China plans to launch a Mars mission in July. A remote-controlled robot is set to explore the surface of the red planet, the company executing the project says. The Mars Mission is one of many projects under China’s multi-billion-dollar space program. Other goals of the Asian superpower include putting […]
In Iran, the mosques will open especially next week for Laylat al-Qadr, one of the holiest moments of the year for Muslims. Within Islam, it is then celebrated that the prophet Mohammed was first given the Quran by order of Allah. Iranian mosques were locked in March due to […]
The death sentence passed on Pakistani former President Pervez Musharraf is unconstitutional. The Pakistani Supreme Court ruled that. It is not yet clear whether the conviction is thereby also destroyed, although Musharraf’s lawyer says so. Former President Musharraf was sentenced to death on 17 December by a special anti-terrorism […]
The Nepalese government wants to take stricter action against practices whereby women and children are banished to primitive huts during their menstrual periods. The “menstrual huts” have been banned for about fifteen years, but the government says it will now effectively carry out the prison sentences. The age-old Hindu […]
Attacks at an election meeting in the Pakistani city of Mastung have already killed at least 128 people. That has been announced by the regional minister of the Interior Agha Umar Bungalzai. The attack occurred in Mastung, about forty kilometres from the capital of the Baluchistan province. A kamikaze […]
A plane from the Chinese airline Air China had to make an emergency descent of more than 6 kilometres when the oxygen content in the box suddenly dropped. The event is linked to the co-pilot who smoked an e-cigarette during the flight, Chinese state media report today with GOK News. […]
Dozens of People killed by Taliban Attacks on Afghan Army Bases. In Afghanistan, coordinated attacks by the Taliban Wednesday have indeed claimed a dozen lives. There is no clarity about the exact figure. The Taliban attacked two bases of the Afghan army and three checkpoints in the northern province […]
