Kazakh authorities say suspected Islamist militants killed six people at a military facility and two gun stores in the northwestern city of Aqtobe, prompting security forces to launch a “counterterrorism operation.” In attacks carried out almost simultaneously, the assailants killed a guard and a clerk at one of the gun stores and wounded three policemen […]
A woman has died at the scene after being attacked by a shark whilst diving at Mindarie Beach near Perth, Western Australia, earlier today. It is the second fatality this week after surfer Ben Gerring was mauled by a shark whilst surfing with friends at Falcon Beach on Tuesday. The 60-year-old woman and her male […]
A manhunt is reportedly under way in western Kazakhstan for people who robbed gun shops and are engaged in a shootout with police. Eyewitnesses said the gunmen took hostages, and there are reports of casualties. Police have killed four terrorists, and arrested seven more, as a manhunt continues outside the Kazakh city of Aktobe. Earlier […]
At least three passengers were missing late Saturday after a leisure boat carrying around 50 people overturned in central Vietnam, local media reported. MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Among the missing are a man, a little girl and a boy, according to the Tuoi Tre newspaper. It cited local official Huynh Duc Tho who said the search […]
A Saudi human rights organization has contacted RT over a case of a teenager, who was arrested in Saudi Arabia at the age of 13 because of his alleged participation in anti-government protests and held for several years in prison without charges. Murtaja Algariras was jailed on September 20, 2014, and is held in prison […]
Three large rivers flow through the Mekong delta province of An Giang in Vietnam: the Hau, Tien and Vam Co Rivers. The entire province is dotted by a number of seasonally flooded small islands. The delta province’s rivers, canals, and rich wetlands forests have proved attractive for tourism with about 6.2 million people visiting An […]
Dutch prosecutors say an international joint probe into the downing of Flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine is “at a very advanced stage” and that the investigators will present their first results “after this summer.” That part of the investigation, which was initially due to be concluded before the second half of the year, concerns “the […]
Germany’s Bundestag passed a resolution to recognize the Armenian Genocide of 1915, at the hands of the Ottoman Empire. In response, Ankara recalled its German ambassador and Turkish President Erdogan threatened to retaliate. Radio Sputnik’s Loud & Clear spoke with journalist William Whiteman about Berlin’s motivation for the vote and its potential to derail the […]
