cairo administrative court said its ruling applied to the Islamist group, its non-governmental organisation and ‘any organisation derived from it’.It also ordered the interim government to seize the

DHAKA: Kenyan security forces are close to ending a Nairobi shopping mall siege, Kenya interior minister Joseph Ole Lenku said on Monday, with Islamist attackers still fighting but left with no way out of the complex.‘We think the operation will come to an end soon,’ Lenku told a

DHAKA: The number of people confirmed to have died as a result of Tropical Storms Manuel and Ingrid in Mexico now stands at 110, the interior minister says.Another 68 are still missing, believed dead, after a landslide destroyed the village of La Pintada in western Guerrero

DHAKA: Egypt is likely to completely rewrite the constitution adopted under Mohammad Mursi.A spokesman for the committee amending it said on Sunday, in a further push to reverse changes introduced under the deposed Islamist president, gulfnews.com publishes this report on Monday.The

DHAKA: An Al-Qaeda group in Syria says one of its top commanders in Syria was killed in an ambush by rival, Western-backed rebels in a northern province.It was the latest in rising infighting among rebel groups in northern Syria, where the opposition controls large parts of territory

DHAKA: United States intelligence leaker Edward Snowden is living under guard at a secret address in Russia and sometimes emerges in disguise, although he remains in such danger that even a family visit could endanger his security.Snowden’s lawyer said Monday, reports The Straits