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Dozens of dairy farmers and their workers in Israel have been gunned down in kibbutz’s close to the Gaza border by Hamas terrorists. When Hamas soldiers broke through the border into Israel last Saturday (Oct. 7), they also targeted the dairy farms slaughtering anyone that was in sight. There are 16 farms in kibbutz’s close to the border with Gaza, five of which are now in the army’s no-go zone. A kibbutz is basically a small community in Israel normally found in rural areas centered round a dairy farm. The farms in the no-go zone have been deserted and no...

BANGKOK, Thailand - A Russian dubbed the "Merchant of Death" for allegedly supplying weapons to Africa's bloody conflicts over power and diamonds was arrested Thursday in Thailand on suspicion of conspiring to smuggle guns to Colombia's leftist rebels. Viktor Bout, 41, whose dealings reportedly inspired a 2005 movie about the illicit arms trade, was arrested at U.S. request in his hotel room in Bangkok, said police Lt. Gen. Pongpat Chayapan. Bout had eluded arrest for years and was finally seized after a four-month sting organized by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. In New York, federal authorities unsealed a criminal complaint...

Thais cheery over military coup By Jonathan Head BBC News, Bangkok This week Thailand experienced its first military coup for 15 years. In an unexpected move the army commander overthrew the government of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Mr Thaksin had been under growing pressure to step down over alleged corruption and abuses of power, but remained very popular in the countryside. It started with royal music and familiar pictures of the king being played continuously on an army-run television station. That was strange, even during this year, the 60th anniversary of Thailand's much-loved monarch. The new leadership is consolidating its...

General news >> Thursday January 12, 2006 Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Next Unshackling the drug habit Sight of addicts, mental patients chained to walls of rehab centre accepted by locals Story by WASSANA NANUAM Drug addict Malang Masae, 36, lies chained in his cell at a rehabilitation centre in Mayo district of Pattani. A local Islamic teacher converted his ponoh school into the South's first rehabilitation centre for crazed addicts. People seeking treatment must remain at the facility for at...

Bangkok - The bodies of a Buddhist couple were found shot and nearly decapitated on Friday in restive southern Thailand, adding to the five other beheadings in the past three weeks, police said. Jad Suwanchatree, 52, a defence volunteer in Muang district of Yala province, and his wife Serm, 51, were riding their motorcycle to tap rubber from a plantation when they were killed. "As Jad stopped his motorcycle to remove wood which blocked the road, he was shot and slashed in his neck, as was his wife," police in Yala said. "Their heads were not totally separated from their...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Revered Queen Sirikit has urged all Thais to work with the government in its fight against the violence in the largely Muslim south, where almost 500 people have been killed since January. Queen Sirikit, speaking after a wave of attacks on Buddhists in the troubled south, said she had asked the southern army commander to train female Buddhists to use guns and she herself would learn soon.

BANGKOK will "burn" as revenge for the death by suffocation of 78 Muslim men as they were being transported in Thai Army trucks this week, a group of Muslim militants threatened yesterday. "The capital will be burned down in the same way the Pattani capital has been burned," the Pattani United Liberation Organisation, long thought to be militarily dormant after an insurgency in the 1980s, said in a statement on its website. The threat supports fears the deaths -- by far the most shocking in 11 months of almost daily violence in the south -- will spark a massive militant...

Thais warned over deadly pet octopus The blue-ring octopus can kill in minutes The Thai authorities have reportedly called on owners of the deadly blue-ring octopus to surrender the animals over safety fears. Local media say that the beautiful octopus, which features in the James Bond film Octopussy, has become one of the most popular purchases at Bangkok's main pet market. It seems that buyers were not deterred by the warning that there is no antidote for their new pet's lethal venom. It is just the latest exotic pet to captivate the country. A ban was imposed last week on...