A strong explosion hit the Afghan capital city of Kabul early Wednesday, local media said, adding an official could have been hurt. MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The blast occurred in Kabul’s Police District 6 and appears to have targeted a member of the Afghan parliament, the Khaama Press news agency reported. According to eyewitnesses, cited by […]
An Indonesian court Tuesday rejected a motion filed by lawyers for Jakarta Gov. Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama and ordered that his blasphemy trial over alleged anti-Islam comments go on. The motion was the last legal opportunity to stop the trial of the governor, a member of Indonesia’s Christian and ethnic Chinese minorities who is running […]
The first trial of alleged plotters in Turkey’s July failed coup attempt has started in Istanbul with 29 police officers facing sentences of up to life in prison. The officers face a range of charges, including attempting to overthrow the constitutional order, and membership of a terrorist organization. Prosecutors are seeking life sentences for 21 […]
At least 12 people were injured while evacuating a Jet Airways plane which skidded off the runway at Goa’s Dabolim Airport. The accident occurred just hours before a separate incident in Delhi, which saw two planes come face-to-face on the runway. A major incident was averted at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport on Tuesday morning, […]
A 4.8-magnitude earthquake occurred in China’s southwestern municipality of Chongqing, the country’s seismological bureau reported. BEIJING (Sputnik) — The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 kilometers (approximately 6 miles) in the area of Rongchang district, according to the bureau. No information on casualties or damage from the quake has been provided to date. Full […]
Up to 3,000 passengers and staff members have been evacuated from Kazansky, Leningradsky and Yaroslavsky railway terminals in Moscow amid bomb threats, a source in emergency services told RIA Novosti on Monday. “Phone calls warning of bombs at the Kazansky and Leningradsky railway stations prompted evacuations of a thousand of people from each site. Further […]
Indonesian police killed two suspected militants in the latest raids aimed at preventing planned attacks during the Christmas and New Year holidays, a police spokesman said. The suspects identified as Abu Sofi and Abu Fais were killed in a shootout with the anti-terror police squad Densus 88 when they raided a floating house at Jatiluhur […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – Yet another example of intolerance has taken place in the southeastern Turkish city of Sanliurfa (Urfa)—the historic Assyrian Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in the city is now being used as a municipality-owned cultural center and the foundation of the Islamic school of Harran University, The Armenian Weekly reports. According to […]
