DHAKA: A Taiwan official visiting China on Wednesday urged more efforts to build stable relations, a day after the two sides held their first government-to-government talks since splitting 65 years ago.Taiwan’s top official overseeing China policy, Wang Yu-chi, visited the tomb of

DHAKA: It appears prospects for an Israeli-Turkish rapprochement are once again growing more distant.During a news conference held on Tuesday, Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, reiterated his government’s position that any reconciliation between Ankara and Jerusalem would

DHAKA: Gunmen tossed hand grenades into the house of a slain Pakistani police officer on Wednesday, police said, killing nine men in an attack coinciding with peace talks between the government and Pakistan Taliban militants.There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the early

DHAKA: Peace talks between the Syrian government and opposition are not making much progress, the international mediator has acknowledged after a face-to-face meeting of the rival parties in Geneva.Negotiations intended to end Syria`s three-year-old civil war began with a week-long

DHAKA: At least six people have been killed in avalanches recently in the West, as the risk of snow slides remains high.Two people were killed in each of three states: Oregon, Utah and Colorado.In Oregon, two cross-country skiers were killed Tuesday in an avalanche about 10 miles

DHAKA: Officials from North and South Korea have begun their first high-level talks since 2007.The meeting - requested by Pyongyang - is taking place at the border village of Panmunjom.No agenda has been set but the issue of family reunions planned for later this month is expected to be

DHAKA: Algeria has begun three days of national mourning for the dozens of people killed in a military passenger plane crash in the north-east of the country.Just one person survived when the Hercules C-130 crashed into a mountain in Oum al-Bouaghi province, en route to Constantine, in

DHAKA: An Algerian military transport plane has crashed in the north-east of the country, killing more than 100 people.Algerian media say, reports the BBC.The plane crashed in a mountainous area in Oum al-Bouaghi province, said private TV station Ennahar.Its source said that contact was

DHAKA: Three back-to-back explosions occurred inside Shama Cinema in Pakistan’s Peshawar on Tuesday, killing 11 people and leaving at least 19 others injured.According to DawnNews, multiple explosions occurred when a show was ongoing in the cinema. Approximately 70 people were watching

DHAKA:Sushil Koirala was sworn in as Nepal’s prime minister on Tuesday, after winning the backing of fellow legislators and tasked with steering the strife-torn Himalayan nation towards stability.Koirala, head of the country’s biggest political party the Nepali Congress, took his oath

DHAKA: Iranian president Hassan Rouhani hit out on Tuesday at Western assertions that a military solution to a nuclear dispute with Tehran remained an option and pledged that Tehran would press on ‘forever’ with what he called peaceful atomic research.In a speech marking the 35th

DHAKA: Indian leaders are set later on Tuesday to celebrate the eradication of polio, marking one of the country’s biggest public health success stories that was once thought impossible to achieve.President Pranab Mukherjee, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as well as the health minister

DHAKA: Suspected militants blew up a pipeline that transports gas to an industrial area in Egypt’s Sinai on Tuesday, the fourth such attack this year.Egypt’s security officials said, reports The Straits Times.Attacks in the Sinai peninsula, namely against soldiers and policemen but

DHAKA: Kyairiel Mikhail is just 13 months old but is already heavier than his three-year-old sister and five-year-old brother.He was born 2.7kg, within the normal range.Now, the one-year-old weighs 17.6kg, after losing 0.5kg in the past few weeks.‘Doctors have carried out a series of

DHAKA: French President Francois Hollande has arrived in the US for a state visit, as he and President Barack Obama tout their co-operation on issues from Iran to trade and climate change.In articles published jointly in US and French newspapers, they said "our deepening partnership

DHAKA: China and Taiwan are about to begin the highest-level talks since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949.Wang Yu-chi and Zhang Zhijun, the top cross-strait officials from each side, will meet at the four-day talks in Nanjing, reports BBC.Taiwanese officials said they would raise

DHAKA: The second round of Syria peace talks has got off to a stormy start against a backdrop of continued rescue of civilians from the beseiged city of Homs.Members of Syria`s government and opposition delegations blamed each other in Geneva on Monday for mortar attacks on convoys

DHAKA: An overloaded passenger boat has capsized in a river in eastern India, leaving 29 people confirmed dead as rescuers searched for others feared missing.An Indian official said on Monday, reports The Straits Times.Scuba divers aided by rescue helicopters pulled dozens of people from

DHAKA: A presidential panel has agreed to transform Yemen into a six-region federation as part of its political transition.State news agency Saba reported, says Al Jazeera.The final approval on creating a ‘federal state of six regions’ came at a meeting of a committee, headed by

DHAKA: Thai police on Monday arrested an anti-government protest leader, their first such move after months of defiant rallies in Bangkok aimed at ousting Yingluck Shinawatra’s beleaguered government.Protest leaders have flouted arrest warrants and an emergency decree to deliver caustic