On Saturday the Pentagon confirmed the death of well-known Al Qaeda militant leader Qari Yasin. Yasin’s death was the result of a U.S. counter-terrorism airstrike this month on March 19 in Afghanistan. In 2008 Qari Yasin plotted and executed a bombing on the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, killing at least 40 innocent civilians and wounding […]
Turkey has deported 149 Indonesians since the start of the year on suspicion of trying to cross into Syria to join Islamic State, according to Indonesia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The figure includes 12 citizens who were sent home by Turkish authorities last week. As many as 221 Indonesians were expelled from Turkey over similar […]
A court in Vietnam sentenced a prominent online whistleblower to nearly five years in prison Monday for bribery, according to his lawyer, who called the verdict “anticipated” and vowed to pursue an appeal for his client. The court in Dak Nong province, in Vietnam’s Central Highlands region, found 48-year-old Tran Minh Loi guilty under Article […]
A 5.1 magnitude earthquake hit Yunnan Province in southwestern China. BEIJING (Sputnik) — A 5.1 magnitude earthquake hit Yunnan Province in southwestern China, China’s Earthquake Networks Center (CENC) said on Monday. According to the center, the epicenter was monitored in Yangbi County at a depth of some 12 kilometers (7.5 miles). Full story: sputniknews.com Sputnik […]
An escalator ascending through four floors in a busy Hong Kong mall suddenly reversed direction and sped up, sending riders tumbling out the bottom. Some 18 people were injured, one seriously, after an ascending elevator at the Langham Place mall in the Mong Kok area of Kowloon, Hong Kong, suddenly reversed direction and began to […]
Riot police in Minsk have arrested hundreds of people, beating many of them, during a violent crackdown on a protest against Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s government. Tatsyana Revyako, an activist from the Belarusian human rights group Vyasna (Spring), said more than 400 people were arrested on the streets of the Belarusian capital on March 25. […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president overthrown in 2011 and the first leader to face trial after the Arab Spring uprisings that swept the region, was freed on Friday, March 24 after six years in detention, his lawyer said, according to Reuters. The 88-year-old was cleared of the final murder charges against him this […]
Malaysian counter-terrorism officers arrested nine suspected Islamic State (IS) supporters in raids in five states earlier this month, including a restaurant worker allegedly involved in a bomb plot against a police station, the nation’s top policeman announced Friday. Police did not reveal the names of those taken into custody during operations from March 15 to […]
