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Young man sets himself on fire in Bangkok
Gary Boyle, Published on 01/10/2025
» A 21-year-old man set himself on fire at a bus stop and ran out into the traffic on Phahon Yothin Road in Bangkok on Tuesday, horrifying pedestrians and motorists.
Kiln death; cart caution; daring shoot; old man's row
News, Mae Moo, Published on 24/08/2025
» Brutal murder shocks
World plastic pollution treaty talks collapse with no deal
AFP, Published on 15/08/2025
» GENEVA — Talks aimed at striking a landmark global treaty on plastic pollution fell apart Friday without agreement, as countries failed to find consensus on how the world should tackle the ever-growing scourge.
UN starts new bid to forge plastics treaty amid 'global crisis'
AFP, Published on 05/08/2025
» GENEVA - Nations must resolve the global plastics crisis, the head of UN talks told negotiators from 180 countries gathered in Geneva on Tuesday to forge a landmark treaty on eliminating the life-threatening waste.
Gaza rescuers say Israeli forces kill over 50 as ceasefire calls mount
AFP, Published on 01/07/2025
» GAZA CITY - Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli forces killed at least 51 people, including 24 at a seafront rest area, as fresh calls grow for a ceasefire in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory.
'Death is sometimes kinder': Relatives recount Gaza strike that devastated family
AFP, Published on 26/05/2025
» GAZA CITY (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) - Alaa al-Najjar was tending to wounded children at a hospital in the southern Gaza Strip when the news came through: the home where her own 10 children were staying had been bombed in an Israeli air strike.
Bomb at fertility clinic in California kills one
AFP, Published on 18/05/2025
» LOS ANGELES (UNITED STATES) - An explosion outside a California fertility clinic Saturday killed one person in what the local mayor described as a bomb attack.
Feuds blamed for plantation killings
News, Published on 13/05/2025
» More than 100 police officers are searching for at least three suspects involved in the shooting and burning of a palm oil plantation overseer and two staff members in Trang's Sikao district, in an incident believed to have resulted from a dispute. Authorities have also uncovered a fourth burned and buried body in the vicinity.
Indonesia's 'silvermen' beg to make ends meet
AFP, Published on 07/05/2025
» JAKARTA - On a rainy day in Indonesia's capital Jakarta, three men coated in metallic paint known as the "manusia silver", or silvermen, brave the elements at an intersection near a mall to ask drivers for change.
Police officer shot dead, car set on fire in Narathiwat
Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 10/04/2025
» NARATHIWAT: A police officer was shot dead and his car set on fire in Sungai Padi district of this strife-torn southern province on Wednesday night, followed by a bomb blast nearby in which two people were slightly hurt.