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Businessman denies Yannawa pub connection
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 30/10/2022
» Businessman Chaiyanat Kornchayanant, who donated 3 million baht to the Palang Pracharath Party, has denied involvement in the Yannawa pub, where 104 customers, mostly Chinese nationals, tested positive for drugs during a police raid.
Clashes as thousands march in France against agro industry water 'grab'
AFP, Published on 30/10/2022
» SAINTE-SOLINE (FRANCE) - Thousands of demonstrators defied an official ban to march on Saturday against the deployment of new water storage infrastructure for agricultural irrigation in western France, according to organisers.
In Brazil, a dirty vote campaign ends with colorful rallies
AFP, Published on 30/10/2022
» SAO PAULO - Thousands of cheering supporters poured into the streets of Brazil Saturday for final rallies on the eve of a knife-edge electoral showdown between Jair Bolsonaro and rival Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva that is seen as too close to call.
Dozens suffer cardiac arrests in Seoul Halloween crush
AFP, Published on 30/10/2022
» SEOUL: Dozens of people suffered from cardiac arrest in the South Korean capital Seoul on Saturday, after thousands crowded into narrow streets in the city's Itaewon neighbourhood to celebrate Halloween, local officials said.
Foxes pay tributes to Vichai and recall his contribution
Sports, Published on 30/10/2022
» Leicester City players and staff gathered at the Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha Memorial Garden on Thursday to remember those who tragically passed away four years ago on that site at King Power Stadium.
Scenes of horror in Seoul after Halloween stampede
AFP, Published on 30/10/2022
» SEOUL: Party-goers in costumes fleeing in panic, desperate attempts at first aid on the sidewalks, scores of bodies lined up under makeshift shrouds: in Seoul's lively Itaewon district, a Halloween festival turned to tragedy Saturday.
New capital rises, but at what price?
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 30/10/2022
» Sprawled across a patch of desert four times the size of Washington, DC, a showy new capital is rising in Egypt, imperial in scale and style, embodying the grandiose ambitions of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi and his mantle as the country's unchallenged ruler.
Rwanda keen to take migrants, unlike West
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 30/10/2022
» At a sprawling complex of brick-row houses and gleaming new apartment blocks in this town wedged between two small lakes, hundreds of Africans have found what they could not elsewhere: refuge after enduring servitude and torture in Libya.
China's power rises in global slowdown
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 30/10/2022
» When Suriname couldn't make its debt payments, a Chinese state bank seized the money from one of the South American country's accounts.
Righting the ship
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 30/10/2022
» Millions of dollars in advertisements blasting schools for teaching critical race theory and assailing corporations like BlackRock for catering to "woke politicians".