Asia
5 Dec
A double-decker coach smashed into a tree in southern Thailand, killing at least 14 people and injuring 32, police said Tuesday. The long-distance bus was travelling from Bangkok to the kingdom's far south when it collided with the tree in coastal Prachuap Khiri Khan province on Monday night. Photos published in local media showed the…
5 Dec
At least 13 people have been killed in gun battles in India's northeastern Manipur, the latest clashes since ethnic violence erupted seven months ago, a state official and local media said. At least 200 people have been killed in Manipur state since fighting broke out in May between the predominantly Hindu Meitei majority and the…
5 Dec
A US official said Monday that Hamas militants likely held back on freeing female hostages, ending a pause in Israel's offensive, because they did not want the women to speak publicly about sexual violence. Israel had paused its offensive in Gaza, which is run by Hamas, as part of a US- and Qatari-brokered truce deal…
5 Dec
A Tokyo taxi driver was arrested for deliberately driving into a flock of pigeons and killing one, police said Tuesday, reportedly because he was angry that the birds were on the road. Atsushi Ozawa, 50, "used his car to kill a common pigeon, which is not a game animal," in the Japanese capital last month…
4 Dec
US and Japanese rescuers found five bodies on Monday following the crash of an Osprey military aircraft last week off Japan with eight crew members on board, the US military said. "Today (Monday), the combined Japanese and United States teams... had a breakthrough when their surface ships and dive teams were able to locate remains…
4 Dec
The Israeli prime minister's office said on Monday it had tallied the remains of 15 citizens that were being kept by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip since the Hamas attacks of October 7. Confirming three additional deaths of hostages held in the Gaza Strip, it said the militants were now holding the remains of…
4 Dec
A Philippine military commander said Monday that a "massive" manhunt was underway for the assailants who bombed a Catholic mass in the country's restive south, killing four worshippers and wounding dozens. The blast, claimed by the Islamic State group, happened Sunday at Mindanao State University's gymnasium in Marawi, the country's largest Muslim city, which was…
4 Dec
At least 11 hikers have been found dead after a volcano erupted in western Indonesia, a local rescue official told AFP on Monday. Mount Marapi on the island of Sumatra, with a peak of 2,891 metres (9,484 feet), erupted Sunday, sending a tower of ash 3,000 metres into the sky. "There are 26 people who…
4 Dec
Six Thai hostages kidnapped and held for weeks in the Gaza Strip by Hamas will arrive back in the kingdom on Monday, officials said. Tens of thousands of Thais were working in Israel, mostly in the agricultural sector, when Palestinian militants poured over the border on October 7, killing 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapping…
4 Dec
Israel said Monday it was not seeking to force Palestinian civilians to permanently leave their homes, even as it acknowledged conditions in the besieged Gaza Strip were "tough." Any suggestion of Palestinian dispersal is highly contentious in the Arab world, as the war that led to Israel's creation 75 years ago gave rise to the…
4 Dec
At least 10 people are still missing after flash floods and a landslide hit a village near Lake Toba on Indonesia's Sumatra island, a rescue official said Monday.
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