
Saudi asylum seeker in Thailand pulls Twitter account over ‘threats’
BANGKOK: The 18-year-old Saudi asylum seeker who fled her family to Thailand and harnessed the power of Twitter to stave off deportation yesterday abruptly suspended

BANGKOK: The 18-year-old Saudi asylum seeker who fled her family to Thailand and harnessed the power of Twitter to stave off deportation yesterday abruptly suspended
YANGON: Two Reuters journalists jailed for seven years while investigating atrocities committed against the Rohingya in Myanmar had their appeal dismissed yesterday, dismaying colleagues and
WELLINGTON: Dramatic video footage has emerged of a 122,000 tonne cruise liner narrowly missing a tiny dinghy with four people on board. The inflatable, carrying
WARSAW: Poland said yesterday it had arrested a Chinese telecoms executive suspected of spying for China, with local media identifying him as a Huawei director.
JOHANNESBURG: A South African primary school teacher was suspended on Thursday after a photograph appeared to show black children sitting separately from white children in

PATTANI (Thailand): Four Thai civil defence volunteers were gunned down yesterday at a school in the kingdom’s south with students just metres away, as bloodshed
KATHMANDU: A Nepali mother and her two children have died of suspected smoke inhalation after a night in a windowless hut where women are banished
HONG KONG: Fugitive former Thai premier Yingluck Shinawatra used a Cambodian passport to register a company in Hong Kong, records show, lending weight to reports

AL-ANAD AIR BASE (Yemen): A rebel drone hit Yemen’s largest air base yesterday, killing six loyalist soldiers during a military parade in an attack which
SEOUL: Chinese President Xi Jinping offered North Korean leader Kim Jong Un firm backing in deadlocked nuclear talks with the United States, insisting the two