DHAKA: Iraq has said that any deployment of foreign troops on its soil cannot happen without approval of its government.The Iraqi prime minister’s comments came in response to the earlier announcement by Ashton Carter, the US defense secretary, that the US will deploy ‘specialized’

DHAKA: Myanmar's democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi began talks with the nation's army-backed president on the handover of power Wednesday nearly a month after her opposition party cleaned up at the polls.Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party won nearly 80 percent of contested

DHAKA: British MPs will decide later whether to back UK air strikes in Syria against militants from so-called Islamic State.A 10-hour House of Commons debate will culminate in a vote on whether the UK should join the US, France, Russia and others bombing targets in Raqqa, the group's

DHAKA: Flights to and out of Chennai have been cancelled for the day and the airport is shut with water on the runway as the city battles heavy rain of the kind not seen in almost a 100 years. No flights have taken off from or landed in Chennai since 8:30 pm on Tuesday. About 4,000 people

DHAKA: The Lebanese army and Syria’s al-Nusra Front have conducted a long-awaited prisoner swap outside Lebanon’s border town of Arsal, where a group of Lebanese soldiers were kidnapped last year.The deal, brokered by Qatari mediators, entailed the release by al-Nusra Front of 16

DHAKA: India’s government has rejected claims by a group of lawyers that the Taj Mahal monument was a Hindu temple.India culture minister Mahesh Sharma said the government had not found any evidence to support the claim, reports the BBC.The lawyers filed a petition in a court last year

DHAKA: A total of 888 Iraqis were killed and 1,237 others wounded in acts of terrorism, violence and armed conflict in November across Iraq.The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) said in a statement on Tuesday, reports Xinhua.The statement said that a total of 489

DHAKA: Two bombings in different parts of Iraq’s capital Baghdad have struck groups of Shia Muslims taking part in an annual religious pilgrimage, killing at least 15 people and injuring 38 others.Al Jazeera publishes this report on Tuesday.One of the attacks on Monday hit a checkpoint

DHAKA: Roch Marc Christian Kabore has been elected Burkina Faso’s new leader, the second civilian to become president since the West African country won independence in 1960, according to preliminary results released by the country’s electoral commission.The Independent National

DHAKA: Pope Francis has told worshippers in a mosque in the Central African Republic that ‘Christians and Muslims are brothers and sisters’.He was speaking to Muslims who had sought shelter in the capital Bangui after nearly three years of violence between Christians and Muslims.The

DHAKA: High-level climate talks have begun in Paris with the goal of signing a long-term deal to reduce global carbon emissions.More than 150 world leaders have converged to launch the two-week talks.Peruvian Environment Minister Manuel Pulgar Vidal declared this year’s meeting

DHAKA: The Saudi corporation behind plans for the world's tallest building says it has secured financing to complete the record-breaking project.Kingdom Holding, chaired by Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, said on Sunday that its affiliate, Jeddah Economic Company, had reached a more than

DHAKA: Police have fired tear gas and used pepper spray to disperse a group of anti-global warming activists who marched in Paris in defiance of a recent ban on public demonstrations, a day before the start of a key UN summit on climate change in France’s capital.The tough response by

DHAKA: Israel has said it is suspending contact with EU officials involved in peace efforts with the Palestinians.The move follows the bloc's decision to label goods from Jewish settlements in the West Bank, reports the bbc.comPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "ordered suspension of

DHAKA: A critical UN conference aimed at agreeing a new global approach to climate change is set to open in Paris.The meeting, known as COP21, will see negotiators from 195 countries attempt to finalise a new treaty over the next two weeks, reports the BBC.Political leaders from 147

DHAKA: World leaders are ‘quite close’ to reaching a deal to fight climate change when they meet in Paris from Monday, Latvian President Raimonds Vejonis, Europe’s first Green party head of state, said, adding any deal should be legally binding.Vejonis urged participants at the UN

DHAKA: Russia has announced a package of economic sanctions against Turkey over the shooting down of a Russian jet on the Syrian border on Tuesday.A decree signed by President Vladimir Putin (in Russian) covers imports from Turkey, the work of Turkish companies in Russia and any Turkish

DHAKA: Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan voiced ‘sadness’ on Saturday over the downing of a Russian fighter jet by Turkish forces, saying he wished it had not happened.Addressing supporters, Erdogan again defended Turkey’s action and criticized Russia for its moves in Syria

DHAKA: The aunt of a Syrian boy whose lifeless body was photographed on a Turkish beach, sparking worldwide outrage at the refugee crisis, said she hopes her family members will be in Canada by Christmas.Tima Kurdi said on Friday that Canada has approved her application to bring her

DHAKA: Three people have died after a man traded gunfire with police from inside a birth control clinic in the US city of Colorado Springs, police say.One police officer and two civilians were killed, Mayor John Suthers said. Several other people were injured, reports the BBC.A male