WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States does not encourage or enable attacks inside Russia, a U.S. State Department spokesperson said after Russian authorities said they downed drones that tried to attack Moscow early on Wednesday. It is up to Ukraine to decide how it chooses to defend itself from the Russian invasion that began in February...
BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand's former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was moved to hospital overnight, officials said on Wednesday, over concern about his heart and high blood pressure on his first night in jail following his historic return from self-exile. The latest condition of 74-year-old Thaksin, the billionaire founder of the populist juggernaut Pheu Thai, was not clear...
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's Srettha Thavisin of the Pheu Thai Party has been confirmed as prime minister after receiving royal endorsement following his victory in a parliamentary vote, a spokesperson for the house speaker said on Wednesday. "His Majesty has given royal assent for the 30th prime minister of Thailand," spokesperson Khumpee Ditthakorn told reporters. (Reporting by...
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday he had had "open, honest and fruitful" talks with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic. "An open, honest, and fruitful meeting with the President of Serbia," Zelenskiy, who is visiting Athens, wrote on the Telegram messaging app under a photograph of the two leaders shaking hands. "Good conversation on...
BANGKOK (Bloomberg): Srettha Thavisin, a former property tycoon and a political newcomer, is set to take a shot at becoming Thailand’s next prime minister in a vote scheduled on Tuesday that may help resolve a monthslong political impasse. While backed by a coalition of populist and conservative parties, Srettha’s fate rests on the military-appointed Senate, whose...
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Most Thais disagree with the leading plan for a coalition government which includes military-backed groups, an opinion poll showed on Sunday, two days before a parliamentary vote aiming to end a three-month political stalemate. About 64% of 1,310 respondents disagreed or totally disagreed with the idea of the Pheu Thai party forming a...
A man was suspected to have fallen to his death at Hong Kong’s Lion Rock, police on Thursday revealed. The force said it received a report at 9.30pm on Wednesday from a hiker who last saw the man, with short hair and a rotund build, standing near the iconic lion-shaped rock on Lung Cheung Road in...
BANGKOK (Reuters): Thailand's self-exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra plans to return to the country on Tuesday, his daughter said on Saturday, amid prolonged political uncertainty following a May national election. "On Tuesday, Aug. 22, at 0900, at Don Muang Airport, I will meet father Thaksin," Paetongtarn Shinawatra said in a social media post, referring to...
LONDON (Reuters) -A British nurse who described herself as a "horrible evil person" was found guilty on Friday of murdering seven newborn babies and trying to kill another six in the neonatal unit of a hospital in northwest England where she worked. Lucy Letby, 33, was convicted of killing five baby boys and two baby girls...
The room was locked when prosecutors from Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office and lawyers from the company then known as Twitter Inc appeared Feb 9 before a federal judge in Washington. The secrecy was needed to prevent word from reaching the subject of the court fight: Donald Trump. US District Judge Beryl Howell was concerned that the...
