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Phuket Gazette World News: Warships to help Philippines; 24,000 more houses in Jerusalem; Fukushima: now for the tough part
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community U.S., Britain sends warships to help Philippine relief efforts Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: A U.S. aircraft carrier set sail for the Philippines on Tuesday to accelerate relief efforts after a typhoon killed an estimated 10,000 people in one coastal city alone, with fears the toll could rise…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Typhoon survivors beg for help; Rioters clash with police in Warsaw; Women’s rights – poll
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Philippine typhoon survivors beg for help as rescuers struggle Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Dazed survivors begged for help and scavenged for food, water and medicine on Monday, as relief workers struggled to reach victims of a super typhoon that killed an estimated 10,000 people in…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Typhoon death toll feared 10,000; Syria rebels open door to peace; Kristallnacht remembered
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Philippines typhoon kills estimated 10,000, destruction hampers rescue efforts Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Rescue workers struggled to reach ravaged towns and villages in the central Philippines on Monday as they tried to deliver aid to survivors of a powerful typhoon that killed an estimated 10,000 people and…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Typhoon flattens Philippines; Mexico frees kidnap victims; US embroiled in Iran nuclear, Palestine dilemma
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Typhoon Haiyan hammers Philippines Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Typhoon Haiyan, possibly the strongest storm ever to hit land, was barrelling out of the Philippines on Saturday after it flattened houses, triggered landslides and floods and knocked out power and communications across a number of islands.In the central…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Arafat poisoned, say Swiss; Ireland heads for bailout exit; Germany probes new meat scandal; Philippines braces for super typhoon
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Ireland heads for bailout exit in final review Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Three years after going cap in hand to international lenders for a bail out, Ireland is set to step out on its own again.The European Union and International Monetary Fund are due to sign off…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Dutch seek to free Greenpeace activists; Toronto Mayor admits smoking crack; China eyes adopting international law; Irish referendum on same sex marriage
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Dutch take Russia to maritime court to free Greenpeace activists Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The Netherlands will ask an international court tomorrow to order Russia to release 30 people detained during a protest against oil drilling in the Arctic. The detainees, two of whom are…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Heavy gunfire heard in Tripoli; NSA offers concessions; Hunt for journalists’ killers; Missionary jailed in North Korea ailing
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community BREAKING NEWS: Heavy gunfire heard in Libya’s capital Tripoli Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Heavy shooting from guns and anti-aircraft weapons could be heard early this morning in the Libyan capital Tripoli, Reuters witnesses said. Fighting erupted between militias in the eastern Suq al-Juma area, said…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Toronto mayor in crack up; Egypt’s Mursi trial begins; Anonymous hacks Australia; France rues journalists’ executions
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Toronto mayor urges police to release video, apologizes for ‘mistakes’ Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford on Sunday urged his police chief to release a video that media reports say show him smoking what appears to be crack cocaine and issued an apology for unspecified…
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Phuket Gazette World News: US to keep spying; Syrian chemical weapons destroyed; Congo rebels on brink of defeat
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community U.S. Senate panel passes plan to restrict but keep mass surveillance Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee approved legislation yesterday that would tighten controls on the government’s sweeping electronic eavesdropping programs but allow them to continue. In a classified hearing, the panel…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Dogged by dissent, Israel frees 26; Politicians talk too much – Britain; NSA defends spying
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Dogged by dissent, Israel frees 26 Palestinian prisoners Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Israel freed 26 Palestinian prisoners on Wednesday, the second stage of a limited amnesty designed to help U.S.-sponsored peace talks that have been dogged by divisions on both sides.The inmates, convicted of murder in the…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Fukushima safe after Japan quake; US admits spy tension; Ukrainian life sentence for UK Muslim murder, planting bombs
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Fukushima nuclear plant undamaged after Japan quake Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The operator of Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant said on Saturday there was no damage or spike in radiation levels at the station after a large earthquake struck in the ocean east of Japan,…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Germany, France demand No Spy accord with US; UN warns Myanmar over anti-Muslim violence; China H7N9 bird flu fears rise
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Germany, France demand no-spy agreement with U.S. Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: German Chancellor Angela Merkel demanded on Thursday that the United States strike a “no-spying” agreement with Berlin and Paris by the end of the year, saying alleged espionage against two of Washington’s closest EU…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Clown kills Mexico cartel head; Arab League sets date for Syria; Tito’s widow is dead
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Gunman in clown suit kills senior Mexican drug cartel member Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: A gunman in a clown costume shot and killed the oldest brother of one of Mexico’s most notorious drug trafficking families in the resort of Los Cabos, authorities said on Saturday.Francisco Rafael Arellano…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Drone strikes killing civilians; Brazil sugar blaze paralysis; South Africans demand justice for child murders; Aussie wildfire kills one
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Pakistan tells U.N. at least 400 civilians killed by drone strikes Reuters/Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Pakistan has confirmed that of some 2,200 people killed by drone strikes in the past decade, at least 400 were civilians and an additional 200 victims were deemed “probable non-combatants,” a U.N.…
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Phuket Gazette World News: More bombs in Myanmar; Washington goes back to work; Wildfires threaten Sydney; Pirate attacks surge off Nigeria
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community More bomb blasts in Myanmar as police arrest four suspects Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Several bombs exploded in northeastern Myanmar on Thursday, police said, the latest in a string of unexplained attacks, including a blast this week that injured an American tourist in a plush hotel in…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Last-minute deal buys US debt crisis delay
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community U.S. Senate passes deal to end debt crisis Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: The U.S. Senate approved a deal on Wednesday to end a political crisis that partially shut down the federal government and brought the world’s biggest economy to the edge of a debt default that could…
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Phuket Gazette World News: US deal today – maybe; Russian police round up 1600 migrants; Major quake hits Philippines, no tsunami threat
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community U.S. senators hint at possible fiscal deal today Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: A month of combat in the U.S. Congress over government spending showed signs of giving way to a Senate deal to reopen shuttered federal agencies and prevent an economically damaging default on federal…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Moscow riots; Eiffel Tower evacuated; Colombian talks stall; 89 dead in Hindu temple stampede
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Rioting erupts in Moscow after killing blamed on migrant Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Demonstrators, some chanting racist slogans, vandalised a shopping centre and scuffled with police in a Moscow neighbourhood on Sunday after the killing of a young man that residents blamed on a migrant from the…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Dozens dead in new migrant boat sinking off Sicily; US inches toward debt deal; Kenya mall attack suspect charged
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Dozens killed in new migrant shipwreck south of Sicily Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Dozens of people died on Friday when a boat carrying around 250 migrants capsized between Sicily and Tunisia, in the second such shipwreck this month, the Italian coastguard said. The Italian news…
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Phuket Gazette World News: US credit default talks begin; West eyes modernizing nukes; German bishop scandal goes to Pope
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Western powers talk nuclear disarmament, upgrade what’s left Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: The world’s stockpile of nuclear weapons is a quarter of the size it was at its Cold War peak in the 1980s – but the United States, Russia, China, France and Britain are all considering…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Higgs boson, key to the universe, wins Nobel physics prize
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Higgs boson, key to the universe, wins Nobel physics prize Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Britain’s Peter Higgs and Francois Englert of Belgium won the Nobel Prize for physics on Tuesday for predicting the existence of the Higgs boson particle that explains how elementary matter attained the mass…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Bangladesh garment factory blazes; Turkey lifts headscarf ban; Italy seeks EU help after boat tragedy
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Turkey lifts generations-old ban on Islamic head scarf Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Turkey lifted a ban on women wearing the Islamic head scarf in state institutions on Tuesday, ending a generations-old restriction as part of a package of reforms the government says are meant to improve democracy.The…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Cell traffic and disease research wins Nobel Prize; World Bank to slash budget; Argentina’s Fernandez to undergo brain surgery
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Work on ‘cell traffic’ and disease wins Nobel prize Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Three U.S.-based scientists won the Nobel medicine prize on Monday for plotting how vital materials such as hormones and brain chemicals are transported within cells and secreted to act on the body, giving insight…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Cameron in battle over EU referendum
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international communityPHUKET: British Prime Minister David Cameron’s control over his own party looks set to be challenged after a rebel lawmaker on Sunday launched a campaign to bring forward a planned referendum on European Union membership to next year.The move sets up a parliamentary showdown between rival factions of…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Destruction of Syrian chemical weapons begins
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international communityPHUKET: International experts began overseeing the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal on Sunday, said an official from the mission that has averted a U.S. strike but could rob President Bashar al-Assad of his most feared weapon.The process is being conducted amid a civil war in which 120,000…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Mexico monster truck accident kills 8, including kids, injures 79
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international communityPHUKET: Eight people, including four children, were killed and 79 injured when a monster truck careened into a crowd at a show in northern Mexico, an official at the public prosecutor’s office in the city of Chihuahua said on Sunday.The incident late on Saturday afternoon took place at…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Obama’s no-show raises questions in Asia; Assad to pay price; Red Napoleon dies at 102; Search postponed for survivors in Sicilian wreck
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Obama cancels Asia tour over shutdown; raises questions on U.S. pivot Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: President Barack Obama called off plans to visit Asia and attend two summits because of the U.S. government shutdown, raising questions about the strategic “pivot” to the region that he announced just…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Woman shot dead in White House death drive; Italy migrant boat disaster beyond 300; Europeans burned alive for organ trafficking
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Driver shot dead in car chase near U.S. Capitol Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: A dramatic car chase through the streets of Washington from near the White House to the U.S. Capitol ended in gunfire on Thursday when law enforcement officers shot and killed the driver as lawmakers…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Berlusconi plunges Italy into chaos; Air strike on Syrian school; US faces Fed Govt shutdown; Nigerian massacre; Space FalconX launches
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Italian politics in crisis after Berlusconi pulls support Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Silvio Berlusconi’s bid to push Italy into new elections faces a test on Monday when he meets lawmakers from his centre-right party who have shown growing unease over his shock decision to pull support from…
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Iran paying it back; Anti-coco mission crashes; Sudanese hit with tear gas; Global warming mankind’s fault
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Iran makes payments on old loans to World Bank Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Iran resumed payments on old loans to the World Bank, the bank said on Friday, just as the country held the highest level conversation with the United States in more than three decades.The poverty-fighting…
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