Thai Court Suspends Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra Over A Leaked Phone Call

Thai Court Suspends Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra Over A Leaked Phone Call

Thailand’s Constitutional Court suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra from office pending an investigation over a leaked phone call with a former Cambodian leader. The judges voted unanimously Tuesday to take the petition accusing her of a breach of ethics, and voted 7 to 2 to suspend her from duty. Paetongtarn has faced growing dissatisfaction over her handling of the latest border dispute with Cambodia, involving an armed confrontation on May 28 in which one Cambodian soldier was killed. The leaked phone call while she engaged in diplomacy over the border dispute set off a string of complaints and public protests. Thailand’s king...

Mexican Authorities Find 383 Bodies At A Ciudad Juarez Crematorium

Mexican Authorities Find 383 Bodies At A Ciudad Juarez Crematorium

An anonymous call led Mexican authorities in the border city of Ciudad Juarez to a chilling discovery at a crematorium: 383 bodies and the partial remains of six other people. Chihuahua state prosecutor César Jáuregui said Monday that the people had been dead for at least three or four years. “Who knows what the ulterior motive of these subjects was, because storing that number also makes you think they weren’t providing the service,” he said. Authorities did not yet know why so many bodies had been stored at the crematorium, which worked with six funeral homes in the city. The...

 US Judge Orders Argentina To Turn Over Its Majority Stake In State Oil Company

 US Judge Orders Argentina To Turn Over Its Majority Stake In State Oil Company

 The fate of Argentina’s state-run oil company was thrown into doubt Monday as a U.S. judge ordered the cash-strapped country to give up its 51% controlling stake in YPF in partial compensation for seizing the shares of former investors during its 2012 nationalization of the energy group. The ruling — a dramatic effort to enforce a $16 billion U.S. court judgement against Argentina — presents a new headache for libertarian President Javier Milei, the ideological foil for left-wing former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner who oversaw Argentina’s contentious takeover of YPF and ensuing legal battles during her tenure (2007-2015). Milei vowed to appeal the...

Man Shot Idaho Firefighters Who Had Asked Him To Move His Vehicle, Killing Two, Sheriff Says

Man Shot Idaho Firefighters Who Had Asked Him To Move His Vehicle, Killing Two, Sheriff Says

 A man who started a wildfire and then fatally shot two firefighters and wounded another in northern Idaho was a 20-year-old transient who attacked the first responders after they asked him to move his vehicle, a sheriff said Monday. Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris offered new details about the Sunday confrontation at Canfield Mountain, just north of Coeur d’Alene, a popular recreation area. He said Wess Roley was living out of his vehicle, had once aspired to be a firefighter and had only a handful of minor contacts with area police. Coeur d’Alene Fire Department Battalion Chief John Morrison, 52,...

Former Ecuadorian Vice President Detained In Embassy Raid Gets 13 Years In Prison

Former Ecuadorian Vice President Detained In Embassy Raid Gets 13 Years In Prison

 The former vice president of Ecuador who was detained last year during a highly criticized police raid on Mexico’s embassy in the South American country was sentenced Monday to 13 years in prison. Jorge Glas had been accused of misusing public funds intended for the reconstruction of two provinces affected by an earthquake in 2016. The quake devastated communities and killed hundreds of people. Glas became vice president in 2013, during the presidency of Rafael Correa, and was removed from that position in January 2018, when he was charged in a corruption case tied to the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht. Judge Mercedes...

China Sanctions Former Filipino Lawmaker Who Defended Philippines’ South China Sea Claims

China Sanctions Former Filipino Lawmaker Who Defended Philippines’ South China Sea Claims

China sanctioned a former Filipino lawmaker Tuesday over perceived “anti-China” positions, including his authorship of bills that marked out the Philippines’ territorial claims in the disputed South China Sea. Francis Tolentino, who has just finished serving his term as majority leader of the Philippine Senate, is prohibited from entering China as well as the territories of Hong Kong and Macao, according to the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “For some time, some anti-China politicians in the Philippines have adopted a series of malicious words and deeds on issues related to China for their own selfish interests, which have harmed China’s...

Bryan Kohberger To Plead Guilty To Killing 4 University Of Idaho Students In Deal To Avoid Execution

Bryan Kohberger To Plead Guilty To Killing 4 University Of Idaho Students In Deal To Avoid Execution

 Bryan Kohberger has agreed to plead guilty to murdering four University of Idaho students as part of a deal to avoid the death penalty, an attorney for one victim’s family said Monday. Shanon Gray, an attorney representing the family of Kaylee Goncalves, confirmed that prosecutors informed the families of the deal by email and letter earlier in the day, and that his clients were upset about it. “We are beyond furious at the State of Idaho,” Goncalves’ family wrote in a Facebook post. “They have failed us. Please give us some time. This was very unexpected.” A change of plea hearing...

Disney Cruise Ship Rescue Team Saves Girl And Father After Overboard Fall

Disney Cruise Ship Rescue Team Saves Girl And Father After Overboard Fall

 Crew members from a Disney cruise ship saved a girl who fell overboard and her father who jumped in after her. The Disney Dream rescue team pulled the girl and her father into a small boat on Sunday as the cruise ship was returning to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, from the Bahamas on the last day of the voyage, according to Disney and passengers who recorded the rescue on video. Passengers were alerted that someone had fallen overboard by an announcement over the ship’s loudspeakers, said passenger Kevin Furuta in a social media post. “Thankfully the (Disney Cruise Lines) rescue team...

Mozambican Captain Reinildo Joins Sunderland On Free Transfer

Mozambican Captain Reinildo Joins Sunderland On Free Transfer

Reinildo Isnard Mandava will join newly promoted Premier League club Sunderland as a free agent. Atlético Madrid failed to renew Reinildo’s contract, which gave Sunderland an opportunity to sign him. Reinildo joined Atlético Madrid from Lille for €3m in 2022 and went on to make more than 100 appearances for the club. Reinildo plays as a centre-back but can also operate as a left-back. He brings with him experience to Sunderland. The 31-year-old is the captain of the Mozambique national team. Reports from YAHOO Sports say he is expected to earn around a weekly pay of £65,000 with a two-year...

European Champion PSG Knocks Out Lionel Messi, Inter Miami In Convincing Fashion To Advance To Club World Cup Quarterfinal

European Champion PSG Knocks Out Lionel Messi, Inter Miami In Convincing Fashion To Advance To Club World Cup Quarterfinal

Miami, who had only three shots on goal against PSG, was the only Major League Soccer team to make it through to the knockout stages, with the Seattle Sounders and Los Angeles FC being eliminated from the competition. Miami contingent Messi, Luis Suárez, head coach Javier Mascherano, Sergio Busquets and Jordi Albi faced off against their former coach Enrique, who led them to a historic treble at Barcelona in 2015. “We were working hard. We were playing well during this tournament,” Mascherano said. “We know that today was going to be very, very difficult because they are probably the best...