DHAKA: Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki has accused Saudi Arabia and Qatar of openly funding the Sunni Muslim insurgents his troops are battling in western Anbar province, in his strongest such statement since fighting started there early this year.Security forces have been fighting

DHAKA: The EU’s head of foreign policy, Catherine Ashton, has begun talks with Iranian leaders in Tehran.It is her first visit to Iran and comes amid a thaw in relations with the West following last year`s election of moderate Hassan Rouhani as president.She met foreign minister

DHAKA: The FBI is sending agents and technical experts to assist a team probing the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines jet that had several Americans aboard.US media reported, says The Straits Times.US officials told The Los Angeles Times that they are trying to determine whether there

DHAKA: The US has warned Russia that any moves to annex Crimea would close the door to diplomacy.US Secretary of State John Kerry told Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov that Crimea is part of Ukraine and Moscow should avoid military escalation, reports BBC.Meanwhile, US President Barack

DHAKA: Libya has threatened to bomb a North Korean-flagged tanker if it tries to export oil from a rebel-controlled port east of Tripoli, in a major escalation of a standoff over the country`s petroleum wealth.The rebels in control of Libya`s eastern ports are attempting to export oil

DHAKA: Hundreds of National Guardsmen in riot gear and armoured vehicles have prevented an `empty pots march` from reaching Venezuela`s Food Ministry to protest against shortages of staple items.More than 5,000 protesters banged pots, blew horns and whistles and carried banners in

DHAKA: Uncertainly over the fate of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was further compounded Saturday by reports that two men whose names matched those on the passenger manifest had reported their passports stolen.Malaysian authorities apparently did not check the stolen documents on

DHAKA: At 7.15am (local time) on a dusty street corner in Rawalpindi, among the dozen rickety minibuses jostling for passengers, a brand-new, bright pink vehicle stands out.Emblazoned with the words ‘Ladies Transport’, this is Pakistan’s first commuter bus solely for women, aimed at

DHAKA: At 7.15am (local time) on a dusty street corner in Rawalpindi, among the dozen rickety minibuses jostling for passengers, a brand-new, bright pink vehicle stands out.Emblazoned with the words ‘Ladies Transport’, this is Pakistan’s first commuter bus solely for women, aimed at

DHAKA: Egypt’s interim president has signed into law a bill aimed at regulating the upcoming presidential election, paving the way for army chief Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to take part and win.Adly Mansour, the interim president, issued the decree on Saturday with the elections commission

DHAKA: Malaysian authorities have reviewed all CCTV recordings including those of the airport’s baggage handling area, and were satisfied about its security.The Department of Civil Aviation director-general Azaruddin Abdul Rahman said at a late press conference on Saturday that they are

DHAKA: Rebels who seized oil ports in eastern Libya say they have loaded oil on to a North Korean-flagged tanker.The Morning Glory docked at Sidra port earlier on Saturday, after a failed attempt to dock on Tuesday.‘We started exporting oil. This is our first shipment,’ a rebel

DHAKA: Government aircraft have dropped have crude ‘barrel bombs’ on an embattled rebel-held city in western Syria, killing civilians, activists said. Death tolls from the reported strikes on Yabroud varied widely, as is often the case during the three-year-long conflict.The

DHAKA: Russia on Saturday was reported to be reinforcing its military presence in Crimea as Moscow’s foreign minister ruled out any dialogue with Ukraine’s new authorities, whom he dismissed as puppets.Vladislav Seleznyov, a Crimean-based spokesman for the Ukrainian armed forces, told

DHAKA: The Vietnamese government said its search team has reported sighting of oil slicks that could be from the jet engines of the missing Malaysian Airlines plane, as several nations searched waters off Southeast Asia on Saturday after the jet carrying 239 passengers disappeared.Search

DHAKA: Tempers frayed as angry family members left a hotel near Beijng airport on Saturday afternoon, yelling that they were not getting any updates from Malaysia Airlines on its missing plane and demanding that the Chinese government send military planes to conduct search and rescue

DHAKA: The rebel Free Syrian Army has confirmed the appointment of its new chief, Brigadier General Abdel Ilah al-Bashir, after former head General Selim Idriss had initially refused to step down.The FSA confirmed ‘the dismissal of Idriss and the appointment of... Bashir as head of the

DHAKA: Malaysian naval vessels saw no immediate sign of wreckage when they reached the maritime area off the country’s north-east coast where a missing Malaysia Airlines flight last made contact on Saturday.A senior rescue official said, reports The Straits Times.Malaysia has sent three

DHAKA: China has declared a "red line" on North Korea, saying it will not permit chaos or war on the Korean peninsula, and that denuclearisation is the only way to achieve peace.China is the most important diplomatic and economic supporter of North Korea, a country largely isolated as it

DHAKA: Russia`s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned the US not to take "hasty and reckless steps" in response to the crisis in Ukraine`s Crimea region.In a phone call with his US counterpart John Kerry, Lavrov said imposing sanctions on Moscow would harm the US.Pro-Russian troops