Gunmen have attacked a restaurant in the diplomatic quarter of the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka on Friday, according to police and witness reports. At least 4 policemen have reportedly died, and dozens of people are being held hostage. There are “reports of shooting and hostage situation,” the US embassy in Bangladesh has tweeted. Bangladeshi police […]
New Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, who has recently declared “a bloody war” on drug cartels, has called on willing Filipinos to “go ahead and kill” drug addicts, amid concerns that “getting their parents to do it would be too painful.” Duterte, who said during his campaign that some 100,000 criminals would die in his crackdown, […]
On Friday the Japanese Government decided that evacuation orders imposed in Fukushima, in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami which led to one of the worst nuclear disasters in recent history, are to be lifted in July. The evacuation order which will cover part of the nearby city of Minamisoma is now set to […]
A Turkish official says the Istanbul airport suicide attackers were from Russia, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan. The unnamed official quoted by Turkish and Western media on June 30 did not disclose further details. The announcement comes shortly after Turkish police said they had detained 13 people including three foreigners in connection with the June 28 attack […]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, have talked for the first time by phone since Turkey downed a Russian warplane late last year. Both the Kremlin and Erdogan’s office said the two agreed in the telephone call on June 29 to resume cooperation and expressed readiness for a face-to-face meeting. […]
Belarusian citizens are not usually known to enthusiastically heed the commands of their long-time president Alyaksandr Lukashenka. In fact, his authoritarian monopoly on ruling Belarus is frowned upon. But as it turns out, there are exceptions to every rule. On June 22, Lukashenka spoke at the All-Belarusian people’s meeting, and, ending his speech, issued a […]
The Supreme Court of Japan has upheld the government’s right to continue the mass surveillance of Muslim residents, places of worship, halal restaurants, and other institutions related to the practice of Islam. The decision came from a second court appeal in a case of Japanese Muslims who argued that the broad monitoring is unconstitutional, invades […]
China is warning its students to steer clear of fake universities. An information website has published a list of 30 such institutions following the annual college entry exam in June. This is the sixth such list in existence. Apparently, faking an entire educational institution isn’t all that difficult. And authorities say they’re becoming harder to […]
