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Date: 2023-01-27
From Nikkei Asia:
Laos struggles with unexploded bombs 50 years after Paris Accords Hidden dangers from another era hinder economic development KOSUKE INOUE KASI, Laos -- Five decades have elapsed since the signing of the Paris Peace Accords on Jan. 27, 1973 that led to the end of the Vietnam War. The long conflict devastated all of Indochina, and its aftermath continues to stymie the region's economic development. Early this month, specialists of the Laotian military detected unexploded ordnance (UXO) in the northern town of Kasi. The team of about 10 found one cluster bomb the size of a tennis ball and used a loudspeaker to warn residents while cordoning off nearby roads before disposing of the device. Operations of this type continue.
From The Diplomat:
Australian Returns 9 Antique Buddha Statues to Thailand The Canberra resident Murray Upton said his father obtained the statues while working as a railways engineer in the south of Thailand in 1911. By Sebastian Strangio An Australian citizen has returned nine wooden Buddha statues to Thailand after more than a century in his family’s possession. The return of the diminutive carved statues, each of which stands around 10-15 centimeters tall, was coordinated by Thailand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which handed them over to the Ministry of Culture’s Fine Arts Department in a ceremony yesterday.
From Reuters:
Zelenskiy's party purges lawmaker for wartime trip to Thailand By Dan Peleschuk KYIV, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Ukraine's ruling party has kicked out a lawmaker from its parliamentary faction after reports he had travelled to Thailand during Ukraine's grinding war with Russia sparked a public outcry.
From The Guardian:
‘I was a drunk for 20 years’: The unlikely US priest revered in the slums of Bangkok Father Joe arrived in Bangkok in the 1970’s. Fifty years, 15 schools and 30,000 students later, he credits the community with saving him Rebecca Root “This other priest is always drunk, so you go take his place.” With that simple instruction, Joseph H Maeir, a Catholic priest from the United States, found himself in Thailand, ending up in the slums of Bangkok in the 1970s. Fifty years later, he has nursed HIV patients, saved children from the streets and provided an education to the very poorest, and is now a slum celebrity with a slew of accolades in Thailand.
From CNN:
See moment that shocked CNN reporter during interview deep in rural China CNN's Selina Wang traveled to rural China during the traditional Lunar New Year. See how government officials responded.
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From the Financial Times:
Demand for mourning flowers rises in Covid-hit Chinese province Chrysanthemum prices jump as China grapples with wave of coronavirus deaths Kai Waluszewski in Hong Kong Chrysanthemum flowers, a symbol of mourning in China, are selling out in cities across the central province of Hubei, with prices rising sharply as demand surges following a wave of Covid-19 deaths. Li, who works at Green Plant Shop in Wuhan, the provincial capital where the virus first emerged in late 2019, said he now charged Rmb45 ($6.63) per basket, a 50 per cent year-on-year increase.
From Reuters:
Gunman opens fire in Azerbaijan embassy in Iran Surveillance video obtained by Reuters shows the moment of a deadly armed attack inside Azerbaijan's embassy in the Iranian capital Tehran. Police said the gunman killed the embassy security chief and wounded two others.
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Moving on to a few stories you might have missed about the war in Ukraine. This comes from the New York Times:
Zelensky admonishes the I.O.C. president over plan to allow Russian athletes at the Paris Olympics. With the 2024 Summer Olympics still a year and a half away, an international dispute over allowing Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete escalated on Friday, as Ukraine threatened a boycott and President Volodymyr Zelensky challenged the head of the International Olympic Committee to visit the war’s front lines. The I.O.C. said on Wednesday that it would continue to explore ways for athletes from Russia and Belarus, which has supported Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, to compete in the 2024 Games in Paris, potentially as individual participants who would not bear their countries’ names, flags or colors, as long as they had not actively supported the war.
From the Ukrainean Pravda (via Yahoo! News):
Russian soldiers bring their weapons home from front line and open fire on people Ukrainska Pravda The Russian soldiers are taking away weapons from the combat zone; dozens of servicemen have already been put on trial for mishandling guns. Source: Vyorstka, Russian Telegram channel Details: Since the beginning of the full-scale war in February 2022, at least 42 servicemen in Russia have appeared in court for the appropriation, storage, transportation and carrying of weapons, ammunition and explosive devices (Articles 222 and 222.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Vyorstka has discovered this by studying the bases of all Russian garrison military courts.
From The Guardian:
In the same vein, from The Guardian:
Rightwing Spanish leaders under fire over anti-Islam comments after attack on churches Politicians accused of stigmatising Muslims and migrants after man with machete entered two churches in Algeciras Sam Jones in Madrid Conservative and far-right Spanish political leaders have been accused of seeking to smear and stigmatise Muslims and migrants after a suspected Islamist terrorist attack on two churches in the southern city of Algeciras in which one man was killed and four other people were injured. On Wednesday evening, a man with a machete entered the Andalucían city’s San Isidro church and seriously wounded a priest there before going to the nearby Nuestra Señora de La Palma church and killing its sacristan, Diego Valencia. Three other people were injured in the violence.
From the Associated Press:
Auschwitz anniversary marked as peace again shattered by war By VANESSA GERA OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Auschwitz-Birkenau survivors and other mourners commemorated the 78th anniversary Friday of the Nazi German death camp’s liberation, some expressing horror that war has again shattered peace in Europe and the lesson of Never Again is being forgotten. The former concentration and extermination camp is located in the town of Oświęcim in southern Poland, which was under the occupation of German forces during World War II and became a place of systematic murder of Jews, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, Roma and others targeted for elimination by Adolf Hitler and his henchmen.
From CNN:
German parliament officially commemorates LGBTQ victims of Nazi regime for first time By Nadine Schmidt The German parliament for the first time on Friday focused its annual Holocaust memorial commemorations on people persecuted and killed over their sexual or gender identity during World War II. Campaigners in Germany have worked for decades to establish an official ceremony to commemorate the LGBTQ victims persecuted under the Nazi regime.
From the Times of Israel:
An Israeli city nixed an LGBTQ Holocaust docu showing; residents screened it instead Harish was meant to show ‘Dear Fredy,’ the story of an openly gay Jewish man who saved kids in Auschwitz, for Holocaust Remembrance Day, but called it off due to Haredi objections JUDAH ARI GROSS By The northern city of Harish canceled the screening of a Holocaust documentary that was meant to be held in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day on Thursday night because the film’s subject, Alfred Hirsch, a German Jew who saved children in Auschwitz, was openly gay. After it became known that it was canceled due to objections by ultra-Orthodox community leaders in the city, other residents then banded together to stage their own showing of the acclaimed documentary.
From the Associated Press:
Norway's last Arctic miners struggle with coal mine's end By GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO ADVENTDALEN, Norway (AP) — Kneeling by his crew as they drilled steel bolts into the low roof of a tunnel miles-deep into an Arctic mountain, Geir Strand reflected on the impact of their coal mine’s impending closure. “It’s true coal is polluting, but … they should have a solution before they close us down,” Strand said inside Gruve 7, the last mine Norway is operating in the remote Svalbard archipelago.
From CNN:
US tourist fined for driving rental car over medieval Italian bridge From Barbie Nadeau Rome (CNN) — The Ponte Vecchio, a beautiful centuries-old bridge spanning the Arno River in the Italian city of Florence, is best viewed on foot, with crowds of tourists regularly thronging the pedestrianized structure to view its ancient stonework. Especially when, as one California tourist discovered this week, attempting to drive across it could cost you more than $540. The unnamed 34-year-old man was hit with a 500-euro fine after crossing the bridge in a white rented Fiat Panda car, and for driving without an international driver's license, on Thursday morning, according to a statement from the City of Florence press office.
Also from Italy, From the National Catholic Reporter:
From ABC News:
Man crushed to death under outdoor urinal in London Police in London say a pop-up urinal has crushed a man to death in the city's theater district LONDON -- A pop-up urinal crushed a man to death in London’s theater district Friday, police said. Firefighters used a winch to free the man after he became trapped under a hydraulic urinal at Cambridge Circus, a busy intersection in the city’s West End.
From CNN:
Archaeologists may have found Egypt's oldest mummy Written by Amarachi OrieMia Alberti mummy ever found in Egypt. Archeologists have uncovered what may be the oldestever found in The 4,300-year-old mummy was a rich, important 35-year-old man called Djed Sepsh, archaeologist Zahi Hawass, Egypt's former antiquities minister, told CNN Friday. "It is the oldest mummy, complete and covered in gold, ever found in Egypt," he said, adding that it was "the most amazing discovery."
From the New York Post, by a Fox News reporter:
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