DHAKA: The family of deposed Islamist president Mohamed Mursi said he would not enter any negotiations or accept any compromises following a crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood by military-backed authorities.Mursi, Egypt’s first freely elected president, was ousted by the military on

DHAKA: US state secretary John Kerry said in London on Sunday that ‘the window for diplomacy (with Iran) is cracking open’, in comments via satellite to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee summit in California.‘But I want you to know that our eyes are open, too. While we

DHAKA: The head of the team tasked with destroying Syria’s chemical weapons says he is concerned about accessing some sites in rebel-controlled areas.Ahmet Uzumcu, of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, renewed calls for both sides in the conflict to support his

DHAKA: Moscow police were holding almost 400 people under arrest after the Russian capital was rocked by some of its worst ethnically-fuelled rioting in years, sparked by the killing of an ethnic Russian allegedly by a Muslim migrant from the Caucasus.An initially peaceful protest in the

DHAKA: The death toll from a stampede at a Hindu festival in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh has risen to 109.Local officials have said, reports the BBC.Many were crushed after panic broke out on a bridge near the Ratangarh temple near the town of Datia. Others died when they

DHAKA: Visa applications for Chinese visitors entering the UK will be simplified, Chancellor George Osborne has announced.He wants to make it easier for Chinese visitors to the EU to visit the UK.The announcement came as part of Mr Osborne`s week long trade visit to China in which he is

DHAKA: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says gunmen have abducted six of its workers and one Red Crescent volunteer in north-west Syria.The aid agency has had no contact with the gunmen, an ICRC spokesman says.Earlier, Syrian state media said gunmen had opened fire on

DHAKA: Over 90 pilgrims including children were killed and more than 100 injured in a stampede at Ratangarh temple in Madhya Pradesh in India on Sunday morning.Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has ordered a judicial inquiry to probe the tragedy.According to reports, the

DHAKA: An American found hanged in his police cell in the Suez Canal city of Ismailiya on Sunday was believed to have committed suicide.Egyptian security officials said, reports TDS.They said the body of James Henry, 55, who told authorities he was a retired officer, was found at noon at

DHAKA; An Iranian newspaper is reporting that the Islamic Republic plans to send another monkey into space within a month.A report on Sunday in the conservative daily Jomhuri Eslami quotes the deputy head of Iran’s space agency Hamid Fazeli as saying the planned launch is part of the

DHAKA: The Muslim Brotherhood supported calls for continued protests and strongly condemned violence used by security forces, saying it demonstrated the regime’s weakness.The group, in a statement issued on Sunday, accused the ‘putschists’ of the terrorism that it claimed to fight,

DHAKA: Iran has reportedly planned to present to world powers at talks on its nuclear program this week in Geneva a three-step proposal aimed at garnering Western recognition of Tehran’s ‘right to enrich’ uranium.The first stage of the Iranian package reportedly calls on the P5+1

DHAKA: An Afghan man wearing an Afghan army uniform shot at US soldiers in east Afghanistan, killing at least one serviceman on Sunday.Local officials and the NATO-led coalition said, reports The Jerusalem Post.The so-called ‘insider attack’ in eastern Paktika province is the fourth

DHAKA: Malala Yousafzai hit back at claims that she has become a figure of the West, insisting she was proud to be a Pakistani.The 16-year-old, who was shot by the Taliban for championing girls’ right to an education, claimed she retained the support of people in her homeland, and

DHAKA: North Korea refused to sign a non-aggression agreement that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry offered last week on condition of denuclearization.In a statement carried by the North`s official state media on Saturday, the National Defense Commission spokesman said the U.S. should

DHAKA: Seven people are reported to have died due to the "very severe" cyclonic storm Phailin that made landfall near Gopalpur in Odisha on Saturday night.The cyclone hit Odisha coast with wind speed of around 200 kilometres per hour, causing very heavy rain in most parts of the state. As

DHAKA: Morning light on Sunday revealed some of the damage from Tropical Cyclone Phailin, which made landfall on India`s eastern coast as the strongest storm to hit India in 14 years.Power lines and trees were down and cars were overturned in Bramhapur, near the spot where the center of

DHAKA: A bus carrying 51 people, including children, veered off a cliff in Peru Saturday, killing everyone aboard, an official said.The passengers, who included many members of one family, were traveling to a celebration in the Santa Teresa district, said Juan Carlos Valverde, the under

DHAKA: A car bomb exploded in a street lined with shops in the Iraqi city of Samarra, killing at least 17 people, police and medics said.There was no claim of responsibility for the attack on Saturday, but insurgent groups, including al-Qaeda, have been regaining ground this year,

DHAKA: Negotiations over how to end a political stalemate in Washington that has led to a partial government shutdown have shifted to the Senate.The Democratic and Republican leaders in the Senate held direct talks for the first time in weeks, but there is little sign of any breakthrough,