Myanmar’s military moved in to tackle a major online scam operation near the Thailand border, state media reported Myanmar’s military has raided a major online scam operation near the border with Thailand, detaining more than 2,000 people and seizing dozens of Starlink satellite internet terminals, state media has reported. According to a report in Monday’s … Read more
The move, welcomed by UN, will allow thousands of people living in camps to support themselves and their families Thailand is setting a regional precedent this month by giving refugees permission to work in the country in an effort to tackle aid cuts and its own labour shortages. More than 87,000 refugees living in nine … Read more
Sanae Takaichi has made history but will have little time to settle in before negotiating the pitfalls of rising prices, power struggles and a mercurial US president It is hard to overstate the symbolism of Sanae Takaichi’s achievement in becoming the first female prime minister of Japan, a country that consistently ranks poorly in global … Read more
Teachers, nurses and public service staff among those walking off job and also pressing for more government investment in health and education An estimated 100,000 nurses, teachers and public sector staff walked off the job in New Zealand on Thursday to call on the government to better fund and resource public services, in one of … Read more
Lindsay Sandiford, 68, has been on death row in Indonesia since 2012, after authorities found 3.8kg of cocaine in her suitcase A British woman will avoid execution for drug smuggling in Indonesia under an agreement between the two nations to repatriate her and another Briton serving a life sentence. Lindsay Sandiford, 68, has been imprisoned … Read more
Officials say they have no evidence man had committed a crime, after Trump called people on submarine ‘terrorists’ CIA playing ‘most important part’ in US strikes in the Caribbean, sources say Ecuador has released a man who survived a US strike on a suspected drug-trafficking submarine, after finding no evidence that he had committed a … Read more
Legal teams are midway through a hearing over whether one vote truly swayed a federal election in a Montreal suburb The case of a single vote which determined the outcome of a federal election in Canada risks sending the “disastrous message” to voters that “some votes count more than others”, says the lawyer of a … Read more
Roberto Mosquera del Peral was sent to African country as part of Trump administration’s immigration crackdown A Cuban man deported by the Trump administration to the southern African country of Eswatini has started a hunger strike against his detention there, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Roberto Mosquera del Peral was among five third-country nationals deported … Read more
Elite helicopter unit’s part in military deployment comes as Donald Trump ramps up pressure on Nicolás Maduro They call themselves the Night Stalkers and their unofficial motto hints at the group’s lethal nocturnal line of work: “Death Waits in the Dark.” “You can flee, but they will find you,” warns a rare book about the … Read more
Zhi Dong Zhang, known by alias ‘Brother Wang’, is also wanted by US and has alleged ties to Mexican drug cartels Cuba has arrested an alleged Chinese fentanyl kingpin who escaped custody in Mexico in July and is also wanted by the US, Mexican security sources told AFP on Wednesday. Zhi Dong Zhang, known by … Read more