TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Floods in northeast India that have killed at least 40 people and displaced nearly 1.5 million have also inundated a national park that is home to the world’s largest concentration of one-horned rhinoceros. The Brahmaputra river, which flows from China down to India and then through Bangladesh, has burst its banks after […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – Chinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo has died, the government of the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang, where he was being treated for late-stage liver cancer, said on Thursday, July 13, according to Reuters. The Shenyang legal bureau said in a brief statement on its website that Liu had suffered multiple organ failure […]
A Vietnamese sailor from a crew held for five months by Islamic militants in the Philippines was killed during a firefight with Filipino troops over the weekend, Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry said Wednesday, a week after captors beheaded two other hostages when their ransom demands were not met. Vietnam’s state media quoted Ministry of Foreign Affairs […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – Turkish police killed five Islamic State group militants in a firefight that erupted during a raid on a house in the central city of Konya, officials said Wednesday, July 12. Four police officers were slightly wounded in the operation, The Associated Press reports. Eight other militants were detained in a series of other […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Turkey has sent 197 cargo planes, 16 trucks and one ship to Qatar since the crisis broke out last month between it and other Persian Gulf States, Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci stated. “Turkey has so far sent a total of 197 cargo planes, 16 trucks and one ship to meet the daily […]
A Saudi-backed anti-terrorism center that was to be housed at a state university south of Kuala Lumpur will instead occupy a 40-acre (16-hectare) site in Malaysia’s administrative capital, officials have announced. Announcing the development after a meeting with top Saudi officials at his official residence, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak stressed what he said was […]
China’s top three internet service providers have been given until next February to prevent the country’s cell phone users from using circumvention tools to view online content hosted outside the Great Firewall. State-run China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Telecom have all been told to ensure their 1.3 billion subscribers can’t access blocked content with […]
On Friday, the supreme court of India overruled a High Court decision which identified rivers Ganga and Yamuna as living entities. The appeal, filed by the state government of Uttarakhand from which these two rivers originate, claimed the decision was “unsustainable in the law”. Days after the Whanganui River was identified as living being in […]
