Plainclothes police in the central Vietnamese city of Hue blocked a group of Roman Catholic priests from attending a church service on Thursday, one of the priests said. Rev. Phan Van Loi told RFA’s Vietnamese Service that local officers resumed monitoring his activities after the five-day Tet holiday, Vietnam’s annual New Year celebration which fell […]
BRUSSELS — The European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly to approve visa liberalization for Georgia, paving the way for Georgians to travel to the European Union’s Schengen zone without obtaining visas. European lawmakers backed visa liberalization, long anticipated in Georgia, by a vote of 553 to 66, with 28 abstentions. Georgians will still have to wait […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – A Turkish hospital official says an armed police officer receiving psychiatric treatment at an Istanbul hospital barricaded himself into a room and attempted to commit suicide on Wednesday, February 1, causing panic, The Associated Press reports. Earlier, Turkish media reports said the man had taken doctors and other staff hostage at Istanbul’s Cerrahpasa […]
Malaysian police said Tuesday they had picked up three men with suspected links to Islamic State (IS), while authorities in neighboring Indonesia announced the arrests of three suspects in connection with an accidental bomb blast last month in Central Java. The three nabbed in separate raids in Kuala Lumpur and Pahang states between Jan. 27 […]
The United States has warned Iran that its January 29 test of a long-range ballistic missile was “absolutely unacceptable” and said it violated Tehran’s nuclear accord with world powers. The new U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley issued the warning on January 31 after a closed-door UN Security Council meeting that the United […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – The European Union is ready to provide financial assistance to help Armenia fight corruption, Head of the EU Delegation to Armenia, Ambassador Piotr Switalski said on Wednesday, February 1. Speaking at the launch of the Stop Corruption information campaign, Switalski said the EU has already provided €15 million to Armenia and is ready […]
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen is stepping up the pressure on his chief political rival as he pushes the National Assembly to approve legislation preventing so-called ‘culprits’ from heading a political party. “It is necessary that we amend the Law on Political Parties by stipulating clearly that any individual with culprit status shall not be […]
A prominent Muslim human rights lawyer and advisor to Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi was shot dead on Sunday at Yangon airport, prompting the country’s president to issue an appeal for calm in the Buddhist-majority country and a call to remain watchful against agitation leading to religious disturbances. Ko Ni, a 63-year-old […]
