Former Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa prepares to enter a car after his flight arrived in Bangkok on Thursday evening. (Reuters Photo) Ousted former Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa is staying at a hotel in the heart of Bangkok, where police are advising him not […]
Native American remains, burial objects to be returned in Alabama
The Alabama Department of Archives and History is beginning the process of returning the remains of Native Americans and their funerary objects held in its archives. The department also announced that it had removed Native American funerary objects from displays where the artefacts had sat […]
Can Italy find stability with its upcoming election?
Italy has been finding itself in a political crisis for more than 10 years. The most recent example is Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s resignation that was prompted by the rejection of a confidence vote by three of his key coalition partners in July. Draghi had […]
A year after Taliban, Afghans who chose to stay fear grim future
Mina Alimi never left Kabul – not during the wars she was born in, not during the first Taliban government when she was just a little girl, and not even last year when the Afghan government collapsed and the Taliban seized her hometown. Even as […]
Johnson & Johnson to stop selling talc-based baby powder in 2023
Johnson Johnson (JJ) says it will stop selling its talc-based baby powder globally in 2023, more than two years after it ended sales in the United States and Canada of a product that drew thousands of consumer safety lawsuits. “As part of a worldwide portfolio […]
Venezuela, Colombia name ambassadors in attempt to repair ties
Venezuela and Colombia have appointed ambassadors to each other, days after the inauguration of Colombia’s first left-wing president, Gustavo Petro, who has promised to mend ties with its neighbour. Former Venezuelan Foreign Minister Felix Plasencia “will soon be in Bogota”, President Nicolas Maduro announced on […]
Germany’s ex-Chancellor Schroeder sues parliament over privileges
Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder is suing the country’s parliament in a bid to restore special privileges he was stripped of in May, according to his lawyer. The 78-year-old is demanding he be given back a parliamentary office in the lawsuit filed with the Berlin […]
Director charged as script gets weirder
Ramai ‘Danny’ Moriphan, right, makes a wai to thank national police chief Suwat Jangyodsuk for the police’s help in repatriating him from the United Wa State Army (UWSA) in Myanmar’s Shan State. Ramai spoke tearfully during a press conference on Thursday at the police headquarters […]
Rain drenched sheet smashes into car on Rama II Rd
A water-logged sheet hangs from an elevated road under construction above Rama II Road in Bang Khun Thian district, Bangkok, on Thursday night. (Photo: Facebook page of Nitiphan Wongraksa) A car was heavily damaged on Rama II Road in Bang Khun Thian district late Thursday […]
Trump calls for ‘immediate’ release of Mar-a-Lago warrant
Former United States President Donald Trump has called for the “immediate” release of the federal warrant the FBI used to search his Florida estate, hours after the Department of Justice (DoJ) asked a court to unseal the warrant, with Attorney General Merrick Garland citing the […]