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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: 11 now confirmed dead in avalanche
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Climbers’ death toll in Nepal avalanche reaches 11 Phuket Gazette / News WiresPHUKET: The death toll has reached eleven while a number of others remain missing after a group of foreign and national climbers were buried under an avalanche in Nepal, local authorities said.The avalanche occurred on…
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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: 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: US Ambassador Stevens killed in attack by protestors
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Libyan officials: U.S. Ambassador Stevens killed in attack on consulate Phuket Gazette / News WiresPHUKET: Protesters angry about an online video considered offensive to Islam attacked U.S. diplomatic compounds in Libya and Egypt, killing U.S. Ambassador John Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, Libyan officials said today.Libyan…
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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: 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: Destruction in Syria is reaching ‘catastrophic proportions’: UN envoy Brahimi
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community UN envoy says destruction in Syria is reaching ‘catastrophic proportions’ Phuket Gazette / News WiresPHUKET: The new Joint Special Representative of the United Nations (UN) and the Arab League on the Syrian crisis, Lakhdar Brahimi, yesterday said the death toll as a result of the ongoing civil…
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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: 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: Boat carrying 67 asylum seekers missing
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Australia says boat carrying 67 asylum seekers is missing Phuket Gazette / News WiresPHUKET: A boat carrying nearly 70 asylum seekers which left Indonesia for Australia in late June has not been heard from since, Australian home affairs minister Jason Clare said yesterday, adding that the government…
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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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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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Asian News: Heavily armed gunmen ambush army patrol
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Gunmen kill four at university in the southern Philippines Phuket Gazette / News WiresPHUKET: Heavily armed gunmen ambushed an army patrol at a university in the southern Philippines late Wednesday evening, triggering a 30-minute gunfight in which three soldiers and a young child were killed, military officials…
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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: 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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World News: Kofi Annan quits due to the Syrian Govt’s intransigence
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Kofi Annan to quit as UN-Arab League special envoy for Syria Phuket Gazette / News Wires PHUKET: Kofi Annan informed the United Nations (UN) and the Arab League on Thursday that he will resign as their special envoy for the Syrian crisis at the end of…
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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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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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Phuket Gazette: Four sentenced to death in Iran’s biggest bank fraud case
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Four sentenced to death in Iran’s biggest ever bank fraud case Phuket Gazette / News WiresPHUKET: A court in Iran has sentenced four people to be executed for their role in what has been described as the country’s largest ever bank fraud case, judicial officials said yestersday.…
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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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Phuket Gazette: Ronnie Barker’s son arrested on child porn charges
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Ronnie Barker’s son arrested on child porn charges after 8 years on the run Phuket Gazette / News Wires PHUKET: Adam Barker, son of British comedian Ronnie Barker, appeared in a London court yesterday after being on the run for more than eight years, police said.…
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Phuket Gazette: Food poisoning sickens 35 homeless
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Food poisoning sickens 35-plus at Denver dinner for homeless Phuket Gazette / News WiresPHUKET: More than 35 people were taken to Denver-area hospitals late Sunday after being stricken with suspected food poisoning caused by a meal of turkey served at a shelter for the poor and homeless,…
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