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Thailand decriminalizes marijuana, but not the strong stuff
Published On: June 9, 2022 11:30 AM NPT By: Associated Press
BANGKOK, June 9: Thailand made it legal to cultivate and possess marijuana as of Thursday, like a dream come true for an aging generation of pot smokers who recall the kick the legendary Thai Stick variety delivered.
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More bodies found in Mariupol as global food crisis looms
Published On: June 9, 2022 07:39 AM NPT By: Associated Press
BAKHMUT, Ukraine, June 9: Workers pulled scores of bodies from smashed buildings in an “endless caravan of death” inside the devastated city of Mariupol, authorities said Wednesday, while fears of a global food crisis escalated over Ukraine’s inability to export millions of tons of grain through its blockaded ports.
Train derailment in east Iran kills at least 21, injures 47
Published On: June 8, 2022 04:30 PM NPT By: Associated Press
TEHRAN, June: A passenger train traveling through eastern Iran struck an excavator and derailed nearly half its cars before dawn Wednesday, killing at least 21 people and injuring another 47, officials said.
Battle in Ukraine's east rages, Zelenskiy vows to retake territory
Published On: June 8, 2022 07:23 AM NPT By: Reuters
KYIV, June 8: Ukrainian forces struggled to hold their ground in bloody street-to-street fighting in the eastern frontline city of Sievierodonetsk as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the situation was difficult, also pledging to retake Russia's gains.
AP Exclusive: Ukraine recovers bodies from steel-plant siege
Published On: June 7, 2022 07:29 AM NPT By: Associated Press
KYIV, Ukraine, June 7: Russia has begun turning over the bodies of Ukrainian fighters killed at the Azovstal steelworks, the fortress-like plant in the destroyed city of Mariupol where their last-ditch stand became a symbol of resistance against Moscow’s invasion.
US, S. Korea fire missiles to sea, matching North’s launches
Published On: June 6, 2022 11:07 AM NPT By: Associated Press
SEOUL, June 6: The U.S. and South Korean militaries launched eight ballistic missiles into the sea Monday in a show of force matching a North Korean missile display a day earlier that extended a provocative streak in weapons demonstrations.
At least 50 killed in massacre at Catholic church in southwest Nigeria
Published On: June 6, 2022 07:52 AM NPT By: Reuters
LAGOS, June 6: Gunmen attacked a Catholic church in southwest Nigeria during mass on Sunday, killing at least 50 people including women and children, according to a hospital doctor and media reports.
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Russia hits Kyiv with missiles; Putin warns West on supplies
Published On: June 5, 2022 07:00 PM NPT By: Associated Press
KYIV, June 5: Russia took aim at Western military supplies for Ukraine with airstrikes in Kyiv on Sunday that it said destroyed tanks donated from abroad, as President Vladimir Putin warned that any Western deliveries of long-range rocket systems to Ukraine would prompt Moscow to hit “objects that we haven’t yet struck.”
India COVID cases go past 4k mark, logs 4,270 infections in past 24 hrs
Published On: June 5, 2022 06:30 PM NPT By: Republica
NEW DELHI, June 5: The COVID-19 cases in India have crossed the 4,000-mark for the second time in the past four days on Sunday, as the country logged 4,270 fresh infections in the past 24 hours, according to the Union Health Ministry.
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At least 28 dead in fire at Bangladesh container depot
Published On: June 5, 2022 01:44 PM NPT By: Associated Press
DHAKA, June 5: A massive fire at a container depot near a port city in southeastern Bangladesh killed at least 28 people and injured more than 100 others, officials and local media said Sunday, as firefighters struggled to get the blaze under control.
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