Istanbul police used tear gas and water cannon to break up a rally protesting an attack on a music store where customers were celebrating Radiohead’s album release on Friday. Twenty men stormed in and smashed up the store, injuring at least 2 people. Hundreds of people flooded the Cihangir neighbourhood of Turkey’s capital, where the […]
According to the Russian Emegencies Ministry, the bodies of at least eleven people were found and eleven more tourists have been saved. A tourist group of 49 people, consisting mostly of children, has been caught in a strong lake storm in Karelia, northwest Russia, according to the authorities. Preliminary reports state that the group consisted […]
Loans are notoriously hard to get for Chinese college students, and some of them will agree to almost anything for some much needed funds, even providing nude photos of themselves as collateral to unscrupulous loan sharks. The disgusting practice was brought to national attention when a victim – a university student going by the pseudonym […]
A military coastguard search plane with nine people on board disappeared in Vietnam while on a mission, the local media reported Friday. MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The search plane lost contact with command near the Bach Long Vi island, a small island in the Gulf of Tonkin that is located halfway between mainland Vietnam and China’s […]
Islamic State militants are frequently transported across the Syrian border to Turkish hospitals for treatment, according to eyewitness accounts collected by RT on the ground. Their crossing was allegedly ensured by Turkish officials. Both Islamic State (IS, previously ISIS/ISIL) and Free Syrian Army fighters were able to cross the border from Syria into Turkey en […]
UN investigators say Islamic State (IS) extremists are committing genocide in Syria and Iraq against the Yazidi religious minority. “Genocide has occurred and is ongoing,” said Paulo Pinheiro, chairman of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria, in Geneva on June 16. The special UN commission said in a report issued the same day that […]
Wreckage from the EgyptAir jet that crashed in the eastern Mediterranean with 66 people on board in May has been located, the Egyptian-led investigation committee said. The search is now focusing on its black boxes, as their signals are to cease on June 24. Read more: rt.com
MANILA, 15 June 2016 (NNT) – The Royal Thai Embassy in Manila has advised Thai citizens to avoid militant hot-spots in the Philippines. The announcement follows the recent execution of a foreign tourist by the Abu Sayyaf militant group. The group has been targeting tourists in the central and western part of Mindanao Island, as […]
