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Phuket Gazette World News: Obama weighs Syria options; Yosemite Rim fire grows; Mexican migrant train derails; Myanmar unrest resurfaces
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community U.S. says Syria’s offer to show chemical attack sites ‘too late’ Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: A U.S. military response to alleged chemical weapons attacks in Syria appeared more likely on Sunday after Washington dismissed the Syrian government’s offer to allow U.N. inspection of the sites as “too…
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Phuket Gazette World News: US moves Navy, ponders Syria strike; Tripoli mosque blasts; Yosemite’s Rim on fire; Child dies in Bolivia prison war
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community U.S. repositions naval forces, no decision on Syria strike Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: The United States on Friday was repositioning naval forces in the Mediterranean to give President Barack Obama the option for an armed strike on Syria, although officials cautioned that Obama had made no decision…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Manning wants to be a woman; Congo city shelled; Syria gas attack unprobed; New leaks at Fukushima; Nicely framed, says Bo
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Congo civilians amid city shelled Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The head of the U.N. mission in Congo on Thursday ordered peacekeeping troops to act to protect civilians after shelling hit the city of Goma in renewed fighting between the army and M23 rebels. The fighting…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Syria gas kills hundreds; Bo Xilai trial begins; Pink Panther arrested; Manning gets 35 years
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Trial of Bo Xilai opens in China Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Police blocked entry to a courthouse in the eastern Chinese city of Jinan on Thursday where the trial of ousted politician Bo Xilai is to open, the final, dramatic chapter of the country’s most politically charged…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Muslim Brotherhood leader arrested; Egyptian security forces kill journalist; Spain UK tensions; Al Qaeda suspected of planning train attacks
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Egypt arrests Muslim Brotherhood leader Badie Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Egyptian security forces have arrested the top leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, state media reported today, pressing a crackdown on his group. Mohamed Badie, 70, was detained at an apartment in Nasr City in northeast…
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Phuket Gazette World News: UK detains partner of Snowden journalist; Mega-mall planned for concentration camp site; Mexico captures cartel head
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Britain detains partner of journalist linked to Snowden Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: British authorities used anti-terrorism powers on Sunday to detain the partner of a journalist with close links to Edward Snowden, the former U.S. spy agency contractor who has been granted asylum by Russia, as he…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Egypt braces for more bloodshed; UPS crash probe stalls; World’s largest child porn facilitator arrested
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Egypt braces for more violence as Brotherhood calls for ‘march of anger’ Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Deeply polarised Egypt braced for renewed confrontation on Friday after the Muslim Brotherhood called for a nationwide march of millions to show anger at a ferocious security crackdown on…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Egypt braces for more bloodshed;
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Egypt braces for more violence as Brotherhood calls ‘march of anger’ Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Deeply polarised Egypt braced for renewed confrontation on Friday after the Muslim Brotherhood called for a nationwide march of millions to show anger at a ferocious security crackdown on Islamists…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Mob boss Whitey Bulger convicted; Israel to free Palestinians; Dalai Lama website hacked; Mali polls praised
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Whitey Bulger guilty of 11 murders in sweeping Boston mob case Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: James “Whitey” Bulger, a brutal gangster who ruled over Boston’s criminal underworld in the 1970s and ’80s and evaded capture for 16 years, was found guilty of murder and racketeering by a…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Eiffel Tower bomb alert; Obama calls Putin bored kid; Mona Lisa tomb opened
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Eiffel Tower reopens after bomb scare Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Hundreds of tourists were evacuated from Paris’ Eiffel Tower on Friday afternoon in response to a bomb alert, but it was found to be a scare and the tower was reopened two hours later, police told Reuters.Police…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Gorbachev still alive; Israel-Palestine peace talks; Chile blunder; Top Mafioso arrested in London
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Gorbachev denies false reports of his death after hacker attack Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Mikhail Gorbachev announced to the world he was alive and well after hackers broke into microblogs run by a news agency late on Wednesday and posted false reports of his death.“I’m alive and…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Obama snubs Putin; Egypt at deadly stalemate; Nairobi fire threatens regional economies; Saudi offers Russia arms deal
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Obama snubs Putin over Snowden row Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: U.S. President Barack Obama is cancelling a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin scheduled for next month in Moscow, the White House said on Wednesday.The Obama administration has repeatedly expressed disappointment after Moscow granted temporary asylum to…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Syrian child soldiers being recruited; Radioactive water seeping into ocean in Japan; Python strangles Canadian kids
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Audit of Syrian refugees finds organised crime and child soldiers Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Many Syrians who have escaped their country are now desperate to escape from U.N.-run refugee camps, where women are not safe and teenage boys are recruited as soldiers to fight in…
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Phuket Gazette World News: NYPD rookie kills 14-year-old; Aussie PM calls Sept 7 election; Al Qaeda threat leaves US embassies closed; Spain and Britain spar over Gibraltar
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Australian PM Rudd calls September 7 poll Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd called a September 7 general election on Sunday, barely six weeks after he toppled former leader Julia Gillard in a party-room vote, ending a turbulent three years in power for the…
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Snowden leaves airport; ‘Rum’ kills 11; US kidnapper Castro sentenced; China Human Rights situation deteriorating, says US
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Russian airport limbo ends for Snowden, new life begins Reuters/Phuket GazettePHUKET: After nearly six weeks in hiding at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, Edward Snowden walked calmly out of the transit area, ducked into a car and was driven away unnoticed.It was an anti-climactic end to one chapter of…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Mugabe election showdown; UN to inspect Syrian chemical weapons sites; Sweden drops charge against fake serial killer
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Zimbabwe votes in Mugabe election showdown Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Zimbabweans voted in large numbers on Wednesday in a fiercely contested election pitting veteran President Robert Mugabe against Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, who has vowed to push Africa’s oldest leader into retirement after 33 years in power.With…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Pope more open-minded; Swiss train crash; Berlusconi’s day; China eases tension; Syrian govt retakes Homs
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Pope says gays must not be judged or marginalised Retuers / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Pope Francis, in some of the most conciliatory words from any pontiff on gays, said they should not be judged or marginalised and should be integrated into society, but he reaffirmed Church teaching that…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Hun Sen holds Cambodia; 36 dead in Italy tour bus plunge; Gaza talks are back; JJ Cale is dead
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Hun Sen wins Cambodia election, majority slashed Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: The Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) of long-serving Prime Minister Hun Sen won Sunday’s election, taking 68 seats to the main opposition party’s 55, the government spokesman said, announcing a much-reduced majority for the ruling party.Khieu Kanharith,…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Israel blocks EU aid; Snowden won’t be tortured, executed – US; Strauss-Kahn on pimp charges; Pink Panther jailbreak; Tunisia, Syria sectarian divide deepens
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Israel blocks EU aid in West Bank Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Israel has blocked the European Union from aiding tens of thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank in retaliation for Brussels’ ban on financial assistance to Israeli organisations in the occupied territories. An Israeli…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Russians charged over biggest fraud in history; Spanish train driver under guard; Tunisia in turmoil; Bo Xilai charged
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Hackers indicted in biggest cyber fraud case in US history Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Federal prosecutors have charged five men for a hacking and credit card fraud spree that cost companies more than $300 million. Two of the suspects are in custody in the biggest cyber crime…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Dramatic balloon crash caught on film; Brazilians lose bikinis for the Pope; Cop-turned-actor Dennis Farina dead
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Hot air balloon carrying 11 crashes in Dutch lake, injuring 2 Phuket Gazette / News Wires PHUKET: A hot air balloon carrying eleven people crashed into a lake in the Netherlands on late yesterday evening, injuring two of the people on board, emergency services said. The…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Kate and Will show off new prince; Oz tells UK not to leave EU; China’s corrupt healthcare
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Kate and William show off Britain’s new prince Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Prince William and his wife Kate gave the world its first glimpse of their new baby yesterday when they left hospital with the boy who is third in line to the British throne.…
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Phuket Gazette World News: UK has new prince; Belguim has new king; Moroccan king to get new government
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Baby boy for Prince William and wife Kate Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Prince William’s wife Kate gave birth to a boy yesterday afternoon, the couple’s first child and the third in line to the British throne, heralding celebrations in London and messages of goodwill from across the…
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Phuket Gazette World News: MiG fighters found on NK ship; Abe in Japan poll victory; King Albert abdicates; Dubai jails woman for rape report
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Panama finds MiG fighter jets on North Korean arms ship Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Panamanian investigators unloading the cargo of a seized North Korean ship that carried arms from Cuba have found the two MiG-21 fighter jets the Cuban government had said were on board, the government…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Ex-CIA man nabbed in Panama; Safety alert grounds Dreamliner; 6 new MERS cases in Saudi
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Ex-CIA official, convicted of kidnapping in Italy, held in Panama Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Former CIA Milan station chief Robert Seldon Lady, convicted in Italy of kidnapping an Egyptian Muslim cleric, has been arrested in Panama, Italian and Panamanian officials said on Thursday.Italy’s top court last year…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Greece faces massive layoffs; NK demands Panama free arms ship; Rolling Stone outrage; Taliban asks Malala to come home
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community North Korea demands Panama free seized ship carrying arms Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: North Korea demanded on Thursday the release of its ship held in Panama with what appear to be missile radar and other weapons loaded in Cuba, saying it was sailing under a legitimate deal…
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Phuket Gazette World News: NATO troop deaths reach 100; Kidnapped Dutch couple plead in video; Freed Guantanamo inmate killed in drone attack; ‘Gaddafi land’
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Insurgents kill NATO soldier in Afghanistan, raising year’s toll to 100 Phuket Gazette / News Wires PHUKET: A coalition service member was killed yesterday when insurgents opened fire at foreign troops in eastern Afghanistan, the NATO led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said. It raises the…
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Phuket Gazette World News: NK war weapons ship caught in Panama; England gay marriage on its way; No Islamists in Egypt Cabinet; Glee star Monteith died of overdose; Bulgaria bishop flippers out
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community North Korean ship caught carrying weapons through Panama Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Panamanian authorities might take up to a week to search a North Korean cargo ship that was seized last Wednesday on suspicion that the vessel was hiding missile equipment in a shipment of brown sugar…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Spain’s PM won’t resign; Rohingya relief – Myanmar disbands Border Patrol force; Asiana to sue over names gaffe; Cartel kingpin caught; Hundreds netted in child sextortion ring
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Spain’s Rajoy rules out stepping down in blackmail scandal Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Monday rejected calls to resign over a ruling party financing scandal and said he would not allow the matter to hold back his reform plans.The political pressure mounted…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Obama calls for calm in Zimmerman protests; Thein Sein in UK; Uganda fears refugee crisis; Italian lawmaker becomes monkey man; Aussie gored in Pamps bull run
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Obama calls for calm after Zimmerman acquittal; protests held Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: U.S. President Barack Obama called for calm on Sunday after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of black teenager Trayvon Martin, as hundreds of civil rights demonstrators turned out at rallies…
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