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Major quake hits off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Major quake hits off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: A magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck deep under the ocean floor near Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, triggering shaking that could be felt for vast distances and briefly prompting a tsunami warning, the National Tsunami Warning Center…
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Polish foreign minister: ‘We gave the US a blow job’
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Polish foreign minister called ties to USA ‘worthless’ Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: A Polish news magazine said on Sunday it had obtained a secret recording of Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, in contention for a senior European Union job, saying that Poland’s relationship with the United…
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South Korea conscript who killed five comrades continues standoff with troops
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community South Korea conscript who killed five comrades continues standoff with troops Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: A South Korean conscript soldier who killed five of his comrades in a grenade and gun attack continued a standoff on Monday with troops trying to capture him in a…
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Fighting strains Ukraine ceasefire, Putin urges dialogue
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Fighting strains Ukraine ceasefire, Putin urges dialogue Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Fighting flared between Ukrainian and pro-Moscow separatist forces, both sides reported on Sunday, further straining a unilateral ceasefire declared by Ukraine as Russian President Vladimir Putin pressed Kiev to talk to the rebels. Putin…
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Gun battle erupts as Israeli soldiers search for missing teens
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Gun battle erupts as Israeli soldiers search for missing teens Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Israeli forces traded gunfire with Palestinians on Thursday, the military said, in the fiercest street battles in the occupied West Bank since a search began for three Israeli teenagers missing for…
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In wake of World Cup viewer bombings, Nigeria says militants plan petrol lorry attacks on capital
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community In wake of World Cup viewer bombings, Nigeria says militants plan petrol lorry attacks on capital Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Islamist militants are planning to attack Nigeria’s capital with bombs loaded on petrol lorries, the Nigerian government said, stoking fears of a sustained push to…
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Would-be bomber causing Stockholm lock-down surrenders to police
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Would-be bomber causing Stockholm lock-down surrenders to police Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: A man who had threatened to set off explosives in the heart of Stockholm on Thursday, prompting an hours-long lockdown in the Swedish capital, finally gave himself up to police, a spokesman said.…
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Heavy rains, floods hit Bulgaria; 10 people killed
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Heavy rains, floods hit Bulgaria; 10 people killed Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Torrential rains and floods hit Bulgaria on Thursday, killing at least 10 people, cutting off electricity, blocking roads and sparking evacuations, officials said. Heavy rainfall in the Black Sea resort city of Varna…
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King Felipe VI to be sworn in
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community King Felipe VI to be sworn in as Spain’s royals try to update Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Spain’s new king, Felipe VI, will be sworn in on Thursday in a low-key ceremony which monarchists hope will usher in a new era of popularity for the…
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Rohingya camp conditions in Myanmar ‘appalling’ – U.N. official
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Rohingya camp conditions in Myanmar ‘appalling’ – U.N. official Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: A senior U.N. aid official said on Tuesday she had witnessed a level of human suffering never seen before in camps for some 140,000 stateless Muslim Rohingya in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, displaced…
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After years of pressure, Japan bans possession of child porn
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community After years of pressure, Japan bans possession of child porn Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Japan’s parliament voted on Wednesday to outlaw possession of child pornography after years of international calls for a crackdown, but avoided a clampdown on sexually explicit manga comics and animation depicting…
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Syria air strike kills 20 in refugee camp
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Syria bombing kills 20 in refugee camp near Jordan border -activists Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Syrian army helicopters bombed a refugee camp along the Jordanian border on Wednesday, killing at least 20 people, mostly children and women, residents and opposition activists said. They said the…
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Israel re-arrests former Palestinian prisoners in hunt for teens
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Israel re-arrests former Palestinian prisoners in hunt for teens Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Israel re-arrested 51 Palestinians freed in a 2011 prisoner swap deal, the army said on Wednesday, in the sixth day of a hunt for three missing teenagers believed abducted in the occupied…
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China scolds Vietnam for ‘hyping up’ South China Sea oil rig row
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community China scolds Vietnam for ‘hyping up’ South China Sea oil rig row Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: China’s top diplomat scolded Vietnamese officials during talks in Hanoi on Wednesday for “hyping up” a row over a Chinese oil rig drilling in disputed waters in the South…
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Putin, Poroshenko discuss possible ceasefire in east Ukraine
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Putin, Poroshenko discuss possible ceasefire in east Ukraine Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart, Petro Poroshenko, discussed a possible ceasefire in eastern Ukraine and the deaths of two Russian journalists there in a late night telephone conversation, the Kremlin…
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Migrant boat sinks off Malaysia, 42 missing
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Overloaded boat sinks off Malaysia, 42 Indonesians missing Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: An overloaded wooden boat carrying 97 suspected illegal Indonesian immigrants sank off Malaysia’s western coast early today, with rescuers searching for at least 42 missing people, Malaysian officials said. The passengers included women…
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U.S. considers air strikes on Iraq, holds talks with Iran
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community U.S. considers air strikes on Iraq, holds talks with Iran Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: President Barack Obama considered options for military action to support Iraq’s besieged government on Monday, and U.S. and Iranian officials held talks to stabilise the region, which has been roiled by…
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Pakistan resumes air strikes on volatile border region
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Pakistan resumes air strikes to flush insurgents from volatile border Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Pakistani fighter jets resumed air strikes in North Waziristan on Monday, a day after the army announced the start of a major military operation to flush insurgents out of the volatile…
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Iraq rebels seize Northwest town in heavy battle
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Iraq rebels seize Northwest town in heavy battle Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Sunni insurgents seized a mainly ethnic Turkmen city in northwestern Iraq on Sunday after heavy fighting, solidifying their grip on the north after a lightning offensive that threatens to dismember Iraq. Residents reached…
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Colombia’s Santos wins re-election, to push on with peace talks
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Colombia’s Santos wins re-election, to push on with peace talks Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won a second term on Sunday with an election victory that allows him to continue peace talks with Marxist guerrillas to end a half-century war. Santos…
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Thousands of Syrian refugee children in Lebanon forced to work, says aid group
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Thousands of Syrian refugee children in Lebanon forced to work, says aid group Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: At least 50,000 Syrian refugee children in Lebanon are working, often in dire conditions and for 12 hours a day, to pay for food and shelter for their…
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Russia to submit draft UN resolution on Ukraine
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Russia to submit draft UN resolution on Ukraine Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Russia plans to submit a draft resolution to the U.N. Security Council to put pressure on Ukraine to implement a “road map” to peace, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted as saying on…
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Iraq Kurds seize Kirkuk; Sunni militants surge toward Baghdad
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Iraq Kurds seize Kirkuk; Sunni militants surge toward Baghdad Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Iraqi Kurds seized control of the northern oil city of Kirkuk on Thursday, while surging Sunni Islamist rebels advanced towards Baghdad, as the central government’s army abandoned its posts in a rapid…
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Sierra Leone shuts borders, closes schools to fight Ebola
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Sierra Leone shuts borders, closes schools to fight Ebola Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Sierra Leone shut its borders to trade with Guinea and Liberia on Wednesday and closed schools, cinemas and nightclubs in a frontier region in a bid to halt the spread of the…
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Four young students killed as ex-director has seizure behind wheel
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Four young students killed as ex-director has seizure behind wheel The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Four primary-school students were killed and at least 10 others wounded in Nong Bua Lamphu’s Muang district after a former school director slammed into them with his car while suffering…
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Sunni insurgents close in on Iraq’s biggest oil refinery
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Sunni insurgents close in on Iraq’s biggest oil refinery Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Sunni insurgents from an al Qaeda splinter group closed in on Iraq’s biggest oil refinery yesterday after seizing the northern city of Mosul in a devastating show of strength against the Shi’ite-led…
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Philippines captures top al Qaeda-linked militant
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Philippines captures top al Qaeda-linked militant Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Philippine security forces yesterday captured a top al Qaeda-linked Islamist wanted by the United States and involved in the kidnapping of Western tourists, and hailed the arrest as a major blow to his militant network.…
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Japan blasts Chinese bid for U.N. recognition of Nanjing massacre
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Japan blasts Chinese bid for U.N. recognition of Nanjing massacre Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Japan protested to China on Wednesday after Beijing applied for the inclusion of the 1937 Nanjing massacre and the “comfort women” forced to work in wartime military brothels in a UNESCO…
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Korea ferry crew face trial
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Shout of ‘murderer’ goes up in packed court as Korea ferry crew face trial Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Fifteen crew of a South Korean ferry that sank in April killing more than 300 people, most of them children, went on trial on Tuesday on charges…
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Rik Mayall is dead
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community British comic actor Rik Mayall dies aged 56 Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Rik Mayall, the comic actor who pioneered a new wave of British television comedy in the 1980s, died on Monday, aged 56, his management company said. Famed for his anarchic comic style, Mayall…
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