Thailand’s Health Minister said foreigners who refused to wear face masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus should be “kicked out of the country.” “These foreign tourists, this is something to tell the embassies as well as the Thai people they’re refusing to wear face masks,” Anutin Charnvirakul told reporters on Friday using a […]

The largest claim for damages related to a major price-fixing cartel among European truck manufacturers was thrown out by a court in Germany, on Friday. The Munich Regional Court ruled the claim for almost 900 million euros (986 million dollars) legally inadmissible, saying that it violated legal services law. More than 3,000  and logistics firms […]

Attempts to smuggle drugs into Germany has increased considerably over the past couple of years, the government said on Friday. Finance Ministry figures showed that 918 kilograms of heroin were seized by customs officials in 2019, compared to just 62 kilos in 2017. The amount of cocaine, ecstasy and amphetamines seized also increased, while cigarette […]

A Japanese man with a suspected coronavirus infection has died in hospital in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the Japanese foreign ministry said Saturday. The man in his 60s had been hospitalised due to severe pneumonia and the hospital reported his death to the Japanese embassy in China, the ministry said in a statement. Chinese […]

A Thailand soldier killed many people Saturday in a live streamed mass shooting across several locations in a northeastern city, police said. “The gunman used a machine gun and shot innocent victims resulting in many injured and dead,” a police spokesperson told AFP, with local media reporting as many as 12 fatalities. “I cannot confirm […]

Eight people were killed, dozens hurt and property burned during clashes in southern Kazakhstan, prompting concern Saturday from authorities who portray the country as a beacon of stability. Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev held an emergency government session Saturday to tackle Friday’s violence in an ethnically-mixed pocket of the Jambyl region, near the border with Kyrgyzstan. […]

Long-delayed elections are to take place in Cameroon Sunday, but in the country’s violence-torn English-speaking areas, the fear is almost palpable.

Veteran actor Orson Bean has died after being struck by a car in Venice, Los Angeles on Friday night. The Los Angeles County coroner’s office confirmed Bean’s Friday night death, saying it was being investigated as a ‘traffic-related’ fatality. Los Angeles Police Department Capt. Brian Wendling initially told local stations that a man was walking […]

A fake lawyer, identified as Iddrisu Yahaya who appeared in court to seek bail for his supposed clients ran out of luck and got arrested upon the orders of the judge of the Techiman Circuit Court where the drama unfolded. According to Ghana crimes, Mr. Yahaya was in the court to seek bail terms for […]

NASA astronaut Christina Koch made the most of her first trip to the International Space Station by breaking the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman and conducting the first all-female spacewalk with fellow NASA astronaut Jessica Meir. “We caught each other’s eye and we knew that we were really honored with this […]