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Suriname votes with convicted-killer president's future at stake
AFP, Published on 25/05/2020
» PARAMARIBO (SURINAME) - Suriname's convicted-murderer president Desi Bouterse says he is confident of holding onto power despite polls suggesting his NDP party will lose its majority in Monday's legislative elections.
Fire at Hat Yai university
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 25/05/2020
» SONGKHLA: A fire damaged a building under construction on the Prince of Songkla University's Hat Yai campus late on Sunday night.
'It's kind of glum': US farmers worry as crop prices dip
AFP, Published on 25/05/2020
» MOUNT AIRY (UNITED STATES) - Dave Burrier steered his tractor through a field, following a GPS map as he tried to plant as much corn as possible amid the yellow and green rye covering the ground.
Rocketman (and woman): Elon and Gwynne, the pair who made SpaceX
AFP, Published on 25/05/2020
» WASHINGTON: Space Exploration Technologies Corp. -- commonly known as SpaceX -- is slated to send two astronauts into space on Wednesday. Despite not yet being 20 years old, the company has already developed a creation myth: on Sept 28, 2008, its first rocket Falcon 1 launched for the fourth time.
Liga boss wants June 11 Seville derby to restart season
AFP, Published on 25/05/2020
» MADRID: La Liga president Javier Tebas said Sunday he hopes the resumed season will start on June 11 with the Seville derby, "one game for all of Spain".
Chaturon readies new party
News, Post Reporters, Published on 25/05/2020
» Former deputy prime minister and chief policy strategist of the now-defunct Thai Raksa Chart Party Chaturon Chaisang says he is in the process of forming a new political party.
Cops to test chemicals found in 'bleach mum' house
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 25/05/2020
» Police are investigating whether a chemical confiscated from the house of a mother accused of forcing her two-year-old son to swallow bleach is the same substance found by doctors in the boy's system.
China says virus pushing US ties to brink of 'Cold War'
AFP, Published on 25/05/2020
» BEIJING - China said Sunday that relations with the United States were "on the brink of a new Cold War", fuelled in part by tensions over the coronavirus pandemic that has killed nearly 350,000 people worldwide and pitched the global economy into a massive downturn.