In this July 3, 2018, image taken from video provided by the Royal Thai Navy Facebook Page, Thai boys smile as Thai Navy Seal medics help injured children inside a cave in Mae Sai, northern Thailand. (Royal Thai Navy Facebook Page via AP)M MAE SAI, Chiang Rai: Rescue teams in northern Thailand were giving crash […]
Continue reading …Food and medical help has reached the 12 boys and their football coach who were found weakened but safe deep inside a flooded cave in northern Thailandnine days after they went missing. A Thai Navy SEAL commander on Tuesday said the boys and their coach were accompanied by seven SEAL members, and that all those stuck in […]
Continue reading …Andrés Manuel López Obrador will take office as Mexico’s president on December. 1 Mexico’s next president will be Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a former Mexico City mayor and outspoken critic of the political establishment both in Mexico and the United States. The 64-year-old leftist, who had for months led a crowded presidential field, beat three […]
Continue reading …Horst Seehofer and Angela Merkel. Photo: DPA German Chancellor Angela Merkel survived a bruising challenge to her authority with a compromise deal on immigration but faced charges Tuesday that it spelt a final farewell to her welcoming stance toward refugees. In high-stakes crisis talks overnight, Merkel had put to rest for now a dangerous row […]
Continue reading …Rescue efforts had been hampered repeatedly by rising water levels [Getty Images] All twelve boys and their coach who were missing for nine days after being trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand have been found alive, a regional governor said. Narongsak Osatanakorn, the Chiang Rai governor, broke the news of their rescue on Monday, delighting a nation which has anxiously […]
Continue reading …The guard uncovered the packets in the man’s pockets. A man’s 2-year jail term for smuggling drugs at Dubai International Airport has been upheld. In the details, the Arab national had been passing through customs at the airport last November, as per Ittihad report. The security guard on duty noticed strange-looking parcels stuffed into the man’s pockets. […]
Continue reading …Sung Kim, left, U.S. ambassador to the Philippines, leaves a hotel in Seoul, Monday, a day after working-level talks with North Korean officials at Panmunjeom over follow-up measures for the North’s denuclearization. / Yonhap Washington and Pyongyang have started follow-up talks to discuss the detailed process of North Korea’s denuclearization, after a dialogue hiatus of […]
Continue reading …Italy’s Interior Minister and Deputy PM Matteo Salvini speaks during the annual meeting of Lega Nord (North League) in Pontida, northeast Milan, on Sunday. MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP Italy’s hardline Interior Minister Matteo Salvini called for a Europe-wide alliance against “mass immigration” at a triumphant annual gathering of his far-right League party on Sunday. “I […]
Continue reading …This Dec. 3, 2015 file photo shows employees work on the assembly line of the Peugeot 208 car by French car maker PSA Peugeot Citroen at the company’s automobile factory in Trnava, western Slovakia. (AFP Photo) The European Union warned on Monday that up to $294 billion worth of U.S. exports would face counter-measures if […]
Continue reading …Photo: AFP French police across the country have launched a massive manhunt for a notorious gangster who said his life of crime was inspired by Hollywood films like “Scarface”, after he pulled off a spectacular jailbreak Sunday, fleeing his prison aboard a hijacked helicopter in a commando-style operation. Redoine Faid, 46, broke out of the […]
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