Japan’s capital is experiencing November snow for the first time in more than 50 years, data from the Japan Meteorological Agency shows. TOKYO (Sputnik) – The snowfall was registered on Thursday morning in central Tokyo. It was also snowing in the cities of Yokohama, Kofu, Utsunomiya and Maebashi. According to the NHK broadcaster, this is […]
The death toll from the collapse of a cooling tower at an electric power plant construction site in China’s Jiangxi province has reached 40, Xinhua news agency reported. The collapse occurred in the city of Fengcheng, in the southeastern Chinese province of Jiangxi at around 7 a. m. local time on Thursday (23:00 GMT on […]
An Indonesian court on Wednesday sentenced a man to nine years in prison for providing cash and a firearm to one of the men who mounted a terror attack claimed by the so-called Islamic State in central Jakarta in January. Saiful Muthohir, alias Abu Gar, 43, is the fourth man sent to prison thus far […]
A British tourist who was charged with having ‘extra-marital sex’ in Dubai after reporting that she had been gang raped no longer faces legal proceedings. The case against her was dropped. The 25-year-old from Cheshire had been arrested and had her passport confiscated in October after she claimed she had been raped by two British […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday, November 23 that a vote by the European Parliament on whether to halt EU membership talks with Ankara “has no value in our eyes” and again accused Europe of siding with terrorist organisations, Reuters reports. “We have made clear time and time again that we […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The chamber of Cambodia’s Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the decision to imprison two high-ranking officials of the Khmer Rouge regime, namely Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan for life, the president of the Supreme Court’s chamber said. In August 2014, the two former leaders of the Khmer Rouge were found guilty of […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – Iran’s Intelligence Ministry has busted a terrorist cell in the east of the country, an Iranian security official said, according to Press TV. “A terrorist team was dismantled last night by the Intelligence Ministry in the country’s east,” deputy interior minister for security affairs, Hossein Zolfaqari, told reporters on Tuesday, November 22. Full […]
Japanese Fukushima-2 nuclear power plant (NPP) on Tuesday stopped the cooling system of the power plant’s reservoir with spent nuclear fuel after a powerful earthquake struck off the coast of the Fukushima region, local media reported. TOKYO (Sputnik) — Earlier in the day, the Japan Meteorological Agency reported about the 7.3-magnitude earthquake that hit the […]
