Thai bus crash hurts 13 Danish tourists
Reuters : More than a dozen Danish tourists in Thailand were injured after a bus lost control and crashed in the northern Mae Hong Son, a remote mountainous province, officials said on Friday. The...
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4 dead, 250 hurt as violence roils India’s Uttarakhand
News Desk : Four people have died and 250 others were injured in widespread violence over the demolition of a madrasa and an adjoining mosque in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Authorities have imposed...
Kim says he has no desire for talks to destroy South if provoked
AP : North Korean leader Kim Jong Un restated he has no desire for diplomacy with South Korea and that the North would annihilate its rival if provoked, state media said Friday, in the...
US Department of Justice calls Biden ‘elderly man with a poor memory’
Bloomberg : President Joe Biden insisted his memory is “fine” and lambasted a Justice Department report on his handling of classified information, particularly its questions about his mental acuity and age that have proven...
World’s biggest flying lab comes to Asia on air pollution mission
AFP : NASA has kicked off a series of marathon flights in Asia with the world’s biggest flying laboratory, in an ambitious mission to improve the models that help to forecast and fight air...
Decoding Putin’s ‘obsessive ideas’ in the Tucker Carlson interview
Al Jazeera : Russian President Vladimir Putin has told conservative US journalist Tucker Carlson that ending Moscow’s almost two-year-old invasion of Ukraine is “simple”. In his first interview with a Western reporter since the...
Israeli snipers kill 21 civilians in Nasser Hospital
Al Jazeera : Israeli snipers have killed at least 21 Palestinians after they opened fire on displaced civilians trying to reach Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis. Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from...
Azerbaijan election: President Ilham Aliyev wins vote criticised by monitors
BBC Online : Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev has won a fifth consecutive term in power with more than 92% of the vote, according to election authorities. However, international observers say he had no meaningful...
Putin’s antiwar rival blocked from contesting Russia presidential election
Al Jazeera : Russia’s presidential hopeful Boris Nadezhdin has said his bid to run in elections in March has been blocked, and that he will challenge the decision of the election commission in the...
UN chief warns of ‘age of chaos’ as Security Council stays divided on Gaza
Al Jazeera : UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that the world is entering into an “age of chaos” as the UN Security Council remains sharply divided over Israel’s war on Gaza. Guterres said...
Haitian PM calls for calm as violent protests demand his resignation
Al Jazeera : Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry has called for calm in a public address as violent protests have erupted across the country demanding he step down. Henry’s brief speech did little to...
Iraq condemns ‘clear-cut assassination’ operation after US strike
Al Jazeera : Iraq has denounced a US drone strike in Baghdad that killed a commander of an Iran-aligned group, saying the United States-led military coalition in the country is becoming a “factor for...