Six injured in attack on Swiss train; motive unknown, police say
ZURICH – Six people were injured in an attack aboard a Swiss train on Saturday by a man armed with a knife and flammable fluid, St Gallen cantonal police said.…
Kurdish forces in fresh push to close in on IS-held Mosul
WARDAK, Iraq – Kurdish Peshmerga forces backed by US-led coalition airstrikes have launched a fresh attack on Islamic State militants in northern Iraq in the early hours of Sunday, as…
US drone kills Islamic State leader for Afghanistan, Pakistan: officials
PESHAWAR, Pakistan/WASHINGTON – The leader of Islamic State’s branch in Afghanistan and Pakistan was killed in a US drone strike on July 26, a Pentagon spokesman said on Friday. The…
Miss World Australia finalist dies after car crash
A Miss World Australia finalist has died in hospital after being involved in a car crash in far north Queensland. 17-year-old Elyse Miller-Kennedy suffered extensive injuries following a head-on collision…
Series of blasts hit popular resorts in southern Thailand
HUA HIN, Thailand – A series of blasts have hit three of the most popular tourist resorts in southern Thailand on Thursday and Friday, killing two people and wounding dozens,…
China power plant blast kills at least 21 on eve of Tianjin anniversary
BEIJING – A blast at a power plant in central China killed at least 21 people and injured five on the eve of the first anniversary marking massive Tianjin explosions,…
South China Sea: US says it’s aware of reports Vietnam fortified islands
WASHINGTON – The US State Department says the country is aware of reports that Vietnam has deployed missile systems on several of its outposts on the Spratly islands in the…
Vietnam sentences 11 to death for trafficking large amount of drug to China – Xinhua
HANOI – A court in Vietnam’s northern China-bordering Lang Son province on Tuesday sentenced 11 people to death for smuggling some 280.24 km of heroin from the country to China…
Vietnamese woman found guilty in Australia air ticket scam
SYDNEY – An Australian court has sentenced a Vietnamese woman who swindled more than $450,000 from Vietnamese overseas students in an air ticket scam, to 18 months of home detention.…
Vietnamese comedian Minh Beo pleads guilty to sex crimes
Vietnamese entertainer Hong Minh Quang, popularly known as Minh Beo, has pleaded guilty at court in the US state of California to having sex with a minor. The 38-year-old Garden…
