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Fighting and air strikes across Yemen; dialogue remains distant
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Fighting and air strikes across Yemen; dialogue remains distant Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Yemeni fighters loyal to the Saudi-backed President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi clashed with Iranian-allied Houthi fighters on Sunday in Aden, the absent leader’s last major foothold in the country. Hadi loyalists in the…
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Major 7.7 quake strikes off Papua New Guinea, tsunami warning issued
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Major 7.7 quake strikes off Papua New Guinea, tsunami warning issued Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: A major earthquake with a magnitude 7.7 struck off Papua New Guinea on Monday, official monitors said, and a tsunami warning was issued soon after. The epicenter of the 33km…
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Co-pilot suspected of deliberately crashing Germanwings jet
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Co-pilot suspected of deliberately crashing Germanwings jet Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: A young German co-pilot barricaded himself alone in the cockpit of Germanwings flight 9525 and apparently set it on course to crash into an Alpine mountain, killing all 150 people on board including himself,…
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Pilot locked out of cockpit in Germanwings Airbus crash
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Pilot locked out of cockpit in Germanwings Airbus crash Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Investigators have retrieved cockpit voice recordings from one of the black boxes of the German Airbus plane that crashed into the Alps, killing everyone onboard, officials said on Wednesday. The New York…
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Lee Kuan Yew, modern Singapore’s founding father, dies at 91
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Lee Kuan Yew, modern Singapore’s founding father, dies at 91 Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s first prime minister, died on Monday aged 91, triggering a flood of tributes to the man who oversaw the tiny city-state’s rapid rise from a British colonial…
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Myanmar convicts five over fake rape claim that sparked riots
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Myanmar convicts five over fake rape claim that sparked riots Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: A Myanmar court convicted five people for spreading fabricated allegations that a Muslim man raped a Buddhist woman, which led to deadly riots last July, a court official said on Friday.…
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Yemen mosque suicide bomb attacks leave 137 dead
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Suicide bombers slay 137 in Yemen mosque attacks Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Suicide bombers killed at least 137 worshippers and wounded hundreds more during Friday prayers at two mosques in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, in coordinated attacks claimed by Islamic State. The attacks on mosques…
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Islamist gunmen slay 20 foreign tourists in museum massacre
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Islamist gunmen slay 20 foreign tourists in museum massacre Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Tunisia said it would deploy thearmy to major cities and arrested nine people on Thursday after20 foreign tourists were shot dead in an attack on a museumwhich Islamic State militants called “the…
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Dead babies found in house freezer in southern France
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Dead babies found in house freezer in southern France Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Police have found the corpses of four babies in the freezer at a house in southern France, after a man reported finding a dead baby in a cooler bag in his family’s…
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Clinton charity fails to disclose donors
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Clinton charity fails to disclose donors Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: In 2008, Hillary Clinton promised Barack Obama, the president-elect, there would be no mystery about who was giving money to her family’s globe-circling charities. She made a pledge to publish all the donors on an…
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Netanyahu claims victory in Israel election
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Netanyahu claims victory in Israel election Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed victory in Israel’s election after exit polls showed he had erased his center-left rivals’ lead with a hard rightward shift in which he abandoned a commitment to negotiate a Palestinian…
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New York tycoon charged with murder after movie confession
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community New York tycoon charged with murder after movie confession Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: New York real estate scion and accused murderer Robert Durst’s bathroom muttering that he “killed them all” would likely be admissible evidence in a murder trial, legal experts said on Monday. Durst,…
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Aid teams report devastation and death after Vanuatu cyclone
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Aid teams report devastation and death after Vanuatu cyclone Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Early reports from the outer islands of Vanuatu on Monday painted a picture of utter destruction after a monster cyclone tore through the South Pacific island nation. Authorities in Vanuatu were struggling…
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Gunman kills eight in Czech restaurant
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Gunman kills eight in Czech restaurant Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET:A local man shot dead eight people in a restaurant in an eastern Czech town on Tuesday and then killed himself, in the worst peacetime shooting in the country’s history, officials said. The interior minister said…
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Fire breaks out at Dubai Torch apartment skyscraper
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Fire breaks out at Dubai Torch apartment skyscraper Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Hundreds of people in Dubai were evacuated from one of the world’s tallest residential buildings on Saturday when fire swept through The Torch, a 79-story skyscraper, residents said. A witness said flames shot…
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‘Terrifying’ storm, 285kmh winds slam into northeast Australia
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community ‘Terrifying’ storm, 285kmh winds slam into northeast Australia Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Tens of thousands of residents in northeastern Australia were warned on Friday to take shelter wherever they could after a huge storm unexpectedly intensified into a cyclone before it made landfall, cutting rail…
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Australia ratchets up pressure on Indonesia over Bali Nine executions
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Australia ratchets up pressure on Indonesia over Bali Nine executions Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Indonesia owes it to Australia not to execute two Australian drug offenders on death row, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Wednesday, ratcheting up a diplomatic war of words that is…
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Greece defies creditors, seeking credit but no bailout
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Greece defies creditors, seeking credit but no bailout Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Talks between Greece and euro zone finance ministers over the country’s debt crisis broke down on Monday when Athens rejected a proposal to request a six-month extension of its international bailout package as…
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Tsunami danger passes after strong quake hits northern Japan
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Tsunami danger passes after strong quake hits northern Japan Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.9 struck off northeastern Japan on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, and small waves were reported along the northern coast after Japan issued a…
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Copenhagen in shock over shootings, 22-year-old suspect dead
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Copenhagen in shock over shootings, 22-year-old suspect dead Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Police shot dead a 22-year-old Danish-born gunman on Sunday after he killed two people at a Copenhagen synagogue and an event promoting free speech in actions possibly inspired by an attack on the…
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Gunmen fire on Marseille police as PM Valls visits city
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Gunmen fire on Marseille police as PM Valls visits city Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Gunmen fired on a police car in Marseille on Monday in what local officials said was a drug-related incident, just hours before a visit by Prime Minister Manuel Valls to hail…
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Bruised Australian PM Abbott survives leadership challenge
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Bruised Australian PM Abbott survives leadership challenge Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott survived a challenge to his leadership on Monday after his ruling Liberal Party voted down a motion to unseat him after weeks of infighting, but the attempted revolt appears…
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Islamic State says US hostage killed in air strike in Syria
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Islamic State says US hostage killed in air strike in Syria Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Islamic State said on Friday that an American woman hostage it was holding in Syria was killed when Jordanian fighter jets bombed a building where she was being held, but…
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Jordan military jets pound IS as king comforts pilot’s family
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Jordan military jets pound IS as king comforts pilot’s family Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Jordanian fighter jets pounded Islamic State targets in Syria on Thursday, before roaring over the hometown of the pilot killed by the militants while King Abdullah consoled the victim’s family. A…
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Jordan vows revenge for ISIS burning alive captured pilot
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Jordan vows revenge for ISIS burning alive captured pilot Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Islamic State militants released a video on Tuesday appearing to show a captured Jordanian pilot being burnt alive in a cage, a killing that shocked the world and prompted Jordan to promise…
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Japan PM calls to consider military undertaking overseas rescues
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Japan PM calls to consider military undertaking overseas rescues Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET:Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday he wanted to debate the possibility of Japan’s military rescuing Japanese citizens abroad, a day after Islamic State militants said they had beheaded a Japanese…
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Egypt frees Al Jazeera journalist Greste, 2 others still held
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Egypt frees Al Jazeera journalist Greste, 2 others still held Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste was released from a Cairo jail on Sunday and left Egypt after 400 days in prison on charges that included aiding a terrorist group, security officials…
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Malaysia declares MH370 an “accident”, airline to proceed with compensation
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Malaysia declares MH370 an “accident”, airline to proceed with compensation Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Malaysia declared on Thursday the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 an accident, clearing the way for the airline to pay compensation to victims’ relatives while the search for the plane…
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AirAsia probe vets possible computer glitch, crew response
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community AirAsia probe vets possible computer glitch, crew response Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Investigators probing the crash of an AirAsia jetliner are examining maintenance records of a key part of its automated control systems, and how the pilots may have handled the plane if it failed,…
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Japan’s Abe: new video of Islamic State captive Goto “despicable”
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Japan’s Abe: new video of Islamic State captive Goto “despicable” Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday termed “despicable” a new video appearing to show Japanese journalist Kenji Goto, who is being held by Islamic State militants, saying he could be…
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