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Once the bane of big tech, Vestager's star wanes
AFP, Published on 08/12/2023
» BRUSSELS - Margrethe Vestager is preparing to return to her day job as the European Union's competition chief after a hard-fought and ultimately unsuccessful bid to lead the bloc's lender.
Dublin crowds bid farewell to Shane MacGowan
AFP, Published on 08/12/2023
» DUBLIN - Crowds lined the streets of Dublin on Friday to their pay respects to the Irish songwriter Shane MacGowan, who died last month at the age of 65.
Macron defends Jewish ritual at Elysee palace
AFP, Published on 08/12/2023
» PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron felt compelled Friday to justify allowing a Jewish ritual at the Elysee palace after critics accused him of failing to respect France's secular traditions.
Muay Thai eyed as soft power
Post Reporters, Published on 08/12/2023
» The government plans to promote Thai traditional boxing, or Muay Thai, as one of the country’s forms of soft power.
Minister denies hospital closures looming
Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 08/12/2023
» Public Health Minister Cholnan Srikaew has dismissed as misleading media reports that some hospitals in the Northeast were suffering financial losses and would have to close some units.
Nobel chemistry laureate targets climate change, cancer
Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 08/12/2023
» Chemistry has played an important role in finding the best solutions for humankind amid potentially existential threats like climate change as well as myriad health problems, says Roger Kornberg, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2006.
Chalermchai undecided on Democrat leadership bid
Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 08/12/2023
» Chalermchai Sri-on says he has yet to decide whether to seek the leadership of the Democrat Party on Saturday, despite indications that his strong support among party MPs makes him a front-runner.
Putin says he will seek re-election in 2024
AFP, Published on 08/12/2023
» MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that he would run for re-election in 2024, Russian news agencies reported, allowing the Kremlin leader to extend his decades-long grip on power into the 2030s.
Macron: Notre Dame to reopen on time
AFP, Published on 08/12/2023
» PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron promised on Friday that the restoration of Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral, badly damaged by fire in 2019, would be completed in time for its planned reopening next December.
Israeli forces squeeze Gaza cities
AFP, Published on 08/12/2023
» GAZA STRIP - Israeli forces squeezed Gaza's main cities Friday, two months after Hamas's deadly attack sparked a war that has killed thousands, left the Palestinian territory in ruins, and triggered an extraordinary UN bid for a ceasefire.