International
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Thailand Floods Kill 13, Leaving People Stranded and Roads Submerged
Torrential rains since late last week inundated the tourist hub of Hat Yai and the southern region, killing 13 people in four flood-hit provinces, the department of disaster prevention and mitigation said.
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CNN Investigation Reveals Mass Grave of Tanzanians Killed During Protests
The bodies of protesters, killed in the aftermath of the October 29 election, were secretly buried at Kando cemetery.
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Barca to Make Long-Awaited Camp Nou Return on November 22
Since the stadium closed at the end of the 2022/23 season, the Catalan giants have been forced to play elsewhere, mainly at the Olympic Stadium on the city’s Montjuic hill.
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BBC ‘Determined to Fight’ Trump Defamation Case: Chairman
The BBC apologised last week for giving the impression in a documentary that Trump had directly urged “violent action” just before the assault on the US Capitol by his supporters on January 6, 2021.
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Bangladesh Ex-PM Sentenced to Death for Crimes Against Humanity
Hasina, 78, defied court orders that she return from India to attend her trial about whether she ordered a deadly crackdown against a student-led uprising that ousted her.
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Mushroom Material Takes on Plastic Packaging at Belgian Start-Up
On a gleaming new production line in Brussels, Julien Jacquet shows off a row of milky-white soap bar wrappers — made by what is billed as Europe’s first factory for mushroom-based packaging.
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South Africa’s Ramaphosa Says US Skipping G20 ‘Their Loss’
Pretoria and Washington have clashed over a range of policy issues, including South Africa’s summit agenda, culminating in President Donald Trump announcing at the weekend that no US official will attend the Johannesburg gathering.
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Japanese ‘Ran’ actor Tatsuya Nakadai dies at 92
Nakadai first rose to fame in Japan and internationally under director Masaki Kobayashi, who cast him in his epic anti-war trilogy “The Human Condition” of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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Earth cannot ‘sustain’ intensive fossil fuel use, Lula tells COP30
Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said that Earth can no longer sustain humanity’s dependence on fossil fuels, and warned the climate fight could be lost without a rapid transition to cleaner energy.
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Seven Hospitalized After Suspicious Package Opened at US Base
Seven people were briefly hospitalized after a suspicious package containing a white powder was opened at the military base near the US capital that is home to Air Force One, the presidential jet, US media…
