Tourists kayak along Bangkok’s Ong Ang canal. (Photo: Pattarapong Chatpattarasill) With local tourism receipts set to fall below the government target of 656 billion baht because of nationwide floods and economic volatility, the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) plans to accelerate the use of the […]
Despite the rain, people gather to commemorate the Oct 6, 1976 massacre of student protesters at Thammasat University. The event took place on Thursday at the Lan Khon Muang plaza outside City Hall. (Photo: Apichart Jinakul) The pro-democracy Ratsadon group yesterday called for the House […]
Officials in the western New York city of Rochester have agreed to pay $12m to the children of Daniel Prude, a Black man who died after police put a hood over his head and held him down for several minutes in March 2020, according to […]
The state of the economy will outweigh other issues for American voters when they head to the polls next month to decide which party controls the United States Congress, economists have told Al Jazeera. While there are plenty of hot button issues, including abortion, climate […]
Mexican Economy Minister Tatiana Clouthier stepped down on Thursday, depriving Mexico of one of its key trade negotiators as her government scrambles to head off a major dispute over energy with the United States and Canada. Clouthier, a member of a powerful political family who became economy minister early […]
Canadian police have said they now believe only one of the two brothers accused of a deadly stabbing spree last month carried out the murders, as communities in the province of Saskatchewan continue to grapple with the rampage. Saskatchewan Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) announced […]
After years of unprecedented drought in Somalia, a famine is now expected to be declared within weeks. The United Nations says more than a million people have been forced to leave their homes in search of food and assistance since January last year. The UN’s […]
Ukraine said on Thursday that it has recaptured swathes of territory from Russian troops in the country’s south as discontent mounted within Russia about the handling of the war. Ukrainian forces have retaken more than 500sq km (195sq miles) of territory and dozens of settlements […]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will next week downgrade its forecast for 2.9 percent global growth in 2023, Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Thursday, citing rising risks of recession and financial instability. Georgieva said the outlook for the global economy was “darkening” given the […]
A member of the far-right Proud Boys has pleaded guilty to a seditious conspiracy charge over his role in the United States Capitol riot last year, admitting he plotted with other members of the group to violently stop the peaceful transfer of power after the […]
