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Thailand’s new Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra. | Photo Credit: AFP Thailand has postponed its hosting of next month’s BIMSTEC summit of the leaders of seven mostly South Asian countries until after a new administration is formed, its foreign ministry said on Friday (August 23, 2024). Thailand currently has a caretaker government following a court’s dismissal…
Humpback whales are a rare conservation success story after global protections were afforded in 1965. Sydney: A juvenile humpback whale was freed Friday after it was entangled in ropes and buoys in the harbour of Australia’s largest city for 22 hours. Rescuers in Sydney received a call on Thursday afternoon that the whale had become…
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The incident took place on Friday. Thailand’s parliament has said that it will investigate veteran politician and former army chief Prawit Wongsuwon after he was filmed slapping a journalist as she tried to ask him questions. According to the BBC, Mr Wongsuwon, the Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP) leader, struck a ThaiPBS reporter on the head…
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Indian passenger bus with 40 people plunges into Marayangdi river in Nepal. | Photo Credit: X:@ani_digital At least 11 people were killed after an Indian-registered passenger bus plunged into the Marsyangdi River in central Nepal on Friday (August 23, 2024), according to a media report. The accident took place at Aaina Pahara in Tanahun district,…
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Bullish trend: Foreigners pumped in $1.75 billion into Malaysian debt markets, the highest in a year. | Photo Credit: Reuters Malaysia is fast becoming a haven in Southeast Asia and foreign investors are returning to a long-overlooked market as a confluence of improving growth, stable government and rising currency sets it apart among peers grappling with…
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In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center, Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrsky, right, look at a map during their visit to Sumy, Ukraine, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Ukraine’s forces destroyed 14 out of 16 Russian attack drones launched overnight, Ukraine’s Air Force said on Friday…
Ahead of Kamala Harris’ historic speech on the final night of the Democratic National Convention, her grandnieces took the stage to give an unusual tutorial to the crowd. Introduced by actor Kerry Washington, the two girls offered to help the crowd learn how to properly pronounce the US vice president’s name. “It’s come to my…
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Wounded policemen rest at a hospital, after an attack in Rahim Yar Khan, in Punjab province on August 23, 2024. A criminal gang attacked police vehicles with rocket launchers in central Pakistan on August 22, killing at least nine officers, police said. | Photo Credit: AFP Gunmen armed with rocket-propelled grenades ambushed a police convoy…
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Kamala Harris’ mother Shyamala Gopalan was a breast cancer specialist Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic presidential nomination in Chicago today and remembered her Indian-origin mother Shyamala Gopalan Harris before a rapturous crowd. Taking center stage on the last day of the Democratic Party convention, she said her mother was only 19 when she crossed the…
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