An Indian court on Thursday sentenced two men to death and two others to life in prison for the country’s deadliest terrorist bombings that killed more than 250 people in Mumbai 24 years ago. The series of 13 blasts that ripped through the western coastal city of Mumbai, known as India’s financial hub, on March […]
Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday vowed to remain in power for another decade, a day after a court charged the head of the country’s opposition party with treason for allegedly trying to topple the government. Speaking to around 10,000 garment industry workers at a factory in the capital Phnom Penh, Hun Sen, 65, […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A total of 2,054 people have been killed by a cholera outbreak in war-torn Yemen since late April, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday. In a statement, the UN agency said 618,209 suspected cases of cholera have been registered in the country since April 27. The Al-Hudayda province saw the biggest […]
Investigators in Indian-administered Kashmir have identified a fringe group they claim is responsible for bringing Islamic State flags into the funerals of suspected militants and anti-India demonstrations, a police leader said Tuesday. The unnamed group is striving to establish an Islamic caliphate in Kashmir and is led by Zakir Rashid Bhat, alias Zakir Musa, a […]
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has congratulated his counterpart Bashar al-Assad after Syrian state media said government troops broke a three-year long siege of the eastern city of Deir al-Zour by Islamic State (IS) forces. Putin hailed the announcement on September 5 as an “important strategic victory” in the conflict, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters […]
Tajikistan legislators have introduced a bill requiring women to “stick to traditional national clothes and culture,” and the move has sparked controversy with some who argue that it is primarily directed against Islamic clothing. The legislation is an amendment to an existing law on “streamlining of traditions, celebrations and ceremonies” in the country and, while […]
Malaysian authorities have arrested eight suspected members of the southern Philippine-based Abu Sayyaf Group militant group in Kuala Lumpur, including a leading Filipino ASG operative, Malaysia’s counter-terrorist police chief confirmed. The suspects, two Philippine nationals and six Malaysians, were picked up by police in the Kuala Lumpur district of Cheras on Wednesday – the eve […]
Two people, including a baby and a woman, were killed by a landslide in the Vietnamese province of Yen Bai. MOSCOW (Sputnik) — At least two people were killed and seven more were injured in a landslide that hit northern Vietnam, local media reported Monday. An 8-month old child and a woman were killed by […]
