Panusaya: Caught the virus Nearly 3,000 inmates at Bangkok’s two main prisons — Bangkok Remand Prison and the Central Women’s Correctional Institution — have been found to be infected with Covid-19. Corrections Department director-general Aryut Sinthoppan revealed the 2,835 infections on Wednesday after democracy activist […]
A Minnesota judge has ruled that there were aggravating factors in the death of George Floyd, paving the way for a longer sentence for Derek Chauvin. In a ruling released on Wednesday, Judge Peter Cahill found that Chauvin abused his authority as a police officer […]
Sao Paulo, Brazil – The Indigenous men emerge naked from the dense Amazonian forest. Pakui and his nephew Tamandua are the last two surviving male members of the Piripkura tribe who live on a reserve in Brazil’s Mato Grosso state. They accompany a team of […]
The death toll in Gaza has soared in the worst escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in years after Israel killed a string of senior Hamas military figures and destroyed three multistorey towers as it hammered the Gaza Strip with air raids. Palls of grey smoke […]
The largest gasoline pipeline in America is returning to service, recovering from a cyberattack late Friday that raised pump prices and choked fuel supplies across the eastern U.S. The Colonial Pipeline — a critical source of gasoline and diesel for the New York area and […]
Violent confrontations between Palestinian citizens of Israel and Jewish Israelis resumed in several cities inside Israel on Wednesday, as the Israeli military continued air strikes on the besieged Gaza Strip and Hamas fired rockets into Israel for a third day. The crisis, which started with […]
Senator Maria Cantwell is seeking to nudge NASA to reconsider its decision to reject Amazon Inc. founder Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin space venture for the lunar landing program. Cantwell, a Democrat who represents Amazon’s home state of Washington, plans to add an amendment to a […]
Colonial Pipeline, the United States firm at the centre of a major ransomware attack that has led to worsening petrol shortages and fuel hikes across the country, posted a job opening for a cybersecurity manager weeks before the hack forced the pipeline offline. The job […]
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for the need to double the capacity of COVID-19 vaccine production and for fairer redistribution of the shots in the developing world, which faces new waves of the coronavirus. Many countries are experiencing shortages of the vaccine, especially […]
As a barrage of Israeli air strikes on the besieged Gaza Strip continued late on Wednesday, US President Joe Biden said “Israel has a right to defend itself” against rockets fired from the coastal Palestinian territory. In brief comments to reporters, Biden said his “hope […]
