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afp An unmanned Russian cargo spacecraft ferrying supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) is plunging back to Earth and apparently out of control, an official said on Wednesday.
theguardian.com Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell remains hospitalised but alert and ''has her full senses,'' her official website said, contrary to reports that she had slipped into a coma.
time.com The Nepal earthquake toll of more than 5000 is sure to rise significantly as rescue teams move away from Kathmandu, which they began to do early Wednesday, and reach devastated villages near the quake's epicenter.
smh.com.au Australia will withdraw its ambassador to Indonesia following the execution of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran. All eight prisoners executed in Indonesia refused to wear blindfolds, singing as they were shot dead on the Indonesian island of Nusakambangan.
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bangkokpost.com Indonesia executed seven foreign drug convicts and an Indonesian by firing squad early Wednesday, but spared a Filipina at the 11th hour. In Indonesian executions, convicts are led to clearings just after midnight, tied to posts and then giving the option of kneeling, standing or sitting before being executed by 12-man firing squads.
agencies In an 11th hour bid to stop the executions, the European Union, Australia and France warned in a joint statement the move would have an ''impact on Indonesia's position in the world and its international reputation''.
bangkokpost.com Government officials and southern insurgency groups have quietly begun talking peace, but neither side is revealing what progress has been made.
Human Trafficking in Thailand
reuters Human smuggling networks are exploiting rising migration within Asia, leaving growing numbers of migrants at risk of being trafficked and abused, the United Nations said in a report on the $2 billion trade.
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bangkokpost.com A Phuket dive shop owner and his wife are struggling to get out of the mountains of quake-shattered Nepal after a harrowing 72 hours near Mount Everest.
nationmultimedia.com Thailand earmarked 100 million baht for agencies to use for relief efforts in Nepal, while 56 million baht was collected in donations from the public via different fundraising campaigns.
AP All climbers on the Nepal side of Mount Everest have left the mountain and the climbing season is over following a deadly earthquake that left thousands dead in Nepal and dozens of climbers killed or injured after an avalanche swept across the basecamp area, according to guiding companies and individual climbers.
smh.com.au Folk music legend Joni Mitchell, 71, of 'Big Yellow Taxi' fame, is in a coma and unresponsive four weeks after she was admitted to hospital.
afp Nigeria's military is claiming the rescue of 200 girls and 93 women from a notorious Boko Haram stronghold, but there is no confirmation the hostages are those kidnapped from Chibok a year ago.
telegraph.co.uk Goncalo Amaral, the police chief who led the initial investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, has been ordered to pay her parents 357,000 pounds in damages because of hurt caused to them following the publication of his book 'The Truth of the Lie'.
nationmultimedia.com Nine migrant workers were killed and 17 others injured when a pickup truck carrying them lost control and crashed into a barrier fence at the U-turn under Tha Chin Bridge in Samut Sakhon's Muang district. Agencies aim to get tougher on pickup trucks illegally carrying people and urged companies to register proper licences for worker-transport vehicles.
bangkokpost.com Journalists say closing the red shirt-linked broadcaster Peace TV is too harsh, but Gen Prayut defends the censorship as he publishes the first edition of a 'Government Newsletter for the People' with 30,000 copies for distribution in Bangkok and 30,000 for the provinces.
latimes.com Exposure to air pollution may reduce the weight of newborn children, according to scientists who studied birth weights in Beijing before, during and after the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, when Chinese government controls temporarily reduced the city's bad air.
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reuters China's foreign ministry said that it was ''extremely concerned'' after leaders of Southeast Asian countries expressed worry about land reclamation and navigational freedom in the disputed South China Sea.
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espn.co.uk Borussia Dortmund ended Bayern Munich's dreams of a treble by beating Pep Guardiola's men in the semi-final of the DFB-Pokal in a dramatic penalty shootout.
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It is noticeable that nobody is making too much fuss about the execution of 4 Nigerians who were 50% of those executed! Not even the African press as far as I can see.
Posted by Logic on April 29, 2015 15:35
Editor Comment:
It's quite simple, Logic. The death penalty still applies in Nigeria. An outcry about the death penalty being used usually only comes from countries where capital punishment has been abolished - with the recent exception of Indonesian maids in Saudi Arabia, which demonstrated the desperate need of the .Indonesian president to do what his voters expect of him, even if it means being two-faced.