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BUSINESS

Oil and stocks steady amid hope for peace talks

AFP, Published on 21/04/2026

» LONDON - Oil prices dipped and stocks mostly edged higher Tuesday as investors held out hope that despite conflicting rhetoric there was scope for a deal to end the Middle East war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz to oil and gas shipments.

WORLD

Downing Street ‘exerted pressure to OK Mandelson’

AFP, Published on 21/04/2026

» LONDON - Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s office applied constant pressure on civil servants to approve the appointment of Peter Mandelson as UK ambassador to Washington and seemed to brush off security concerns, a sacked official told MPs on Tuesday.

THAILAND

Wat Rai Khing abbot gets 50 years for B2bn embezzlement

Post Reporters, Published on 21/04/2026

» The 70-year-old former abbot of Wat Rai Khing in Nakhon Pathom, Yaem Ingkrungkao, was on Wednesday sentenced to 50 years in prison in a high-profile temple funds fraud case that broke last year.

LIFE

Inside the world of ultra-luxury wedding cakes

AFP, Published on 21/04/2026

» PARIS — Competing for attention with Jennifer Lopez is no easy task. But at a recent wedding in India where the American star performed in a barely-there sparkly leotard, it was arguably the cake that stole the show.

PROPERTY

War set to boost condo demand in major markets

Business, Kanana Katharangsiporn, Published on 21/04/2026

» Condominiums and rental homes in key destinations, including Bangkok, Phuket, Pattaya, Samui and Chiang Mai, are likely to benefit from migration from countries affected by the Middle East conflict, according to property consultancy Colliers Thailand.

WORLD

Pope Leo blasts 'exploitation' on visit to resource-rich Angola

AFP, Published on 20/04/2026

» SAURIMO — Pope Leo XIV condemned exploitation and corruption by the rich and powerful on Monday during a visit to Angola's diamond-rich northeast, returning to a theme of his 11-day tour of Africa.

WORLD

Bulgaria ex-president wins parliamentary majority

AFP, Published on 20/04/2026

» SOFIA — Bulgarian ex-president Rumen Radev, a critic of the European Union (EU) who has called for renewing ties with Russia, took an absolute majority in parliamentary elections that could spell an end to the country's half-decade of political uncertainty, according to near complete vote results on Monday.

WORLD

Pope Leo visits Angola's diamond-rich northeast of Africa's Angola

AFP, Published on 20/04/2026

» LUANDA — Pope Leo XIV heads to Angola's remote and diamond-rich northeast on Monday in the latest stop on an Africa tour during which he has spoken out against the country's glaring poverty.

BUSINESS

Thailand plans law to borrow B500bn and lift debt ceiling

Published on 20/04/2026

» The government plans an emergency decree to borrow ​500 billion baht to address economic issues, Deputy Prime Minister Pakorn Nilprapunt said on Monday.

LIFE

Who's Bad? Not Michael Jackson in new big-budget biopic

AFP, Published on 20/04/2026

» PARIS - A new Michael Jackson biopic will shortly arrive in cinemas telling the story of the King of Pop's early career, but it's a tightly controlled story that avoids any reference to the child sex abuse allegations that dogged his later life.