A Myanmar judge on Monday jailed two Reuters journalists for seven years after finding them guilty of breaching a law on state secrets drawing widespread criticism for the Southeast Asian country already under a cloud for a brutal crackdown on Rohingya Muslims. Yangon northern district judge Ye Lwin said Wa Lone violated the colonial-era Official […]
At least one person was killed and 15 others were wounded when a home-made bomb exploded in the southern Philippines on Sunday night, in a second fatal attack targeting the same town in less than a week, the military said. Officials said the bomb was planted near a pawnshop in Isulan town, the capital of […]
Philippine authorities were pursuing unidentified gunmen who snatched two people after a shootout that left six others dead in southern Zamboanga del Norte province, the military reported on Saturday. The coast guard as well as navy troops have dispatched troops to locate the suspects, who seized a pro-government militia leader and his wife during the […]
Japanese news media are reporting that the country’s major oil wholesalers are preparing to suspend crude imports next month. Jiji Press agency and Kyodo on September 3 reported that the action comes in response to U.S. sanctions against Tehran and threats they could be extended to companies doing business with Iran. U.S. President Donald Trump […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Blasts heard at the Mezzeh airbase near Damascus were caused by missile strikes targeting the base and by Syrian air defense systems responding, an official in the regional alliance supporting Damascus said on Sunday. A war monitor, the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, had said the explosions resulted from Israeli air […]
A court in Cambodia sentenced Australian filmmaker James Ricketson to six years in prison for espionage Friday, prompting rights groups to slam the verdict as representative of a judicial system widely seen as beholden to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government. Ricketson, 69, was arrested in June last year after flying a drone over a rally […]
Turkey is taking the necessary measures in response to a slide in the lira (Turkey’s currency) and is beginning to see actual results from these steps Erdogan said in a speech at a military graduation ceremony. There’s no need to be a genius to see those behind the volatility in exchange rates, it is an […]
Dozens of people have been injured after a van crashed into a crowd on a busy street in front of the Taoyuan Road District Hospital just after 11:30 a.m. local time (3:30 GMT) in Nanning, Guangxi province, China. At least one person was killed in the crash with several others severely injured, the death toll […]
