DHAKA: Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and new finance minister Euclid Tsakalotos are expected to present new proposals to Greece’s creditors at a eurozone emergency summit Tuesday in Brussels aimed at preventing Greece’s exit from the eurozone.The new Greek plan reportedly

DHAKA: Pope Francis has ended his first full day in Ecuador with a visit to the cathedral in the capital Quito, where thousands of people braved a deluge of rain to hear him speak.Francis returned to the Vatican ambassador’s residence in Quito on Monday night and later re-emerged

DHAKA: World powers were set Tuesday to miss yet another deadline to nail down an elusive nuclear deal ending a 13-year standoff with Iran, despite hours of difficult top-level negotiations.In a sign of how complex the negotiations have become, foreign ministers met deep into the night

DHAKA: About 800 million people still live in dire poverty and suffer from hunger despite the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) being the most successful anti-poverty push in history.The UN said on Monday, The Straits Times publishes this report on Tuesday.The number of

DHAKA: The world's oldest man, Sakari Momoi, has died in Japan at the ripe old age of 112, an official said Tuesday.Momoi, born months before the Wright brothers made their first successful flight, passed away late Sunday, said the official at Saitama City, north of Tokyo, where he had

DHAKA: Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have agreed that Athens will present a fresh Greek proposal for an aid deal with creditors at an emergency eurozone summit in Brussels on Tuesday.Greek government sources said, reports Al Jazeera.A Greek

DHAKA: An Iraqi warplane has accidentally dropped a bomb over a residential area of Baghdad after it experienced mechanical failure.Officials of defense ministry confirmed the matter to Al Jazeera on Monday that a bomb fell from a Russian-made Sukhoi Su-25 fighter jet, hitting a New

DHAKA: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has told his cabinet to boycott a popular talk show on the national broadcaster. The Australian Broadcasting Corp. (ABC) was criticised after a former terror suspect was allowed on live television show Q&A two weeks ago, reports

DHAKA: Princess Charlotte has been christened at a church in Sandringham after the Cambridges made their first public outing as a family of four.The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge pushed the princess in a pram the Queen used for two of her own children, reports bbc.comSeveral thousand well

DHAKA: Greek voters have decisively rejected the terms of an international bailout.The final result in the referendum, published by the interior ministry, was 61.3% "No", against 38.7% who voted "Yes".Greece's governing Syriza party had campaigned for a "No", saying the bailout terms were

DHAKA: Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, the UN special envoy to Yemen, has arrived in Yemen’s capital Sana’a in a bid to arrange a pause in fighting until the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on July 17, to allow for deliveries of humanitarian aid.The visit by Ould Cheikh Ahmed, who

DHAKA: Pope Francis is due to arrive in Ecuador at the start of a seven-day tour of South America.Ecuador’s left-wing President Rafael Correa called the visit ‘an honor’, reports the BBC.Pope Francis will also travel to Bolivia and Paraguay, as part of his second trip to the region

DHAKA: At least 73 people have been killed in Iraqi government air strikes and artillery fire in the western Iraqi cities of Ramadi and Fallujah.An air strike on a sports field in Ramadi shortly after midnight on Sunday killed at least 50 people and left more than 30 people injured,

DHAKA: The US spy agency bugged the phone of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff along with her top political and financial officials, according to new information released by WikiLeaks.The whistle-blowing website published on Saturday a National Security Agency (NSA) list of 29 Brazilian

DHAKA: Ahead of Tuesday’s final deadline, foreign ministers from major powers were expected back in Vienna Sunday seeking to score a huge diplomatic success by nailing down the nuclear deal with Iran.After almost two years of intense effort, there were signs that inside the neoclassical

DHAKA: Millions of Greeks are due to vote in a crucial referendum on whether to accept the terms of an international bailout.Polling stations opened at 07:00 local time (04:00 GMT), with the first results expected on Sunday evening, reports bbc.comThe end of a frenetic week of campaigning

DHAKA: A UK family of 12, who went missing, has reportedly joined so-called Islamic State (IS) and feel ‘safer than ever’.A statement said to be on their behalf, reports the BBC.The statement, purportedly sent by a member of IS, said it was ‘outrageous’ to suggest the Mannan

DHAKA: Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis accused Athens’ creditors of ‘terrorism’ in an interview, a day before Greeks vote in a high-stakes referendum on the conditions of the country’s bailout.‘What they’re doing with Greece has a name - terrorism,’ Varoufakis told

DHAKA: The Palestinian government forces have arrested at least 120 people, including Hamas members, in West Bank over the past two days, raising tension between the rival movements.At least 20 people were arrested on Saturday, Hamas officials said, a day after about 100 members were

DHAKA: At 62 years of age, Swiss Solar Impulse-2 pilot Andre Borschberg has made aviation history with a record breaking solo flight across the Pacific that he has called ‘an interior journey’.After traveling more than 8,000km on the latest leg of the round-the-world trip, he arrived