DHAKA: Turkey president Abdullah Gül has said that any military action targeting Syria would be fruitless without the development of a political strategy, stressing the importance of diplomacy with Russia and Iran.‘I don’t believe any military intervention will bring results without

DHAKA: Russian president Vladimir Putin has challenged the US to present to the UN evidence that Syria was responsible for chemical weapons attacks.Putin said it would be ‘utter nonsense’ for Syria’s government to provoke opponents with such attacks when it was in a position of

DHAKA: A team of United Nations inspectors crossed into Lebanon from Syria Saturday after completing their probe into a suspected chemical weapons attack near Damascus.The inspectors crossed the border in a convoy of UN vehicles at 7:40am local time escorted by Lebanese security

DHAKA: UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay has sharply criticised the government of Sri Lanka, at the end of a week-long visit.In a statement, Pillay said she feared the country was becoming increasingly authoritarian, reports the BBC.Since the civil war ended four years ago,

DHAKA: The United States wants to use Philippine bases for extended periods of up to 20 years, a Manila official said on Saturday as the two sides are in talks on a wider US military footprint in Asia.The negotiations aim to allow more US troops, ships, aircraft and other equipment to

DHAKA: An Indian court found a teenager guilty on Saturday over the fatal gang-rape of a student in New Delhi, a crime that sparked revulsion and angry protests in the country, an official said.The juveniles’ court sentenced the teenager to three years in a correctional facility after

DHAKA: With debate raging over the proper response to president Bashar Assad’s purported use of chemical weapons against innocent civilians near Damascus 10 days ago, a US-led assault on Syria is just hours away.Arab media sources said over the weekend, reports The Jerusalem

DHAKA: South Africa’s presidency on Saturday denied reports that former president Nelson Mandela had been discharged from hospital and had returned to his Johannesburg home.Mac Maharaj said he had received no word from doctors about Mandela being released, as reported by the BBC and

DHAKA: A woman in eastern China murdered her husband and boiled the corpse to cover her tracks after he abused her and her daughter.The woman drugged the man, her second husband, and tortured him for three days in June by withholding food and water and beating him, causing his death, said

DHAKA: A teenager has been found guilty of taking part in the fatal gang rape of a woman on a Delhi bus last year, his lawyer says.He has been convicted on charges of rape and murder over the crime, committed when he was aged 17.The teenager, who cannot be named, faces up to three years

DHAKA: Reports that former South African President Nelson Mandela has been discharged from hospital are incorrect, South Africa`s presidency says.The BBC and other news outlets reported earlier that Mr. Mandela had returned to his Johannesburg home.The presidency said in a statement that

DHAKA: Reports that former South African President Nelson Mandela has been discharged from hospital are incorrect, South Africa`s presidency says.The BBC and other news outlets reported earlier that Mr. Mandela had returned to his Johannesburg home.The presidency said in a statement that

DHAKA: A sixth US warship is now operating in the eastern Mediterranean, near five US destroyers armed with cruise missiles that could soon be directed against Syria as part of a "limited, precise" strike, defense officials said late on Friday.They stressed that the USS San Antonio, an

DHAKA: UN chemical weapons inspectors, in Syria to probe an alleged poison gas attack that killed hundreds, have left Damascus for Beirut, having completed four days of site visits and evidence-gathering, witnesses and officials say.The experts departed their hotel in the Syrian capital

DHAKA: A 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck Saturday morning in southwestern China, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.Officials reported one death and three people injured as emergency teams began to respond, state-run Xinhua News Agency said.The quake -- with a depth of 10 kilometers

DHAKA: Over 8,000 Indians have so far signed up for the one-way trip to Mars and settle down on the red planet, as `Mars One` project plans to establish a colony there in the next 10 years.`Mars One`, a not-for-profit foundation intends to establish a permanent human settlement on Mars in

DHAKA: The first verdict in the gang-rape of a student on a moving bus in Delhi in December is expected to be delivered today by a juvenile court.The fatal attack on the 23-year-old physiotherapy intern provoked national outrage and impelled an overhaul of archaic laws to punish sexual

DHAKA: President Barack Obama has said the US is considering a "limited narrow act" in response to the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Syrian army.Mr Obama stressed that no "final decision" had been made, but ruled out putting American "boots on the ground".Citing a US intelligence

DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry has accused Syrian government forces of killing 1,429 people in a chemical weapons attack in Damascus last week.Mr Kerry said the dead included 426 children, and described the attack as an "inconceivable horror".President Barack Obama later said the

DHAKA: Buddhists are killing Muslims in Myanmar with impunity because the government failed to stop the attacks, New York-based Physicians for Human Rights reported amid fresh assaults that left more Muslims homeless.During the past year, scattered clashes across Buddhist-majority