One of the largest Christian evangelical groups in the Philippines openly broke away from President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday, calling on him to stop his “murderous” war on drugs that has raised international concerns. Eddie Villanueva, head of the four million-member Jesus is Lord (JIL) movement, expressed “grave concern” over killings in counter-narcotics operations and […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – At least four people were killed and five others injured after a gas cylinder exploded inside a house in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz, the provincial capital city of Khuzestan, a local official said. Speaking to Tasnim, Kiomars Hajizadeh, the director general of the province’s Crisis Management Directorate, said the incident […]
Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev inked an executive order on Friday telling his government to prepare the Kazakh alphabet for a transition to Latin letters from Cyrillic ones by 2025. ALMATY (Sputnik) — “The government of Kazakhstan is to set up a national commission to change the Kazakh alphabet to Latin script; organize a gradual switch […]
India is investigating the whereabouts of dozens of its citizens who allegedly left for the Middle East to fight alongside Islamic State (IS), an official said Thursday, almost a week after U.S.-backed forces declared the “total liberation” of the terror outfit’s stronghold in Syria. The National Investigation Agency (NIA), India’s top counter-terror unit, has launched […]
Myanmar signed agreements with Bangladesh on Tuesday to beef up security cooperation and set up border liaison offices to deal with the exodus of Rohingya Muslims who have fled recent violence in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state. Myanmar’s Home Affairs Minister Lieutenant General Kyaw Swe and Bangladesh’s Home Secretary Mostafa Kamal Uddin signed two memorandums of […]
The Philippines ended a five-month long security crisis with a final assault Monday on a building held by pro-Islamic State (IS) fighters in Marawi, killing 42 militants, including five foreigners, government officials said. The siege of the southern Philippine city launched by IS-linked militants on May 23 left 1,132 enemy combatants, soldiers and civilians dead, […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – A Russian soldier in Armenia involuntarily killed a fellow serviceman and shot himself because of fear of responsibility. “On October 23, during the process of handing over the weapons after training at the Alagyaz firing range (Republic of Armenia), a contract serviceman brutally violated security requirements and fired from an assault rifle, fatally […]
The Lao government wants its national airline to resume flights to a small airport in the country’s southeastern Attapeu province, though operations were suspended a year ago because of low passenger numbers and mounting debt, a government official who manages Laos’ airports said. Lao Airlines had started operating regularly scheduled service to Attapeu International Airport […]
