dailymail.co.uk Around 150 migrants stormed the Channel Tunnel as they tried to board UK-bound freight trains, causing delays to services and bringing traffic grinding to a halt. French riot officers had to intervene to restore order.

theguardian.com Greeks go to the polls on Sunday to vote on whether to accept the bailout program proposed by international lenders that would restart financial aid in exchange for further austerity and economic reform.


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AP A Bangkok-bound flight operated by a Chinese airline made an emergency landing Friday afternoon after an engine fire warning lit up, China Southern Airlines said. Fourteen passengers were treated for escape slide injuries.

bangkokpost.com Hundreds of people on Friday evening covered a wall in central Bangkok with Post-it notes denouncing the military government and demanding the release of 14 jailed student activists.

bangkokpost.com The southern property market has bottomed out, says the Bank of Thailand, with tourism a ''silver lining''. Chinese were the major tourist arrivals in Phuket, with Phang Nga, Krabi and Trang all showing growth.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/property/news/612336/southern-property-market-comfort-from-tourism



AP A total of 173 people from the minority Chinese Muslim community of Uighurs have arrived in Turkey from Thailand, where they were being held after fleeing China, a Turkey-based Uighur group said.

PTI The UN rights body adopted without a vote a resolution on addressing the human rights situation of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Burma (Myanmar) nearly a month after a regional crisis erupted with hundreds of migrants from the nation found adrift in the Bay of Bengal.



bangkokpost.com Editorial: The military regime should realise that it's against the authorities' own benefit to be seen as trying to curb media freedom. The NCPO will gain nothing but condemnation if it keeps hounding the media.

Phuket Update Interest in an alleged Danish fraudster who disappeared on Phuket 16 years ago and was declared dead in 2012 has been revived because his family believe a telephone call made to a Danish court in 2011 inquiring about his case may mean he is still alive. Soren Baisgaard, who would now be 56, left almost all his clothing and possessions in a Patong hotel room and has not been seen since.

Phuket Update A media conference in Bangkok this week revealed for the first time that a Russian man who was quietly arrested on Phuket in June is Dimitry Rodionov, 38. According to Russian police, Rodionov was one of the leaders of an organised crime syndicate. Gang members posed as freight agents then disappeared with the cargo.

Phuket Update Phuket police arrested Pichet Tipbumrung, 24, who was buying drugs via the popular Line phone application from Cherng Talay. He regularly picked up the marijuana from the post office.

bbc.com The Turkish coastguard have rescued a baby who drifted out to sea off the coast of Ayvacik. The 10-month-old girl was in an inflatable crib which was swept about a kilometre away from the shore.

afp After spending a week in South Korea, a Czech tour guide has been hospitalised in Prague, suspected of having the potentially fatal MERS virus, the health minister said.

news.sky.com A 6.4 magnitude earthquake has killed three people and damaged thousands of buildings in western China. Video footage captures the moment frightened residents dashed into the streets as the powerful quake hit China's rural Xinjiang region.

nytimes.com Uber, the US ride-hailing company, agreed to suspend its lowest-cost service in France starting Friday evening, bowing to violent strikes last week by taxi drivers that were largely unimpeded by the government.

nationmultimedia.com Travellers are using mobile devices more and more throughout their journey, from research to booking to the trip itself and beyond, according to a new report by TripAdvisor.

nytimes.com The French president rejected an appeal for protection from Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks co-founder, who has spent three years under political asylum in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London.

reuters Millions of people across Britain held a minute's silence on an official day of mourning to pay tribute to 30 Britons killed a week ago by an Islamist gunman in Tunisia, the country's worst loss of life in a militant attack in a decade.

theguardian.com Two rockets, fired from Egypt's violence-plagued Sinai peninsula, exploded inside Israeli territory on Friday without causing casualties, an Israeli military spokesman said.



reuters Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak denied taking money from state fund 1MDB or any other entity for personal gain, after a media report said investigators traced nearly $700 million to bank accounts that were allegedly in his name.

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theage.com.au Heather Watson, two breaks up in the final set, must have felt like a Lilliputian at times, throwing ropes and pegs around Serena Williams's mighty frame. But in the end she could not stop the supreme being of women's tennis from breaking her bonds and escaping from peril in the third round.

smh.com.au James Faulkner, the Australian World Cup-winning all-rounder, is likely to be suspended from the limited-overs tour of England that follows the Ashes after being charged with a high-range drink-driving offence and being detained in Manchester.

bangkokpost.com Thai violinist Vanessa-Mae exploited weak rules and got help from Alpine race officials to qualify for the Sochi Olympics, according to sports's highest court.Vanessa-Mae exploited weak rules and got help from Alpine race officials to qualify for the Sochi Olympics, according to sports's highest court.

reuters New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum smashed the second-highest Twenty20 score of all time when he hit a typically belligerent 158 not out in 64 balls for Birmingham against Derbyshire.



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