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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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101 dead and 200 injured in Pakistan bombings
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international communityPHUKET: (Reuters): At least 101 people were killed in bombings in two Pakistani cities yesterday (January 10) in one of the country’s bloodiest days in recent years, officials said, with most casualties caused by sectarian attacks in Quetta.The bombings underscored the myriad threats Pakistani security forces face from…
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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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Phuket Gazette World News – Rioting in Belfast for fifth night
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Northern Irish police clash with rioters for fifth night Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Police in Northern Ireland came under attack for a fifth straight night yesterday as the province’s police chief urged politicians and parents to act to halt the riots on Belfast streets. The…
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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: Assad to speak as Syrian rebels threaten Damascus this morning
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international communityBEIRUT (Reuters): Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will deliver a rare speech today about the uprising against his rule, which has killed 60,000 people and brought civil war to the edge of his capital.With insurgents fighting their way closer to the seat of his power, state media said in…
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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: Eleven killed in Damascus gas station blast
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community PHUKET: (Reuters): At least 11 people were killed and 40 wounded when a car bomb exploded at a crowded petrol station in the Syrian capital Damascus yesterday. The station was packed with people queuing for fuel which has become increasingly scarce during the country’s 21-month-long insurgency…
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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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World News: Americans still want their guns, with some restrictions
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community After Newtown, Americans want their guns, with some restrictions Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Nearly seven in 10 Americans support the idea of placing strong or moderate limits gun ownership following the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, a Reuters/Ipsos poll revealed yesterday.But laws that permit citizens…
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World News: Stormin’ Norman stands down
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Famed Gulf War US General Schwarzkopf dies Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Retired US General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr, who headed the coalition forces that drove Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s army out of Kuwait in Operation Desert Storm, has died, a US official said yesterday. He was 78.The highly…
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World News: Residents evacuated as Nicaragua volcano spews ash
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Nicaragua volcano spews ash cloud, residents evacuated Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Nicaragua’s tallest volcano has belched an ash cloud hundreds of meters into the sky in the latest bout of sporadic activity, prompting the evacuation of nearby residents, the government said yesterday. The 5,725-foot (1,745-meter)…
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World News: Pope’s Christmas message thinly veiled: Italian news agency Ansa
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Pope gives advice as Italians prepare for bitter campaign Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Pope Benedict sent a political Christmas greeting to Italians as they head into an election campaign expected to be brutal and bitter: think, cooperate for the common good and don’t discard values when making…
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World News: Activists say more than 60 killed in Syrian airstrike
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Airstrike on bakery in central Syria kills more than 60, activists say Phuket Gazette PHUKET: More than 60 people are believed to have been killed yesterday when a government airstrike hit a bakery in Syria’s central Hamas province where a crowd was queuing for bread, activists…
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World News: Somali pirates release hostages after 33 months in captivity
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Somali pirates release longest-held hostages after 33 months Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: A ship and its crew of 22 sailors held by Somali pirates for almost three years have been freed by maritime police after a two-week-long siege, the government of the breakaway region of Puntland said…
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World News: Ethnic Maya say tomorrow will just be another day
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Mayan Apocalypse nears, doomsday prophecy may “Not Be Real” Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The Mayan calendar that ends tomorrow has prompted discussion of a possible Apocalypse but according to Yahoo.com the ancient people’s fabled date may not hold any weight. Yahoo is reporting that the…
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World News: “Dear Santa” letters answered
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community “Dear Santa” letters answered by U.S. Post Office program Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: One 13-year-old boy who sent a “Dear Santa” letter to the U.S. Post Office this year asked only for covers for his bed, “so I can stay warm this winter.” Another letter…
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World News: These tragedies must end: US President Obama
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Funerals begin for Newtown victims as schools confront tragedy Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: The small Connecticut town shattered by an act President Barack Obama called “unconscionable evil,” held today the first two of 20 funerals for schoolchildren massacred in their classrooms last week. Meanwhile, schools across…
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World News: Connecticut in mourning; Gunman kills 28
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Quiet Connecticut town rocked by mass school shooting Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: The peace and security of the suburban Connecticut community of Newtown lay shattered yesterday after a gunman attacked a primary school in one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history.Tearful parents and children gathered…
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World News: Egypt to hold referendum; Bloodshed likely: Ahmed Said
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Egyptian factions stage final rallies before referendum Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Supporters and opponents of Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi staged final rallies today before a divisive referendum on a new constitution championed by the Islamist leader as a way out of the worst crisis since…
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World News: Death toll from Hurricane Bopha reaches 900; Many still missing
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Philippines typhoon toll tops 900, hundreds still missing Phuket Gazette / News Wires PHUKET: The death toll from the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year has climbed above 900 while hundreds more, many of them tuna fishermen, remain missing and are feared dead, emergency…
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World News: Doctor rescued by Navy Seals in Afghanistan
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community U.S. forces rescue kidnapped American doctor in Afghanistan Phuket Gazette / News Wires PHUKET: Seven Taliban insurgents were killed yesterday in a successful operation by US special forces to rescue an American doctor who had been abducted in eastern Afghanistan, officials said. A US service member…
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