TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Police have arrested a 20-year-old man suspected of planning to use an automatic rifle for a mass shooting on New Year’s Eve in downtown Melbourne, Australia’s second largest city. Victoria state police said on Tuesday that the man was acting alone and had not been able to acquire a firearm before his […]
Pope Francis met with Myanmar’s military commander on Monday during the first-ever papal visit to the Southeast Asian country amid scathing criticism by the international community over the government’s handling of the Rohingya Muslim crisis in Rakhine state. At a brief meeting in the commercial capital Yangon, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing told the pontiff […]
Indonesian authorities have closed the international airport on Bali island, one of the most popular tourist destinations in Asia, due to Mount Agung’s volcanic ash ejection, which has reached the area of the airport, according to reports from pilots. “We have conducted a meeting this morning and decided to suspend the airport’s operation for safety […]
On Wednesday, Singapore’s government announced its intention to have driverless buses operating on public roads from 2022. Driverless buses are to be first launched in three towns on less crowded roads made to be suitable for the purpose. The autonomous buses are to run during off-peak times, complementing human-driven bus services. According to the joint […]
The Thai embassy in Tokyo has issued a warning after learning that a large number of Thai travellers have been caught smuggling drugs into Japan via various airports since 2014. The warning was posted on the embassy’s Facebook page this week. Full story: thaipbs.or.th By Thai PBS
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The death toll in a bomb and gun attack on a mosque in northern Sinai has risen to 305, with 27 children among the dead, Egypt’s state prosecutor said Saturday. Another 128 people were injured, according to a statement from the public prosecutor read out on Egyptian state-run news channel Nile TV. […]
A Pakistani court’s decision Wednesday to set free the alleged mastermind of the deadly 2008 Mumbai terror attack left people in India expressing shock and outrage. Pakistani national Hafiz Saeed, co-founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and its offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD), has been under house arrest in Lahore since January and will likely walk free on Friday, […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Three people were shot dead and six others wounded in a rare episode of gun violence in China, police said on Wednesday, adding they were hunting for a number of suspects. Officers were deployed after receiving reports that people were hit by apparent gunfire during a fight on Tuesday night in Chaozhou […]
