Remember the Iranian real-life Hulk? Well, it seems neighboring Pakistan has its own version of the popular Marvel superhero. His name is Arbab Khizer Hayat, he weighs a whopping 436 kilograms, and claims to be the strongest man alive. Hayat, who is popularly known as Khan Baba, hails from the city of Mardan, in northern […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – The United Nations has warned of an oil spill south of the Iraqi city of Mosul, near the town of Qayara that was retaken from Islamic State militants some four months ago, The Associated Press reports. The warnings came in a report released this week on environmental damages caused by oil fires intentionally […]
Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong detained at least 10 people on Thursday after protests over an urban redevelopment project turned into clashes that left dozens injured, local residents told RFA. Around 120 residents of Shapu residential compound in the Bao’an district of Guangdong’s Shenzhen city came out in protest on Wednesday, gathering […]
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has signed an executive order for his government to ensure that the estimated 6-million Filipino women who do not have access to contraceptives be allowed to have them for free. Of the six million identified, said Philippine economic planning secretary Ernesto Pernia, two million are beneath the poverty line. Those two […]
Indonesia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and National Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT) are investigating the discovery of Indonesian passports at a house raided by Turkish police in connection with a terror attack at a nightclub in Istanbul on New Year’s Day. Thirty-nine people were killed by a lone gunman at the Reina nightclub in the early hours […]
11 January 2017 – Iran Air has taken delivery of its first new aircraft, an A321, in a handover ceremony in Toulouse with Mr. Farhad Parvaresh, Iran Air Chairman and CEO, and Mr. Fabrice Bregier, President, Airbus Commercial Aircraft and Chief Operating Officer Airbus, in the presence of Gael Meheust, SVP Sales and Marketing CFM, […]
Turkey has jailed 350 foreign nationals on claims they were members of the notorious Daesh terror group. ANKARA (Sputnik) — Fifty-five suspects of the detained 780 are already serving prison sentences on accusations of having ties to Daesh or carrying out attacks on its behalf, according to Turkish Justice Ministry figures cited by the Anadolu […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – Various media reports suggest Turkey is going to erect walls on borders with Armenia and Iran. A similar fence, which measures three meters high and has barbed wires on top, is currently being built on the border with Syria, Ermenihaber.am reports. According to local media, Turkey is fencing its borders in the framework […]
