• West Asia

    41 ‘caliphate’ plotters arrested in UAE

    Authorities in the United Arab Emirates say 41 people will go on trial for trying to “seize power and establish a caliphate” in the Gulf nation. Attorney General Salem Saeed Kubaish said the suspects planned to “carry out terrorist acts on UAE territories”, the group of suspects included UAE nationals…

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  • South Asia

    India’s sex workers seek decriminalization of prostitution

      Soliciting, running a brothel and pimping is illegal in India but the law is vague on prostitution itself. Sex workers are hoping the Supreme Court’s ruling will force the government to decriminalize the industry, as they say they are tired of being randomly targeted by police. According to the…

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  • South Asia

    23-year-old serial rapist admits murder of 38 kids in India

      A 23-year-old, Ravinder Kumar was arrested a week prior for the murder of a minor. Since then, he has admitted his involvement in 38 cases of murder and rape of minors at different places in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana in India. Kumar claims that he sexually abused corpses…

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  • Politics

    Attack on Turkey leads to a series of protests

    Turkish PM Ahmet Davutoglu has promised to boost security along the country’s border with Syria, after 30 people were killed by a bomb in the town of Suruc, reports BBC Investigators think the blast was caused by a female suicide bomber from the Islamic State group. Correspondents say Turkey is…

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  • Society

    Timbuktu mausoleums in Mali rebuilt after destruction

    Fourteen mausoleums in the city of Timbuktu in northern Mali have been rebuilt, three years after they were destroyed by Islamist extremists, BBC reports. The reconstruction was carried out by local stonemasons working for the UN’s cultural organisation, Unesco. On a visit to the city, Unesco’s chief said she wanted…

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  • West Asia

    Explosion in Saudi Capital Riyadh

    A car exploded at a checkpoint in Riyadh near Saudi Arabia’s highest security prison at sunset on Thursday, killing the driver and wounding two security officials, the interior ministry said. According to Reuters, Saudi Arabia is a target for militant groups including Islamic State, which has called on supporters to…

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  • Society

    Two explosions in Nigeria leave dozens dead

    At least 49 people were killed and dozens injured when two blasts struck a market in the north-east Nigerian city of Gombe on Thursday, according to AFP. The first explosion took place outside a packed footwear shop around 1620 GMT, followed by a second explosion minutes later, said Badamasi Amin, a…

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  • West Asia

    Morocco’s Homophobic statement on Mob Attack

    In the wake of a mob attack on a man in Fez on June 29, 2015,  Justice Minister Moustapha Ramid has said the assailants should be prosecuted and two suspects are in custody, he has made several anti-gay statements since the assault. He said that homosexuals should avoid “provoking society,”…

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  • Society

    Desmond Tutu hospitalized for treatment of ‘persistent’ infection

    The South African archbishop Desmond Tutu, 83 years old, has been taken to hospital with an undisclosed but “persistent” infection, his foundation has said. “Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu was admitted to a Cape Town hospital on Tuesday for treatment to a persistent infection,” according to a statement issued on Tuesday.…

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  • Society

    A South-Korean footballer in Qatari team

    Lee Yong, 26 years old, decides to join “Khour” Qatari football club, leaving his position as a defender in “Jeju United”, according to Yonhap news. An official in the Korean club stated that Lee left Korea heading to Qatar to get all the medical tests needed before joining the team.…

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