Two leaders of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish opposition party have reportedly been detained, along with six party deputies. “At night in Ankara police detained the party’s chairwoman Figen Yuksekdag, the door was broken during the storming of the house,” said a representative of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP). “Half an hour later, [chairman] Selahattin Demirtas was […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – A new framework agreement between Armenia and the European Union will be completed by the end of 2017, Deputy Foreign Minister Karen Nazaryan said at a parliament session on Thursday, November 3. “I hope the deal will be finalized in the near future,” Novosti-Armenia cited Nazaryan as saying. “The next meeting on the […]
Train services on two of Singapore’s Mass Rapid Transit system lines, both operated by SMRT Corporation, were disrupted at separate times yesterday in two incidents. During the morning rush hour, six stations of the Circle MRT Line (CCL) were without train service in both directions during the morning rush hour following what SMRT described as […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – Flight MH370 most likely made a rapid and uncontrolled descent into the Indian Ocean, a new report says, according to BBC News. The Boeing 777 disappeared while flying to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur with 239 people on board in March 2014. Full story: panarmenian.net PanARMENIAN Network
A total of 10,000 police personnel has been deployed in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad to ensure security at a rally held by the Pakistani Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) opposition movement, local media reported Wednesday. MOSCOW (Sputnik) – On Tuesday, hundreds of PTI supporters attempted to enter Islamabad to join a major anti-government meeting, due to be […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – Islamic State chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the second most-wanted terrorist in the world, has been hiding in the group’s besieged stronghold of Mosul, encircled by the Iraqi army and allied militias, a senior Kurdish commander told the Independent, RT reports. In an interview on Wednesday, November 2 Fuad Hussein, the chief of staff […]
Nearly 30,000 South Koreans gathered in downtown Seoul Saturday to demand that President Park Geun-hye step down from her post, the result of an ongoing scandal involving Park’s friend Choi Soon-sil. The rally is the latest development in the scandal enveloping the éminence grise of South Korea, 60-year old Choi Soon-sil, over her influence over […]
An Afghan woman immortalized on the cover of National Geographic magazine is to be freed on bail, days after being arrested in Pakistan on fraud charges. Sharbat Gula, whose green eyes made her famous as a child refugee, was arrested in the northwestern city of Peshawar on October 26 for living on fraudulent identity papers. […]
