The local emergency services are investigating the information about the crash of the Russian An-148 in Moscow region, the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations said Sunday. A total of 65 passengers and six crew members were on board of An-148 plane of Saratov Airlines which had disappeared from the radars in the Moscow Region, the […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The South Korean president has been invited to travel to North Korea, following a formal invitation from the country’s leader Kim Jong Un, potentially setting up the first meeting of Korean leaders since 2007. The invite, presented to South Korean President Moon Jae-in by Kim’s younger sister, Kim Yo Jong, was delivered […]
Cambodian police arrested a former opposition party activist on Thursday on charges of insulting the ruling Cambodian People’s Party after the woman, who had fled the country to avoid arrest, was expelled from neighboring Thailand for overstaying her visa, Cambodian media reported today. Sam Sokha, 38, had posted a video on April 1, 2017, of […]
Almost all dog meat restaurants in South Korea’s Pyeongchang county have defied request from the government to stop serving it during the Winter Olympics. Local authorities asked 12 dog meat restaurants located in Pyeongchang county to stop serving the meat during the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea in exchange for subsidies, but ten have […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Rescuers were working Wednesday to reach five people trapped and more than 140 people unaccounted for in several buildings damaged by a strong earthquake near Taiwan’s eastern coast. The shallow, magnitude 6.4 quake late Tuesday night caused at least four buildings in worst-hit Hualien County to cave in and tilt dangerously, killing […]
The devastating earthquake in Taiwan’s city of Hua-lien killed at least two people and injured some 115, the Chinese CGTN TV reports. Earlier, the Taiwan government reported a hotel building collapsed in the city of Hua-lien as a result of the earthquake that shook the city earlier. At least 17 people are reported blocked inside […]
Israel has issued notices to 20,000 African migrants, most of whom are from Eritrea and the Sudan, according to Reuters. Migrants are being offered $3,500 and a plane ticket to sub-saharan Africa, which they will either accept or face jail time. The Supreme Court ruled back in August that these migrants can be held for […]
A French pharmaceutical firm Monday rejected a Philippine government demand to fully refund about 3.2 billion pesos (U.S. $62 million) paid for a dengue vaccine found to be potentially hazardous and that health officials said could be linked to the deaths of three schoolchildren. Sanofi Pasteur had already reimbursed Manila for unused doses of Dengvaxia […]
