TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Pakistan’s Supreme Court ruled to disqualify Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from his position as leader of the country’s government. Friday’s landmark ruling comes after months of hearings in a case instigated by the “Panama Papers” leaks, related to alleged corruption during his previous two terms in office. A five-member bench of the […]
Authorities in the city of Dawei in southeastern Myanmar’s Tanintharyi region on Thursday ordered all schools closed for five days and more than 20,000 chickens to be culled amid an outbreak of the highly contagious avian influenza. The moves come a day after confirmation from tests on poultry carcasses confirmed that thousands of birds had […]
The Taliban claimed responsibility for a suicide attack in Lahore, Pakistan on Monday which killed at least 26 people and left 58 others injured. There is a strong connection between this wave of violence and the rise of extremist schools in the country. Sputnik takes a look at this issue. Recently the Cabinet of Ministers […]
PHUKET: Mark Coutelas, made famous by the iconic “Solo” lemon-flavoured soft drink advertisements in Australia in the 1980s and arrested in Phuket for crystal meth twice, now faces drugs charges in Cambodia. Coutelas, 57, was arrested by military police at a guesthouse in Sihanoukville and yesterday (July 25) appeared at Preah Sihanouk provincial court under […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – Taiwan is prepared to defend itself against China if necessary, the self-ruled island’s defense ministry said on Tuesday, July 25, in a strongly worded response to recent flybys by Chinese warplanes near the island China claims as a wayward province, Reuters reports. China’s military has flown several fighter and reconnaissance aircraft near Taiwan […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ramped up his anti-Western rhetoric Tuesday, July 25 ahead of a meeting between his foreign minister and top European Union officials, saying the era of a submissive Turkey bowing to every Western demand is over, The Associated Press reports. Turkey has been mired in an escalating diplomatic row […]
Pakistani officials say at least 14 people have been killed in a blast in the eastern city of Lahore. The explosion occurred July 24 on a busy road in Lahore, the capital of Punjab Province. Police cordoned off the area and ambulances rushed to the scene to carry the wounded to nearby hospitals. Jam Sajjad […]
The Philippine Congress on Saturday voted to extend President Rodrigo Duterte’s martial law for five months in the southern island of Mindanao, giving security officials more time to end what they said was a rebellion by local militants backed by the Islamic State (IS). Duterte previously said the extension was necessary to crush IS-backed militants […]
