BANGKOK (AFP) – A leading environmental group on Tuesday urged delegates at UN climate talks in Bangkok to include plans to reward nations for saving their forests in any deal on global warming.
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NARATHIWAT, Thailand (AFP) – Suspected Islamic militants have killed five Muslim civilians in Thailand’s troubled south, where a five-year separatist insurgency rages unabated, police said Tuesday.
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KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) – Muslim-majority Malaysia has banned British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen’s raunchy comedy “Bruno” because it contains “a lot of sex,” a senior official said Tuesday.
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BANGKOK (AFP) – Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva hit out at his Cambodian counterpart Tuesday for saying that Thai trespassers would be shot near a disputed temple on their border.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) – A series of tsunamis smashed into the Pacific island nations of American and Western Samoa killing possibly more than 100 people, destroying villages and injuring hundreds, officials said on Wednesday.
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HOI AN, Vietnam (AFP) – Typhoon Ketsana left a trail of destruction across Southeast Asia Wednesday, killing at least 49 people in Vietnam and Cambodia and churning towards Laos, officials said.
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OXFORD, England (Reuters) – A rise of at least two meters in the world’s sea levels is now almost unstoppable, experts told a climate conference at Oxford University on Tuesday.
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PHNOM PENH (AFP) – Typhoon Ketsana has killed at least 11 people in northeastern and central Cambodia, police and government officials said Wednesday, after the storm left another 38 dead in Vietnam.
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SHANGHAI (AFP) – The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), the world’s biggest bank by market capitalisation, said Wednesday that it would acquire part of Thailand’s ACL Bank for 105 million dollars.
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YALA, Thailand (AFP) – Suspected Islamic militants shot dead three more civilians in southern Thailand, bringing the toll from a sudden killing spree in the troubled region to eight, police said Wednesday.
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Thailand mobilizes security forces ahead of anti-government demonstrations by "red shirt" supporters of ousted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. […]
Talking to the Taliban leader in Afghanistan may help bring peace to the country, according to a former Pakistan spy chief once referred to as the "father of the Taliban." […]
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak orders the army to seal off the West Bank for 48 hours amid tensions over plans to build apartments on disputed land. […]
Pakistan's navy said it test-fired missiles in the Arabian Sea on Friday to send a message to "anyone harboring nefarious designs" against the country. […]
Twin suicide blasts kill at least 20 people in a high security area with a dense military presence in eastern Pakistan, CNN affiliate Geo TV reports. […]
Japanese authorities arrested an activist from New Zealand on Friday for illegal trespassing after he boarded a whaling ship last month in waters off the Antarctic. […]
Five gay and lesbian couples have married in Mexico City, the first such ceremonies since a law went into effect legalizing same-sex marriage in the Mexican capital. […]