By Agence France-Presse Police in central Thailand said they barricaded themselves into their own station over the weekend, after a menacing mob of 200 escaped monkeys ran riot on the town. The human inhabitants of Lopburi have long suffered from a growing and aggressive monkey population and authorities have built special enclosures to contain groups […]
By Agence France-Presse Thirteen Bangladeshi former top government officials arrested after the revolution in August appeared in court Monday accused of “enabling massacres”, with prosecutors repeating extradition demands for exiled ex-leader Sheikh Hasina. Dozens of Hasina’s allies have been taken into custody since her regime collapsed, accused of involvement in a police crackdown that killed […]
By Agence France-Presse Schools in Beirut were closed on Monday after Israeli strikes on the Lebanese capital killed six people including Hezbollah’s spokesman, the latest in a string of top militant targets slain in the war. Israel escalated its bombardment of Hezbollah strongholds in late September, vowing to secure its northern border with Lebanon to […]