As reported by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, will be travelling to Pyongyang for a visit with his North Korean counterpart tomorrow. The agenda is set to cover relations between the two nations, as well as covering areas of regional and international concern. The North Korean Foreign Minister, […]
Buddhist monks in Thailand took to social media to call for violence against Muslims last year, the United States government said Tuesday in its latest annual report on curbs to religious freedom worldwide. The U.S. State Department also highlighted concerns about issues affecting minority groups in Malaysia, Indonesia, India and Bangladesh, in its report that […]
Authorities in the northeastern Chinese province of Jilin sent in emergency rescue teams after a 5.7-magnitude earthquake rocked the city of Songyuan early on Monday, officials said. State-run news agency Xinhua said no casualties had yet been reported after the quake hit Songyuan’s Ningjiang distict at 1.50 a.m., but panicked residents left their homes and […]
A businessman in his fifties and his nephew, both Kurdish Shiites living in Sweden who traveled to Kirkuk in northern Iraq to meet relatives, have been kidnapped and later appeared to have been executed. A propaganda film posted by Daesh has shown two men from Sweden executed by jihadis. The two men have been identified […]
On Saturday, Egypt’s top-administration court ordered a one-month ban on video-sharing website YouTube over an anti-Islamic video, Innocence of Muslims. The thirteen-minute low-budget video was released in 2012 and led to protests and violent clashes over negative depiction of Islamic prophet Mohammad, in several Muslim-majority countries including Yemen, Libya, Iraq, Sudan, Bangladesh and Tunisia. The […]
U.S. President Donald Trump says he is still looking at a June 12 summit date with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore, just days after the U.S. leader said he was canceling the historic meeting. “We’re doing very well in terms of the summit with North Korea,” Trump said at the White House […]
Pakistan’s Bahria University has issued a bizarre dictate which requires male and female students at the university to keep a minimum distance of six inches between themselves or face disciplinary action. New Delhi (Sputnik) — The Bahria University authorities have justified the move by claiming that touching of unrelated males and females is forbidden in […]
In what is being termed as a serious viral outbreak, three members of a Kerala family have succumbed to a rare viral infection known to be transmitted by bats. The Nipah virus (NiV), first identified in April 1999, is believed to catalyst a host of physical and neurological conditions in human beings as well as […]
