PanARMENIAN.Net – Turkey on Monday, January 30 opened the biggest trial yet over the failed July coup aimed at ousting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, trying 270 suspects including, in absentia, the alleged mastermind Fethullah Gulen, AFP reports. The suspects, 152 of whom are in pre-trial detention, include ex high-ranking military officials like former Aegean Army […]
An Australian-educated former economist with Indonesia’s finance ministry and his family were released from police custody on Friday after being deported from Turkey for allegedly trying to join Islamic State (IS) in Syria, an official said Friday. The man, identified as Triyono Utomo, was arrested Wednesday morning at a Bali airport with his wife, daughter […]
The spokeswoman of the country’s Committee for Emergency Situations said that at least seven people were killed in Tajikistan after a series of avalanches hit the Central Asian republic. DUSHANBE (Sputnik) – At least seven people were killed in Tajikistan after a series of avalanches hit the Central Asian republic on Sunday and Monday, the […]
Three people passed away among the 25 people rescued from a tourist boat, which sank off the Malaysian coast, according to local media. BEIJING (Sputnik) — At least three people among found passengers from a tourist boat, which sank off the Malaysian coast, die after being rescued, media reported Sunday, citing the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement […]
A Chinese university professor caused a sexist storm after writing a number of blog posts based on his 10-year experience in the job, how male professors accept student applications based on “their breasts first, their faces second, their backsides third and their legs last.” The Beijing Foreign Studies University is conducting an official investigation against […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – Philippine troops have launched airstrikes and ground assaults that reportedly wounded one of Southeast Asia’s most-wanted terror suspects who is trying to establish a new base for an alliance backing the Islamic State group, officials said Friday, January 27, according to The Associated Press. Intelligence reports showed initial assaults killed at least four […]
Operatives of two Bangladeshi militant groups have infiltrated India and together are plotting attacks in major cities including the Indian capital, according to a classified intelligence report accessed by BenarNews. Members of the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI) extremist groups crossed the border into northeast India, and have formed a joint team that is […]
A migrant worker hoping to make it back home for the Chinese New Year realized he had been riding his bike the wrong way for over a month, when a police crew stopped him for cycling on the side of an expressway. The unnamed man was apparently working in Rizhao, China’s Shandong province, but after […]
