Lao police have arrested fugitive drug kingpin Sisouk Dauheuang, an associate of Xaysana “Mr. X “ Keophimpha who had been on the run since Xaysana’s capture in January, security sources told RFA’s Lao Service on Sunday. Sisouk was caught by police in Luang Prabang province on Friday, and was taken to the capital Vientiane for […]
A South Korean cargo ship with 24 crew members has gone missing in the South Atlantic Ocean. Two Filipino sailors were rescued from a life raft, South Korea’s Yonhap News agency reported. The Ship last made contact in the South Atlantic approximately 2,500 kilometers from shore, with the remaining 22 crew members unaccounted for. A […]
The United States on Thursday declared Indonesian Bahrun Naim and Malaysian Muhammad Wanndy Mohamed Jedi, suspected Islamic State fighters based in Iraq and Syria who are wanted for IS-linked attacks, as Specially Designated Global Terrorists. The two men provide financial and operational support for IS recruitment and for attack plots in Indonesia, Malaysia, and elsewhere […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – The biggest ever gold deposit of an estimated 380 tons has been discovered in China, announced Shandong Gold Group during a news conference in Beijing on Tuesday, March 28. As RT said citing local media reports, the Xiling gold seam in eastern China is more than 2,000 meters long and 67 meters wide. […]
North Korean police have started to strictly control the movement of residents and throw those without proper documents into detention facilities as they try to fill a gap in monitoring residents’ activities neglected by state security agents, sources inside the authoritarian country said. The country’s Stasi-like secret police have been trying to control North Koreans […]
Shocked residents in the northern Israeli town of Tiberias alerted authorities on Wednesday to a man walking down the street at midnight, covered in blood and holding what appeared to be a human head. Law enforcement quickly arrested the man on suspicion of murdering his wife, decapitating her and attempting to burn the body, according […]
Extremists hurled grenades at officers and shots were fired as police encircled two of three suspected militant dens in northeastern Bangladesh, where security forces moved in late Wednesday to flush them out, authorities said. The police operations targeting militant hideouts in two locations in Moulvibazar district and a third one in Comilla district came a […]
A former Iraqi finance minister has said that Daesh, a group that once sustained itself through extortion and oil smuggling, can now barely pay their fighters after being nearly pushed out of their stronghold in northern Iraq. Hoshyar Zebar said the militants are nearly bankrupt since their former revenue streams are no longer available, telling […]
