PanARMENIAN.Net – Football fans will reportedly be allowed to bring cocaine and marijuana to the 2018 FIFA World Cup as long as they go through the bureaucratic hoops necessary to secure papers, The Moscow Times reports. The Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union grants travelers the right to bring banned substances into the country with supporting medical […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A German national has been arrested with the Taliban in Afghanistan’s insurgency-racked Helmand province, officials said late Wednesday, a rare example of a European among the insurgents. “A man with a long beard, wearing a black turban who identified himself as a German citizen and speaks German, was taken along with three […]
More than 2,000 people have been wounded as a result of the Assad regime’s bombing of Ghouta between 19-27 February, Mahmoud Serag, a Syrian journalist in the besieged enclave told MEMO in an exclusive report. In his eyewitness account, Serag said 600 of those injured are children and more than 500 are women. In addition […]
Rodrigo Duterte was elected the 16th president of the Philippines in 2016 after serving for more than 22 years as the mayor of the country’s city of Davao. The Philippines’ President Rodrigo Duterte won’t run for another presidential term and is ready to resign in advance, the Straits Times news outlet said Wednesday, citing Duterte’s […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Manama regime has already sentenced nearly two dozen political dissidents to death as the ruling Al Khalifah dynasty presses ahead with its heavy-handed crackdown on pro-democracy campaigners in Bahrain, a human rights activist said Tuesday. President of Bahrain Forum for Human Rights Yusuf Rabie, in a post published on his official […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – Thousands of poor women in India’s Tamil Nadu state have been offered free cosmetic breast surgery, including implants, its health minister said Friday, because “poor people also have a right to look beautiful”, AFP reports. The southern Indian state is known for its populist schemes, which have previously included free canteens and providing […]
A new plan announced by Taiwan’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sets a timetable for completely phasing out single-use plastic items such as straws, cups and shopping bags by 2030. Facing a massive marine waste crisis and with Taiwan’s landfills projected to reach capacity in the next six years, according to the Wall Street Journal, the […]
Cambodia’s King Norodom Sihamoni left the country on Thursday for a medical checkup in China, a day after the country’s Senate approved a new law making it a crime to insult the monarch along with controversial changes to several articles of the constitution. The constitutional changes and the strict lèse-majesté law were adopted by the […]
