International news with relevance to Thai and regional readers
The death toll from an attack blamed on the Islamic State group in Syria has risen to 68, a war monitor said Saturday, the deadliest attack in over a year. “A total of 61 civilians and seven soldiers have been killed in the attack,” said Rami Abdel Rahman, who heads the Syrian Observatory for Human
More than 46,000 people have been killed in the earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria and the toll is expected to soar, with some 345,000 apartments in Turkey now known to have been destroyed, and many still missing. As Turkey attempts to manage its worst modern disaster, concerns were growing over the victims of the
A suspected ballistic missile fired from North Korea on Saturday is believed to have landed within Japan’s exclusive economic zone, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said. “It appears the ballistic missile fired by North Korea landed within Japan’s EEZ, west of Hokkaido,” Kishida told reporters. Japan’s deputy defence minister Toshiro Ino earlier said the missile was expected to land about 200
The 42-member Thai USAR (urban search and rescue) team were welcomed home by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on their arrival in Bangkok today (Saturday), after the completion of their 10-day mission in Turkey. During their mission to Hatay Province, which was hit by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake on February 9th, the Thai search and rescue
The United States has ended its search for debris from an alleged Chinese surveillance balloon it shot down earlier this month as well as two other objects downed near Alaska and on Lake Huron, the military’s Northern Command said Friday. “Recovery operations concluded February 16 off the coast of South Carolina, after US Navy assets
A gunman killed six people in the southern US state of Mississippi on Friday, prompting President Joe Biden to call again for tightened gun restrictions only days after he pleaded for action following a deadly university shooting. Police in Mississippi said a man shot and killed a person at a store in the small town
The war in Ukraine has been accompanied by a ferocious battle of disinformation, waged in particular by pro-Russian agitators seeking to distort and shift the blame for many atrocities on the ground. These agitators have sought to depict the Ukrainian side as Nazis or suggest that Western support for Kyiv is evaporating. Here are some
The vast majority of health claims used to advertise baby formula worldwide are not supported by rigorous scientific evidence, a study said Thursday, leading researchers to urge the breast milk substitutes be sold in plain packaging. The study comes a week after a group of doctors and scientists called for a regulatory crackdown on the
A group of 34 Thais, some injured and one decedent, will be flown back from Turkey to Thailand this Thursday, but the Thai USAR (search and rescue) team will continue their operations in Turkey until the completion of their 10-day mission. Upon arrival at Don Mueang Airport, the returnees will be sent to Bamrasnaradura Infectious
China resolutely opposes Washington adding six Chinese entities to its trade blacklist after a Chinese balloon was detected over the United States last week and shot down, China’s commerce ministry said on Tuesday. “China hopes the U.S. will stop unreasonable suppression of Chinese enterprises, and will take necessary measures to resolutely safeguard legitimate rights and interests of Chinese enterprises,” the ministry
A gunman who killed at least three people and wounded five on a US university campus shot himself dead Monday after a massive police manhunt. Thousands of students at Michigan State University were ordered to shelter in place after shots were fired in a campus building in the early evening, leaving two dead. The gunman fled to
The stealthy, highly maneuverable F-22 fighter jet raced to 58,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean and launched a missile at… a huge balloon. The balloon — allegedly sent by China to surveil secret US sites — is an unlikely first aerial “kill” for a warplane designed to dominate combat against enemy planes, and it was not the last.
