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Saudi Arabia criticized over ‘guardianship’ laws
Jan 10, 2019 03:08A Saudi teen's live-tweeted asylum plea has cast a renewed spotlight on women's rights just months after women won the right to drive, and sparked rare criticism of restrictive "guardianship" laws -- from men.
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Tropical storm in Thailand (Video)
Jan 04, 2019 10:19Thailand's first tropical storm in three decades killed one person on Friday as it arrived on the south coast, knocking down trees and blowing off roofs in its path, but was losing speed, officials said, while warning against the risk of flash floods.
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Bahraini refugee footballer begins open-ended hunger strike in Thailand
Dec 09, 2018 03:31Bahraini footballer Hakeem Ali al-Araibi has launched an open-ended hunger strike in protest against an “unfair decision by a Thai court to arrest” him and prevent him from returning to his place of residence in Australia.
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Thailand warned against deporting dissident footballer to Bahrain
Dec 02, 2018 03:49Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Thailand to refrain from deporting a dissident footballer to Bahrain where he might face prosecution for expressing his anti-government views.
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Hundreds missing after hydropower dam collapse in Laos
Jul 24, 2018 07:03Hundreds of people are missing and an unknown number believed dead after the collapse of a hydropower dam under construction in southeast Laos, state media reported Tuesday.
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Starving and bombed children of Yemen seek entrapment in flooded Thai cave
Jul 17, 2018 11:57Why did the world’s corporate media highlight the flooded Thai cave story so graphically and why do so many ordinary people respond with such interest – meaning genuine emotional engagement – in this story?
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Four of trapped Thai schoolboys rescued from flooded cave
Jul 09, 2018 01:53Rescuers working to save 12 schoolboys and their coach who have been trapped in a flooded cave north of Thailand say four of the children have exited the cave.
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Thai cave rescuers racing against water, time to free boys
Jul 07, 2018 08:32A rescue mission for a young Thai soccer team and their coach trapped for two weeks in a flooded cave is at "war with water and time", its leader said on Saturday, but was eyeing its best chance yet to free the group before expected heavy rains.
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Death toll from Thai boat tragedy rises to 27
Jul 06, 2018 08:09Thai rescuers pulled 27 bodies from waters off the coast of the holiday island of Phuket on Friday after a tourist boat went down in heavy seas with dozens of Chinese passengers on board.
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Thai boys, coach receive food, treatment inside cave
Jul 04, 2018 10:12Authorities in Thailand have vowed to take a “no risk” approach to freeing 12 boys and their soccer coach who have been stuck in a flooded cave for at least 10 days, while soldiers hold an evacuation drill to be prepared for the rescue mission.