DHAKA: Iran said on Wednesday nuclear talks with six world powers would resume in early September, according to state television, after both sides agreed to continue talking for four more months to try to reach a final agreement on Tehran’s nuclear program. The preliminary accord had

DHAKA: Israel may be committing war crimes in Gaza, where its punitive house demolitions and killing of children raise the ‘strong possibility’ that it is violating international law. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said on Wednesday, reports The Jerusalem Post.

DHAKA: Islamic State militants claimed responsibility on Wednesday for an overnight suicide bombing in a Shia district of Baghdad which killed 33 people, one of the deadliest recent attacks in the Iraqi capital.The hardline Sunni Islamist group which has led an offensive through

DHAKA: Indonesia’s losing presidential election candidate, ex-general Prabowo Subianto, plans to challenge the result in the Constitutional Court. Prabowo team’s chief lawyer said on Wednesday, reports The Straits Times. The challenge had been widely expected, but many analysts

DHAKA: The lifting of the economic blockade of the Gaza Strip must form part of any ceasefire deal. The Palestinian prime minister has said, reports the BBC. Speaking during a visit by the UN secretary general, Rami Hamdallah said it was time for the ‘siege to stop’. His call backs

DHAKA: At least 21 people killed in a suicide bomb in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq. Police and medical officials have said that which reports the BBC. The attack took place at a police checkpoint at the entrance to the Kadhimiya district killing at least 13 civilians. Many of those

DHAKA: A town of 30,000 in China is prohibiting residents from leaving after a local man died from bubonic plague, state media announced Tuesday.The town of Yumen, in the northwestern province of Gansu, also quarantined 151 people, China Central Television (CCTV) said, per the Agence

DHAKA: The first bodies recovered from the Malaysia Airlines plane which crashed in Ukraine last week are to be flown to the Netherlands for identification. A day of mourning is being held to mark the occasion, more than five days after the aircraft was downed in a rebel-held area in

DHAKA: After weeks of rising tensions following the killing of three Israeli teenagers and the apparent revenge killing of a Palestinian teenager, Israel began a major offensive against Hamas in Gaza on July 8. After 15 days of fighting, at least 620 Palestinians and 29 Israelis have

DHAKA: Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo has been declared the winner of Indonesia’s hotly contested presidential election. The election commission said Widodo, widely known as Jokowi, won 53.15% of the vote with his rival, ex-general Prabowo Subianto, on 46.85%. Earlier, Subianto alleged

DHAKA: At least six people including five children have been killed in a minibus crash near the French city of Troyes, south-east of Paris. Officials say, reports the BBC. The minibus in which the children were travelling collided with a lorry on a minor road. Several other people were

DHAKA: Black boxes from the Malaysian jetliner downed over eastern Ukraine will be sent to a lab in the United Kingdom. Malaysia’s deputy transport minister on Tuesday, reports The Straits Times. ‘The procedure is to have the black boxes sent to the nearest lab that is authorized by

DHAKA: Chinese president Xi Jinping visited Cuba on Tuesday to expand investment in the fellow communist nation, his last stop on a four-country Latin American charm offensive. Cuba, the only one-party communist state in the Americas, began opening up its economy in 2008, but has not

DHAKA: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged Israel and the Palestinians to ‘stop fighting’ and ‘start talking’ to end the conflict in Gaza. He was speaking in Israel as diplomatic efforts intensified. More than 600 Palestinians and 29 Israelis have been killed

DHAKA: As Western leaders increasingly pointed the finger of blame at pro-Russian separatists, and Moscow itself, over the shooting down of a Malaysia Airlines plane in eastern Ukraine, the government in Kuala Lumpur said little. The reasons for that reticence, which had drawn criticism

DHAKA: Myanmar’s main opposition party says it has collected about five million signatures seeking reduced powers for unelected military members of parliament as the country, which emerged from dictatorship in 2011, moves towards an election next year. The National League for Democracy

DHAKA: Malaysia has sent a three-man expert team to investigate the Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash site after getting assurances about their safety there. Malaysia transport minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said the government received assurances from the Organisation for Security and

DHAKA: The toll of the two-week fighting between Israel and the Islamist Hamas group in Gaza topped 500 on Monday. The UN Security Council has deplored the mounting violence and appealed for an immediate ceasefire. Here are five things about the Israel-Gaza conflict. 1. History of the

DHAKA: At last, bowing to international pressure, pro-Moscow separatists handed over on Tuesday the black boxes from the downed Malaysia Airlines plane, four days after it plunged into rebel-held eastern Ukraine though it is yet to know what happened to the earlier MH370 for the failure

DHAKA: Parents will face prosecution if they fail to stop their daughters undergoing female genital mutilation (FGM) under new measures being announced. UK prime minister David Cameron is unveiling a £1.4m prevention programme aimed at ending the practice at a global summit in London.