DHAKA: Iran’s nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi said Tehran has never stopped 20 percent uranium enrichment, denying earlier claims of a temporarily halt.Iran parliament’s website reported Wednesday, says france24.com.‘Twenty percent uranium and nuclear plates are being produced inside

DHAKA: International powers are unlikely to meet their goal of convening peace talks on Syria in Geneva next month as differences emerge between Washington and Moscow over opposition representation.Arab and Western officials said, reports Turkish daily Hurriyet.Failure of the main Syrian

DHAKA: Iranian intelligence minister Mahmoud Alavi said on Wednesday that four people accused of sabotaging one of the country’s sensitive nuclear sites were only thieves.Iran’s Mehr news agency reported, says Turkish daily Hurriyet.‘These four people were not saboteurs. They cut

DHAKA: The European Union is investigating newspaper reports that Russia tried to put spyware onto computers of visiting delegations in St Petersburg at last month’s summit of leaders from the world’s 20 top economies, but has yet to find any evidence.European Commission spokesman

DHAKA: There has been a suicide bomb attack in the Tunisian Mediterranean resort town of Sousse on a beach in front of a hotel, officials say.A hotel employee told the BBC that the blast occurred at 09:45 local time and that no-one was hurt except for the bomber.Meanwhile, security

DHAKA: Police in China have detained five suspects in connection with Monday’s deadly car crash at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.China state media report, says the BBC.Police have described the incident as a ‘violent terror attack’, the Xinhua news agency says, for first time.All

DHAKA: The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) could set up a unified police force to protect the member countries from organised crime and terrorism, the GCC secretary-general has said.‘The GCC countries are looking into a project to set up a Gulf police similar to Europol, the European

DHAKA: Two persons were killed and seven others got seriously injured when a powerful bomb, allegedly planted by militants, exploded at Yaiskul area in Imphal West district of Manipur, police said.The bomb (improvised explosive device), planted near the roadside at Yaiskul bus stand here

DHAKA: UN envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi is expected to meet Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on Wednesday, according to a Syrian government official.‘There is an initial appointment, but I`m not sure when exactly the two will meet,’ said Elia Samman, an adviser to the

DHAKA: The operator of Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant should be broken up, a committee is set to propose according to unnamed sources.The ruling party panel wants part of the Tokyo Electric Power Company in charge of cleaning to be separated.Fukushima has been beset by

DHAKA: Teen pregnancies in the developing world are declining, but more than 7 million girls under the age of 18 are still giving birth each year, according to a United Nations report.The UN Population Fund expressed particular alarm about the dangers facing girls 14 or younger, who

DHAKA: India defence minister AK Antony on Wednesday said the inking of a new border accord with China was a ‘sincere attempt’ by both countries to avoid tensions on the border and would help to quickly solve any face to face situations that may arise.The border defence cooperation

DHAKA: Some US lawmakers said they were unhappy about cuts in Washington’s aid to Egypt announced earlier this month after authorities in Cairo used violence to put down protests.They also said they were considering changes to a US law that bars sending assistance to governments that

DHAKA: A fugitive senior Muslim Brotherhood leader, Essam el-Erian, has been detained by the Egyptian authorities.Prosecutors ordered his arrest in July, after the ousting of president Mohammed Mursi.The arrest is the latest move in a government crackdown against the Islamist movement

DHAKA: Afghan negotiators seeking peace with the Taliban will soon travel to Pakistan for their first meeting with key militant commander Mullah Baradar.Officials said Wednesday, reports The Straits Times.Afghan president Hamid Karzai said in a statement that a deal had been reached after

DHAKA: Israel has announced the construction of 1,500 new settler homes in the occupied East Jerusalem illegal settlement of Ramat Shlomo, Israeli army radio said.The early-morning report, credited to prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his interior minister, Gideon Saar, came hours

DHAKA: At least 23 people have died after a fire broke out in an air conditioned bogie of the Nanded Express in Anantapur district in Andhra Pradesh in India early Saturday.Nine others have been injured; they`ve been shifted to the Dharmavaram Hospital in the district, reports NDTV.The

DHAKA: China`s top legislature has formally adopted a resolution easing the country`s one-child policy, the state news agency Xinhua reports.The Standing Committee of the National People`s Congress passed a resolution allowing couples to have two children if either parent is an only

DHAKA: South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar has said there must be proper negotiations before the rebels can agree to a truce with the government.He was speaking after the government said it had agreed to an immediate end to fighting, in a declaration welcomed by East African leaders in

DHAKA: The National Security Agency notched a much-needed win in court Friday after a series of setbacks over the legality and even the usefulness of its massive data collection program.A federal judge in New York ruled the NSA`s bulk collection of data on nearly every phone call made in