One man is dead and another remains missing after an Olympic distance triathlon in Malaysia Sunday. Jeffrey Yuen Chi-yuen, 42, of Hong Kong, was reported missing by his wife after he failed to appear following the 1.5 kilometer swimming leg of the Port Dickson International Triathlon, local media reported. Tharm Wei Wong, 39, of Penang, […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – The Israeli Air Force bombed an airport in southern Aleppo in the wee hours of Monday, July 16, causing material damage to the military installation located near the provincial capital, Al-Masdar News says. According to a report from the Aleppo Governorate, the Israeli warplane bombed the Al-Nayrab Airport in southern Aleppo, which is […]
The Israeli military has lifted its restrictions along the Gaza border area, indicating it’s accepted an Egypt-mediated cease-fire to end an intense, 24-hour round of fighting with Hamas militants. The military had shut down a popular beach and placed limitations on gatherings of large crowds. But it said on Sunday that summer camps will operate […]
Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province publicly whipped 15 people on Friday, including a homosexual couple, despite a pledge in April to hold canings only inside prisons after the punishment drew international condemnation. Two men each received 86 lashes after they were found guilty in June of engaging in gay sex. The other 13, including five women, […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Earlier in the day, an explosion hit the site of a pre-election rally of the leader of Pakistan’s alliance of ultra-right political movements in the city of Bannu, officials said. An explosion hit an election gathering in Pakistan’s Mastung, killing at least 128 people and injuring 150 more, AFP reported. Balochistan Awami […]
A large explosion ripped through two storage area containing fuel in the vicinity of the international airport in Cairo, Egypt, according to the country’s civil aviation minister. The blaze raged for about 45 minutes. An Egyptian Army spokesman, however, shortly after said that the explosion occurred at a chemical factory near the airport, and was […]
A sharia court in Malaysia’s Kelantan state fined a local man 1,800 ringgit (U.S. $446) after he pleaded guilty to two charges stemming from his recent Islamic marriage in neighboring Thailand to an 11-year-old Thai girl, local media reported Monday. The 41-year-old man was charged with solemnizing a marriage and polygamy without obtaining the court’s […]
CHIANG RAI, 11st July 2018 (NNT) – An Australian doctor and expert diver, Dr. Richard Harris, emerged from Tham Luang cave in Mae Sai district, Chiang Rai province, on Tuesday night (July 10th) and learned his own father had passed away. Dr. Harris was hailed a hero worldwide, having made the dangerous journey in and […]
