Sources: IOL
Thailand extends its semi-lockdown measures in 13 provinces including the Bangkok Metropolitan Region until August 31 and also extends the restrictions into 16 additional provinces beginning on August 3 due to an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in the country. 2021-08-1
Thailand reports a record 11 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 140. 2021-04-25
Thailand reports a record seven deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 117. 2021-04-22
Thailand's Cabinet extends a COVID-19 state of emergency for 45 days until January 15, 2021. 2020-11-23
Islamist militants are reported to have beheaded over 50 people in a massacre at a village in Cabo Delgado Province. 2020-11-8
Heavy flooding kills 14 people in Thailand and badly affects the islands of Samui and Pha Ngan in the Gulf of Thailand. It has also severed the rail link to southern Thailand and Malaysia. 2016-12-6
Islamist rebels including the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front claim to have captured most of the town of Jisr al-Shughur in the Idlib Governorate. 2015-04-25
Libyan Islamist militia leader Ahmed Abu Khattala pleads not guilty in a Washington D.C. court to one charge of conspiracy in relation to the 2012 Benghazi attack in which four Americans were killed. 2014-06-28
Ethiopia and Kenya may attack the al-Shabaab Islamist militant group in Somalia, following its threat to target Kenya. 2011-02-28
Thai film "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives", directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul "(pictured)" wins the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival much to the surprise of the BBC. 2010-05-23