DHAKA: In a bid to bolster moderate forces in Syria against Islamic rebel factions, the CIA has reportedly been expanding a covert program to train US-backed opposition fighters in the embattled country.The Washington Post on Thursday cited US officials as saying., reports The Jerusalem

DHAKA: The leader of Greece’s far-right Golden Dawn party was jailed pending trial on charges of belonging to a criminal group.A court official told media early on Thursday, reports The Jerusalem Post.Golden Dawn leader Nikolaos Mihaloliakos appeared before investigating magistrates and

DHAKA: US state secretary John Kerry said on Thursday that the United States hopes to engage with the new Iranian administration, but that any advances must be based on concrete steps by Tehran to give up its nuclear weapons programme.If Iran intends to be peaceful, ‘I believe there is

DHAKA: Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has a new leak of radioactive water which may have entered the Pacific Ocean, its operator says.Workers discovered water overflowing from one of the storage tanks late on Wednesday, plant operator Tepco said.It estimates that 430 litres of

DHAKA: At least 28 people, including 13 children, were killed and 10 others injured when the two mini buses they were travelling in were hit by a truck on National Highway 35 in lower Assam’s Barpeta district in the wee hours today.The two buses were going one behind the other when the

DHAKA: At least 12 people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack on a militant commander`s compound in north-west Pakistan, officials say.Reports said the commander, Nabi Hanfi, had been fighting the Pakistani Taliban in the Orakzai tribal region.Officials said gunmen fired shots at

DHAKA: Riot police have clashed with protesters in Mexico City during a demonstration commemorating the 45th anniversary of a student massacre.Protesters, some of them masked, threw firebombs, bottles and rocks at police who battled to disperse the crowd.At least 40 people were injured,

DHAKA: Indonesia`s main anti-graft agency arrested the chief justice (CJ) of the constitutional court for alleged bribery, an agency official said, the latest high-profile corruption case to hit Southeast Asia`s largest economy.Akil Mochtar, who was elected as chief justice for a

DHAKA: Eight people died when a bus carrying church members home blew a front tire, crossed the grassy median of Interstate 40 in eastern Tennessee in US, clipped an SUV and collided with a tractor-trailer before overturning, officials said Wednesday.Six people on the eastbound bus were

DHAKA: The head of Greece`s far-right Golden Dawn party, Nikos Mihaloliakos, has been remanded in custody on charges of organising a criminal group.He appeared before investigating magistrates at an Athens court in a hearing that lasted into the early hours of Thursday.He was one of six

DHAKA: A jury has found Michael Jackson`s concert promoters, AEG Live, not guilty of negligence in hiring the doctor who killed him.The Jackson family had been seeking $290m (£180m) for emotional losses, plus an unspecified amount for economic losses - a sum AEG called "absurd".Dr Conrad

DHAKA: Tom Clancy, the best-selling author of “The Hunt for Red October” and other wildly successful technological thrillers, has died. He was 66.Penguin Group (USA) on Wednesday said that Clancy died Tuesday in Baltimore. The publisher did not disclose a cause of death.Clancy arrived

DHAKA: Flowering plants may have originated more than 100 million years earlier than previously thought, according to scientists in Switzerland and Germany.The previously oldest known flowering plant-like pollen dates from the Early Cretaceous period which is around circa 145 ± 4 million

DHAKA: Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and his Indian counterpart Salman Khurshid intend on discussing preparations for the Russian-Indian high-level summit planned for October 2013 at a meeting in Moscow on Wednesday.The VoR’s correspondent Polina Chernitsa reports, according to

DHAKA: The authorities say that the death toll from an unusual spate of hornet attacks in central China has reached 41.The Shaanxi provincial government said on Wednesday that the attacks had plagued not only the city of Ankang, where 19 died as reported by the official Xinhua News

DHAKA: The authorities say a man arrested at Florida’s Jacksonville International Airport had told security screeners he had a bomb in his backpack, but they only found an electronic scale and batteries.Zeljko Causevic was booked into jail early on Wednesday, reports The Straits

DHAKA: Western governments are considering allowing Iran to continue some uranium enrichment, as part of a possible deal to resolve a decade-old dispute that Tehran says it wants to reach within six months, a senior EU diplomat said.The new stance, a reaction to Iran president Hassan

DHAKA: Italian prime minister Enrico Letta won a confidence vote with a crushing majority after his challenger Silvio Berlusconi abandoned his bid to topple the government in a stunning about-turn.Out of 305 senators who took part in the vote, 235 were in favour of the government and 70

DHAKA: Seventeen countries including the United States, France and Australia have agreed to receive quotas of refugees fleeing the bloody conflict in Syria.The UN refugee agency said on Wednesday, reports daily Hurriyet.‘So far, UNHCR has 17 countries participating in the Syria

DHAKA: The Turkish parliament is likely to extend by a year a mandate authorising the sending of troops into Syria if needed after the government said the possible use of chemical weapons by president Bashar Assad posed a threat to Turkey.The government motion, due to be voted on by