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Liberia police fire on protesters as Ebola toll hits 1,350
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Liberia police fire on protesters as Ebola toll hits 1,350 Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Police in the Liberian capital fired live rounds and tear gas on Wednesday to disperse a stone-throwing crowd trying to break an Ebola quarantine imposed on their neighbourhood, as the death…
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Gaza truce collapses, fighting erupts, Israel orders negotiators home
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Gaza truce collapses, fighting erupts, Israel orders negotiators home Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: A ceasefire in the Gaza Strip collapsed on Tuesday, with Palestinian militants firing rockets into Israel, prompting Israeli air strikes that health officials said killed a woman and a young girl. Accusing…
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Islamic State says beheads U.S. journalist, holds another
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Islamic State says beheads U.S. journalist, holds another Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Islamic State insurgents released a video on Tuesday purportedly showing the beheading of U.S. journalist James Foley, who had gone missing in Syria nearly two years ago, and images of another U.S. journalist…
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Ukraine, rebels accuse each other of attacking refugee bus convoy
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Ukraine, rebels accuse each other of attacking refugee bus convoy Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Dozens of people, including women and children, were killed as they fled fighting in eastern Ukraine on Monday when their convoy of buses was hit by rocket fire, military spokesmen said.…
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Missouri curfew lifted as National Guard called in
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Missouri governor lifts Ferguson curfew as National Guard called in Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Missouri Governor Jay Nixon lifted the curfew for the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson on Monday and began deploying National Guard troops to help quell days of rioting and looting spurred…
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UK police say migrants found in shipping container are Afghan Sikhs
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community UK police say migrants found in shipping container are Afghan Sikhs Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Police said on Sunday that 35 people discovered in a shipping container at a British port were Afghan Sikhs and that survivors would be questioned about how they came to…
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Missouri under curfew to stave off more riots after black teen shot by police
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Curfew in Missouri staves off more riots where black teen shot by police Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Authorities on Sunday imposed a midnight curfew for the second night a row in the tense St. Louis suburb where an unarmed black teen was shot to death…
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Evidence suggests Ebola toll vastly underestimated – WHO
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Evidence suggests Ebola toll vastly underestimated – WHO Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Staff with the World Health Organization battling an Ebola outbreak in West Africa see evidence that the numbers of reported cases and deaths vastly underestimates the scale of the outbreak, the U.N. agency…
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Police arrest two for stuffing American body into suitcase in Bali
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Police arrest two for stuffing American body into a suitcase in Bali Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The body of an American tourist from Chicago has been found stuffed into a suitcase in Indonesia’s resort island of Bali and the victim’s daughter and her boyfriend have…
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Lauren Bacall dies at 89
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Lauren Bacall dies at 89 Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Lauren Bacall, the sultry actress with the heavy-lidded eyes and husky voice who captured Humphrey Bogart’s heart both on and off the movie screen, died on Tuesday at the age of 89. “With deep sorrow, yet…
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Actor Robin Williams dead at 63 from apparent suicide
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Actor Robin Williams dead at 63 from apparent suicide Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Robin Williams, the versatile actor whose madcap comic style made him one of television and film’s biggest stars, was found dead on Monday from an apparent suicide at his home in Northern…
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At least 39 killed in Iranian plane crash
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community At least 39 killed in Iranian plane crash Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: At least 39 people were killed on Sunday when an Iran-140 Sepahan Air passenger plane crashed after takeoff from Tehran’s Mehrabad airport on a flight to Tabas in northeast Iran, state media reported.…
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U.S. air strikes begin as Obama calls to prevent Iraq genocide
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community U.S. air strikes begin as Obama calls to prevent Iraq genocide Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: U.S. warplanes bombed Islamist fighters marching on Iraq’s Kurdish capital on Friday after President Barack Obama said Washington must act to prevent “genocide”. Islamic State fighters, who have beheaded and…
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Nepal ends search for landslide survivors, declares 156 dead
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Nepal ends search for landslide survivors, declares 156 dead Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Nepal on Wednesday called off a search for survivors and declared 156 people dead after a landslide at the weekend, making it the deadliest to hit the Himalayan nation in three decades.…
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Obama orders targeted air strikes in Iraq
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Obama orders targeted air strikes, humanitarian aid drops in Iraq Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: President Barack Obama said on Thursday he had authorized “targeted” U.S. airstrikes against Islamic State fighters in northern Iraq and military airdrops of humanitarian supplies to besieged religious minorities there to…
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NATO fears Ukraine invasion as Russia masses troops
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community NATO fears Ukraine invasion as Russia masses troops Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Russia has massed around 20,000 combat-ready troops on Ukraine’s border and could use the pretext of a humanitarian mission to invade, NATO said on Wednesday, its starkest warning yet that Moscow could soon…
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Canadians held in China caught in political battle, son says
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Canadians held in China caught in political battle, son says Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The son of a Canadian couple detained in China over spying allegations said on Tuesday his parents did not attempt to obtain military secrets and have been caught instead by the…
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U.S. general shot dead in Afghan insider attack
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community U.S. general shot dead in Afghan insider attack Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: A U.S. general was killed and more than a dozen people were wounded on Tuesday, including a German general, in the latest insider attack by a man believed to be an Afghan soldier,…
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Iraqi PM orders air force to help Kurds fight Islamic State
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Iraqi PM orders air force to help Kurds fight Islamic State Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Iraq’s Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ordered his air force for the first time to back Kurdish forces against Islamic State fighters after the Sunni militants made another dramatic push through…
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500 foreign hikers rescued after deadly landslide in Nepal
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community More than 500 foreign hikers rescued after deadly landslide in Nepal Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: More than 500 foreign tourists and their guides have been rescued after a deadly landslide in Nepal blocked a major highway, leaving them stranded in a border town over the…
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Censured over shelter deaths, Israel declares seven-hour Gaza truce
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Censured over shelter deaths, Israel declares seven-hour Gaza truce Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Israel said it would unilaterally hold fire in most of the Gaza Strip on Monday to facilitate the entry of humanitarian aid and allow some of the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians…
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Obama says that after 9/11, ‘we tortured some folks’
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Obama says that after 9/11, ‘we tortured some folks’ Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: President Barack Obama said yesterday that the CIA “tortured some folks” after the September 11, 2001, attacks, and that the White House had handed over to Congress a report about an investigation…
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South African giraffe dies after ‘head hits bridge’
PHUKET: South Africa’s animal rights body is investigating the death of a giraffe that reportedly struck its head on a bridge while being transported along a motorway. Eyewitnesses say the giraffe, one of two on a truck, hit its head on a bridge on Johannesburg’s N1 motorway, reports the BBC. The vehicle then broke down and the driver had to…
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Sierra Leone declares Ebola state of emergency
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Sierra Leone declares emergency as Ebola death toll hits 729 Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Sierra Leone has declared a state of emergency and called in troops to quarantine Ebola victims, joining neighbouring Liberia in imposing controls as the death toll from the outbreak of the…
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Carnage at U.N. school as Israel pounds Gaza Strip
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Carnage at U.N. school as Israel pounds Gaza Strip Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Israeli shelling killed at least 15 Palestinians sheltering in a U.N.-run school and another 17 near a street market on Wednesday, Gaza’s Health Ministry said, with no ceasefire in sight after more…
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Drug-resistant malaria now widespread in Southeast Asia
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Drug-resistant malaria now widespread in Southeast Asia Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Drug-resistant malaria parasites have spread to border regions of Southeast Asia, seriously threatening global efforts to control and eliminate the mosquito-borne disease, researchers said on Wednesday. The scientists, who analysed blood samples from 1,241…
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Liberia shuts schools, considers quarantine to curb Ebola
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Liberia shuts schools, considers quarantine to curb Ebola Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Liberia will close schools and consider quarantining some communities, it said on Wednesday, announcing the toughest measures yet imposed by a West African government to halt the worst Ebola outbreak on record. Security…
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Chinese police shoot dead dozens after attack in Xinjiang
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Chinese police shoot dead dozens after attack in Xinjiang – Xinhua Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Chinese police shot dead dozens of knife-wielding attackers on Monday morning after they staged assaults on two towns in the western region of Xinjiang, the official Xinhua news agency said…
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Fighting in Gaza abates, but truce hopes look fragile
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Fighting in Gaza abates, but truce hopes look fragile Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Fighting subsided in Gaza on Sunday after Hamas Islamist militants said they backed a 24-hour humanitarian truce, but there was no sign of any comprehensive deal to end their conflict with Israel.…
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At least 15 killed by shelling of Gaza school
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community At least 15 killed by shelling of Gaza school; toll exceeds 760 Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Gazan authorities said Israeli forces shelled a shelter at a U.N.-run school on Thursday, killing at least 15 people as the Palestinian death toll in the conflict climbed over…
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