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Phuket Gazette World News: NYT targeted; Aussies may face new election; Senator in sex tourism scandal
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community New York Times says targeted by China hackers after Wen report Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The New York Times said today that Chinese hackers had “persistently” attacked its computers over the past four months since the paper published a story on Premier Wen Jiabao, but…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Israeli warplanes target arms convoy in Syria
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Israel hits Syria arms convoy to Lebanon -sources Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Israeli warplanes bombed a convoy near Syria’s border with Lebanon, sources told Reuters, apparently targeting weapons destined for Hezbollah in what some called a warning to Damascus not to arm Israel’s Lebanese enemy.…
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World News: Crack down on nightclubs after deadly fire
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Brazilian cities crack down on nightclubs after deadly fire Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Cities across Brazil are beginning to crack down on nightclubs to ensure they comply with fire regulations following a weekend blaze that killed 231 people at a club in the southern university town of…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Queen Beatrix to abdicate Dutch throne
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Dutch Queen Beatrix to abdicate throne after 33 years Phuket Gazette / News Wires PHUKET: Dutch Queen Beatrix announced that she will abdicate on Queen’s Day in April after more than three decades as head of state, allowing her eldest son Willem-Alexander to become the kingdom’s…
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World News: Brazilian nightclub fire kills at least 233
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Nightclub fire kills 233 in Brazil Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: A nightclub fire killed at least 233 people in southern Brazil early yesterday morning when a band’s pyrotechnics show set the building ablaze and fleeing party-goers stampeded toward blocked and overcrowded exits in the ensuing…
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World News: Women in US, France and India make the headlines
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community U.S. to lift ban on women in frontline combat jobs Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The U.S. military will formally end its ban on women serving in frontline combat roles, officials said yesterday, in a move that could open thousands of fighting jobs to female service…
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World News: Indian women learning to look after themselves
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Women take up self-defence, pepper spray after India rape Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Women in India’s capital are taking self-defence classes, snapping up pepper sprays, booking cabs with female drivers or leaving work early, all signs of growing insecurity following the brutal gang rape and murder of…
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World News: I killed Afghan insurgents – Prince Harry
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Britain’s Prince Harry says he killed Afghan insurgents during tour Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Britain’s Prince Harry says he killed Afghan insurgents during sorties against the Taliban while on his second tour of duty in Afghanistan where he was a gunner in Apache attack helicopters.Queen Elizabeth’s 28-year-old…
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Phuket Gazette World News: US teenager kills 5 family members; Assault rifle used
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Five shot dead in Albuquerque, teen charged Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: New Mexico police yesterday identified the teenager accused of killing five people in an Albuquerque home as Nehemiah Griego, the son and brother of the victims. Griego, 15, used multiple weapons, including an assault…
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World News: Man runs 7km to catch train and not a cold
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Russian man falls off train, chases it for 7 km in extreme cold Phuket Gazette / News WiresPHUKET: Wearing only sweat pants and a t-shirt, a Russian man was forced to run approximately seven kilometers (4.3 miles) at minus 40 degrees Celsius (-40 degrees Fahrenheit) after he…
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World News: Many dead as desert siege ends; Dreams back to earth; WADA gives UCI a bitter pill
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Algeria ends desert siege, but dozens killed Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Algerian forces stormed a desert gas complex to free hundreds of hostages but 30, including several Westerners, were killed in the assault along with at least 11 of their Islamist captors, an Algerian security source told…
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World News: Mali war spills into Algeria; Many hostages taken
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Sahara hostage siege turns Mali war global Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Islamist fighters have opened an international front in Mali’s civil war by taking dozens of Western hostages at a gas plant in the Algerian desert just as French troops launched an offensive against rebels…
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Phuket Media Watch: Hindu pilgrims stream to mythical river in their millions for Maha Kumbh Mela
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Millions take to the Ganges at largest Hindu festival Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Upwards of a million elated Hindu holy men and pilgrims took a bracing plunge in India’s sacred Ganges river to wash away lifetimes of sins today, in a raucous start to an…
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Obama, Karzai accelerate end of U.S. combat role in Afghanistan
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international communityPHUKET: (Reuters): President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai agreed yesterday (January 11) to speed up the handover of combat operations in Afghanistan to Afghan forces, raising the prospect of an accelerated U.S. withdrawal from the country and underscoring Obama’s determination to wind down a long, unpopular…
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Phuket Media Watch: China sends troops to Myanmar border
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community China sends troops to border with conflict-torn Myanmar Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: China has sent soldiers to its border with Myanmar amid concern that escalating violence between the Southeast Asian country’s government and ethnic separatists is spilling over, an official Chinese newspaper reported yesterday. The…
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Snake hitches ride on Qantas flight to Papua New Guinea
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international communityPHUKET: (News Wires): Qantas had its very own dramatic ‘snakes on a plane’ episode yesterday (January 10) when a three metre python joined passengers onboard an early morning flight from Australia to Papua New Guinea.But unlike Samuel L. Jackson’s 2006 fictional Hollywood blockbuster in which a nest of…
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One student injured in California school shooting
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international communityPHUKET: (Reuters) – A student armed with a 12-gauge shotgun opened fire in a California high school yesterday (January 10), critically wounding a fellow student before two staff members talked the boy into putting down his weapon, authorities said.The suspected sole gunman, a 16-year-old boy, was arrested by…
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Queen changes rule; royal baby will be a princess
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community PHUKET: (News wires): Queen Elizabeth has decided if the baby Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge are expecting is a girl, she will be a princess. Under the current rules, the first born son of the couple would become a prince, but a daughter would not…
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Australian heat wave sears new colors onto weather maps
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community PHUKET (Reuters): Australia’s record-breaking heat wave has sent temperatures soaring, melting road tar and setting off hundreds of wildfires – as well as searing new colors onto weather maps. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has added dark purple and magenta to its color-coded weather forecasting map to…
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World News: US doesn’t rule out removing troops from Afghanistan
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community US does not rule out removing all troops from Afghanistan Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The Obama administration does not rule out a complete withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan after 2014, the White House said yesterday (January 8), just days before President Barack Obama is…
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World News: New wildfires flare-up as temperatures soar
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Fresh fires rage, PM urges Australians to be safe Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: New wildfires flared across Australia today as temperatures soared to near record levels, fanned by hot outback winds, and as Prime Minister Julia Gillard warned the nation to prepare for possibly its…
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World News: Australia braces for wildfire day
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Australia braces for “catastrophic” wildfire day Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Australia was bracing today for days of “catastrophic” fire and heat wave conditions, with fires already burning in five states and as a search continued for people missing after devastating wildfires in the island state of Tasmania.Prime…
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World News: Russian church head urges followers to adopt children
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international communityPHUKET: (Reuters): The head of Russia’s dominant church urged its citizens to adopt children, speaking in a Russian Orthodox Christmas address today after President Vladimir Putin signed a controversial law barring Americans from adopting Russian children.Patriarch Kirill paid particular attention to the issue in a Christmas message, lending…
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World News: Clinton resumes duties today after treatment for clot
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international communityPHUKET: (Reuters): U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will resume her official duties today (January 7), five days after being released from a hospital for treatment of a blood clot.Clinton, 65, was released from New York Presbyterian Hospital last Wednesday, after a stay of several days during which…
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World News: Armstrong may be on verge of admitting drug use
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international communityPHUKET: (News wires): Lance Armstrong is reportedly on the verge of publicly admitting he used performance enhancing drugs throughout his cycling career.The New York Times is reporting that the disgraced American has told associates and anti-doping officials that he is considering a public admission.The newspaper claims this is…
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World News: Fire fears as temperatures soar in New South Wales
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international communityPHUKET: Total fire bans remain in place across New South Wales, Australia, as firefighters battle blazes in searing heat.Parts of Tasmania’s east coast have been cut off by bushfires as a blaze on the Tasman Peninsula continues to burn out of control.More than a dozen properties have been…
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World News: Rape victim’s friend speaks out
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international communityPHUKET: (Reuters): Passers-by left a gang-raped Indian student lying unclothed and bleeding in the street for almost an hour, a male friend who was assaulted with her said yesterday (January 4) in his first public comments on the case.The 23-year-old student died in hospital two weeks after she…
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World News: Back to school for Sandy Hook Elementary School’s surviving students
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international communityPHUKET: (Reuters): Classes resumed yesterday (January 3) for more than 400 surviving students of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, 20 days after a massacre at the school that killed 20 first graders and six adults last month.Across Newtown’s sprawling Sandy Hook neighbourhood, home to the school where…
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World News: Three dead in Swiss shooting
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international communityPHUKET (Reuters): Three people were killed and two wounded late on Wednesday when a gunman opened fire in the Swiss village of Daillon, Swiss police said this morning.The suspect threatened police when they tried to arrest him, and officers shot and wounded him before taking him into custody,…
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Phuket Media Watch: UN lifts Syria death toll to ‘truly shocking’ 60,000
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international communityPHUKET (Reuters): More than 60,000 people have died in Syria’s uprising and civil war, the United Nations said on Wednesday, dramatically raising the death toll in a struggle that shows no sign of ending.In the latest violence, dozens were killed in a rebellious Damascus suburb when a government…
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