bangkokpost.com Thailand's belated crackdown on human trafficking has created new dangers for desperate migrants as trafficking gangs try to evade capture, leaving the weak to fend for themselves.

afp Britain's anti-EU, anti-immigration UK Independence Party has suspended parliamentary candidate Robert Blay two days from a general election for apparently threatening to shoot a rival.

Krabi Update The decomposing bodies of a couple identified as pangolin hunters have been murdered and dumped in the Hoy Namkhow forest near the Khow Pra Bang Khram Wildlife Sanctuary in Krabi.


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bangkokpost.com Five more graves have been found at another Songkhla jungle camp where Rohingya were penned like cattle and died, as world outrage grows.

bbc.com Thai officials say they have found two skeletons possibly linked to people smuggling north of Phuket, days after the discovery of 26 bodies in a mass grave. Both skeletons were found in abandoned camps in Phang Nga province, the local governor said.

voanews.com '''These camps are in fact surrounded by local officials and communities taking money from the traffickers and at more senior levels, say at the provincial level we have officials looking the other way,'' said Phil Robertson, deputy director of Human Rights Watch's Asia division.

nationmultimedia.com Nearly a decade ago, 14-year-old Komsan Sakulchatthong left home to work in a Samut Sakhon seafood plant, where he was eventually persuaded to work on a fishing boat with the promise of a bigger paycheque.
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Krabi Update One person died and six had to be taken to hospital early after a pick-up truck crossed the central reservation of a road in Krabi and crashed head-on into an ambulance. The driver of the ambulance was killed in front of the Klong Tom Vocational College on Petchkasem Rd. The pickup driver faces reckless driving charges.

bangkokpost.com For the second time in two days, a bicyclist was killed after a car rammed into a group of bikers, this time in Bangkok. Police are hunting for a man who fled on foot after he crashed his car into a group of cyclists, killing one and injuring two others on Monday night.

telegraph.co.uk Forces loyal to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad are committing war crimes and crimes against humanity on a daily basis in the war-ravaged city of Aleppo, according to Amnesty International.

rt.com Interpol has launched a global alert over potentially lethal diet pills, which has been linked to the death of a British student. Police in 190 countries have been issued with the Orange notice over tablets containing the compound 2.4-Dinitrophenol (DNP).

bangkokpost.com Central Group is quietly negotiating to take over a popular department store in Germany in a bid to enhance its retail brand recognition abroad.

ft.com Police in Northern Ireland are investigating the murder of a former senior member of the IRA on a Belfast street in one of the most prominent killings in the city for several years. Gerard ''Jock'' Davison was shot several times.

news.com.au Australian PM Tony Abbott has become embroiled in an ugly diplomatic incident that's seen his office accused of being homophobic after an Australian Ambassador's same-sex partner was told to ''wait in the car'' rather than greet the Prime Minister on his arrival to Paris.

reuters Ahead of Britain's parliamentary election on Thursday, Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives and the opposition Labor Party are tied at 34 percent, according to a YouGov opinion poll for the Sun newspaper.

reuters Migrants arriving on the Italian island of Sicily on Tuesday said about 40 others travelling with them had died on the journey, a Save the Children spokeswoman said.

theguardian.,com Europe's growing obesity crisis will see almost three-quarters of men and two-thirds of women in the UK being overweight in 15 years, health experts have said. Other countries facing growing obesity problems include Greece, Spain, Austria and the Czech Republic. Even Sweden, where there has traditionally been a low prevalence of obesity, will see significant rises.

news.com.au An overly amorous couple caught having sex on a Florida beach faces a hefty penalty for their daylight tryst: 15 years in prison. According to the Miami Herald, a jury took just 15 minutes to convict Jose Caballero, 40, and Elissa Alvarez, 20, on two counts of lewd and lascivious behavior.



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telegraph.co.uk Carlos Tevez did more than give Juventus a slender lead heading into the second leg with Real Madrid at the Bernabou next week. He gave them belief that they can live with the European champions. Juventus 2-1 Real Madrid.

telegraph.co.uk Tiger Woods goes into this week's Players Championship admitting that he has not slept for three days because of the emotional turmoil of his break-up with Lindsey Vonn coming on the same weekend as the anniversary of his father's death.



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