International news with relevance to Thai and regional readers
“It’s okay to break the rule,” Malaysia’s Prime Minister and ASEAN Chairman Anwar Ibrahim said yesterday, after US President Donald Trump unexpectedly invited him for a ride in the presidential limousine, known as ‘The Beast’, to the ASEAN Summit venue in Kuala Lumpur.
An overnight US strike on a boat alleged to be operated by a Venezuelan drug trafficking gang killed six people in the Caribbean Sea, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday.
Sonthaya Oakkharasri, 30, an agricultural worker at Kibbutz Be’eri, had been held hostage by Hamas since October 2023, following the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war.
Demolition workers have finished tearing down the White House's entire East Wing to make way for US President Donald Trump's giant new $300 million ballroom, satellite pictures showed Thursday.
The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) has accepted Thailand’s resolution on transnational crimes and scams for discussion as matter on its emergency agenda.
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France's ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy is to be jailed Tuesday after being found guilty of acquiring Libyan funding for his 2007 presidential run.
Hong Kong - A cargo plane flying from Dubai skidded off the runway into the sea while landing at Hong Kong International Airport early on Monday, the city's airport operator said, with local media reporting the deaths of two people.
The Thai Embassy in Israel is making arrangements for the repatriation of the remains of a Thai national, after Hamas returned the remains of two hostages to Israeli officials.
Washington, United States - Huge crowds took to the streets Saturday in all 50 US states to vent their anger over President Donald Trump's hardline policies at "No Kings" protests that Republicans ridiculed as "Hate America" rallies.
South Korea will propose a multilateral cooperation framework with ASEAN during the summit of the regional grouping to address organized crimes in Cambodia amid a surge in job scams targeting nationals from various countries, according to South Korean media.
