SHIRAZ (Tasnim) – An earthquake measuring 4 on the Richter scale jolted a district near Iran’s southern city of Darab in Fars Province on Friday. According to Tasnim dispatches, the earthquake hit Do Borji village in Fars Province at 10:28 a.m. local time. The epicenter, with a depth of 22km, was determined to be at […]
A Malaysian court on Thursday charged two teenagers with 23 counts of murder for allegedly causing a fire that killed 21 students and two teachers at an Islamic school in Kuala Lumpur two weeks ago. The two 16-year-old suspects haven’t entered a plea in the blaze that engulfed the third-floor dormitory of the Darul Quran […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – The Islamic State claimed that it captured alive two Russian soldiers when the jihadi militants launched a counter-offensive on Syrian army position along the Sukhna-Deir highway, Al-Masdar News reports. The incident occurred when the terror group blitzed al-Shola town located along the road linking Deir ez-Zor to al-Sukhnak. Both towns have for long […]
The sign greeting customers in his shop had created a national ruckus, but the owner of a “Muslim-friendly” laundromat in Malaysia’s Johor state on Wednesday dropped his policy excluding people of other faiths, when the local Sultan ordered him to apologize and be inclusive. The 40-year-old owner said he was carrying out his duty as […]
Women in Saudi Arabia are now legally allowed to obtain driving licences following a decree issued by King Salman today. The Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported that the King had issued the order after “we looked into what the negative consequences of not allowing women to drive, and the positive aspects of allowing them to […]
A Palestinian opened fire on Israeli guards and Border Police forces outside the entrance to a settlement in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) early Thursday morning, killing three. The gunman was shot, and died of his wounds. The incident took place outside Har Adar, an Israeli settlement near Jerusalem in the West Bank. The three […]
An Indonesian militant linked to the Islamic State (IS) group smiled after a court in Jakarta sentenced him on Monday to life in prison for a church attack that killed a toddler and injured three other children last year. Jo bin Muhammad Aceng Kurnia (alias Juhanda) threw a Molotov cocktail at Oikumene Church in Samarinda, […]
Over 34,000 people have fled areas close to a volcano on the island of Bali in fear of an imminent eruption, its first in over 50 years. The volcano, located some 50 miles from Kuta, a popular tourist destination, has been rumbling since August. Mount Agung last eruption, in 1963, killed over 1,000 people. According […]
