A 22-year-old knife-wielding man inflicted multiple wounds on a 59-year old victim and attempted to stab an officer in Sydney suburb on Saturday after reportedly pledging allegiance to Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS, ISIL). The assailant has been detained on terrorism charges. While the suspect’s motives were not immediately made clear, he reportedly did not […]
The death toll from the boiler blast and ensuing fire at a garment packaging factory in Bangladesh has risen to 21. MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The fire broke out at the five-story Tempako Packaging Factory in Tongi early in the morning after a boiler exploded, the Bangladesh News website said. Dozens suffered burns, with one person […]
Two overnight suicide bombings outside a shopping mall in eastern Baghdad have killed at least 10 people and injured dozens more, police and hospital officials said on September 10. One bomb went off at the entrance to the Nakheel Mall on Palestine Street in the city center just before midnight, shattering windows at the multistory […]
Indian foreign minister Sushma Swaraj announced on Wednesday a draft law to ban commercial surrogacy in the country. Commercial surrogacy is where a person or couple pay another woman (the surrogate) to carry a pregnancy for them. The new proposed law will allow only infertile couples who’ve been married five or more years to use […]
North Korea says it has successfully conducted its fifth nuclear bomb test. State media said the September 9 test had been of a “newly developed nuclear warhead” and that it was now capable of mounting a nuclear device on ballistic rockets. The announcement came after a huge seismic event was detected near North Korea’s Pyunggye-ri […]
China is embroiled in a racist row after Air China issued advice to travelers to the UK to avoid entering areas populated by Indians, Pakistanis and black people. An inflight magazine on the state run Air China has provoked anger amongst Indian, Pakistani and black residents in London. The advice cautioned readers that care should […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – Turkey’s deputy prime minister says authorities have foiled close to 230 Kurdish rebel attacks in the past few weeks, including 19 would-be suicide bombings, the Associated Press reports. In a news conference following a Council of Ministers meeting Wednesday, September 7, Nurettin Canikli told reporters the security forces and intelligence officials had thwarted […]
Reports from Syria say dozens of people have been treated for breathing problems after a suspected chlorine gas attack in the northern city of Aleppo. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 70 people suffered from suffocation after a barrel bomb attack in the opposition-held neighborhood of Sukari on September 6. No deaths were […]
