Chinese authorities say police have arrested 15,000 people on suspicion of cybercrime, including hacking, online fraud and illegal sale of personal information. The Ministry of Public Security said on Tuesday that police have investigated more than 7,400 cases of alleged online crimes, leading to the arrests. It did not say[…]
Fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) beheaded an antiquities scholar in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra and hung his body on a column in a main square of the historic site, Syria’s antiquities chief said on Tuesday. ISIL, which controls swathes of Syria and[…]
Thai authorities said on Tuesday they were looking for a suspect seen on closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage near a famous shrine where a bomb blast killed 22 people, nearly half of them foreigners. The government said the attack during the Monday evening rush hour in the capital’s bustling commercial hub[…]
Search and rescue teams have found the flight recorder for a Trigana Air passenger aircraft that crashed in eastern Indonesia, killing all 54 on board, according to officials. “At 1:40 local time the Trigana Air black box was found,” Transportation Ministry official Julius Arivada Barata told the Reuters news agency[…]
Hundreds of employees with the UN body assisting Palestinian refugees have protested in the Gaza Strip over what they describe as the agency’s slashing of the vital services it provides to Palestinians, especially schooling. The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) had warned that schooling for half a million Palestinian[…]
The United Nations humanitarian chief has condemned attacks against civilians in Syria, a day after more than 100 people were killed in what activists said were regime air raids on the rebel-held suburb of Douma, near Damascus. New UN aid chief Stephen O’Brien’s comments came as sources told Al Jazeera[…]
Thailand’s government has set up a “war room” to hunt down those responsible for Monday’s deadly bombing of a Bangkok shrine, as the country’s defence minister said the attack aimed to target the country’s economy. The explosion, which has killed at least 20 people and injured scores, detonated around 7pm[…]
Hundreds of employees with the UN body assisting Palestinian refugees have protested in the Gaza Strip over what they describe as the agency’s slashing of the vital services it provides to Palestinians, especially schooling. The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) had warned that schooling for half a million Palestinian[…]
Israeli authorities on Monday offered to free Palestinian hunger striker Muhammad Allan if he leaves the country, a demand his lawyer immediately dismissed, while the Israeli Supreme Court postponed taking a decision on whether to release him. Issa Qaraqe, the head of the Palestinian Authority Committee for Prisoners’ Affairs, said that[…]
At least 12 people have been killed and 78 wounded by a bomb blast that hit the commercial centre of the Thai capital Bangkok, police have said. The blast, which was said to have taken place near the Erawan Shrine, occurred about 7.10pm local time, according to the Bangkok Post.[…]
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