DHAKA: Iran was offered a Gulf initiative seeking to mend ties with GCC and other Arab countries and open a new chapter of cooperation and good neighbourly relations.A regional Gulf security conference heard on Wednesday, gulfnews.com reports.Dr Ebtisam Al Katbi, Chairperson of the

DHAKA: Activist Anna Hazare’s indefinite hunger strike to press for the passage of Jan Lokpal Bill entered the second day on Wednesday.76-year-old Hazare continues his fast at his village here braving the cold weather in Maharashtra`s Ahmednagar district.The anti-graft crusader is on

DHAKA: The United States has suspended all non-lethal assistance into northern Syria after Islamic Front forces seized headquarters and warehouses belonging to the opposition’s Supreme Military Council (SMC).A US Embassy spokesman said in Ankarasaid, reports The Jerusalem Post.Fighters

DHAKA: Uruguay has become the first nation to legalise the growing, sale and smoking of marijuana after the country`s Senate gave final approval to the legislation.After a long debate on Tuesday, 16 of 29 senators voted in favour of the law championed by President Jose Mujica.The

DHAKA: NATO member Croatia may allow the use of its Adriatic ports to load Syria’s deadly chemicals onto a US ship for destruction offshore.Croatia prime minister Zoran Milanovic said on Tuesday, reports The Jerusalem Post.‘It is envisaged that they will be destroyed, probably in the

DHAKA: A large explosion shook Kabul’s international airport on Wednesday, a Reuters witness said, with police saying initial reports suggested it was an insurgent attack.‘Based on our information there was a explosion near KAIA,’ said deputy Kabul police chief Sayed Ghafar

DHAKA: The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps could not be destroyed completely, not even by thousands of enemy bombs.IRGC commander Mohammad Ali Jafari was quoted by Press TV as saying on Tuesday, reports The Jerusalem Post.‘If today, the enemy…strikes us with thousands of bombs via a

DHAKA: The red-shirt supporters of Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra said on Wednesday they could take to the streets to protect the government from protesters who have forced her to call a snap election, setting the scene for a possible confrontation.The warning by the ‘red

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama may have moved the masses attending Nelson Mandela’s memorial service with his stirring eulogy on Tuesday, but it was his grinning ‘selfie’ with the Danish and British premiers that set social networks abuzz.In a candid moment captured by AFP

DHAKA: An overnight fire at a farmers’ market in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen killed at least 15 people and injured five, local authorities said today (Dec 11).Shenzhen’s fire department said on its microblog that the fire broke out about 1.30am today at the wholesale market

DHAKA: Hundreds of police have moved in on a large protest camp in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, clashing with protesters.Al Jazeera`s Tim Friend, reporting from Independence Square, said barricades came down as police in full riot gear advanced on protesters early on Wednesday

DHAKA: Two Spanish journalists have been kidnapped in Syria by a radical Islamist group linked to al-Qaeda.El Mundo reporter Javier Espinosa and freelance photographer Ricardo Garcia Vilanova were seized by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis).The newspaper said they were taken at a

DHAKA: The body of Nelson Mandela is due to be taken in procession to the Union Buildings in Pretoria where it will lie in state for three days.Each morning his remains will be transported across the city in a glass casket, reports BBC.People have been encouraged to line the route and

DHAKA: South Korea`s president has warned that ties with the communist North could become more unstable following the removal of a major powerbroker.President Park Geun-hye said the North was "carrying out a reign of terror", after news of the purge of Chang Song-thaek, uncle of leader

DHAKA: Two French soldiers were killed in combat in the Central African Republic, the French presidency says, reports BBC.It says President Francois Hollande, who is now in the CAR, "learned with deep sadness" that the two had been killed overnight in the capital Bangui.They are the first

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama hailed Nelson Mandela as a ‘giant of justice’ on Tuesday but said too many leaders in the world claimed solidarity with his struggle for freedom ‘but do not tolerate dissent from their own people’.Obama, addressed an cheering crowd, likening the

DHAKA: The national memorial service for former South African president Nelson Mandela is under way in Johannesburg.Tens of thousands of South Africans have joined dozens of world leaders in the FNB stadium.Friend and fellow Robben Island inmate Andrew Mlangeni said Mandela had ‘created

DHAKA: UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon addressed on Tuesday the mass memorial service of former South African president Nelson Mandela.He acknowledged the loss of ‘one of the greatest leaders of our time’.‘South Africa has lost a hero, a father,’ Ban said commemorating the

DHAKA: Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian officials signed an agreement on Monday to share and increase water resources in the arid region, which includes possible measures to save the rapidly shrinking Dead Sea.The World Bank announced, reports france24.com.The deal is part of a project

DHAKA: Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered Russia’s military on Tuesday to step up its presence in the Arctic after Canada signalled its intention to claim the North Pole and surrounding waters.‘I would like you to devote special attention to deploying infrastructure and military