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 […]
Liu Xia, the widow of late Chinese Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo, arrived in Germany on Tuesday after growing international pressure for her release from eight years of house arrest, an extrajudicial confinement that took a huge toll on her physical and mental health. “Liu Xia … left Beijing at noon on a Finnair flight […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Japan’s government says at least 134 people have been confirmed dead from the heavy rains, floods and mudslides that have struck western Japan. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a news conference Tuesday that seven others were without vital signs, and more than 50 people were unaccounted for, many of them in […]
Forty percent of mosques and worship spaces at state-owned enterprises and government institutions in Jakarta are promoting radical sermons, according to a new study by an Indonesian organization representing Islamic boarding schools. Twenty-one mosques at state-run companies and 12 at buildings owned by government ministries, among others, had engaged in discussing radical ideas, such as […]
TOKYO (Sputnik) – The largest number of victims accounts for the prefecture of Hiroshima, located in the south-west of Honshu island, and the prefecture of Ehime, situated in the north-west of Shikoku island, according to the Kyodo News agency. The number of people who died as a result of flooding and landslides caused by heavy […]
