Former two-term President Mahmud Ahmadinejad, a fierce conservative who was in power during a harsh crackdown on dissenters before seemingly falling afoul of Iran’s supreme leader, has registered to run in next month’s presidential vote. It is unclear whether the powerful vetting body that routinely bars hundreds and even thousands of potential candidates from elections […]
According to representatives from the Russian LGBT Network and reports that appeared this week in the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, over 100 homosexual men in the Chechen Republic have been rounded up and taken to prison camps, and at least three of the prisoners have been killed. The Network’s Svetlana Zakharova told MailOnline and […]
A border officer in Cambodia who made headlines last year for pretending to be hit by a car driven by an opposition activist is now being sought by police for shooting a colleague over the weekend, a spokesperson for the country’s Ministry of Interior said Monday. Chhean Pisith, a deputy chief of the border checkpoint […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – Pakistan will execute an Indian man arrested in the southwestern province of Balochistan last year who officials claim has confessed to being a spy for Indian intelligence, the country’s powerful military said Monday, April 10, according to AFP. The man, named by the army as Kulbushan Sudhir Jadhav who also goes by the […]
A blast has hit a church in Egypt killing at least 21 and wounding scores of people. The explosion reportedly occurred inside St. George church in the city of Tanta to the north of Egypt’s capital. It happened on Palm Day, a Christian feast commemorating the entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem. Full story: sputniknews.com […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – A trio of strong earthquakes damaged buildings and caused panicked tourists to flee a popular dive resort near the Philippine capital on Saturday, April 8, officials and eyewitnesses said, according to AFP. There were no immediate reports of casualties from the quakes, the strongest of which hit the coast close to Mabini, a […]
Indonesia police and military officers shot and killed six suspected militants and arrested one after the group fled into the woods following a traffic stop in Tuban regency, East Java province, officials told BenarNews. East Java police spokesman Frans Barung Mangera said the shootout occurred around 4:10 p.m. after the joint force surrounded the suspected […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – Malaysia will stage its final Formula One Grand Prix in October after the government and the sport’s commercial rights holders announced on Friday, April 7 that their hosting agreement would end a year early, Reuters reports. The Southeast Asian country has hosted a round of the world championships at the Sepang International Circuit […]
