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Trump taking control of Washington DC police
Published on 11/08/2025
» WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said on Monday he was putting Washington’s police department under federal control and ordering the National Guard to deploy to the nation’s capital to combat what he said was a wave of lawlessness, despite statistics showing that violent crime hit a 30-year low in 2024.
Calls for equal compensation in deep South
News, Post Reporters, Published on 08/08/2025
» The government is facing calls to provide equal compensation to families of fallen soldiers in the deep South, following the approval of 10 million baht in aid for each serviceman killed in the recent Thai-Cambodian border clashes.
New York mass shooter blamed NFL for his brain injuries
AFP, Published on 29/07/2025
» NEW YORK - A man who killed four people, then committed suicide in a New York skyscraper, may have been targeting the NFL offices there because he blamed the American football league for brain injuries he said he suffered, Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday.
Ill-equipped and tired: a night with a Ukrainian air defence unit
AFP, Published on 29/07/2025
» UNDISCLOSED — A menacing buzz reverberates through the night sky in eastern Ukraine. Explosions ring out, flashes illuminate sunflower fields below and the smell of gunpowder poisons the air.
Gunman kills four and himself at Midtown Manhattan building
New York Times, Published on 29/07/2025
» NEW YORK — A gunman killed at least four people and himself at an office tower that houses Blackstone Incorporated, Rudin Management, the National Football League and KPMG among others, sparking hours of chaos and fear in Midtown Manhattan on Monday evening.
Written in blood
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 21/07/2025
» In 2015, Joe Freeman and Aung Naing Soe noticed the prominent status of poetry in Myanmar politics. At the time, both journalists heard that Maung Saungkha, a 23-year-old poet, posted a poem about having a tattoo of an unnamed president on his penis on Facebook. Saungkha, however, was charged for defaming former president Thein Sein under telecommunication law, serving a six-month jail term.
Domestic violence victim fled through window after brutal assault
Online Reporters, Published on 16/07/2025
» SAMUT SAKHON - Social activist Guntouch Pongpaiboonwet, known as Gun Jompalang, accompanied a 32-year-old woman identified as "Bua" to Krathum Baen police station on Wednesday to provide additional testimony about the horrific violence inflicted on her by her husband.
‘This isn’t real’: Teacher recalls narrow escape from Austrian shooter
AFP, Published on 11/06/2025
» GRAZ, Austria - A teacher recounted on Wednesday how he found himself in a corridor with the shooter who killed 10 people in an Austrian school as he fled his empty classroom.
Seven dead as Colombia hit with wave of bombings and gun attacks
AFP, Published on 11/06/2025
» CALI (COLOMBIA) - Colombia was rocked by a string of 24 coordinated bomb and gun attacks that killed at least seven people across the country's southwest Tuesday, deepening a security crisis roiling the Andean nation.
French prosecutors urge 10-year terms for Kardashian robbers
AFP, Published on 21/05/2025
» PARIS - Prosecutors on Wednesday urged a French court to hand 10-year prison terms to the four men accused of robbing American superstar Kim Kardashian of some $10 million worth of jewellery at a Paris hotel.