A third Turkish national has been arrested in Malaysia this week on security-related charges as authorities rejected suggestions that the actions were taken at the behest of the Turkish government tracking down critics abroad linked to a failed coup last year. Inspector General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar said on Friday that Ismet Ozcelik, a […]
A mother and her two young children were among eight people killed in the Philippines this week during a bloody nationwide crackdown on drugs that has been criticized by human rights groups and is set to come under scrutiny at the United Nations. On Tuesday, police backed by soldiers in the southern province of Maguindanao […]
Malaysian police Wednesday announced the recent arrests of six Islamic State (IS) suspects and said they had warned Thai authorities about a seventh one, an alleged firearms smuggler, who fled across the border into southern Thailand. The arrests occurred in several Malaysian states from late March to late April and the suspect at-large, 27-year-old Muhammad […]
Pig farmers in Vietnam say they are operating at a loss amid falling domestic pork prices caused by China’s decision to cut imports and have called on the government to renegotiate a trade deal with Beijing in a bid to pull their industry out of a tailspin. China stopped buying live pigs from Vietnam in […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – Police in Istanbul fired tear gas and rubber bullets to break up a group of May Day demonstrators on Monday, May1 a Reuters witness said, as authorities detained more than 200 people at protests around the city. Protests for May Day, the international workers’ holiday, are an annual occurrence in Turkey and have […]
Indian police said Monday they had detained two people in connection with the weekend killings of a pair of suspected cattle thieves by a mob in northeastern Assam state. The fatal beatings of the two Muslim men in Nagaon district were the latest in a string of attacks in India allegedly carried out by so-called […]
The Philippine armed forces said Saturday it had killed a notorious Abu Sayyaf “sub-commander” wanted for a rash of abductions targeting Malaysians and Indonesians and for a 2002 bomb attack that left a U.S. soldier dead. Alhabsy Misaya was killed Friday by troops scouring the thick jungles of Jolo, in the southern tip of the […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – Turkish authorities on Saturday, April 29 blocked access to online encyclopedia Wikipedia, an internet monitoring group said, the latest in what government critics say is a crackdown on free speech on the internet, Reuters reports. A block on all language editions of the Wikipedia website was detected at 8:00 a.m. (0500 GMT) on […]
