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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.
‘Malignant stupidity’: Economists on Trump’s tariffs
AFP, Published on 08/04/2025
» PARIS - A wide range of economists are voicing alarm over US President Donald Trump’s tariffs blitz, which has sparked a trade war that experts say could lead to a global recession.
South Korea says 18 dead in raging wildfires
AFP, Published on 26/03/2025
» UISEONG, South Korea — At least 18 people have been killed in one of South Korea’s worst wildfire outbreaks, with multiple blazes burning and causing “unprecedented damage”, the acting president said on Wednesday.
‘Extermination camp’ found in Mexico
Published on 15/03/2025
» MEXICO CITY — A group of volunteers searching for their missing relatives first received a tip last week about a mass grave hidden in western Mexico.
Reflections from a fire-ravaged LA
Holiday Time, Published on 01/02/2025
» Thailand's blockbuster How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies (Lahn Mah), directed by Pat Boonnitipat might not have been on the nominees list -- and Putthipong "Billkin" Assaratanakul was not (yet) a Golden Globes winner or presenter -- but when the 82nd Golden Globes Awards ceremony concluded this Jan 5 (local time) in Los Angeles, there were so many Asian and Asian American achievements to celebrate. This included much greater global visibility for actors, directors and creative content from Korea to Japan to India and beyond.