DHAKA: Two explosions targeting the Iranian embassy have hit the Lebanese capital Beirut, security sources said, killing up to 23 people, injuring at least 146 and damaging buildings in the embassy compound.Lebanese sources told Al Jazeera that the Iranian ambassador is safe, but the

DHAKA: Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono believes the Australian prime minister’s latest statement over reports that Australian spies tapped his phone was ‘regrettable’.Yudhoyono’s spokesman said on Tuesday, reports The Straits Times.Australian prime minister Tony

DHAKA: Spanish police said on Tuesday that they had seized 10 million euros, one of their biggest cash finds ever, and 452 kilogrammes of cocaine in raids on a drug gang.Officers also arrested five suspected traffickers in raids in the eastern city of Valencia and the capital Madrid, a

DHAKA: Two explosions ripped through the vicinity of the Iranian Embassy in Beirut Tuesday morning, killing at least 10 people and wounding scores more, security sources said.The sources told TDS the blasts, only minutes apart, blew up only meters away from the Iranian Embassy in the

DHAKA: US state secretary John Kerry rebuffed statements made by Israel prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu that a deal with Iran over its nuclear programme would jeopardise Israel security interests.Kerry, in a press conference with his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu, said nuclear

DHAKA: Qatar pledged to ensure respect for labourers’ rights after Amnesty International urged the state to end the ‘alarming’ abuse of migrants working on football World Cup infrastructure.A 169-page Amnesty report called on world football governing body Fifa to press Qatar to

DHAKA: The death toll from flooding caused by heavy rains in central Vietnam has risen to 41, with about 80,000 people forced from their homes.Vietnam disaster officials said on Tuesday, reports The Straits Times.The National Floods and Storms Control Agency said in a statement that the

DHAKA: Palestine`s delegation to the United Nations has cast a ballot for the first time in a routine General Assembly vote, an act the envoy said brought his nation a step closer to full UN membership.The chief Palestinian UN observer, Riyad Mansour, participated in the 193-nation

DHAKA: Voting in Nepal`s Constituent Assembly election has been slightly disrupted, after a small roadside bomb exploded 50 metres away from a polling booth in Kathmandu.The attack has stoked fears that some left-wing groups would not allow the vote to go forward.Voting began on Tuesday

DHAKA: Two separate roadside bombs in southeastern Afghanistan have killed nine children - including seven from the same family, officials have said.On Monday, a roadside bomb killed seven children from the same family in Afghanistan`s Paktika province, said the governor`s spokesman

DHAKA: Floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains in central Vietnam have killed at least 34 people, left 11 others missing and displaced more than 80,000 from their homes, disaster officials said.Television footage on Sunday showed inundated houses and streets in the town of Hoi An

DHAKA: Eight people have died as tornadoes and heavy storms ripped across several American states, destroying hundreds of homes and flattening large parts of one town.About 80 tornado reports were received during Sunday and Monday, along with 358 reports of damaging winds and 40 reports

DHAKA: United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said on Monday he expected a long-delayed peace conference on Syria’s bloody conflict will be held in ‘mid-December’ with a specific date to be set next week.‘I am not able to announce at this time any date. Our target is

DHAKA: Former US president Bill Clinton hopes there will be a woman in the White House in his lifetime.He told a Chinese audience on Monday, reports The Straits Times.His wife Hillary, who earlier this year stepped down as US state secretary, has not yet said, whether she plans another

DHAKA: French president Francois Hollande was meeting the Palestinian leadership on Monday to discuss the faltering Middle East peace process after a day of talks in Israel focused heavily on Iran.After being warmly received in Jerusalem following France’s strong stance in world talks

DHAKA: A Syrian government delegation met Russian officials on Monday to discuss plans for an international peace conference on the conflict in the Middle East nation.The United States, Russia and the United Nations are trying to convene the conference in Geneva to try to end the civil

DHAKA: Up to 12,000 Afghan Taliban fighters have been killed, wounded or captured this year, according to a United Nations report, which said violence in the wartorn nation was at a three-year high.US-led Nato forces are to withdraw the bulk of their 75,000 troops from Afghanistan by the

DHAKA: Russian officials say the 94-year-old designer of the AK-47 assault rifle has been hospitalised.The health department of the province of Udmurtia said in Monday’s statement carried by the Interfax news agency that Mikhail Kalashnikov is in an emergency unit, reports The Straits

DHAKA: Two volcanoes have erupted in Indonesia, prompting warnings for flights and evacuation preparations.State volcanologist Surono said Mount Sinabung in North Sumatra province unleashed volcanic ash as high as 8,000 meters, the highest of its eruptions in recent days.The 2,600-meter

DHAKA: Qatar’s construction industry is rife with abuse of migrant workers who are ‘treated like cattle’ and live in squalid accommodations.Amnesty International said on Sunday while calling on world soccer`s governing body to help with the situation, The Jerusalem Post publishes