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Druggie injures two in random stone attacks
Online Reporters, Published on 27/05/2025
» AYUTTHAYA – A 20-year-old man was arrested after reportedly throwing stones at passers-by in a drug-induced delusion, injuring two people – including a woman whose attack was caught on security camera.
Tom Cruise really did get a US aircraft carrier for this mission
Bloomberg News, Published on 23/05/2025
» VIRGINIA — For fans of Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible series, the Pentagon can answer the incredulous question at the climax of its latest trailer: "You gave him an aircraft carrier?"
Taliban change tune towards Afghan heritage sites
AFP, Published on 22/04/2025
» GOWARJAN, Afghanistan - In March 2001, the Taliban shocked the world by dynamiting the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan. Two decades later, they are back in power and claim to be making strides to preserve Afghanistan's millennia-old heritage, including pre-Islamic relics.
The 'living happily ever after' rule is for everyone
Oped, Published on 14/02/2025
» The romance genre has a single set-in-stone rule: The main characters of the story will end up happily in a relationship. The HEA (Happily Ever After) or the HFN (Happy for Now) is the expectation of every reader who picks up a romance novel in the same way a mystery reader waits for a big twisty reveal or a fantasy reader anticipates strange and arcane magic.
German far-right AfD to march in city hit by Christmas market attack
AFP, Published on 23/12/2024
» BERLIN - Three days after Germany's deadly Christmas market attack in which a Saudi man was arrested, both the far-right AfD and counter-protesters were due to hit the streets Monday in the bereaved city of Magdeburg.
Suspect in German Christmas market attack held on murder charges
Reuters, Published on 22/12/2024
» MAGDEBURG, Germany: A man suspected of ploughing a car through crowds at a German Christmas market in an attack that killed five people and injured scores faces multiple charges of murder and attempted murder, police said on Sunday.
Israel's many wars lead to first combat unit of religious women
Bloomberg News, Published on 20/12/2024
» JERUSALEM — Religious girls don’t belong on the battlefield. That has been the traditional view of most of Israel's modern Orthodox community, and young women have generally gone along with it.
Beastly diversions
Oped, Postbag, Published on 19/10/2024
» Re: "Thailand's most unlikely A-list celebrity", (PostScript, Sept 22) & "Hippo rescue", (PostBag, Oct 17).
Trump shooter appears to have acted alone, motive unclear
New York Times, Published on 15/07/2024
» WASHINGTON - The 20-year-old gunman who tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania appears to have acted alone, FBI officials said Sunday, but investigators remain unsure of his motives and political beliefs and have not yet been able to determine what evidence might be on his cellphone.
Beach woes need blue sky thinking
Editorial, Published on 09/06/2024
» The news in March about a foreigner attacking a Thai woman who was sitting on the stone stairs of his villa, which encroached on Phuket's Yamu public beach, stirred up a national debate about the beach grab issue.