Indonesia faces a substantial risk from extremists using popular online payment systems such as PayPal and Bitcoin to fund their activities, the government’s Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK) said Monday. Bahrun Naim, whom police have labeled a mastermind of terrorism in the country, has used these online services to send payments to Indonesia, […]
Cambodia’s “Black Monday” protest campaign restarted this week after it was put on hold for two weeks as it appeared the government was preparing to release jailed activists and an election commission official. When the release of the “Kem Sokha Five” and land-rights activist Tep Vanny failed to materialize, Black Monday organizers resumed their protests […]
Six police officers were killed and ten injured in an attack on a checkpoint near the town of el-Arish in northern Sinai in Egypt, local media reported on Monday. CAIRO (Sputnik) — The attackers detonated a car bomb at the checkpoint, according to the Egyptian newspaper El Fagr. Egypt has been fighting a rise in […]
Yesterday, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, president of Iran from 1989 to 1997, died in hospital in Tehran after a heart attack, Iran’s state television reported. He was 82 years old. Born in 1934, Rafsanjani studied theology in Qom. He was one of the leaders of the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran which overthrew the Shah […]
A truck rammed into pedestrians in Jerusalem, killing four people and injuring over a dozen, Israeli media reported. The driver of the truck was shot in response to an apparent attack targeting Israeli soldiers. “It is a terrorist attack, a ramming attack,” a police spokeswoman said on Israel Radio. Police said three men and one […]
Health authorities in the central Chinese province of Hanan on Saturday confirmed a new human case of bird flu. BEIJING (Sputnik) – The 35-year old man from the city of Zhuzhou tested positive for the H7N9 avian influenza, Hanan’s center for disease control and prevention said. The patient is in critical condition. The news comes […]
A machete attack on 13 Myanmar nationals in Malaysia on Thursday has left four men dead and three seriously injured as the group returned from working overtime in the capital Kuala Lumpur, said a Myanmar civil society organization that operates in the area. The deadly assault occurred in the Bukit Serdang area in the southern […]
The first test flight of China’s Comac C919 plane will most likely take place in the first quarter of 2017, Chinese media report. BEIJING (Sputnik) – The test flight could take place as early as February, although the exact date has not been announced yet, People’s Daily said on Saturday citing the Commercial Aircraft Corporation […]
