As a teenager, Prince Vacharaesorn Vivacharawongse, the second son of the present king of Thailand, was left in little doubt about the contempt in which his father held him. Not content with banning “Vach” (pronounced “Vatch”) from the country along with his siblings, his father, the mercurial KingMaha Vajiralongkorn,...read full story.
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Before leading the charge for intervention, ECOWAS chair Bola Tinubu spent years laundering millions for heroin dealers in Chicago, and has since been ensnared in numerous corruption scandals ... SUBSCRIBE TO PATREON ... By 1992, he’d been elected to the Senate, and in 1999 he became the Governor of Lagos State, a position he retained until 2007 ... ....
The indictment of former United States presidentDonald Trump on charges he tried to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election is the most serious test of Americas experiment in... .
Scientists are wondering if global warming and El Nino have an accomplice in fueling this summer’s record-shattering heat. The European climate agency Copernicus reported that July was one-third of a degree Celsius (six-tenths of a degree Fahrenheit) hotter than the old record ... But some researchers say another factor must be present ... .
At least 27 people from sub-Saharan Africa have died in recent days after being expelled from Tunisia towards the Libya border and abandoned in the desert in relentless heat, according to Libyan authorities ... Locals have complained about the refugees’ behaviour while the refugees said they have been subjected to racist attacks ... .
The IranianForeign Ministry on Tuesday urged Afghanistan’s interim Taliban administration to provide more details regarding the 25-year-old “terrorist” incident that claimed the lives of eight Iranian diplomats and a journalist in Mazar-i-Sharif. The Iranian Foreign Ministry condemned the “bitter and unforgettable”...read full story. .
Dua Lipa is set to go to court for the third time over her hit song 'Levitating'. Songwriters L ... And now, US District JudgeKatherine Polk Failla says the 27-year-old singer will have to stand trial. However, the plaintiffs will have to prove the "striking similarity" of the "repetitive rhythm" and "signature melody". Failla said ... She confessed ... .
Forty-one migrants died in a shipwreck last week in the central Mediterranean, the Ansa news agency reported on Wednesday, citing accounts from survivors who have just reached the Italian island of Lampedusa. Ansa said four people who survived the shipwreck told rescuers that they were on a boat carrying 45 people, including three children ... . .
CAIRO — War-torn Sudan is at risk of major disease outbreaks, with thousands of unburied corpses remaining out in the open and the country’s health and sanitation infrastructure destroyed, Save the Children warned on Tuesday ... More than 4 million people have been uprooted from their homes, the UN’s refugee agency said on Tuesday ... Image. Section ... Right .
Branding the Chinese Coast Guard’s actions “excessive” and “dangerous”, the Philippines summoned Beijing’s envoy in Manila to lodge a formal protest ... But Manila was defiant ... In 1999, the Philippines deliberately grounded a World War II-era warship at the SecondThomasShoal in an effort to check China’s advance in the contested waters ... .
Flights and train services have been disrupted after Typhoon Khanun triggered heavy rain in southern regions of Japan and South Korea, just as another storm approached Tokyo ahead of the peak summer holiday season ... It is maintaining its strength and moving at an unusually slow 10km/h (6mph), meaning the wind and rain will linger for longer ... .