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Greenland, Ukraine and all that stuff
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 30/08/2025
» Last Wednesday, the Danish foreign minister, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, summoned the top US diplomat in Copenhagen to his office to complain that the United States is running a covert operation in Greenland, a semi-autonomous part of the Danish kingdom.
Hope and hate: how migrant influx has changed Germany
AFP, Published on 29/08/2025
» BERLIN — Men sit outside shisha bars and women in hijabs push strollers past Middle Eastern restaurants and pastry shops in Berlin's Sonnenallee, a wide avenue which has become a symbol of how much Germany has changed in the last decade.
Deaths could spell end for Japanese boxing
AFP, Published on 26/08/2025
» TOKYO — Japanese boxing is at "a crucial moment" and could cease to exist if it does not radically improve safety, the head of the country's boxing commission told Agence France-Presse (AFP) following the deaths of two fighters.
Why aid workers need protection
Oped, Published on 20/08/2025
» From flood-hit villages in Nepal to conflict-affected areas in Myanmar, midwives, doctors and community responders save lives. These humanitarians are the first to arrive and the last to leave when a crisis strikes. They work in conflict zones, climate disaster areas and displacement camps, often with scarce resources and under constant threat of violence.
Trump's deals are weakening the rule of law
News, Published on 09/08/2025
» European Union trade commissioner Maros Sefcovic described the recent US-EU trade agreement in unvarnished terms. Agreeing to a 15% tariff on most exports to the United States and promising to purchase $750 billion (24 trillion baht) worth of American energy over three years and to invest another $600 billion in the US (not including an unspecified amount in additional orders of US-made military hardware) was "clearly the best deal we could get."
Higher US tariffs officially take effect
AFP, Published on 07/08/2025
» WASHINGTON - Higher US tariffs came into effect for dozens of economies on Thursday, drastically raising the stakes in President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging efforts to reshape global trade.
Bhumjaithai MP slams govt's 'slow, inadequate' response to border conflict
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 01/08/2025
» A tense House session on Thursday saw Bhumjaithai Party MP Thana Kitpaiboonchai blast the government's response to the Thai-Cambodian border conflict as "slow and inadequate".
Deadly blast linked to illegal activity
News, Post Reporters, Published on 01/08/2025
» Officials have confirmed that a deadly explosion at a fireworks factory in Suphan Buri, which killed 10 people, stemmed from an unauthorised operation that violated safety regulations.
Myanmar junta lifts emergency rule, calls for December vote
Bloomberg News, Published on 31/07/2025
» NAY PYI TAW — Myanmar’s military leadership lifted a state of emergency more than four years after it took power in a coup, a necessary step for holding elections slated to be held later this year.
Trump is trying to build a far-right international
Oped, Jan-Werner Mueller, Published on 30/07/2025
» Until recently, the spectre of an international far-right alliance of populist parties in democracies around the world has been just that: any appearance of cooperation was a form of self-promotion, rather than an expression of true solidarity. Few far-right figures have made any sacrifices for one another or seriously interfered in other countries' internal affairs to prop up allies. And efforts to unite the far right in the European Parliament have fallen dismally short.