Government lawyers in Cambodia moved on Friday to end opposition to the continued rule of Prime Minister Hun Sen, submitting a petition to the country’s Supreme Court that it formally dissolve the Cambodia National Rescue Party. The five lawyers representing the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) said the petition was based on complaints filed recently […]
Russian officials say at least 17 people have been killed after a train collided with a bus at a railway crossing east of Moscow. Regional police said the collision occurred at around 3:30 a.m. local time on October 6 near a train station close to the city of Vladimir. At least one child was among […]
Miss Universe Myanmar was stripped of her pageant title after posting a video accusing the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) of causing the ongoing violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, according to the beauty queen herself, Shwe Eain Si. The 19-year-old former queen posted the video on Facebook September 24 with the intention of informing netizens […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – The Middle East Eye has published an article about eastern Aleppo which the Syrian army managed to retake from the Islamic State group in December 2016. In the feature, the publication weighs in on the conditions that the Armenian community is living, the school that the children go to and the way they […]
Security forces Tuesday gunned down three suspected suicide bombers with a Pakistan-based terror outfit who allegedly attacked the Border Security Force (BSF) headquarters near Indian Kashmir’s heavily militarized Srinagar airport, police said. A BSF official was killed and four soldiers were wounded in the attack in the insurgency-torn Himalayan region that was blamed on Pakistan-based […]
Myanmar is willing to take back Rohingya refugees who fled to southeastern Bangladesh, the Bangladeshi foreign minister said Monday, after ending day-long talks with a trio of diplomats from Naypyidaw. No timeframe was set for the repatriation process, nor did officials clarify how many of the 900,000 Rohingya refugees sheltering in Bangladesh would be able […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s Foreign Ministry condemned the recent terrorist attacks in France’s Marseille and in Canada’s Edmonton that have killed and injured a number of people. In a statement on Sunday night, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi expressed sympathy with the families of victims of the terror attacks. “While some countries are unfortunately busy […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A former Bahraini opposition lawmaker criticized the Al Khalifa regime’s crackdown on dissidents, saying that in a latest development, security forces of the regime have arrested several youths and two women for protesting the desecration of religious signs. Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency, Jalal Fairooz said during this year’s mourning ceremonies […]
