Myanmar signed an agreement with two United Nations agencies on Wednesday to assist with the repatriation of some of the nearly 700,000 Rohingya Muslims who fled a violent military crackdown in northern Rakhine state and are now living in overcrowded displacement camps in Bangladesh. The memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the U.N.’s development (UNDP) and […]
Ten Thais and two Taiwanese were arrested during a joint raid by Thai and Malaysian police on a house in Penang, Malaysia, used as a base by a Taiwanese-led phone-call syndicate late on Tuesday night. Thai tourist police accompanied officers from Malaysia’s economic crime suppression unit to the large house in a hilly area of […]
Indonesian counterterror police are questioning six men detained in Sumatra on the weekend, including three who were allegedly plotting to bomb Indonesia’s national parliament, officials said. Police picked up three individuals in Pringsewu, near the southern tip of Sumatra, on Sunday, Amran Ampulembang, an intelligence official at Lampung regional police, told BenarNews. The day before, […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – The Turkish Armed Forces advanced at least 26 kilometers (km) into Iraqi territory this past weekend, as they continue their military operations against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Al-Masdar News reports. “Our soldiers advanced between 26 to 27 kilometres in northern Iraq, and there is not much left to liberate in Qandil,” […]
An Iraqi court has sentenced a French woman to life in prison for membership in the Islamic State (IS) extremist group. Melina Boughedir, a mother of four, was initially sentenced to six months in prison for entering the country illegally. However, the court ordered a retrial after prosecutors presented new evidence, including photos of her […]
Three Dalit men were brutally hacked to death with machetes and other weapons by a group of upper caste Hindus in India’s southern Tamil Nadu state Monday night. The men were attacked for sitting with their legs crossed, which the caste Hindus took as a grave insult. The attack occurred in Kachanatham village, in Tamil […]
Both houses of the Philippine Congress have passed a proposed law that will eventually allow self-rule for Muslims in the southern Mindanao region, but the chambers have come under criticism for allegedly watering-down certain provisions of the legislation. President Rodrigo Duterte had earlier certified as urgent the passage of the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL), which, […]
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Wednesday he would reconsider resuming a search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 if new information emerged, while his transport minister announced that a final report on the joint international hunt would be publicized in July. Ocean Infinity, a U.S. seabed exploration company, on Tuesday ended its search for the […]
