DHAKA: A federal judge has refused to dismiss most of a lawsuit against Google Inc over allegations the company improperly scanned the content of customers` emails in order to place ads, according to Reuters news agency.US District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California ruled on Thursday

DHAKA: The U.N. Security Council could vote as early as Friday on a draft resolution regarding Syria`s chemical weapons program.The resolution would impose "legally binding obligations" on the government to eliminate its program, said U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha

DHAKA: Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas warned the United Nations that United States-brokered peace talks offered the ‘last chance’ as he demanded an agreement with Israel that permanently resolves all disputes.Speaking before the UN General Assembly, Abbas urged no let-up in

DHAKA: Iran and six major powers have agreed to meet in Geneva next month for further talks on resolving the standoff with Tehran on its nuclear programme.US and Iranian officials emerged upbeat on Thursday from a meeting on Iran’s nuclear programme, but both sides sounded a cautionary

DHAKA: The tone and spirit of a meeting on Thursday between six world powers and Iran on Tehran’s nuclear programme was ‘extremely good’.British foreign secretary William Hague said, reports The Jerusalem Post.Hague made the comment after the meeting he attended with Iranian foreign

DHAKA: Russia’s UN envoy said he hoped the UN Security Council would be able to vote on a resolution demanding the eradication of Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal on Friday evening.‘We hope tomorrow night at ...(around) 8:00pm (0000 GMT on Saturday),’ Russian ambassador Vitaly

DHAKA: A total of 29 people have been killed in anti-government protests in Sudan.Sudan state news agency SUNA said on Thursday, in the first official toll since the outbreak of violence on Monday, reports The Jerusalem Post.The death toll included civilians and police officers, police

DHAKA: The head of the opposition Syrian Supreme Military Council cut short a visit to France and said he would head to Syria for talks with rebel brigades that broke with the Western-backed coalition.General Salim Idris, who commands the coalition’s military wing known as the Free

DHAKA: Israel will be easing some restrictions imposed on the Gaza Strip and the West Bank as a part of ongoing peace talks with the PalestiniansIsrael’s international relations minister Yuval Steinitz announced that Israel will issue 5,000 new work permits for Palestinians, extend the

DHAKA: India’s prime minister Manmohan Singh branded Thursday’s attack by militants on an Indian police station and army camp in disputed Kashmir as ‘barbaric’ but, without mentioning Pakistan, said it would not derail efforts to pursue peace through dialogue.‘This is one more

DHAKA: Diplomats at the UN say the five permanent members of the divided Security Council appear to have reached agreement on a resolution to require Syria to dismantle its chemical-weapons stockpiles.Their comments on Thursday came a day after Sergey Ryabkov, Russia’s deputy foreign

DHAKA: The United States and China agree it is important for Tehran to respond positively to existing nuclear proposals by six major powers.US officials said ahead of a meeting on Thursday between Iran and the five permanent UN Security Council members and Germany.‘Both the US and China

DHAKA: The death toll from a massive earthquake that jolted southwest Pakistan rose to 356 on Thursday, with officials saying that thousands have been left homeless and about 300,000 people had been affected in remote parts of Balochistan province.The 7.7-magnitude quake struck Tuesday

DHAKA: The Egyptian army launched a military campaign on Thursday targeting strongholds of armed groups in the Sinai Peninsula south of Rafah.Palestinian news agency Ma’an reported, says The Jerusalem Post.Ma’an quotes witnesses as saying Egyptian helicopters struck targets in the

DHAKA: Palestine president Mahmoud Abbas will be allowed to sit in the UN General Assembly’s heads-of-state chair.Bloomberg reported on Thursday, says The Jerusalem Post.Abbas, who is scheduled to speak at the UN on Thursday at noon EST, will be the first Palestinian leader to use the

DHAKA: Iranian president Hassan Rohani on Thursday called on Israel to join the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) ‘without delay’ for a ‘nuclear-free zone in the Middle East’.Speaking at the UN General Assembly, the Iranian president called for a ‘total

DHAKA: A UN-backed special court in The Hague has rejected an appeal against war crimes convictions by lawyers representing former Liberian President Charles Taylor.It ruled that his convictions had been proved beyond doubt.Taylor appeared impassive in court as the judge upheld his

DHAKA: At least 21 people have been killed in blasts targeting markets in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, reports say.Bombs in the Sabaa al-Bour area, north of Baghdad, killed at least 14 people, officials said. More than 40 others were reportedly injured as the area was packed with shoppers.A

DHAKA: Some of Europe`s key animals have made a comeback over the past 50 years, a report suggests.Conservationists say species such as bears, wolves, lynx, eagles and vultures have increased in numbers.They believe that protection, curbs on hunting and people moving away from rural areas

DHAKA: At least 158 people have been killed since fighting broke out earlier this month between separatist rebels and soldiers in the Philippines, state news reported Wednesday.The majority of those killed, 125, were militants from the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), the