DHAKA: Syria’s state TV is reporting that troops have captured a town near the Lebanon border, days after launching a wide offensive to regain the mountainous region.There is no immediate confirmation of the reported capture of Qara from rebels or pro-rebel activists, reports TDS.TV

DHAKA: US defence secretary Chuck Hagel told the Turkish foreign minister on Monday the United States would keep its two Patriot missile batteries in Turkey for up to another year, the Pentagon said.The expected decision follows backing last week by NATO allies for the extension, which

DHAKA: Two suspected suicide bombers, one driving a rigged car and the other on a motorcycle, attacked the Iranian embassy in Beirut Tuesday, killing at least 25 people and wounding more than 150.Lebanese security sources said, reports TDS.The sources told TDS that preliminary information

DHAKA: The US National Security Agency logged more than 33 million Norwegian phone conversations over a period of a month last winter, a newspaper said on Tuesday in the first such report involving Norway, a Nato ally.The report in the Dagbladet daily was based on documents made public by

DHAKA: A bus plunged into a ravine while travelling on Indonesia`s resort island of Bali, killing seven people including five Chinese tourists, police said on Tuesday.Eight people survived the accident, which occurred on a winding slope near the Pecatu resort area in southern Bali,

DHAKA: Two explosions targeting the Iranian embassy have hit the Lebanese capital Beirut, security sources said, killing up to 23 people, injuring at least 146 and damaging buildings in the embassy compound.Lebanese sources told Al Jazeera that the Iranian ambassador is safe, but the

DHAKA: Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono believes the Australian prime minister’s latest statement over reports that Australian spies tapped his phone was ‘regrettable’.Yudhoyono’s spokesman said on Tuesday, reports The Straits Times.Australian prime minister Tony

DHAKA: Spanish police said on Tuesday that they had seized 10 million euros, one of their biggest cash finds ever, and 452 kilogrammes of cocaine in raids on a drug gang.Officers also arrested five suspected traffickers in raids in the eastern city of Valencia and the capital Madrid, a

DHAKA: Two explosions ripped through the vicinity of the Iranian Embassy in Beirut Tuesday morning, killing at least 10 people and wounding scores more, security sources said.The sources told TDS the blasts, only minutes apart, blew up only meters away from the Iranian Embassy in the

DHAKA: US state secretary John Kerry rebuffed statements made by Israel prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu that a deal with Iran over its nuclear programme would jeopardise Israel security interests.Kerry, in a press conference with his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu, said nuclear

DHAKA: Qatar pledged to ensure respect for labourers’ rights after Amnesty International urged the state to end the ‘alarming’ abuse of migrants working on football World Cup infrastructure.A 169-page Amnesty report called on world football governing body Fifa to press Qatar to

DHAKA: The death toll from flooding caused by heavy rains in central Vietnam has risen to 41, with about 80,000 people forced from their homes.Vietnam disaster officials said on Tuesday, reports The Straits Times.The National Floods and Storms Control Agency said in a statement that the

DHAKA: Palestine`s delegation to the United Nations has cast a ballot for the first time in a routine General Assembly vote, an act the envoy said brought his nation a step closer to full UN membership.The chief Palestinian UN observer, Riyad Mansour, participated in the 193-nation

DHAKA: Voting in Nepal`s Constituent Assembly election has been slightly disrupted, after a small roadside bomb exploded 50 metres away from a polling booth in Kathmandu.The attack has stoked fears that some left-wing groups would not allow the vote to go forward.Voting began on Tuesday

DHAKA: Two separate roadside bombs in southeastern Afghanistan have killed nine children - including seven from the same family, officials have said.On Monday, a roadside bomb killed seven children from the same family in Afghanistan`s Paktika province, said the governor`s spokesman

DHAKA: Floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains in central Vietnam have killed at least 34 people, left 11 others missing and displaced more than 80,000 from their homes, disaster officials said.Television footage on Sunday showed inundated houses and streets in the town of Hoi An

DHAKA: Eight people have died as tornadoes and heavy storms ripped across several American states, destroying hundreds of homes and flattening large parts of one town.About 80 tornado reports were received during Sunday and Monday, along with 358 reports of damaging winds and 40 reports

DHAKA: United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said on Monday he expected a long-delayed peace conference on Syria’s bloody conflict will be held in ‘mid-December’ with a specific date to be set next week.‘I am not able to announce at this time any date. Our target is

DHAKA: Former US president Bill Clinton hopes there will be a woman in the White House in his lifetime.He told a Chinese audience on Monday, reports The Straits Times.His wife Hillary, who earlier this year stepped down as US state secretary, has not yet said, whether she plans another

DHAKA: French president Francois Hollande was meeting the Palestinian leadership on Monday to discuss the faltering Middle East peace process after a day of talks in Israel focused heavily on Iran.After being warmly received in Jerusalem following France’s strong stance in world talks