International news with relevance to Thai and regional readers
Khader Adnan, a member of Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad who was accused by Israel of terror charges,died in an Israeli prison on Tuesday after an 87-day hunger strike, prison authorities said. Israel said Adnan “refused to undergo medical tests and receive medical treatment” and “was found unconscious in his cell” early on Tuesday morning. Israeli prison
Russian missile attacks across Ukraine early Monday wounded 34 people in the central Dnipropetrovsk region, including children, regional authorities said. The barrage followed another wave of attacks last week that ended a weeks-long pause after systematic Russian strikes during winter targeting key infrastructure. “There are already 34 wounded due to a missile attack on the
Around 6,000 people, most of them women, have fled the fighting in Sudan to neighbouring Central African Republic over the last two weeks, the UN refugee agency told AFP Sunday. “The number is made up of 70 percent women, 15 percent girls, 10 percent men and 400 repatriated,” said the UNHCR in a tweet Saturday,
Pfizer Inc and BioNTech’s new proposal to the European Union, amid a glut of COVID-19 shots, includes a provision for member states to pay half price, or about 10 euros ($11), for each of about 70 million cancelled doses, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. The revised contract would allow the EU to upgrade to newer vaccines
King Charles III became heir to the throne at the age of just three and waited seven long decades to succeed Queen Elizabeth II. Born on November 14, 1948, his course in life was plotted for him when his grandfather King George VI died, making his mother queen. In 1958, Elizabeth made him prince of
UN chief Antonio Guterres will gather international envoys at a secret location in Doha on Monday in an increasingly desperate bid to find ways to influence Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers. Considered the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis by the United Nations, Guterres’ quandary has been deepened by the Taliban administration’s move to stop girls going to school
As transgender people have increasingly gained acceptance and visibility, conservative lawmakers have zeroed in on restricting their rights: keeping transgender children off girls’ sports teams and out of certain bathrooms, and blocking them from receiving gender-affirming medical care. In response, a growing number of Democratic-controlled states have moved to protect such rights, especially access to
The second group of 132 Thais to be evacuated from Sudan are due to arrive at Bangkok’s military airport at about 10pm tonight (Saturday), on a Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) Airbus 340-500. In addition to the 73 Thai men and 62 Thai women, there are two Chinese nationals and one Indonesian on the same
Heavy explosions and gunfire rocked Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, and its twin city of Omdurman early Friday, residents said, despite the extension of a fragile truce between the county’s two top generals whose power struggle has killed hundreds. After two weeks of fighting that has turned Khartoum into a war zone and thrown Sudan into turmoil,
Russia fired more than 20 cruise missiles and two drones at Ukraine early Friday, killing at least 23 people, almost all of them when two missiles slammed into an apartment building in a terrifying nighttime attack, officials said. Three children were among the dead. The missile attacks included the first one against Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital,
Twelve of the first group of 78 Thais evacuated from Sudan, who arrived in Bangkok Thursday night, have been diagnosed with a respiratory disease, with one is suffering from stress and eight others are having difficulty of sleeping, according to Dr. Opart Karnkawinpong, permanent secretary of public health. All the returning Thais were screened upon
Thai students, who arrived in Bangkok from Sudan via Saudi Arabia Thursday night, said that they took advantage of the 72-hour ceasefire in Khartoum to escape to the Port of Sudan,to board a ferry across the Red Sea to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. The female Thai students said, however, that the journey by boat was
