Showing 1,831 - 1,840 of 10,000
33 Turkish soldiers killed in Syria's Idlib
AFP, Published on 28/02/2020
» ANKARA - At least 33 Turkish soldiers were killed in Syria's Idlib province after an air strike blamed on Damascus, prompting condemnation from Washington and a UN warning on the rapidly-rising risk of escalation.
Major powers' defence budgets are indefensible
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 04/01/2021
» The recent war between Armenia and Azerbaijan made sense, in an old-fashioned way. The dispute was about territory -- borders that were drawn almost a century ago by a Russian dictator, Joseph Stalin -- and Azerbaijan had lost the last war and a lot of land.
Another Afghan evacuation flight leaves as UN warns of Taliban 'reprisals'
AFP, Published on 11/09/2021
» KABUL: A second charter flight left Afghanistan on Friday carrying foreigners and Afghans in a sign the country's main airport was close to resuming commercial operations, as the United Nations warned of "credible allegations" of reprisal killings by the Taliban.
Fix state relief loopholes
Oped, Editorial, Published on 16/04/2020
» A commotion at the Finance Ministry on Tuesday by those who missed out on the 5,000 baht handout packages reveal mammoth loopholes in the state relief process that need to be fixed quickly.
Flight report fails mission
News, Editorial, Published on 01/08/2018
» Malaysian investigators have written and released what they initially called a "final report" on the fate of Malaysia Airlines flight 370. Unfortunately, the report added no new information to what caused the aircraft to turn from its scheduled flight plan from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing and then finally crash in a remote part of the Indian Ocean. It was met immediately with both protests and suspicion of cover-up.
When teen stress is deadly
Life, Kanokporn Chanasongkram, Published on 08/10/2018
» World Mental Health Day falls every year on Oct 10. The day designated to raise awareness of the overlooked problem of mental wellbeing aims to establish proper mental healthcare for people around the world.
The macabre puzzle of piecing together victims at Sri Lanka morgue
AFP, Published on 04/05/2019
» COLOMBO - The nauseating smell of death that infested the streets around Colombo's morgue after Sri Lanka's devastating Easter attacks has finally dispersed.
UK judge backs US appeal in Assange extradition case
AFP, Published on 11/08/2021
» LONDON: A British judge on Wednesday gave the US government extra grounds to appeal a refusal to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, after it argued the initial ruling relied on a witness who misled court.
Georgia ex-president Saakashvili says abused in prison, fears for life
AFP, Published on 09/11/2021
» TBILISI - Georgia's jailed ex-president and opposition leader Mikheil Saakashvili, who has been on hunger strike for weeks, said on Monday he feared for his life after prison guards assaulted him.
Harris, French PM lay wreaths six years on from Paris terror attacks
AFP, Published on 14/11/2021
» PARIS - US Vice President Kamala Harris and French Prime Minister Jean Castex laid wreaths at a Paris cafe and France's national football stadium Saturday, six years since deadly terror attacks that left 130 people dead.