Turkey will not fulfill its part of the refugee deal with the EU if the bloc does not lift its visa requirements for Turkish citizens by October, Turkey’s foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, told a German daily. Turkey’s fulfillment of its commitments under the refugee deal with the EU “depends on the lifting of visa requirements […]
Turkish President Recep Erdogan has deployed 7,000 armed police and heavy vehicles to the Incirlik Air Base in Turkey. The base is a NATO asset and reportedly houses between 50 and 90 B-61 variable yield thermonuclear weapons. The base is the largest nuclear weapons storage site in Europe with some 25 underground vaults. A failed […]
A gas station in Russia’s Oblast region has been making headlines this week for organizing an unusual promotion – a free tank of gas to anyone who showed up dressed only in women’s swimsuit and high heels. The ingenious publicity stunt took place on July 21st, in the south-western city of Samara, and only lasted […]
At least nine people died and 31 more sustained injuries as two commuter buses collided in Makwanpur district of Nepal, local media reported on Sunday. NEW DELHI (Sputnik) — The incident occurred as one of the buses tried to overtake a truck, The Himalayan Times reported, citing police. According to the newspaper, four people among […]
A group of women has been arrested in Iran for riding bicycles, according to reports. They’ve also been made to sign pledges promising they will not commit the same ‘crime’ again. The women, who were planning on cycling in an event in the north-western city of Marivan, were breaking a new regulation that bans females […]
Four people accused of drug trafficking were executed in Indonesia on Friday, with the decision on the fate of another 10 still pending, local media reported. MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The four drug traffickers were executed by firing squad, The Jakarta Post said. Among those executed were one Indonesian and three Nigerian nationals. The executions are […]
For a brief time, the two provocative banners focussed on women’s clothing in Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek faced off, each posing its own rhetorical question. Only one had the support of the Central Asian country’s secular president, and the second banner disappeared shortly after its debut. EurasiaNet.org’s Inside the Cocoon blog reported the appearance of the […]
He calls it matrimony. Her parents call it kidnapping. Whatever the case — and it’s a complicated case — an Afghan mullah finds himself behind bars following his purported marriage to a six-year-old girl. Sayed Mohammad Karim, a 50-something religious figure in a village in the central province of Ghor, was arrested this week and […]
