International news with relevance to Thai and regional readers
Prosecutors have asked a US judge to limit information Donald Trump can publicly discuss regarding the latest indictments against him, citing a threatening post by the ex-president that his campaign defended Saturday as “political speech.” Jack Smith, the special counsel overseeing the charges against Trump for seeking to overturn the 2020 election, filed a motion
Mark Margolis, who played the sinister, wheelchair-bound cartel don Hector Salamanca in acclaimed TV shows “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul,” has died aged 83, his family said Friday. Margolis died Thursday at a New York hospital following a short illness, with his wife and son at his bedside, according to a statement. “Breaking Bad”
Los Angeles, United States – A cyberattack on a US hospital group has forced the closure of urgent care and other critical health services at its facilities across at least four states, officials said Friday. Prospect Medical Holdings, which operates 16 hospitals across California, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island, suffered a “data security incident,” a
Former president Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on Thursday to criminal charges that he conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election and defraud the American people. Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, entered his plea during a nearly 30-minute hearing at the same Washington courthouse where hundreds of his supporters
Elected Niger President Mohamed Bazoum said Thursday that if a coup attempt to depose him is successful, “it will have devastating consequences for our country, our region and the entire world.” In a column in The Washington Post, Bazoum called on “the US government and the entire international community to help us restore our constitutional
A man went on a “stabbing rampage” near a South Korean subway station, police said Thursday, with as many as 10 people reported wounded two weeks after a similar attack killed one person. The attack took place near the Seohyeon subway station in Bundang, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) southeast of Seoul, an official at
An increasing number of people are sleeping rough on the streets of London with campaigners calling on the British government to tackle the “root causes” of the problem. UK mortgage rates and rents have been soaring since decades-high inflation fuelled the worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation. Figures released this week by the London Assembly
Singapore executed a 39-year-old man who was convicted of trafficking heroin, the city-state’s fifth hanging this year and the third in just over a week, authorities said on Thursday. Mohamed Shalleh Adul Latiff was sentenced to death for possessing around 55 grams of heroin “for the purpose of trafficking” in 2019. His punishment was carried
Key Congressional members have set up the US-Thai Alliance Caucus, which will serve as a bipartisan hub to promote relations between the two countries, according to an informed source. The source said that US Representatives Michelle Steel and Scott Peters recently wrote to the US Congress’s chairman of the House Administration Committee, Bryan Steil, stating
Donald Trump was indicted on Tuesday over his efforts to upend the results of the 2020 US election — the most serious legal threat yet to the former president as he campaigns to return to the White House. It is the third criminal indictment of the 77-year-old Trump since March and charges him with three
Former US president Donald Trump is now facing three criminal indictments, all filed since March — raising the prospect that the Republican frontrunner in the 2024 White House race could end up navigating a series of trials as he campaigns. On Tuesday, he was indicted on four federal counts in connection to his alleged efforts
At least 11 people are dead and 27 missing after heavy rains lashed Beijing, state media said Tuesday, in downpours that have submerged roads and deluged neighbourhoods with mud. Storm Doksuri, a former super typhoon, had swept northwards through China since hitting southern Fujian province on Friday after first scything through the Philippines. Heavy rains began
