The poor design and management of Vietnam’s power-generating dams are likely one of the main factors that led to recent deadly floods that inundated the country’s central provinces, experts tell RFA. Flooding over the past two months has devastated Vietnam’s central provinces, killed dozens of people and caused millions of dollars in economic damage as […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – Some 25,000 people have been evacuated from the rebel-held enclave of Aleppo since Thursday, December 15 including 15,000 on Monday and 10,000 last Thursday, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ISRC) said on Tuesday, according to Reuters. Teams from the ICRC and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, who are leading the evacuation, […]
An Indian anti-terror court Monday handed death sentences to five members of a home-grown extremist group for a deadly attack in Hyderabad nearly four years ago. Last week, the special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court convicted the five Indian Mujahideen (IM) operatives of carrying out twin bombings that killed 18 people and wounded more than […]
Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov who was badly wounded in an armed assault in Ankara has died, Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on Monday. Moscow now views the murder of Russian Ambassador in Ankara as a terror attack, the statement said. “We qualify what happened as a terror attack. We […]
The mayor of a Siberian city declared a state of emergency as the death toll mounted after dozens of people drank body lotion containing methyl alcohol, or methanol. The federal Investigative Committee said on December 19 that 25 people died after drinking the lotion, called Boyaryshnik (Hawthorn), despite a warning on the label saying it […]
Four armed men killed five police and four civilians, including a Canadian woman, in the Jordanian city of Karak. The group, which had suicide belts and a stash of explosives in a hideout, was neutralized after holing up in a medieval Crusader-era castle. The security forces said in a statement that the manhunt ended with […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Indonesian air force Hercules C-130 aircraft crashed in country’s Papua province on Sunday resulting in death of all 13 people on board, media reported. Victims of the crash included three pilots and 10 military personnel, BBC reported. The plane was carrying food supplies from the city of Timika to Wamena and crashed […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – Gunmen shot dead five female airport workers and their driver in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, December 17, underlining the threat to employed women in the country, AFP reports. The women were in a van driving to the airport in the southern Kandahar province when at least three gunmen on motorcycles opened fire at […]
