DHAKA: The leader of the most powerful rebel group in Syria, Ahrar al-Sham, says he will not recognise any agreement reached in the Geneva peace conference planned for January.Hassan Aboud, speaking to Al Jazeera from an undisclosed location inside Syria, said the group would

DHAKA: British prime minister David Cameron on Saturday expressed Britain’s ‘unconditional admiration’ for the families of the victims of the Lockerbie bombing on the attack’s 25th anniversary.Pan Am Flight 103 blew up over the Scottish town of Lockerbie on December 21, 1988,

DHAKA: Thailand’s opposition is meeting on Saturday to mull a possible boycott of snap elections in a crunch weekend for the crisis-gripped kingdom as protesters prepare to ramp up rallies aimed at toppling the government.The opposition Democrat Party, whose MPs resigned en masse to

DHAKA: An 8-year-old boy walking to school with his elder sister was fatally struck on Friday by a tractor trailer driven by a Newark man with a suspended license, police said. Little Noshat Hassan Nahian, who was supposed to perform in a school play that morning, ran ahead of his

DHAKA: North Korea sent a fax to South Korea on Thursday, threatening to "strike mercilessly without notice" after protests against the secretive regime this week in Seoul.The message warned that North Korea would strike if "the provocation against our highest dignity is to be repeated in

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama has warned that South Sudan is on the "precipice" of a civil war, after clashes in the capital Juba spread around the country.He said 45 military personnel had been deployed to South Sudan on Wednesday to protect American citizens and property.At least 500

DHAKA: Chile`s Supreme Court has for the first time ordered the state to pay compensation to the relatives of one of the victims of the 2010 tsunami.The BBC`s Gideon Long in Santiago says the ruling could set a precedent for hundreds of other compensation claims.More than 500 people died

DHAKA: Four people have been killed in a shooting at Manila`s international airport, the official Philippines News Agency reported Friday.The dead include Ukol Talumpa, the mayor of a town in the southern Philippines, and his wife, the news agency reported on its website.The shooting took

DHAKA: Payment details from up to 40 million credit cards could have been stolen after they were used in the stores of US retail giant Target.The retailer said it was investigating after discovering that thieves had gained access to its payment systems.The data breach began around 29

DHAKA: Three Indian peacekeepers have been killed in an attack on a UN base in South Sudan, India`s UN envoy said.The UN said attackers from the country`s second-largest ethnic group forced their way into the Akobo base in conflict-wracked Jonglei state on Thursday, pursuing civilians

DHAKA: Seventy-six people have been injured, seven seriously, after part of a ceiling in London`s Apollo Theatre collapsed during a show, police say.The venue in Shaftesbury Avenue was packed for a performance of The Curious Incident Of The Dog in the Night-Time.Eyewitnesses heard "a

DHAKA: An Indian diplomat who was arrested in New York City and accused of paying her housekeeper about $3 an hour had claimed the woman blackmailed her over the summer.An Indian official said Thursday, reports gulfnews.com.The case has sparked a diplomatic furore between the United

DHAKA: South Sudanese rebels have taken over a key town, the military has said, as fighting continues after Sunday’s reported coup attempt.‘Our soldiers have lost control of Bor to the force of Riek Machar,’ said army spokesman Philip Aguer, reports the BBC.President Salva Kiir has

DHAKA: Russian president Vladimir Putin praised the US role in forging an interim deal to ease concerns about Iran’s nuclear programme but said he hoped the blacklisting of additional Iranian companies under existing sanctions would not undermine progress toward a comprehensive

DHAKA: Syrian Kurds are demanding their own delegation separate from both the government and opposition at next month`s peace talks in Switzerland aimed at halting the conflict in Syria.Kurdish political leaders said on Thursday, reports The Jerusalem Post.The Kurds say they need

DHAKA: An Egyptian court on Thursday dropped the last outstanding corruption case against Hosni Mubarak’s last prime minister, Ahmed Shafik, judicial sources said, possibly clearing the way for him to return from self-imposed exile.The court referred the case back to the prosecutor,

DHAKA: The Muslim Brotherhood denounced the Egyptian authorities on Thursday for charging former president Mohamed Mursi and other Islamists with terrorism and conspiring with foreign groups, saying the allegations were ‘risible’.The Brotherhood also reiterated calls for all nations

DHAKA: A United Nations panel probing war crimes in Syria says people around the country are systematically vanishing without a trace as part of a widespread campaign of terror against civilians.The expert panel says it found ‘a consistent country-wide pattern’ of Syrian security,

DHAKA: India’s foreign minister has demanded that the United States drop a case against an Indian diplomat who was strip-searched after being arrested in New York City.Dr Deyvani Khobragade was accused of paying her Indian housekeeper far less than she had claimed on a visa

DHAKA: A suicide bomber detonated an explosives belt among Shia pilgrims in Iraq on Thursday, killing at least 17 people, while militants shot dead a family of five.Iraq officials said, reports TDS.The attack on the pilgrims in the Dura area of south Baghdad took place at a tent where