France has suspended its military operations in Afghanistan and may withdraw its force from that country after an Afghan soldier shot dead four French troops and wounded several others. The French government has described Friday’s attack against the soldiers as an assassination. French officials say an Afghan soldier killed the four troops during a training […]
The co-pilot of a Russian UTair airliner has died in mid-air after feeling unwell while piloting a Boeing en route from Bangkok to Moscow. The plane with 239 passengers on board – all Russian citizens – was able to land safely in Siberia. “The co-pilot [Sergey Golev, aged 44] died at 12:25 am, Novosibirsk Time […]
A young bride has died of a sudden heart attack at the age of just 27 while on her honeymoon in Cambodia. Pretty Kristy Cadman-Jones and her husband Damian married in Scraptoft, Leicester, in July last year and set off on their four-week tour of south-east Asian country just before Christmas. Read more: dailymail.co.uk
Hanoi – An 18-year-old in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta became the first person to die of bird flu in more than a year, authorities said Thursday. ‘No H5N1 patient was discovered last year,’ said Phi Van Kien, an official from the Department of Preventive Health and Environment, referring the bird flu strain of the flu virus. […]
A Mindanao city becomes the world’s journalist murder capital General Santos City, at the very bottom of southern Mindanao, is becoming the journalist murder capital of the Philippines, and perhaps the world. Christopher Guarin, the publisher of a local community newspaper and radio commentator was the latest to die, on Jan. 5 when he was […]
Gunmen in northwest Pakistan shot and killed a reporter working for the Voice of America on Tuesday near his home in Shabqadar, roughly 35 kilometers from Peshawar, the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. Mukarram Khan Aatif, who filed reports for VOA’s Deewa Radio, was in a mosque when two assailants on motorcycles arrived during evening prayers. […]
Philippine police say they have arrested an Islamic militant suspected of involvement in the 2001 kidnapping of an American missionary couple. Security officials said Tuesday the man, known as “Abu Ismael,” was captured on the remote southern island of Basilan.
Reports from China say another Tibetan set himself on fire Saturday and police clashed with protesters who attempted to retrieve his burned body from the authorities. Tibetan groups in exile say the incident occurred near the restive Kirti monastery in Sichuan province. Full story: VOANews.com VOA News
