DHAKA: A series of car bomb blasts in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, has killed at least 36 people and injured more than 100, officials say.Police say the blasts targeted markets and car parks in mainly Shia Muslim districts of the city.There has been a recent upsurge in sectarian violence,

DHAKA: Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta is to go to parliament to seek a way out of the crisis engulfing his coalition government.A confidence vote will be held in parliament on Wednesday.Relations between Mr Letta`s centre-left grouping and ex-PM Silvio Berlusconi`s party have reached

DHAKA: Two people were arrested following the protests that greeted Iranian president Hassan Rohani’s return from the United States after his landmark phone call with president Barack Obama, media reported on Sunday.Dozens of young Islamists had gathered at Teheran airport to vent their

DHAKA: The prime ministers of Pakistan and India opened talks on Sunday on the sidelines of the United Nations, amid calls from New Delhi for greater action against Islamic militants.Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif, in his first meeting with India since he swept back to power in May

DHAKA: Twin blasts near the Qissa Khawani market in Peshawar on Sunday killed 37 people and wounded at least 103 others.‘The blast killed at least 37 people,’ the top local administration official Sahebzada Muhammad Anis said, reports dawn.com.Dr Arshad Javaid, a senior official at

DHAKA: Syria will respect United Nations accords on chemical weapons, president Bashar al-Assad told Italian television station RaiNews24 on Sunday.‘We joined the international agreement against the acquisition and use of chemical weapons even before this resolution was passed,’ he

DHAKA: UN chemical weapons experts, in Syria to investigate alleged use of the banned arms, on Sunday left their Damascus hotel to carry out a new mission.The experts, who arrived in the Syrian capital on last Wednesday on their second visit in two months, headed out on board four UN

DHAKA: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is heading to the US for talks with president Barack Obama which will focus on Iran`s diplomatic charm offensive.Before leaving the US on Friday, Iran’s new president, Hassan Rohani, shared a 15-minute phone call with Obama.Netanyahu, who will meet

DHAKA: Philippine troops killed seven more Muslim rebels in gunbattles in the coastal outskirts of a southern city they were clearing of bodies, bombs, weapons and possible booby traps following a three-week standoff with insurgents who held scores of people hostage.Army troops and

DHAKA: India’s main opposition leader, Hindu hardliner Narendra Modi, on Sunday vowed a corruption-free government and a tough stand against rival Pakistan if his party wins elections next year.Modi described prime minister Manmohan Singh as weak and his government as riddled with

DHAKA: A sixth politician from Greece’s far-right Golden Dawn party has been arrested after handing himself in to police in Athens.Deputy party leader Christos Pappas had been sought alongside five other MPs who were held a day earlier, reports the BBC.In all 22 people have been held

DHAKA: Syria’s government will not accept any transition peace plan that excludes president Bashar al-Assad, Syria foreign minister Walid al-Moallem told media.He spoke on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, a day after the Security Council approved a resolution that

DHAKA: A college provost says suspected Islamic militants gunned down students as they slept and killed as many as 50 in an early-morning attack in northeast Nigeria.Molima Idi Mato of the Yobe state College of Agriculture told media that the gunmen also torched classrooms in the attack

DHAKA: Explosions hit the capital of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region on Sunday, an international media correspondent reported, a rare event in an area usually spared violence plaguing the rest of the country.The journalist heard three blasts in Arbil.Heavy smoke could be seen rising in

DHAKA: One of Saudi Arabia`s top conservative clerics has said women who drive risk damaging their ovaries and bearing children with clinical problems, countering activists who are trying to end the Islamic kingdom’s male-only driving rules.A campaign calling for women to defy the ban

DHAKA: Amid escalating threats from North Korea, US and South Korean defence officials will meet over the next few days and discuss whether to extend America’s wartime control over the South’s armed forces, 60 years after a truce ended the Korean War.US defence secretary Chuck Hagel

DHAKA: A college provost says suspected Islamic militants gunned down students as they slept and killed as many as 50 in an early-morning attack in northeast Nigeria.Molima Idi Mato of the Yobe state College of Agriculture told media that the gunmen also torched classrooms in the attack

DHAKA: An air strike on a high school in a rebel-held city of northern Syria killed 12 people, most of them pupils, on Sunday, a monitoring group said.‘The Syrian air force bombed a technical high school in the city of Raqa, killing 12 people, most of them children under 18, and

DHAKA: The Iranian army unveiled its newest domestically manufactured unmanned aerial vehicle, named the Yasir, during a ceremony in Tehran on Saturday attended by Army Commander Ahmad Reza Pourdastan.The Yasir UAV, which has been designed and manufactured by competent Iranian experts,

DHAKA: More than 30 people were still missing two days after a boat carrying asylum seekers to Australia sank off the Indonesian coast, killing 22 people including seven children.Indonesian security officials said on Sunday, reports The Straits Times.The latest disaster to strike refugees