DHAKA: Dubai’s ruler has urged the international community to ease sanctions against Iran, in an interview broadcast by the BBC on Monday.Asked whether he thought it was now time to lift sanctions against Iran, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, who is also the prime minister of the

DHAKA: Israel’s former prime minister Ariel Sharon was laid to rest near his Sycamore Ranch in the Negev on Anemone Hill in a military burial Monday afternoon.The ceremony attracted thousands of mourners from across the political spectrum, reports The Jerusalem Post.Following the

DHAKA: US state secretary John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Monday called for ‘localised ceasefires’ in Syria ahead of peace talks later this month in Switzerland.Lavrov and UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi also said Iran should take part in the talks,

DHAKA: World powers and Iran will ‘very likely’ resume negotiations on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear ambitions in February, shortly after an interim, six-month deal restricting its atomic work goes into effect.A diplomatic source told media on Monday, reports The Straits Times.The

DHAKA: Hundreds of Israeli VIPs and foreign dignitaries have attended the memorial service of former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon.Monday’s state ceremony remembered the controversial Sharon as a fearless warrior and bold leader who devoted his life to protecting his country`s

DHAKA: Syrian state media and anti-government activists say a mortar attack has killed at least 19 people in the central city of Homs.The official Sana news agency said late on Sunday that the mortar rounds slammed into the pro-government Ghouta and Karm Al Shami neighbourhoods of Homs,

DHAKA: The prime minister of the United Arab Emirates, a major financial backer of Egypt after the downfall of Islamist president Mohamed Mursi, said the Egyptian army chief was better off staying in the military instead of running for president.General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who deposed

DHAKA: A Saudi court has sentenced to death an Al-Qaeda militant and jailed 10 others over a May 2004 attack that killed six Westerners and a policeman.Saudi state media reported, says TDS.The defendants, seven of whom are brothers, were convicted of aiding assailants who attacked a US

DHAKA: Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra has invited leaders of anti-government protesters and political parties to discuss an Election Commission proposal to push back the date of the snap election she called from February 2.A senior aide said on Monday, reports The Straits

DHAKA: Protesters began blocking roads in parts of the Thai capital, Bangkok, in a bid to oust the government before snap elections on 2 February.The protesters are building barricades and occupying key road junctions.The government has deployed 18,000 security personnel to maintain

DHAKA: At least 13 people killed and 30 injured in two separate blasts in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, while battles continue in the western province of Anbar against al-Qaeda-linked gunmen who have captured two major cities.A car bomb near a bus terminal in central Baghdad detonated on

DHAKA: The civil war in Syria has grown especially brutal in the last nine days, resulting in the death of at least 700 and the disappearance of hundreds more.Media reported on Sunday, citing the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, says The Jerusalem Post.‘From January 3 to 11, the

DHAKA: Syrian president Bashar Assad will meet with Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Damascus on Wednesday.Lebanese newspaper A-Safir reported Sunday, according to Iranian news agency Fars, says the Jerusalem Post.Far quoted Iranian diplomatic sources as saying Zarif was

DHAKA: The Taliban attacked an Afghan army base in the country’s eastern Kunar province early on Sunday, killing 19 soldiers and kidnapping seven.The spokesman for the provincial governor said, reports The Straits Times.The spokesman, Abdul Ghani Musamem, said the attack occurred in the

DHAKA: A suicide bomber has killed two Lebanese soldiers and a civilian with a car bomb near an army checkpoint in northeast Lebanese city of Hermel, security sources have said.The latest bombing, in a country destabilised by the civil war in neighbouring Syria, was the third such attack

DHAKA: The UN Security Council has unanimously approved a resolution on access to humanitarian aid in Syria - the first time it has united on the issue.The resolution says both Syrian government and opposition forces must allow aid convoys to reach civilians across the country.The agreed

DHAKA: BJP`s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi said Hindu migrants from Bangladesh must be accommodated in the country and detention camps would be done away with once his party comes to power."As soon as we come to power at the Centre, detention camps housing Hindu migrants from

DHAKA: Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has been hailed by thousands of opposition supporters in central Kiev after being freed from detention.She has suffered from a back injury and addressed them from her wheelchair."You are heroes," she told the crowd on Independence

DHAKA: Two Bangladeshi expatriates were killed in an encounter between two rebel groups in Bengazi of Libya on Friday afternoon.The deceased were identified as Shafiqur Rahman, 33, of Pirojpur district and Abul Kalam, 32 of Barguna district.Director of Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare

DHAKA: Egypt’s deposed Islamist president Mohamed Mursi called on his followers on Saturday to continue their ‘peaceful revolution’, during his trial on charges related to jailbreaks and attacks on police.Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood still stages diminishing weekly protests despite