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A human rights group is claiming that a 16-year-old Iranian girl was hospitalized after morality police beat her into a coma in Tehran over the weekend for not complying with dress code rules on the hijab. Armita Garawand was allegedly beaten on the Tehran Metro on Sunday night and is …

According to the authorities on Wednesday, a 14-year-old teenage boy allegedly opened fire in a major shopping mall in the capital of Bangkok, Thailand.  The boy allegedly murdered a Chinese and Myanmar citizen and wounded five other people in the attack. A blank-firing handgun may have been modified to fire real …

Azerbaijani authorities on Tuesday arrested several leaders of the Eurasian nation’s Armenian separatist Nagorno-Karabakh region. Former separatist president Arayik Harutyunyan was arrested and brought to Baku, alongside predecessors Arkadi Gukasian and Bako Sahakyan. Davit Ishkhanyan, the speaker of the separatist legislature, was also arrested. Authorities in Azerbaijan arrested several former …

At least 20 people are dead after a bus veered off an overpass near Venice, Italy, on Tuesday evening, authorities said. Venice Mayor Luigi Brugnaro told Italian state TV channel Rai News24 that there were “at least 20 dead” after a bus veered off the road and fell a few …

India has told Canada to remove 41 of its 62 diplomats in the country, an official familiar with the matter said Tuesday, ramping up a confrontation over Canadian accusations that India may have been involved in the killing of a Sikh separatist leader in suburban Vancouver. The official spoke on …

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.N. Security Council voted Monday to send a multinational armed force to Haiti led by Kenya to help combat violent gangs, marking the first time in almost 20 years that a force is deployed to the troubled Caribbean country. The resolution drafted by …

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian President Joko Widodo inaugurated Southeast Asia’s first high-speed railway on Monday as it was set to begin commercial operations, a key project under China’s Belt and Road infrastructure initiative that will drastically reduce the travel time between two key cities. The project has been beset …

A lightning strike caused a large gas explosion in England on Monday followed by a huge fireball visible in the night sky from miles away.  The fire erupted after lighting hit a gas tank at a food waste recycling plant in Oxfordshire. The Severn Trent Green Power Plant at Cassington, …

Tokyo-based start-up Tsubame Industries has developed a 14.8-feet, four-wheeled robot that looks like “Mobile Suit Gundam” from the wildly popular Japanese animation series, and it can be yours for $3 million. Called ARCHAX after the avian dinosaur archaeopteryx, the robot has cockpit monitors that receive images from cameras hooked up …

The Islamic Republic of Iran’s representative in Lebanon issued the first public announcement of the Iranian regime’s role in the mass murder of American military and diplomatic personnel in the early 1980s in Beirut. The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) first located and translated the bombshell interview with Sayyed Issa …