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Putin urges better US-Russia ties, then vilifies West
AFP, Published on 17/12/2020
» MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin on Thursday expressed hope that incoming US President Joe Biden would present an opportunity for improved relations between their two countries, before attacking Western aggression towards Russia.
Boko Haram releases video claiming to show kidnapped boys
AFP, Published on 17/12/2020
» KANKARA (NIGERIA) - The Boko Haram jihadist group released a video on Thursday claiming to show schoolboys seized in a mass kidnapping in northwest Nigeria last week.
France's Macron tests positive as Europe battles virus surge
AFP, Published on 17/12/2020
» PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron became the latest head of state to test positive for coronavirus on Thursday, forcing several other European leaders into quarantine as the continent struggles with a winter surge in infections.
A year in Wuhan: AFP's Guardian agency photographer of 2020
AFP, Published on 17/12/2020
» WUHAN (CHINA) - AFP's Chilean photographer Hector Retamal, based in Shanghai, has been named news agency photographer of the year by The Guardian for work including his reporting on the ordeal of people in Wuhan, the city where the Covid-19 pandemic started.
US to unseal charges against Lockerbie bombing suspect: media
AFP, Published on 17/12/2020
» WASHINGTON - The United States plans to unseal charges soon against a Libyan man suspected of assembling the bomb that blew up a US airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, US newspapers have reported.
Shrimp farmer in Samut Sakhon tests positive
Online Reporters, Published on 17/12/2020
» SAMUT SAKHON: A wholesale shrimp farmer and vendor at a market in Muang district was found infected with Covid-19.
Thai Pakdee urges 'social media reform'
Online Reporters, Published on 17/12/2020
» A royalist group has given the Digital Economy and Society Ministry 30 days to quickly conduct social media reform or face an escalating demand.
Russia awaits landmark CAS ruling on doping ban
AFP, Published on 17/12/2020
» LAUSANNE - Sport's highest court will announce on Thursday its decision on whether to overturn Russia's four-year ban from international sport over alleged state-sponsored doping that would exclude it from next year's Tokyo Olympics.
BoT: Exchange rate not a tool
Business, Pathom Sangwongwanich, Published on 17/12/2020
» Thailand has no intention of using the exchange rate as a tool to gain an unfair trade advantage and competitiveness over trading partners, says the Bank of Thailand.
France's Macron tests positive for Covid-19
AFP, Published on 17/12/2020
» PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday, the presidency said, adding that he would now self-isolate for the next week.