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China's president says the two countries are like 'family', pledging to 'strengthen strategic alignment' with Thailand.Source: www.aljazeera.comRead full article

Japan has deployed the military to some regions to address the situation.Source: www.aljazeera.comRead full article

Stephen Bryant, 44, convicted over 2004 killing, to be shot dead despite growing backlash to ‘barbaric’ methodSouth Carolina is due to execute a man by firing squad on Friday, marking the third time the state will use gunfire to kill a person on death row despite growing backlash to the method.Stephen Bryant, 44, was sentenced to death for the October 2004 killing of Willard “TJ” Tietjen and pleaded guilty to […]

In Brooklyn, workers walked off the job in search of fair pay and conditions – and said many customers were in supportAt a popular Starbucks in Brooklyn’s Clinton Hill, hundreds of people – including workers, union allies, and community supporters – filled the sidewalks. In 40F (4.4C) weather, picketers held signs, marched, and chanted “What’s disgusting? Union-busting!” and “No contract, no coffee!”More than a thousand Starbucks workers across the US […]

Jonathan Jarvis, who led the agency from 2009 to 2017, laid out the dire consequences of not closing parks in shutdownAmericans should “raise hell” to protect US national parks through the “nightmare” of Donald Trump’s presidency, according to a former National Park Service director, amid alarm over the impact of the federal government shutdown.Jonathan Jarvis claimed the agency is now in the hands of a “bunch of ideologues” who would […]

Documents include emails depicting coordinated effort to influence online search results and journalistsJeffrey Epstein and his associates worked to suppress negative press and rebuild his image in the years after he pleaded guilty in 2008 to state charges in Florida of solicitation of prostitution and of solicitation of prostitution with a minor, newly released documents reveal.The documents, among 20,000 pages released Wednesday by Republican members of the House oversight committee, […]

Officials urge vaccination against mutated strain of virus that may be more transmissible than usualHospitals are bracing for a once-in-a-decade flu season, with a mutated version of the virus that is spreading widely in younger people expected to drive a wave of admissions when it reaches the elderly.The threat has prompted NHS managers to redouble efforts to vaccinate staff and communities, expand same-day emergency care and treat more patients in […]