The case of an 11-year-old boy who died Wednesday after his legs were amputated following an alleged beating by an official at a religious school is being investigated as a homicide, Malaysia’s police chief said. Mohamad Thaqif Amin Mohd Gaddafi died at 2:05 p.m. Wednesday (local time). Doctors at the Hospital Sultan Ismail had considered […]
Eight Iranian border guards were killed in the south of the country by a group of “terrorists” that sneaked from Pakistan, police said in a statement. MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The border guards were killed Wednesday in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan near the border with Pakistan. Full story: sputniknews.com Sputnik International
Security personnel along North Korea’s border with China are encouraging residents to use illegal cellphones operating on Chinese satellite networks or defect in return for “protection” fees to make up for bribes that have dried up amid heightened controls in the region, sources said. Illegal crossings of the Yalu and Tumen rivers—separating North Korea from […]
A US citizen engaged in relief efforts in Pyongyang has been detained attempting to leave North Korea, the third American to be arrested recently. Tony Kim, who also goes by the Korean name of Kim Sang-duc, was arrested on Saturday at Pyongyang’s Sunan International Airport as he was preparing to depart from North Korea, following […]
More than fifteen people were killed near the police station in Yerpedu, Andhra Pradesh, India after a heavily loaded truck lost control on Friday afternoon at about 1:45 P.M. IST (0815 UTC). People, mostly from the village of Munagalapalem, were gathered to protest local illegal sand mining. The truck hit an electric pole, and destroyed […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – Social media users across Facebook have come to complain about ticket scams and hacks they experienced when trying to purchase tickets for the Armenian Genocide-themed movie “The Promise”, a representative from the Armenian National Committee of America said in a Facebook post. The war drama centers on a love story involving a medical […]
At least eight people were killed Friday when homemade crude bombs went off accidentally in the Indian state of West Bengal, police said. The blast, which critically injured four others, occurred at the village of Darbarpur in Labpur, a sub-district of Birbhum district, about 130 km (80 miles) from state capital Kolkata. “A gang of […]
According to the CENTCOM spokesperson, more than 50 individuals died in an attack by the Taliban on an Afghan National Army compound. WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — More than 50 individuals died in an attack by the Taliban terror group (banned in Russia) on an Afghan National Army (ANA) compound in the northern Afghan province of Balkh, […]
