Tourist towns of Phuket and Hua Hin in Thailand hit by deadly explosions
Fears of further bombings after two sets of explosions are heard on Thursday and Friday in Hua Hin and Phuket
Hundreds of people marched their bikes through the streets of Marivan, a town in western Iran last Tuesday in protest at the decision by local authorities to ban women from using bicycles.
More and more Iranians have been getting on bicycles since Iranian authorities launched an anti-pollution campaign encouraging citizens to cycle every Tuesday. The initiative has been well-received and thousands of Iranians are now riding their bicycles at least once a week.
However, in the town of Marivan, local authorities did not like the idea of women participating in this initiative. On July 26, the police ordered women to stop cycling. According to local activists, at least five women were even arrested, only to be freed a few hours later.
South Sudan says the proposal "seriously undermines" its sovereignty and threatens a return to colonialism.
"What we are going to do is open the border gradually," Santos said after talks with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
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Fears of further bombings after two sets of explosions are heard on Thursday and Friday in Hua Hin and Phuket
A series of apparently coordinated blasts detonated across Thailand has killed at least four people and injured dozens, including in the tourism hotspots of Hua Hin and Phuket.
The attacks took place late on Thursday and into Friday morning with Thai police being put on alert for further explosive devices.
The bombings have not been claimed by any group yet but Thai authorities were quick to blame “local sabotage” and rule out Islamist terrorism. “This is not a terrorist attack. It is just local sabotage that is restricted to limited areas and provinces,” national police deputy spokesman Piyapan Pingmuang told reporters in Bangkok.
Turkey coup: Erdogan crackdown causes diplomats to flee country
'Time has run out' for fleeing officials, Turkish minister warns
Several Turkish diplomats have gone missing after they failed to return to the Turkish capital in the aftermath of an attempted coup.
Following the failed putsch by a faction of the Turkish military, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan demanded officials return to Ankara while he investigated the plot against him.
Two military attaches in Greece have run to Italy, and one officer in Kuwait tried to flee through Saudi Arabia, but was caught, according to the Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu.
Another two generals in Afghanistan were caught in Dubai and sent back to Turkey. Two civil servants based in Bangladesh reportedly fled to New York. Fury as Iranian town bans women from cycling
Hundreds of people marched their bikes through the streets of Marivan, a town in western Iran last Tuesday in protest at the decision by local authorities to ban women from using bicycles.
More and more Iranians have been getting on bicycles since Iranian authorities launched an anti-pollution campaign encouraging citizens to cycle every Tuesday. The initiative has been well-received and thousands of Iranians are now riding their bicycles at least once a week.
However, in the town of Marivan, local authorities did not like the idea of women participating in this initiative. On July 26, the police ordered women to stop cycling. According to local activists, at least five women were even arrested, only to be freed a few hours later.
South Sudan rejects UN proposal to send more peacekeepers
South Sudan says the proposal "seriously undermines" its sovereignty and threatens a return to colonialism.
JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN — South Sudan on Wednesday rejected a U.S. proposal for the U.N. Security Council to send 4,000 additional troops to the East African country to restore calm, saying it "seriously undermines" its sovereignty and threatens a return to colonialism.
Government spokesman Michael Makuei said the proposal gives the U.N. the ability to govern. The proposal also calls for a vote on an arms embargo on South Sudan if U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reports within a month that authorities have blocked the regional force.
The Security Council could vote Friday on the proposal, which comes after a former U.S. special envoy suggested last month that the U.N. and African Union temporarily administer the country after fighting broke out once
Venezuela and Colombia to reopen border crossings
Decision comes a year after frontier was closed by Venezuela, now facing severe shortages due to an economic crisis.
Venezuela and Colombia have agreed to reopen pedestrian border crossings between their countries, a year after Venezuela closed the frontier in a dispute over security and smuggling.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said on Thursday that he and his Venezuelan counterpart agreed to open five pedestrian crossings for 15 hours a day from Saturday.
"What we are going to do is open the border gradually," Santos said after talks with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
Shikoku Electric fires up Ehime plant MOX reactor amid protests
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MATSUYAMA, EHIME PREF. – Japan restarted another nuclear reactor Friday, as Shikoku Electric Power Co. reactivated reactor 3 at its Ikata nuclear plant in Ehime Prefecture.
It will be the first time in some five years and three months for the reactor to be switched on, since it was suspended for a routine safety inspection in April 2011.
The Ikata reactor 3, which is powered by MOX fuel, is the fifth to go back online under the county’s new safety regulations, introduced in July 2013 after the March 2011 reactor meltdowns at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.’s Fukushima No. 1 plant.
The Ikata plant is now the second nuclear plant in operation in Japan, joining Kyushu Electric Power Co.’s Sendai plant in Kagoshima Prefecture.
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