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Ex-CIA analyst recounts torture in secret Thai prison
Reuters, Published on 20/04/2022
» WASHINGTON: In the 2012 Hollywood hit “Zero Dark Thirty,” a red-haired Central Intelligence Agency analyst played by Jessica Chastain travels to a secret CIA prison and watches a colleague waterboard a screaming Al Qaeda suspect, then lock him in a box a little bigger than a mini-fridge, to make him talk.
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'Last four' Thais in Afghanistan evacuated to Qatar and Kuwait
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 22/08/2021
» The four remaining Thais in Kabul, Afghanistan, have been evacuated to Qatar and Kuwait, Foreign Ministry spokesman Tanee Sangrat said on Saturday.
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Chiang Mai air pollution worst in the world
Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 13/03/2019
» Forest fires have sent air quality in nine provinces to a level considered harmful to people's health, as cities in the North like Chiang Mai registered air quality that was among the world's worst.
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Prosthetists get a leg up at Mahidol
News, Dumrongkiat Mala, Published on 23/07/2018
» Mahidol University's Sirindhorn School of Prosthetics & Orthotics (SSPO) has produced the first batch of Afghan prosthetists and orthotists via its distance learning programme.
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Trump may reinstate CIA's 'black site' prisons
Reuters, Published on 26/01/2017
» WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump is expected to order a review that could lead to the reinstatement of a CIA programme to hold terrorist suspects in secret overseas "black site" prisons that used interrogation techniques often condemned as torture, two US officials said on Wednesday.
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Kabul's once battle-scarred zoo roars back to life
AFP, Published on 05/09/2016
» KABUL - Its scarred lion Marjan was for years a symbol of Afghan survival.
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Pentagon to make 'condolence payments' to Kunduz victims
AFP, Published on 11/10/2015
» WASHINGTON - The Pentagon announced Saturday it would make payments in compensation for those killed and injured by US airstrikes on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz.
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NATO ends its 13-year Afghan war, but insurgency boils
AFP, Published on 28/12/2014
» NATO formally ended its war in Afghanistan on Sunday, holding a low-key ceremony in Kabul after 13 years of conflict that have left the country in the grip of worsening insurgent violence.
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Muslims protest at US embassy
Published on 18/09/2012
» About 300 Muslim people rallied in front of the United States embassy on Witthayu Road in Bangkok on Tuesday in a protest against the controversial anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslim".
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Bombing kills 20 in Afghan mosque
AFP, Published on 26/10/2012
» KABUL - A suicide bomber killed at least 20 people and wounded more than 50 when he struck inside a mosque in Maymana city in northern Afghanistan during Eid al-Adha holiday prayers on Friday, officials said.
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