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Taliban gunmen attack Karachi airport academy in second assault
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Taliban gunmen attack Karachi airport academy in second assault Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Pakistan’s Taliban insurgents claimed responsibility for an attack on a security academy at Karachi’s airport on Tuesday, less than 48 hours after an all-night siege by Taliban gunmen at Pakistan’s busiest airport…
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Korea ferry crew face trial
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Shout of ‘murderer’ goes up in packed court as Korea ferry crew face trial Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Fifteen crew of a South Korean ferry that sank in April killing more than 300 people, most of them children, went on trial on Tuesday on charges…
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Rik Mayall is dead
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community British comic actor Rik Mayall dies aged 56 Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Rik Mayall, the comic actor who pioneered a new wave of British television comedy in the 1980s, died on Monday, aged 56, his management company said. Famed for his anarchic comic style, Mayall…
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Ukraine sees ‘understanding’ with Russia on peace moves
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Ukraine sees ‘understanding’ with Russia on peace moves Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Ukraine said on Monday it had reached a “mutual understanding” with Moscow on parts of a plan proposed by President Petro Poroshenko for ending violence in the east of the country. Kiev gave…
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Pakistan militants attack Karachi airport, 23 dead
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Militants attack airport in Pakistan’s Karachi, 23 dead Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Gunmen attacked one of Pakistan’s biggest airports on Sunday and at least 23 people were killed, including all 10 of the attackers, media reported. The attack on Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan’s…
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Ukraine crisis; Putin, Poroshenko break ice at D-Day event
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Ukraine crisis; Putin, Poroshenko break ice at D-Day event Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The leaders of Russia and Ukraine held their first talks on Friday since Moscow annexed Crimea, discussing ways to end their four-month conflict in a brief encounter during commemorations in France of…
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Indian PM ally says rape ‘sometimes right, sometimes wrong’
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Ally of India’s Modi says rape ‘sometimes right, sometimes wrong’ Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: A lawmaker from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party has described rape as a social crime, saying “sometimes it’s right, sometimes it’s wrong”, in the latest controversial remarks by an…
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Pope fires entire board of Vatican financial watchdog
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Pope fires entire board of Vatican financial watchdog Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Pope Francis sacked the five-man board of the Vatican’s financial watchdog on Thursday – all Italians – in the latest move to break with an old guard associated with a murky past under…
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World leaders gather for D-Day tribute, hope for thaw on Ukraine
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community World leaders gather for D-Day tribute, hope for thaw on Ukraine Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: World leaders and veterans gather by the beaches of Normandy on Friday to mark the 70th anniversary of the Allied D-Day landings that helped turn the tables in World War…
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China sentences nine to death for terrorism in Xinjiang
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community China sentences nine to death for terrorism in Xinjiang Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Authorities in China’s restive Xinjiang region sentenced nine people to death on Thursday for “violent terrorism” crimes, state media reported, as part of a nation-wide crackdown on separatist militants. China has launched…
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Assad declared landslide victor in wartime Syrian election
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Assad declared landslide victor in wartime Syrian election Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: President Bashar al-Assad has secured a landslide victory in a wartime election that was condemned as a sham by his opponents but demonstrated his tenacious hold on power after three years of brutal…
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Bosnia floods unearth grim wartime mass grave
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Bosnia floods unearth grim wartime mass grave Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Floods in Bosnia last month have unearthed a secret mass grave containing corpses with hands tied behind their backs, apparently Muslim Bosniak victims of the country’s 1992-1995 war, an official said on Tuesday. “We…
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Saudi MERS deaths jump to 282 ahead of Hajj
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Saudi MERS deaths jump 282 ahead of Hajj Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Saudi Arabia announced a jump of nearly 50 percent in deaths from a new virus on Tuesday after re-examining old data that also showed the number of infections since 2012 was a fifth…
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Spain’s King Juan Carlos abdicates to revive monarchy
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Spain’s King Juan Carlos abdicates to revive monarchy Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Spain’s King Juan Carlos said on Monday he would abdicate in favour of his son Prince Felipe, aiming to revive the scandal-hit monarchy at a time of economic hardship and growing discontent with…
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France arrests suspect in Brussels Jewish museum shooting
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community France arrests suspect in Brussels Jewish museum shooting Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: French police have arrested a man suspected of being involved in the shooting deaths last weekend of three people at Brussels’ Jewish Museum, official sources in Belgium and France said on Sunday. The…
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Pele’s son sentenced to 33 years in prison
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Pele’s son sentenced to 33 years in prison Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The son of former Brazil striker Pele has been sentenced to 33 years in prison for laundering money earned from drug trafficking, Brazilian media reported. Edinho, who played as a goalkeeper for his…
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Ukraine separatists down army helicopter, 14 killed
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Ukraine separatists down army helicopter, 14 killed Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Pro-Russian separatists shot down a Ukrainian army helicopter on Thursday, killing 14 soldiers including a general, as government forces pressed ahead with an offensive to crush rebellions in the east swiftly following the election…
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Flight MH370: Doubt raised over whether pings came from missing Malaysia jet
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Doubt raised over whether ‘pings’ came from missing Malaysia jet Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The U.S. Navy described as “speculative and premature” a media report on Thursday that said four acoustic pings at the centre of the search for a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner are…
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Egypt’s Sisi sweeps to victory in presidential vote
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Egypt’s Sisi sweeps to victory in presidential vote The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the general who toppled Egypt’s first freely elected leader, swept to victory in a presidential election, provisional results showed on Thursday, joining a long line of leaders drawn from…
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Obama plans to end US troop presence in Afghanistan by 2016
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Obama plans to end US troop presence in Afghanistan by 2016 Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday outlined a plan to withdraw all but 9,800 American troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year and pull out the rest by…
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Fire at South Korea hospital for elderly kills 21
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Fire at hospital for elderly kills 21 in latest major South Korea accident Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: A fire at a rural South Korean hospital for chronically ill elderly patients on Wednesday killed 21 people and injured eight in the second major fire this week…
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Battle at Donetsk airport; Ukraine leader says no talks with ‘terrorists’
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Battle at Donetsk airport; new Ukraine leader says no talks with ‘terrorists’ Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Ukraine launched air strikes and a paratrooper assault against pro-Russian rebels who seized an airport on Monday, as its newly elected leader rejected any talks with “terrorists” and said…
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Sisi set to take presidency as Egyptians back stability
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Sisi closes on presidency on final day of Egypt vote Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Former army chief Abdel Fatah al-Sisi is expected to emerge from a second and final day of voting on Tuesday as Egypt’s next president, with supporters seeing him as the man…
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Experts divided on Jewish Museum killer: was he lone wolf or hitman?
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Experts divided on Jewish Museum killer: was he lone wolf or hitman? Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: A gunman who killed three people at Brussels’ Jewish Museum was “cold-blooded and very determined”, Belgian officials said on Monday, leading some security experts to suggest he may have…
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Pope compares sexual abuse to ‘satanic mass’, meets victims
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Pope compares sexual abuse to ‘satanic mass’, meets victims Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Pope Francis said on Monday that he will have his first meeting with a group of sex abuse victims at the Vatican early next month and said he would show zero tolerance…
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Ukrainians back Poroshenko to find way out of crisis
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Ukrainians back Poroshenko to find way out of crisis Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Petro Poroshenko, a billionaire chocolate manufacturer, claimed the Ukrainian presidency with an emphatic election victory on Sunday, taking on a fraught mission to quell pro-Russian rebels and steer his fragile nation closer…
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Far right suffers Dutch surprise as EU vote begins
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Dutch Eurosceptic party stumbles in European elections Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The Eurosceptic party of far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders slumped into a surprise fourth place in European Parliament elections on Thursday, according to exit polls which showed his Freedom Party behind three pro-European groups.…
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Biggest attack in years kills 31 in China’s troubled Xinjiang
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Biggest attack in years kills 31 in China’s troubled Xinjiang Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Explosives hurled from two vehicles which ploughed into an open market in China’s troubled Xinjiang killed 31 people on Thursday, state media reported, the deadliest act of violence in the region…
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California kidnap, sex abuse victim abducted at 15 escapes via Facebook a decade later
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community California kidnap, sex abuse victim abducted at 15 escapes via Facebook a decade later Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: A woman abducted from her suburban Southern California home when she was 15 has been found alive after a decade-long ordeal of physical and sexual abuse, and…
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Nigerian Islamists extend killing spree in northeast
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Nigerian Islamists extend killing spree in northeast Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Suspected Nigerian Islamist militants killed 17 people in a remote northeastern village on Tuesday night, hours after a bomb killed 118 people in the central city of Jos, police said on Wednesday. Militants opened…
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