Rathedaung township authorities are investigating the deaths of three villagers whose mutilated bodies were found by a river on Monday in the violence-ridden northern part of Myanmar’s Rakhine state, the office of State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi said. The corpses of Iman Nusaw, 54, Nawra King, 18, and Nora Long, 15 were found decapitated […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – An Armenian contract serviceman was wounded in Azerbaijan’s cross-border fire near the town of Ijevan on Tuesday, August 1. “The soldier was take to Ijevan medical center,” Aysor.am cited defense ministry press secretary Artsrun Hovhannisyan as saying. The injured serviceman’s condition is assessed as stable. Full story: panarmenian.net PanARMENIAN Network
Philippine police said Monday that they found the decomposing bodies of seven Filipinos who were kidnapped and beheaded by Abu Sayyaf gunmen on the southern island of Basilan. Two of the seven executed men were abducted two weeks ago by gunmen under Abu Sayyaf sub-commander Furuji Indama, who has been blamed for kidnappings and beheadings […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – Nearly 500 people appeared in court Tuesday, August 1 in the biggest trial yet of suspects from Turkey’s failed coup, facing charges of conspiring to oust the government from an air base seen as the plotters’ hub, AFP reports. A total of 486 suspects have been indicted in the case and almost all […]
A mayor, his wife and at least 13 others were killed Sunday when Philippine police launched predawn raids at the homes of local politicians accused by President Rodrigo Duterte of being drug traffickers. Among those killed was Mayor Reynaldo Parojinog of southern Ozamiz city, his wife, Susan, and brother, Octavio, who was a town official. […]
Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang region have issued a directive completely banning the use of the Uyghur language at all education levels up to and including secondary school, according to official sources, and those found in violation of the order will face “severe punishment.” The new ban marks one of the strongest measures yet from […]
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says police have broken up a terrorist plot to bring down an airliner after they raided several homes in the Sydney area and arrested four men. “I can report last night that there has been a major joint counterterrorism operation to disrupt a terrorist plot to bring down an airplane,” […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – North Korea appears to have conducted another missile test, media in Japan and South Korea report, according to BBC News. The missile appeared to land in Japanese waters, Japan’s national broadcaster NHK said. In early July, Pyongyang claimed to have successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) for the first time. That test […]
