Kuala Lumpur Fire Department reports that a fire at school in Malaysia claimed lives of at least 25 people. MOSCOW (Sputnik) — A blaze at a religious school in Malaysia’s capital Kuala Lumpur killed at least 25 students and staff on Thursday, the City Fire Department has said. “Based on our information at the moment, […]
An Indian Catholic priest who was abducted by Islamic State (IS) in Yemen more than 18 months ago has been rescued, a top official said Tuesday. Priest Tom Uzhunnalil, a native of south India’s Kerala state, was kidnapped on March 4, 2016, when gunmen stormed an old-people’s home run by Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Germany’s government says two of its citizens have been detained in Turkey in another indication of the risk Germans currently face when traveling to the country. A Foreign Ministry spokesman says the couple, who are of Turkish origin, were detained Sunday in Istanbul, AP reported. Martin Schaefer told reporters Monday one person […]
More than a thousand residents of northwestern Myanmar’s Rakhine state may have died in recent weeks of ethnic clashes, a number far greater than that provided in government estimates, a U.N. representative for Myanmar says. Though official tolls point to only 432 killed, including 15 security personnel and 30 civilians, “perhaps a thousand or more […]
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak will meet U.S. President Donald Trump for talks next week amid criticism that the White House would host a tainted leader linked to a multi-million dollar corruption scandal that’s being investigated in Washington and half a dozen nations. The visit would mark the 60th anniversary of U.S.-Malaysia bilateral relations and […]
Seeking to curb some of the worst urban air pollution in the world, China will join other nations to push for only electric vehicles on its city streets, eventually banning the sale and use of internal-combustion engines powered by fossil fuels. Currently in the planning stages of the ban, including detailing the move’s completion date, […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Egypt announced the discovery of a pharaonic tomb in the southern city of Luxor belonging to a royal goldsmith who lived more than 3,500 years ago during the reign of the 18th dynasty. The tomb is located on the west bank of the river Nile in a cemetery where noblemen and top […]
Three days after Indian journalist Gauri Lankesh was gunned down outside her home in the southern state of Karnataka, police have not identified her attackers. Lankesh, 55, editor of Lankesh Patrike, a Kannada weekly and publisher of her own weekly Gauri Lankesh Patrike, was shot and killed by unidentified assailants outside her Bangalore home on […]
