DHAKA: The decision by Syrian opposition parties to boycott the Geneva-2 international conference on Syria will not change determination by the Syrian government to attend the conference.Syrian ambassador to Russia Riyad Haddad spoke about this to the agency Interfax in Moscow on Tuesday,

DHAKA: Well-known Hindi writer Rajendra Yadav has died in the Indian city of Delhi.Yadav, 85, who had been ill for some time, died early on Tuesday while being taken to hospital, according to the BBC.He mainly wrote fiction and was a pioneer of the Hindi literary movement known as Nayi

DHAKA: The ringleader of a white supremacist plot to assassinate Nelson Mandela and drive black people out of South Africa has been sentenced to 35 years in jail.South Africa’s national broadcaster has reported, says the BBC.Former university lecturer Mike du Toit was convicted last

DHAKA: The Syrian National Council has moved to force the UN-Arab League envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi, out of his post as the chief Syrian mediator.According to the Beirut-based Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, the SNC has proposed to put Brahimi’s resignation up for debate at an Arab League

DHAKA: Kenyan police are holding five people over last month`s attack on Nairobi’s Westgate mall, a top officer said on Tuesday, adding they hoped to charge them soon.At least 67 people were killed in the attack on the upmarket mall claimed by Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab

DHAKA: A polio outbreak has been confirmed among young children in north-east Syria and risks spreading in the region.The World Health Organisation warned on Tuesday, reports The Straits Times.Twenty-two children in Deir al-Zor province became paralysed this month with acute flaccid

DHAKA: Denmark and Sweden are currently repairing facilities today after a violent Atlantic storm passed through Scandinavia.Train tracks are being cleared, fallen trees are being taken off the roads and power is being restored, reports The Voice of Russia.Danish train operator DSB said

DHAKA: Syria is on target to meet a looming deadline to destroy its chemical weapons production equipment, even though inspectors have yet to visit all sites, Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, says in a progress report.‘The functional destruction of the declared capacity of the

DHAKA: A Saudi blogger jailed last year for publishing an imaginary conversation with Islam’s Prophet Muhammad on Twitter walked free early on Tuesday, his friend and a lawyer said, though there was no comment from the government.Hamza Kashgari fled Saudi Arabia for Malaysia in February

DHAKA: When top US intelligence officials testified at a congressional hearing, weeks ago, the public uproar was over the National Security Agency collecting the phone and email records of Americans.But when the NSA director General Keith Alexander and other spy chiefs appear at a House

DHAKA: Japan’s foreign minister will go to Iran next month, he said on Tuesday, in the latest sign of Teheran’s rapidly thawing relationship with the Western world.Fumio Kishida said he plans a three day trip from November 9, the day after Iranian negotiators wrap up talks with world

DHAKA: US state secretary John Kerry urged Iran to back its willingness to reach a peaceful resolution to the dispute over its nuclear weapons with action, but did not specify what action was required.Chinese news agency Xinhua reported on Tuesday morning, reports The Jerusalem

DHAKA: Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has softened his objection to an interim peace agreement.Israel Radio reported on Tuesday morning, says The Jerusalem Post.The Jerusalem Post could not corroborate the report.Abbas has thus far vehemently ruled out any temporary peace accord with

DHAKA: A young Vietnamese activist went on trial on Tuesday for "abusing democratic freedoms" with a series of angry Facebook posts, in an escalation of the communist regime`s crackdown on online dissent.Dinh Nhat Uy, 30, appeared in court in the southern province of Long An on charges

DHAKA: Libya`s state news agency says gunmen have stolen $54m in an attack on a van carrying foreign and local currency for the Libyan central bank.Ten men stopped the van as it entered the city of Sirte from the airport. The cash delivery had been flown 300 miles (500km) from the

DHAKA: An air strike in southern Somalia has killed two senior commanders of the militant Islamist group, al-Shabab, residents have told the BBC.The strike destroyed the vehicle the militants were travelling in between the towns of Jilib and Barawe, seen as a major base of al-Shabab, they

DHAKA: Chinese state media have said at least five people died and 38 others were injured after a vehicle crashed in Tiananmen Square in Beijing.Three of those killed were inside the car and the other two were bystanders.The square was evacuated and quickly reopened after the vehicle went

DHAKA: An Egyptian kung fu champion has been stripped of a gold medal after showing support for ousted President Mohammed Morsi, according to his family.Mohammed Youssef has also been banned from representing his country.Youssef was photographed at a tournament in Russia wearing a T-shirt

DHAKA: A storm battering north-western Europe has killed at least 13 people - six of them in Germany.Two people died when their car was crushed by a falling tree in Gelsenkirchen, in western Germany. Two children in the car were injured.In Brittany, western France, a woman was swept out

DHAKA: An expedition to a remote part of northern Australia has uncovered three new vertebrate species isolated for millions of years, with scientists on Monday calling the area a ‘lost world’.Conrad Hoskin from James Cook University and a National Geographic film crew were dropped by