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World News: Hong Kong ferry disaster – 38 now confirmed dead
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community 38 dead, 101 injured after boats collide near Hong Kong Phuket Gazette / News WiresPHUKET: A tug boat and a ferry collided off the coast of Lamma Island in Hong Kong on Monday evening, killing 38 people and injuring more than 100 others, local authorities said yesterday.…
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Sacked worker kills self and 5 colleagues in revenge attack
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international communityGunman kills 5 at Minnesota workplace before shooting selfPhuket Gazette / News WiresPHUKET: A gunman opened fire in the state of Minnesota killing four people before fatally shooting himself, local authorities said on Friday.The incident occurred on Thursday afternoon at around 4:30 pm local time at Accent Signage…
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World News: LA hikers find skull and torso; 2nd in 8 months
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Hikers find human skull, torso near canyon trail in Los Angeles Phuket Gazette / News WiresPHUKET: Hikers along a canyon trail in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Pacific Palisades on Saturday discovered a human skull and a torso, more than eight months after a similar discovery was…
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World News: Schoolgirl runaway believed to be in France
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community British girl, 15, thought to have run away to France with teacher Phuket Gazette / News Wires PHUKET: A 15-year-old British girl is believed to have run away to France with her 30-year-old math teacher, police said yesterday as her parents made an emotional appeal. The…
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World News: 19 dead as anti-Islam film protests turn violent
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Anti-Islam film protests in Pakistan turn violent, at least 19 killed Phuket Gazette / News Wires PHUKET: At least nineteen people were killed and scores injured across Pakistan as widespread protests against the anti-Islam film turned violent, local media reported yesterday. In the southern port city…
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Irish tabloid suspends editor over topless Kate photos
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Irish newspaper suspends editor over topless Kate photos Phuket Gazette / News WiresPHUKET: The editor of the Irish newspaper Daily Star was suspended late yesterday over his decision to re-publish topless photographs of Prince William’s wife Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, while on holiday in France.The tabloid…
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World News: iPhone 5 shatters launch sales records
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community iPhone 5 pre-orders top record 2 million in first 24 hours Phuket Gazette / News Wires PHUKET: Apple received more than two million orders for its new iPhone 5 during the first 24 hours of pre-orders, exceeding the initial supply and more than doubling the previous…
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World News: Man falls to his death from passenger jet
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Stowaway falls to death from Heathrow-bound plane Phuket Gazette / News WiresPHUKET: An African man who was found dead in southwest London on Sunday had fallen from a passenger plane that was preparing to land at Heathrow Airport, British police said yesterday. The stowaway has not yet…
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World News: Apple device IDs stolen – rumors of FBI involvement denied
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Apple device IDs stolen from Florida-based digital publishing firm Phuket Gazette / News WiresPHUKET: Identification numbers for more than one million Apple products that were posted online by hackers last week had been stolen from a Florida-based digital publishing firm, not from the laptop of an FBI…
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World News: Deputy al-Qaeda leader killed in Yemen, US drone suspected used
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Yemeni forces kill deputy regional head of al-Qaeda Phuket Gazette / News Wires PHUKET: Saudi national Said al-Shihri, who was previously released from Guantanamo Bay and later became the deputy commander of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, has been killed by Yemeni troops during a military…
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World News: US Jobless claims fall
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community U.S. businesses step up hiring as jobless claims fall Phuket Gazette / News WiresPHUKET: Initial claims for unemployment insurance in the United States fell to 365,000 in the week ending September 1, a decrease of 12,000 compared to the previous week, according to figures released by the…
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World News: Separatist Parti Quebecois victory sparks shooting – 1 dead
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Gunman kills 1 during victory speech of Quebec’s first female premiere Phuket Gazette / News Wires PHUKET: A gunman opened fire outside a building where Canadian politician Pauline Marois was addressing her supporters after being elected the new premiere of Quebec, police said. One person was…
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World News: Fact-finding mission to investigate violence against Rohingya
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international communityOIC fact-finding mission travels to Myanmar to investigate violence against Rohingya MuslimsPHUKET: THe Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has announced a mission is traveling to Burma (Myanmar) today to investigate the recent violence against Rohingya Muslims.The fact-finding mission is scheduled to last for ten days and will also…
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World News: Michael Clarke Duncan dead
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community “Green Mile” star Michael Clarke Duncan dead at 54 Phuket Gazette / News Wires PHUKET: American actor Michael Clarke Duncan, who starred as a death row inmate in ‘The Green Mile’ and in other box office hits such as ‘Armageddon and ‘Kung Fu Panda’, died at…
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World News: Lufthansa cabin crew strike causes flight cancellations
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Hundreds of flights canceled as Lufthansa cabin crews strike Phuket Gazette / News Wires PHUKET: Cabin crews at German airline Lufthansa today launched a fresh strike at two major airports in Berlin and Frankfurt over an escalating pay dispute, a labor union said, forcing the airline…
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World News: Mass shooting at Mexican strip club claims 10
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Death toll rises to 10 after mass shooting at Mexican strip club Phuket Gazette / News Wires PHUKET: The death toll has risen to ten after gunmen opened fire at a strip club in northern Mexico, state officials said yesterday, in what appears to be the…
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World News: Earthquake victims used Facebook to call for help
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Iran earthquake toll rises to 306 dead, more than 3,000 injured Phuket Gazette / News Wires PHUKET: The death toll after two devastating earthquakes struck northwestern Iran over the weekend has risen to at least 306, the country’s ministry of health said yesterday. More than 3,000…
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World News: More journalists killed in Syria and Somalia
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Two Syrian journalists killed as TV crew goes missing Phuket Gazette / News Wires PHUKET: Two Syrian journalists were killed near Damascus on Saturday while covering the ongoing civil war, state-run media and an Arab satellite television station reported yesterday. And a crew member of a…
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World News: Bomb at the FBI undiscovered for 3 weeks
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Guards fired after bomb goes unnoticed at federal building in Detroit Phuket Gazette / News WiresPHUKET: A federal report released on Thursday has harshly criticized the handling of an improvised explosive device (IED) that was discovered at a federal building in Detroit in March 2011 but had…
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Mars News: Plate tectonics found on the red planet
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Marsquakes? California scientist discovers plate tectonics on Mars Phuket Gazette / News Wires PHUKET: A California scientist has discovered that Mars has at least two plate tectonics, contrary to popular belief that the Red Planet is too small, and its interior too cold, to host plate…
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World News: Daring rescue mission in Antarctica
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Australia to the rescue in Antarctica Phuket Gazette / News Wires PHUKET: An Australian rescue plane took off from New Zealand yesterday evening to carry out a daring rescue mission in Antarctica, where an American citizen at a research station is in urgent need of surgery,…
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World News: Syrian PM Riyad Hijab defects; Amnesty raises concerns
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community PM Riyad Hijab defects from Assad regime Phuket Gazette / News WiresPHUKET: Syrian Prime Minister Riyad Farid Hijab on Monday announced his defection from the Assad government and said he is joining the opposition, his spokesman told reporters. It is the highest-profile defection since the uprising began…
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World News: Obama says America needs soul-searching on gun violence
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Obama says America needs ‘soul-searching’ on gun violence Phuket Gazette / News Wires PHUKET: U.S. President Barack Obama yesterday said the government should examine additional ways to reduce violence after a mass shooting at a Sikh temple in southeastern Wisconsin, but he stopped short of calling…
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World News: Another mass shooting in US; Jets intercept plane; Suspected serial killer identified
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Insurgents attack security forces in Afghanistan, killing 2 Kiwi soldiers Phuket Gazette / News Wires PHUKET: Another mass shooting has taken place in the U.S., this time at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, a ‘gurdwara’ located in the township of Oak Creek. A lone gunman opened…
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Phuket Gazette: Euro area jobless rate unchanged
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Euro area jobless rate unchanged at 11.2 percent in June Phuket Gazette / News WiresPHUKET: The euro area (EA17) unemployment rate remained at 11.2 per cent in June, unchanged when compared to the month of May, the European Union (EU) said yesterday.According to Eurostat, the EU’s statistical…
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World News: Heads rolling at Deutsche Bank; 1,900 to be laid off
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Deutsche Bank to cut 1,900 jobs after profits drop 46 percent Phuket Gazette / News WiresPHUKET: Deutsche Bank said yesterday that it plans to cut 1,900 jobs, most of them at its investment bank, as part of an effort to save approximately 3 billion euros ($3.69 billion).…
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More problems for the London Olympics
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Swiss Olympian kicked off team after racist tweet Phuket Gazette / News WiresPHUKET: A Swiss football star was kicked off the men’s Olympic team Monday after sending out a tweet deemed to be racist, sports officials said. It comes just days after a Greek triple jumper was…
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World News: UN says violence in Syria has affected nearly 2 million people
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community UN says violence in Syria has affected close to 2 million civilians Phuket Gazette / News WiresPHUKET: United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday urged an end to the violence in Syria, where as many as two million people are now believed to have been affected…
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At least 78 killed in western Myanmar clashes – UN
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community At least 78 killed in western Myanmar clashes – UN Phuket Gazette / News WiresPHUKET: Clashes between Buddhist and Muslim communities in western Myanmar have reportedly killed at least 78 people and displaced thousands last month, the United Nations (UN) said on Friday. UN High Commissioner…
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Phuket Gazette: Red Bull’s Baumgartner jumps from 96,640 feet
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO: Felix Baumgartner completed the final milestone remaining before he attempts to achieve his dream of becoming the first person to break the speed of sound in freefall. According to preliminary data, his test jump from a 5.3 million cubic-foot balloon achieved an altitude of…
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