Sri Lanka’s president has removed the country’s liberal Foreign Minister who spearheaded a successful campaign to extricate the country from possible international sanctions over war crime allegations from the country’s long civil war. President Maithripala Sirisena replaced Mangala Samaraweera as Foreign Minister on Monday and gave him the portfolio of Finance Minister. Ravi Karunanayake, who headed the Finance Ministry, was […]
» Read moreA small bomb struck a Bangkok military hospital on Monday wounding more than 20 people, police said, three years to the day since the army seized power in the politically unstable kingdom. “From the initial report it was a bomb… there are more than 20 people injured,” Deputy National Police Chief General Srivara Rangsibrahmanakul told reporters.
» Read moreIran says incumbent President Hassan Rouhani is ahead of his nearest competitor in an initial count of votes in the Presidential election. Interior Ministry deputy minister Ali Asghar Ahmadi told journalists in a televised news conference Saturday morning that over 40 million Iranians voted in Friday’s election. That puts turnout above 70 %. Mr. Ahmadi says the initial vote count […]
» Read moreBangladesh has arrested 29 people from an LGBT gathering here, a rare crackdown on gay men in the conservative Muslim-majority country where homosexuality is prohibited, officials said on Friday. The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), an elite police unit that made the arrests, said those arrested, mostly students aged between 20-30 years, had travelled from across the country and were picked […]
» Read moreAn unidentified gunman today opened fire on police in Sri Lanka’s former LTTE stronghold of Kilinochchi, a day after Tamils observed the eighth anniversary of the end of the three-decade long civil war. Several police officers of the Kilinochchi police station in the war-ravaged northern province escaped unhurt in the incident that that took place in the wee hours. The […]
» Read moreJavier Valdez was driving in broad daylight down a street he must have known well, just a block from his office, when he became the latest victim of a wave of journalist killings that has hit Mexico. Masked gunmen forced Valdez from his red Toyota Camry, shot him dead and left his body in the middle of the street on […]
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