At least 64 people are confirmed dead and many others injured in a massive fire at a shopping center in Siberia, Russian officials say. The death toll from the fire that began on March 25 could still go higher as the search progresses through the building in the city of Kemerovo, 3,000 kilometers east of […]
A court in Myanmar’s Mandalay district sentenced a child rapist and murderer to death on Friday in one of the latest in a growing number of sexual assault cases reported in the Southeast Asian country, media sources said. Phyo Htet Aung, 23, was sentenced in the district court in Pyin Oo Lwin township after being […]
A passenger bus smashed into a bridge before plunging into a ravine in the central Philippines, killing at least 19 passengers and injuring 21 others, police said Wednesday. The bus was traveling near the mountainous town of San Agustin in central Occidental Mindoro province Tuesday night when it veered off the highway and struck the […]
Australia and the ASEAN bloc agreed during a weekend summit in Sydney to bolster the fight against terrorism and maintain efforts to keep regional peace amid territorial disputes, officials said Monday. The special meeting between host Australia and leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations was supposed to focus more on trade, but longstanding […]
An incident early this month in which 24 Hmong Christians in Vietnam’s northwestern highlands were attacked by a mob led by a village chief in a violent attempt to make the them renounce their faith underscores a deterioration in religious freedom in the communist state, critics said on Tuesday. On March 1, 24 Hmong villagers […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – A British woman has reportedly been killed while fighting with the Kurdish forces in Syria’s Afrin as the Turkish military entirely seized the city, Al-Masdar News says. Anna Campbell, 26, was a member of a female Kurdish unit fighting the Turkish military and its proxies in the Kurdish region of Afrin. According to […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena lifted the state of emergency declared on March 6 as fighting between the majority Sinhalese Buddhists and minority Muslims subsided, according to the official notification issued on Sunday. “The state of emergency declared on March 06, 2018 according to the instructions given by President Maithripala Sirisena has […]
A popular North Korean beer banned under international sanctions for export outside the country is now being bottled in China and sold to restaurants as a smuggled product, sources living near the border say. The Daedong River Beer now being bought in China is not a genuine North Korean product, but is a fake, a […]
