As Philippine authorities announced the capture on Thursday of a suspected bomber for an Islamic State-linked (IS) group battling government forces in Marawi, a local official said witnesses reported seeing scores of bodies strewn in the city’s streets. Some residents were believed to be trapped in areas controlled by IS-affiliated militants in the southern Philippine […]
A total of seven people were killed and 66 others were injured in an explosion outside a kindergarten in eastern China, local government said Thursday. MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Earlier in the day, local police said an explosion had occurred outside a kindergarten in Xuzhou in east China’s Jiangsu province at around 4:50 p.m. (08:50 GMT). […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – China successfully launched on Thursday its first X-ray space telescope to study black holes, pulsars and gamma-ray bursts, state media reported. A Long March-4B rocket carried the 2.5-tonne telescope into orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China’s Gobi Desert at 11:00 am (3:00 GMT), according to AFP. The Hard […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – The Philippines military said it arrested one of the Maute brothers on Thursday, June 15 a senior member of the Islamic State-backed militants it is fighting in a southern city, according to Reuters. Mohammad Noaim Maute, alias Abu Jadid, was arrested at a checkpoint near the coastal city of Cagayan de Oro just […]
Indonesia’s first accused would-be female suicide bomber and her husband appeared in a Jakarta area court Wednesday to stand trial on charges stemming from their alleged botched attempt to attack the Presidential Palace in the nation’s capital last year. Defendants Dian Yulia Novi and Muhammad Nur Solihin face charges of conspiring, attempting or assisting the […]
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered authorities in the isolated, communist state to expand a crackdown on illegal cell phone use to cover citizens who have links to defectors in South Korea, sources familiar with the situation said. In the past, authorities targeted only actual cell phone users and sent them to a […]
Lampang: Local authorities in this northern province are speeding up efforts to help at least 10 Thai nationals believed to have been lured to work in a massage parlour in China and who ended up becoming illegal migrant workers there. The move is in response to a complaint filed with local authorities by Anuphong Tachina. […]
A leader of the conservative Muslim group Indonesian Mujahidin Council (MMI) on Tuesday rejected the U.S. State Department’s designation a day earlier that branded it a global terrorist group. As a result of the official U.S. listing of MMI – known in Indonesian as Majelis Mujahideen Indonesia – American citizens are prohibited from engaging in […]
