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Nature: Cactus blooms in Arizona
Read more: Nature: Cactus blooms in ArizonaWe leave you this Sunday morning with cactus in bloom at the McDowell Sonoran Preserve in Scottsdale, Arizona. Videographer: Scot Miller.
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Sailboat becomes focus of search for woman who disappeared in the Bahamas while on vacation with her husband
Read more: Sailboat becomes focus of search for woman who disappeared in the Bahamas while on vacation with her husbandThe FBI is planning to search a region of the Sea of Abaco that matches GPS coordinates pulled from the couple’s boat
Asia
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Sri Lanka hospital releases 22 rescued from torpedoed Iranian vessel
Read more: Sri Lanka hospital releases 22 rescued from torpedoed Iranian vesselMore than 60 people are still missing.
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4 injured in petrol station bombings in Thailand’s Deep South
Read more: 4 injured in petrol station bombings in Thailand’s Deep SouthSeveral bombs exploded within a 40-minute period, igniting 11 petrol stations across Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala provinces.
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Autogate outage affecting foreigners at Johor Bahru land checkpoint remains unresolved: Malaysia’s border agency
Read more: Autogate outage affecting foreigners at Johor Bahru land checkpoint remains unresolved: Malaysia’s border agencyTens of thousands of foreign travellers reportedly faced long queues at Malaysia’s land checkpoints with Singapore on Saturday (Jan 10), after most e-gates failed amid the weekend traffic.
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Indonesia temporarily blocks access to Grok over sexualised images
Read more: Indonesia temporarily blocks access to Grok over sexualised imagesThe country became the first to deny access to Elon Musk’s chatbot, after governments and regulators from Europe to Asia have condemned sexualised content on the app.
Thailand
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Charter change efforts falter
Read more: Charter change efforts falterNearly three months after a majority of voters endorsed the idea of a new constitution, the political establishment remains divided over how — or whether — genuine constitutional reform should proceed.
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Industry confidence dips amid energy price fears
Read more: Industry confidence dips amid energy price fearsThe Thai Industries Sentiment Index (TISI) continued to fall in April to 85.3 points, down from 88.6 in March, attributed to the impact of the prolonged US-Israeli war with Iran.
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Labour groups demand reform
Read more: Labour groups demand reformLabour groups marched to Government House on Friday to mark International Workers’ Day, submitting a nine-point list of demands to the government including energy reform, social security restructuring and the scrapping of the controversial “Care” pension formula.
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Ex-senator’s son gets 132 years in gambling ring case
Read more: Ex-senator’s son gets 132 years in gambling ring caseThe Criminal Court has sentenced the son of a former senator to 132 years and six months in prison in an online gambling and money laundering case.
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Aung San Suu Kyi moved to house arrest
Read more: Aung San Suu Kyi moved to house arrestThe legal team for Aung San Suu Kyi plans to meet the detained former leader of Myanmar on Sunday after she was transferred to house arrest in the capital by the military-backed government, a representative said on Friday.
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Sri Lanka hospital releases 22 rescued from torpedoed Iranian vessel
Read more: Sri Lanka hospital releases 22 rescued from torpedoed Iranian vesselMore than 60 people are still missing.
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Condo builds persist amid demand slump
Read more: Condo builds persist amid demand slumpDespite higher costs driven by rising energy prices as a result of the war in the Middle East, condo developers are continuing to launch new projects as planned this year because construction contracts for these projects were already secured with contractors.
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Exposed: How Chinese scammers register ‘Thai’ children
Read more: Exposed: How Chinese scammers register ‘Thai’ childrenChinese scammers have been hiring Thai men to register marriages with their Chinese wives so that their Chinese-born children can obtain Thai citizenship, according to the Department of Provincial Administration.
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Court to rule on conscription law challenge on May 12
Read more: Court to rule on conscription law challenge on May 12The Constitutional Court will rule on May 12 on whether Thailand’s decades‑old military conscription law violates constitutional rights, in a closely watched case involving activist Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal.