By Reuters, published by The Straits Times, plus BBC Kyiv – Ukraine is checking unverified information that Russia may have used chemical weapons while besieging the southern Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, Ukraine’s Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Malyar said on Tuesday (Apr. 12). “There is a theory that these could be phosphorus munitions,” Ms. Malyar
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Over 50 infants and young children infected with Covid in Nonthaburi
AS MANY as 53 children younger than five years of age and among them newborn infants were today (Apr. 12) reported to have contracted Covid-19 in Nonthaburi province, which is just north of Bangkok, TV Channel 7 said this evening. Of today’s nationwide Covid tally of 19,982 cases and 101 deaths, with this being
Read morePrawit has said ‘a hundred times’ he will never become PM: Prayut
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER PRAYUT Chan-o-cha today (Apr. 12) quoted Deputy Prime Minister/Palang Pracharath Party leader Prawit Wongsuwan as saying “for a hundred times over” he will never become head of a future government. Prayut told reporters at Government House that he has had no doubt about Prawit’s consistent support for his
Read morePrayut: Same group hurled ping-pong bombs at army barracks
PRIME MINISTER Prayut Chan-o-cha said this afternoon (Apr. 12) after attending the Cabinet meeting that it is the same group of people who threw two ping-pongs across the gate of the First Infantry Regiment on Vibhavadi Rangsit Road where his residence is located on Sunday night with suspects already in sight, Matichon newspaper said. He
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