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Reform police commissioner on £79k salary scraps 130-date theatre tour after public backlash
Read more: Reform police commissioner on £79k salary scraps 130-date theatre tour after public backlashColin Sutton was to host a live stage production called The Makings Of A Murderer – Double Jeopardy
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Prince Harry and Meghan change children’s school due to security concerns
Read more: Prince Harry and Meghan change children’s school due to security concernsThe children of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle started at their new school last week
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Two cyclists killed and three arrested after crash in Kent village
Read more: Two cyclists killed and three arrested after crash in Kent villageThe road was closed for several hours while officers investigated the circumstances of the crash
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Mathspace: Over a million Aussies’ data stolen in major hack to learning platform
Read more: Mathspace: Over a million Aussies’ data stolen in major hack to learning platformThe learning platform confirmed the breach in a blog post Monday.
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Light plane crashes near Brisbane sparking a huge bushfire
Read more: Light plane crashes near Brisbane sparking a huge bushfireA light plane has crashed south of Brisbane, sparking a huge bushfire.
Asia
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Malaysia slams ‘deafening silence’ over scrapped Norway missile deal
Read more: Malaysia slams ‘deafening silence’ over scrapped Norway missile dealMalaysia and Norway have fallen into a diplomatic dispute this month since the latter revoked export approvals for certain technologies.
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Watch: Singapore Defence Minister Chan Chun Sing speaks at Shangri-La Dialogue on security partnerships
Read more: Watch: Singapore Defence Minister Chan Chun Sing speaks at Shangri-La Dialogue on security partnershipsThe plenary session at the Shangri-La Dialogue focused on how security partnerships are adapting in an increasingly fragmented global landscape.
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Indonesia’s finance minister suggests imposing levy on ships transiting Malacca Strait
Read more: Indonesia’s finance minister suggests imposing levy on ships transiting Malacca StraitFinance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa said the idea to impose a levy was inspired by Iran’s plan to charge ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz. Singapore and Malaysia have however said that there must be freedom of navigation through the Strait of Malacca.
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China unveils plan to make cities more youth, child friendly
Read more: China unveils plan to make cities more youth, child friendlyThe blueprint, released on Wednesday (Apr 22), aims to deepen the construction of “youth-development-oriented cities” – with measures spanning jobs, housing, healthcare, family support and urban services.
Thailand
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Ayutthaya abbot held in embezzlement and sex scandal
Read more: Ayutthaya abbot held in embezzlement and sex scandalA 66-year-old abbot accused of embezzling 92 million baht from a well-known temple in Ayutthaya was arrested on Thursday, along with a female aide who was seen having sex with the monk in security video taken in his quarters.
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Online and undercover: saving trafficked wildlife in Thailand
Read more: Online and undercover: saving trafficked wildlife in ThailandBANGKOK – Nawee Changpirom has spent years working to rescue trafficked wildlife in Thailand, but even he can sometimes hardly believe the creatures he has found: leopards, hornbills, and once an anteater.
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Citizenship bust targets 5,000 ‘fake Thais’ in Chiang Mai’s district
Read more: Citizenship bust targets 5,000 ‘fake Thais’ in Chiang Mai’s districtCHIANG MAI: Local administrators and migrants were among 20 suspects arrested in this northern province as part of a fake citizenship bust believed to involve about 5,000 “fake Thais” made in just one district.
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Thai rock star Nene Royal reaches America’s Got Talent final with Golden Buzzer
Read more: Thai rock star Nene Royal reaches America’s Got Talent final with Golden BuzzerThai rock star Nene Royal has made history by reaching the Grand Final of America’s Got Talent (AGT) following a high-energy performance in the Live Show round that impressed the judges so much that she was awarded a Golden Buzzer.
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Young guns take charge
Read more: Young guns take chargeThe appointment of relatively young civil servants, with many years left in public service, to top bureaucratic posts under Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has drawn attention in political and administrative circles.
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Malaysia slams ‘deafening silence’ over scrapped Norway missile deal
Read more: Malaysia slams ‘deafening silence’ over scrapped Norway missile dealMalaysia and Norway have fallen into a diplomatic dispute this month since the latter revoked export approvals for certain technologies.
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Watch: Singapore Defence Minister Chan Chun Sing speaks at Shangri-La Dialogue on security partnerships
Read more: Watch: Singapore Defence Minister Chan Chun Sing speaks at Shangri-La Dialogue on security partnershipsThe plenary session at the Shangri-La Dialogue focused on how security partnerships are adapting in an increasingly fragmented global landscape.
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Second death sentence for serial killer ‘Aem Cyanide’
Read more: Second death sentence for serial killer ‘Aem Cyanide’The Criminal Court on Tuesday handed down a death sentence against Sararat Rangsiwuthaporn, better known as “Aem Cyanide”, for fatally poisoning a creditor in Nakhon Pathom province in December 2020.
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Convenience store bombed in deep South as two suspects arrested
Read more: Convenience store bombed in deep South as two suspects arrestedPATTANI — Another convenience store was bombed and set ablaze in the deep South, while two suspects were arrested after a brief gunfight in this southern border province on Monday night.
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Plan to allow private sector role in nuclear SMR projects
Read more: Plan to allow private sector role in nuclear SMR projectsThailand may allow private investors to develop and operate small modular reactors (SMRs) under the country’s upcoming Power Development Plan (PDP), in a bid to replace ageing fossil-fuel small power producers (SPPs), according to an energy official who asked not to be named.