Chinese authorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang have banned dozens of baby names with religious meanings that are widely used by Muslims elsewhere in the world, RFA has learned. Sources in Hotan, in the southern part of the region, had previously detailed a list of banned names in 2015, but the ban now appears […]
Trying to impress his girlfriend, a 28-year-old married man from Hyderabad sent a false tip-off to Indian security agencies that sent airports in Mumbai, Chennai and Hyderabad into a tizzy on Sunday over a hijack threat. New Delhi (Sputnik) — Security agencies conducted major anti-terror drills, deploying sniffer dogs and other measures to thwart any […]
Iranian state TV says the body charged with vetting candidates has disqualified former hard-line President Mahmud Ahmadinejad from running in next month’s presidential election. Although Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had previously urged him not to run, Ahmadinejad shocked the country by registering last week. Ahmadinejad was president from 2005 to 2013, and was […]
NEW DELHI (Sputnik) – At least 44 people died after a bus carrying over 50 passengers fell into a river in northern India, local media reported Wednesday. “[Forty-four] people dead after a bus falls into Tons river in Shimla district of Himachal Pradesh,” the ANI news service said on Twitter. Full story: sputniknews.com Sputnik International
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Russian counterintelligence agency, the FSB, said Wednesday that its agents have killed two men suspected of planning to carry out terror attacks in Russia. The FSB said the suspects, both from Central Asia, were killed in a shootout when they resisted arrest in a home in the Vladimir region east of […]
Pakistan’s National Assembly passed a unanimous resolution on April 18 condemning what it called the “barbaric and cold-blooded murder” of a university student by other students who accused him of blasphemy. A group of students at the Abdul Wali Khan University in the conservative northwestern city of Mardan beat and shot Mashal Khan dead within […]
Farmers involved in a land dispute in Vietnam’s capital Hanoi freed 15 riot police Tuesday held in the aftermath of a clash with authorities over the weekend and said they are preparing to release around 20 additional local officials, according to state media. On the morning of April 15, police clashed with residents of Dong […]
If tactical nuclear weapons are deployed on the Korean Peninsula by Pyongyang or Washington, Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is confident Tokyo will have a tentative framework to prepare for what would be a massive surge in asylum seekers. The situation has played out tit-for-tat: North Korea insists the US is the aggressor, and that […]
