2 detained after bomb kills 3 Thai festival
AFP : Authorities in Thailand have arrested two men following a bomb blast at a festival near the border with Myanmar that killed three people...
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The Arctic island with 20 people, 1m birds
BBC : Set some 40km off Iceland’s northern coast, this windswept sliver is home to one of Europe’s most remote settlements and a thriving seabird...
US starts relocating Marines from Japan’s Okinawa
AFP : The United States has begun relocating thousands of Marines from the Japanese island of Okinawa, Tokyo and Washington said Saturday, after decades of...
‘Crown of Thorns’ returns to Notre Dame Cathedral
Agency : An ancient relic that many Christians revere as Jesus Christ’s “Crown of Thorns” is returning to Notre Dame, five years after it was...
The Arctic island with 20 people, 1m birds
BBC : Set some 40km off Iceland’s northern coast, this windswept sliver is home to one of Europe’s most remote settlements and a thriving seabird...
Indonesian President steers strategic middle path
Al Jazeera : When Prabowo Subianto was sworn in as Indonesia’s eighth president in October, an immediate question was what the appointment of the once-feared...
Indian Muslims grapple with loss amid home demolitions
News Desk : Shahid Malik is fighting for a home that no longer exists. For the past two years, Malik, an accountant by trade, has...
About 1.1m newly displaced in Syria since toppled Assad
The Guardian : About 1.1 million people have been displaced since Syrian rebels launched the offensive that ousted former president Bashar al-Assad, the UN’s humanitarian...
How North Korea responded to South’s political turmoil
Deutsche Welle : In the week since South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s abortive declaration of martial law, Pyongyang has been uncharacteristically silent.Normally, any hints...
US watchdog cites FBI missteps
Al Jazeera : The United States Department of Justice has issued a report into the intelligence gathered in the lead-up to the 2021 attack on...
Trump invites China’s Xi to inauguration
Reuters : US President-elect Donald Trump has invited Chinese President Xi Jinping and other foreign leaders to his inauguration next month in Washington, a Trump...