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India arms Hindu village militias to combat Kashmir rebels
AFP, Published on 28/04/2023
» DHANGRI (INDIA) - Brandishing a bolt-action rifle, civil servant Sanjeet Kumar is one of 5,000 Kashmir villagers who have joined all-Hindu militia units armed and trained by Indian forces to fight off rebel attacks.
What would you do without internet?
Life, James Hein, Published on 12/04/2023
» India recently blocked all internet, phone and SMS access to the state of Punjab for four to five days as they search for a Sikh separatist. I had a friend who was there at the time and they told me how eerie it was to see no one on a phone for a few days. Someone would occasionally pull out the phone to see if service had returned but apart from that, there were no people talking loudly on phones in restaurants or on public transport. This impacted 27 million people, which is more than the population of Australia.
Finnish man found dead with throat cut
Gary Boyle, Published on 28/02/2023
» A 58-year-old Finnish man was found dead on his bed with his throat cut and a knife on his chest at his home in Chon Buri on Tuesday morning.
Finn found dead, his throat cut
Chaiyot Pupattanapong, Published on 28/02/2023
» CHON BURI: A 58-year-old Finnish man was found dead on his bed with his throat cut and a knife on his chest at his home in Sattahip district on Tuesday morning.
French teen charged with murder in teacher killing
AFP, Published on 24/02/2023
» BAYONNE, France: Prosecutors on Friday charged a 16-year-old boy with murder over the fatal stabbing of his Spanish teacher during class earlier this week in southwest France, his lawyer said.
Ten years after Sandy Hook, a mother's grief and healing
AFP, Published on 14/12/2022
» NEWTOWN (UNITED STATES) - Jenny Hubbard struggles to believe that 10 years have passed since her six-year-old daughter's murder at Sandy Hook Elementary during the deadliest school shooting in US history.
Memory of macabre cult massacre buried in Guyana jungle
AFP, Published on 01/12/2022
» JONESTOWN, Guyana: Deep in the Guyanese jungle, only a signpost and a nondescript plaque serve as reminders of a cult settlement where one of the most spine-chilling mass murder-suicides in modern history took place almost five decades ago.
Rising suicide rate worries experts
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 18/09/2022
» Psychologists are concerned about the rising number of suicides linked with depression in the country, and are calling on the vulnerable to reach out in times of need.
Patient dies in fall from hospital building
Sutthiwit Chayutworakan, Published on 22/08/2022
» SAMUT PRAKAN: A patient with chronic heart and lung disease died in a fall from the fourth floor of a building at Bang Chak Hospital in Phra Pradaeng district on Sunday afternoon, police said.
Two decades of deadly gun violence in US schools
AFP, Published on 25/05/2022
» WASHINGTON - Fourteen students and a teacher were shot dead Tuesday when an 18-year-old gunman opened fire at their Texas elementary school, the latest in the United States' relentless cycle of school mass shootings.