Families ask President Joko Widodo for mercy, days before their relatives are set to face firing squad for drug crimes. The families of foreign prisoners on death row for drug offences in Indonesia have appealed to the Indonesian president, Joko Widodo, to show mercy, days before their relatives are due to face a firing squad. […]
A magnitude 7.8 earthquake occurred at 11:56 NST (6:11:26 UTC) on Saturday 25 April 2015, with the epicenter approximately 29 km (18 mi) east-southeast of Lamjung, Nepal, and the hypocenter at a depth of approximately 15 km (9.3 mi). It is the most powerful earthquake to have hit Nepal since the earthquake of 1934. More […]
A power outage at Japan’s Fukushima 1 nuclear plant on Tuesday has seen eight water transfer pumps shut down, hindering efforts to collect leaked radioactive water before it can reach the sea. Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), which runs the plant, said the affected pumps pull radioactive water out of a drainage channel, sending it […]
On Friday a car bomb, claimed by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), killed by varying reports at least three people and injured at least five others, possibly including a US national, outside of the United States Consulate in Irbil, Iraq. According to the US Department of State there were no injuries to consulate […]
Japanese artist Megumi Igarashi, nicknamed “The Vagina Artist” by the Western media, says there’s nothing obscene about artwork based on her genitalia. Tokyo Metropolitan Police arrested Igarashi in July 2014 for allegedly emailing crowd-funders of her art project links to a webpage, where they could download 3D data that could be used to create vulva-shaped […]
Robert Penny, 83, yesterday was charged with the murder of his wife Margaret Penny and hairdresser Claire Acocks, twenty four years after their deaths at the Old London Coiffure hair salon in Portland, Victoria in Australia. Mr Penny was charged by homicide detectives after a revived investigation found Penny had disclosed details of the women’s […]
An Indonesian female worker was executed in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday after being on a death row for over 15 years for killing her boss, The Jakarta Globe reported. The Indonesian government, saying it has done its utmost to prevent the execution of a possibly mentally ill Siti Zaenab bnti Buhri Rupa, regrets the fact […]
Practicing Islam is becoming harder in Tajikistan, a majority Muslim post-Soviet state whose leadership is increasingly uncomfortable with the new “non-traditional” face of the religion in the country. The government’s vision for Islam is in keeping with practices in the Soviet Union, when religion was tolerated in private settings but was not to be seen […]
