A court in Cambodia has charged the second person in one week for allegedly threatening the life of Prime Minister Hun Sen on the head of state’s Facebook page, drawing concern from a rights group that suggested the post may have been faked to frighten online critics. The Phnom Penh Municipal Court charged Rom Chamroeurn, […]
The Center For Human Rights In Iran (CHRI) has voiced concern over what it says is a “disturbing trend” of arrests and imprisonments of Christian converts in Iran. The New York-based rights group said on July 20 that in less than two months, eleven Christian converts and the former leader of the Assyrian Pentecostal Church […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – Five German women are in custody following a military operation in the Iraqi city of Mosul. It is alleged that they travelled to the embattled city to support the Islamic State terror group (IS), Deutsche Welle reports. The five German women in remand are reportedly part of a group of 20 female fighters […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has asked Congress to extend martial law in the southern island of Mindanao until the end of the year to crush rebels inspired by the Daesh (also known as ISIL or ISIS) terrorist group, his spokesman said on Tuesday. Mindanao, an island of 22 million people with a […]
The Indonesian government has been asking Telegram to remove terrorism-related content from its encrypted chat groups since March 2016 but got a response only after it began to block access to the platform, officials said Monday. Telegram has now apologized and begun responding to some of its requests, according to a statement released by the […]
Palangkaraya, by any standards, is not well-known outside Indonesia. But the city on the island of Borneo is quickly becoming a newsmaker after experts started debating the concept of relocating the nation’s capital following a government official’s statement that President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo ordered a feasibility study. Bambang Brodjonegoro, chief of the National Development Planning […]
German officials said on Saturday they had been left “dismayed and furious” by the stabbing of two German women at an Egyptian beach resort, calling it a deliberate attack on foreign tourists. An Egyptian man stabbed the two German tourists to death and wounded at least four others on Friday at a popular seaside vacation […]
Hundreds of thousands of people across Turkey took part in the marches and processions, dedicated to the first anniversary of the attempted military coup in Turkey, timed to the Day of Democracy and National Unity on July 15. ANKARA (Sputnik) — The most large-scale events took place in the Turkish biggest cities of Istanbul and […]
