DHAKA: French foreign minister Laurent Fabius has summoned the US ambassador over newspaper claims that the US spied on millions of phone calls in France.France has labelled such activity between allies as ‘unacceptable’, reports the BBC.Le Monde says the data, based on leaks from

DHAKA: At least 55 people have been killed in a series of suicide explosions in Iraqi cities, with the highest death toll reported at a cafe in a Shia Baghdad neighbourhood.Sunday`s cafe attack killed at least 36 people and wounded 45 others.Police officials said they saw a suicide bomber

DHAKA: An explosion struck a Quetta-bound Jaffar Express on Monday killing four persons and injuring 16 others in Pakistan.The train which departed from Rawalpindi was passing through Dera Murad Jamali district of the restive Balochistan province when the blast occurred causing damage to

DHAKA: Highly radioactive water overflowed barriers into Japan`s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station after its operator Tepco underestimated how much rain would fall and failed to pump it out quickly enough.Tepco has been battling to contain radioactive water at the nuclear complex,

DHAKA: The government is set to give the go-ahead for the UK`s first new nuclear station in a generation.France`s EDF Energy will lead a consortium that includes Chinese investors, to build the Hinkley Point C plant in Somerset.Ministers say the deal will help take the UK towards

DHAKA: Three people, including a girl aged eight, died when gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on a wedding party outside a Coptic Christian church in Cairo.At least nine others were wounded in the attack in Giza, officials said.There was no immediate claim of responsibility.Egypt`s Coptic

DHAKA: The armed men reportedly stopped motorists on the road and ordered them out of their cars before shooting them or hacking them to death.Witnesses told the BBC the men were from Boko Haram, though the Islamist militant group has not yet commented.North-eastern Nigeria is under a

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama is frustrated by the problems in the rollout of his signature health care reform, and the administration intends to fix them, but the programme’s real test will not come until early next year.US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said on Sunday, reports The

DHAKA: Egyptian security forces fired bird shot and tear gas to prevent supporters of deposed Islamist president Mohamed Mursi from marching on Sunday to the site of a protest camp that was destroyed two months ago.The crowd of about 500 people were students from Al-Azhar University, the

DHAKA: Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh left Sunday for a four-day trip to Russia and China aimed at strengthening trade ties and addressing a festering border dispute with Beijing.The prime minister will also look to secure energy, defence and other economic deals in both

DHAKA: Kuwaiti diplomats have denied media reports that Kuwait would supplant Saudi Arabia at the United Nations Security Council.Riyadh last week said that it rejected its rotating Security Council seat hours after winning it, saying that the council was incapable of ending wars and

DHAKA: Hundreds fled their homes on Sunday on a Japanese island already devastated by a typhoon for fear that torrential rain would trigger fresh mudslides.The town of Oshima, 120 kilometres south of Tokyo, advised 2,300 residents in two districts on the island of the same name to

DHAK: Catholic faithful sprinted along the main avenue leading to the Vatican on Sunday in an unusual initiative hailed by Pope Francis as showing that believers were ‘spiritual athletes’.The Vatican organised the event named ‘100 Metres of Running and Faith’, saying it wanted to

DHAKA: The Sydney Opera House, world heritage-listed as ‘one of the indisputable masterpieces of human creativity’, celebrated its 40th birthday Sunday with a flotilla of lifesavers, Aboriginal dancers and a gigantic cupcake.Huge crowds packed the steps for a distinctively Australian

DHAKA: The Obama administration has reportedly made a quite decision to resume military and economic assistance to Pakistan as relations between the two countries have thawed.CNN on Saturday cited a senior administration official as saying, The Jerusalem Post reports.According to the

DHAKA: A suicide bomber driving a truck packed with 1.5 tonnes of explosives killed at least 30 people and wounded dozens in Syria’s central city of Hama on Sunday.The man blew himself up inside the vehicle on a busy road on the outskirts of the city, the state-run SANA news agency

DHAKA: Arab League chief Nabil Al-Araby said on Sunday peace talks aimed at ending the conflict in Syria would take place on November 23 in Geneva.‘I discussed the Syria file with Lakhdar Brahimi and it was decided that the Geneva meeting would take place on November 23 and arrangements

DHAKA: Police say another 10 people have died in hospitals after drinking toxic bootleg liquor in northern India, raising the death toll to 42 in the past three days.District Magistrate Neena Sharma says another 40 people are being treated in hospitals in Uttar Pradesh state, reports The

DHAKA: Iran views the removal of punitive measures on its economy as the sole signifier of progress in talks with world powers on its nuclear issue.    Alaeddin Boroujerdi, Chairman of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission said Saturday, The

DHAKA: Muammar Gaddafi`s former military barracks and compound in Tripoli will be converted into a public park, the Libyan government has announced.Ikram Bash Imam, the country`s tourism minister, said on Saturday that the government has embarked on "preliminary works" in the development