DHAKA: An Egyptian court acquitted 155 people arrested during deadly clashes in the capital between Islamist protesters and police in October.Egypt state media reported Sunday, reports TDS.The Cairo misdemeanour court on Saturday dismissed the charges of assaulting policemen and vandalism

DHAKA: Inspectors from the UN nuclear agency were expected to visit on Sunday, for the first time in more than two years, the Arak heavy-water reactor in Iran.Two inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency arrived in Tehran on Saturday, reports The Jerusalem Post.In November,

DHAKA: About 50 survivors of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor paused on Saturday at the site to honour those killed and remember the moment that plunged the US into World War II.Alvis Taylor, 90, was serving as an Army medic when the attack began.His superiors, who were doctors, rushed

DHAKA: Gunmen attacked 12 liquor stores in Baghdad on Saturday, killing nine people, police said, the latest in a series of assaults on alcohol sellers in the capital.The attackers approached the stores in SUVs and shot dead people inside shops and supermarkets and wounded two.Police said

DHAKA: Thailand’s opposition MPs are to resign en masse, officials say, after weeks of anti-government protests.Opposition-backed street protesters have been trying to oust PM Yingluck Shinawatra, saying she is controlled by her brother, former PM Thaksin.Protest leader Suthep

DHAKA: South Korea on Sunday said it plans to expand its air defence zone to cover also two territorial islands and a rock reef, thereby partially overlapping a similar zone claimed by China last month in a move that sharply raised regional tensions.Beijing’s declaration of an air

DHAKA: Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra proposed a referendum on her future on Sunday, promising to resign if that was what the people wanted, as anti-government protesters prepared for a final push to force her from power.Protesters have been on the streets of the capital for

DHAKA: The United States has proposed to the Israeli government a security plan for new borders with a future Palestinian state that games out an exhaustive list of possible threats.US state secretary John Kerry told the Brookings Institution’s Saban Forum on Saturday, The Jerusalem

DHAKA: Vote counting began in four Indian states Sunday where the nationalist opposition was in line to wrest power from the ruling Congress party, giving it crucial momentum ahead of next year’s national elections.Officials began counting tens of millions of ballots at 8:00am (0230

DHAKA: Ukrainian opposition has called for a new round of rallies called ‘veche’, or a popular assembly, that is expected to draw pro-EU integration masses to the heart of the Ukrainian capital in Independence Square.The protest, which will be the third event of its kind over the past

DHAKA: Iran’s president Hassan Rouhani says last month’s nuclear deal with world powers has already had a positive impact on the country’s economy.Rouhani spoke Sunday while presenting next year’s budget to parliament.He told an open session of parliament that, after the

DHAKA: A hospital in the capital of the Central African Republic has been attacked by armed gunmen, according to Al Jazeera sources.At least ten people were killed when Seleka rebels arrived late on Friday night at Bangui`s Amitie hospital, where many of those wounded from days of

DHAKA: Fourteen women jailed in Egypt over a protest in support of ousted President Mohammed Morsi have been freed after an appeal court ruling.Seven juveniles jailed over the protest last month in Alexandria have also been released, on three months` probation, reports BBC.The women`s

DHAKA: Thousands of South Africans are expected to take part in a day of "prayer and reflection" for late President Nelson Mandela.President Jacob Zuma will attend a service in a Methodist church in Johannesburg, with other multi-faith services planned throughout the day, reports BBC.A

DHAKA: Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel says Afghan’s defence minister has reassured him that a security agreement with the United States will be signed in a timely manner.Hagel met Bismillah Khan Mohammadi during a visit on Saturday to Kabul, the Afghan capital.Hagel also told reporters that

DHAKA: Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Saturday identified six missing persons who relatives say were disappeared by the country’s powerful army from a detention centre.Relatives launched a legal bid to force the military to produce 35 people who they alleged are being held in

DHAKA: Flights are being delayed across the UK and Ireland because of an air traffic control centre fault.Affected airports include Heathrow, Stansted, Cardiff, Dublin, and Glasgow.The National Air Traffic Control Service (Nats) said its Swanwick centre, in Hampshire, was having

DHAKA: Japan’s defence minister said on Saturday that China’s recently declared maritime air defence zone over the East China Sea raises regional tensions and that the international community must oppose any move to establish a similar zone over the South China Sea.Defence minister

DHAKA: Thailand will help the United Nations and the United States with any investigation into the findings of a Reuters report that Thai immigration officials moved Myanmar refugees into human-trafficking rings.Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra said on Saturday, reports The Straits

DHAKA: Egypt appeals courts on Saturday ordered 14 women jailed after a protest to be freed, reducing 11-year prison terms to one-year suspended sentences, as seven girls were also ordered to be released.The women’s supporters in the Alexandria courtroom chanted ‘God is Great’ as