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October 16, 2016

Suicide Attack Hits Turkey’s Gaziantep During Police Raid, Casualties Reported

According to local media reports, a suicide bomber has attacked a high-rise apartment building in Turkey’s Gaziantep in country’s southeast during a police operation, leaving casualties. ANKARA (Sputnik) – A suicide bomber has attacked a high-rise apartment building in Turkey’s Gaziantep in country’s southeast during a police operation, leaving casualties, local media reported Sunday. Full […]

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Liberation Mosque, formerly the St Mary's Church Cathedral or Holy Mother of God Church, was converted into a mosque after the Armenian Genocide

Asia

October 16, 2016September 3, 2017

The Armenian Cathedral-turned-Turkish mosque: The Independent

PanARMENIAN.Net – In a feature published in The Independent, author Robert Fisk unveils the story of the Armenian Cathedral of the Holy Mother of God in Gaziantep (then called Antep) which has been turned into a Turkish mosque. The article reads: The ‘Liberation’ Mosque is a fine, neo-classical, almost Gothic construction with striped black-and-white stone […]

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The Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Asia

October 15, 2016April 10, 2017

Thai bar girl faces death sentence in Malaysia for drug trafficking

A former Thai bar girl named Orathai Prommatat, 24, was sentenced to death by a High Court in Malaysia on October 14, after she was found guilty of trafficking 693.4 grams of cocaine in July 2014, Bernama News reported. “Malaysia’s Judicial Commissioner Datuk Nordin Hassan handed down the sentence on 24-years old Thai national Orathai […]

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Asia

October 15, 2016

At least 31 killed by suicide bombing at Shi’ite gathering in Baghdad

A suicide bomber killed at least 31 people and wounded about 30 in Baghdad on Saturday, police and medics said as cited by Reuters. The bomber detonated an explosive vest at a Shi’ite Muslim gathering. The blast took place inside a tent filled with people taking part in Shi’ite rituals, marking Ashura, which commemorates the […]

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Baratang Island inthe Andaman Islands. India

Asia

October 15, 2016December 7, 2022

Barbarism in India: Tongue Chopped Off for Reporting Electricity Theft

New Delhi (Sputnik) — A man in Kashpur Village of Indian state of Bihar had to pay heavy price for reporting electricity theft in his village. According to the police, the accused, Nand Kumar was arrested after electricity officials raided the village to prevent electrical theft. Nand Kumar suspected that the victim, Pawan Rai was […]

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Asia

October 15, 2016October 15, 2016

Chinese Boss Forces Female Employees to Kiss Him Every Morning

The male boss of a company in Beijing, China, has recently come under fire for forcing female workers to line up and give him a kiss every morning, claiming that it enhances the corporate culture and improves relations between manager and employees. Women working at a company that sells home brewery machinery, in Tongzhou District, […]

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Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State, Myanmar

Asia

October 14, 2016October 15, 2016

Myanmar Says Islamic Terrorist Organization Behind Deadly Border Raids in Rakhine State

The Myanmar government said Friday that an extremist Islamic terrorist organization whose leader was trained by the Taliban in Pakistan carried out violent weekend attacks on three border guard posts near the border of Bangladesh in restive Rakhine state’s Maungdaw and Rathedaung townships. More than 40 border guards, attackers, and soldiers have died since the […]

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Asia

October 14, 2016February 13, 2017

Israel suspends UNESCO cooperation after Jerusalem resolution

PanARMENIAN.Net – Israel suspended cooperation with UNESCO on Friday, October 14 after the UN cultural organisation adopted two resolutions on east Jerusalem ahead of a final vote next week, AFP reports. In a letter sent to UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova, Education Minister Naftali Bennett accused the body of ignoring “thousands of years of Jewish […]

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