At least 37 killed in attack at Thai nursery
Total disbelief at the scene
Jonathan Head
BBC South East Asia Correspondent reporting from Nong Bua Lamphu province
There's a lot of activity here, people are trying to help the families of those affected.
But more than anything else there's a sense of total disbelief about what could have driven this man to carry out such a desperately cruel act.
Nobody has any answers at this stage, it came completely out of the blue.
Thailand is not a stranger to gun crime but killings on this scale - involving children - are pretty much unheard of.
Russia-Ukraine live news: Kyiv slams Moscow’s ‘nuclear blackmail’
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- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accuses Russia of “nuclear blackmail”, a day after Moscow and Kyiv sparred over control of the Zaporizhzhia power plant.
- His comments come as the head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog is expected to hold talks in Kyiv on establishing a security zone around the Russian-occupied plant.
EU imposes new sanctions on Russia over Ukraine annexations
The European Union has imposed a new round of sanctions on Russia, expanding import and export bans and blacklisting individuals over Moscow’s annexation of four partly-occupied Ukrainian regions.
The measures came into force on Thursday with their publication in the bloc’s official administrative journal. The EU said the sanctions were in response to Russia’s “further aggression against Ukraine”
Zero-Covid measures cause chaos as China prepares for Beijing summit
President Xi Jinping expected to start third term while citizens express frustration with restrictions
Lockdowns and travel restrictions are continuing to cause chaos across China in the run-up to a crucial political meeting next week as the government holds fast to hardline zero-Covid policies.
As thousands of Communist party delegates prepare to descend on Beijing for the twice-a-decade congress meeting, where Xi Jinping is expected to start his third term as leader, local authorities are under pressure to control and contain outbreaks. This week 2,883 cases were reported across more than 25 provinces, including 227 on Wednesday. The number is small compared with global cases but relatively high for China’s zero-tolerance approach.
China’s government has remained committed to its zero-Covid policy, despite major damage to the economy and growing opposition from the general public to frequent sudden lockdowns that trap people inside their homes, shops and workplaces, and other overzealous reactions to handfuls of cases.
Nord Stream: Swedish probe 'strengthens' sabotage suspicions
An investigation of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines from Russia to Europe has strengthened suspicions of "serious sabotage" involving explosives that led to four pipeline leaks, Sweden's Security Service has said.
Following the discovery of leaks from two Russian gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea, the Swedish Security Service said Thursday that the results of a preliminary probe have "strengthened the suspicions of serious sabotage."
A prosecutor said the suspicion of foul play was heightened after evidence from the site had been gathered.
Sweden's domestic security agency said the ongoing investigation confirmed that "detonations" caused extensive damage last week to the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines, off the coasts of Sweden and Denmark.
21 inmates dead in separate Ecuador prison clashes
Three days of bloody clashes between inmates in Ecuador have left 21 dead and 66 people, including five police officers, injured in the latest bout of gang violence in the country's notoriously brutal prisons, officials said Thursday.
At least five inmates died and 23 people were wounded in fresh fighting on Wednesday, the country's prison authority said. The injured included five police members.
This came after clashes on Monday and Tuesday left 16 dead and 43 injured at another Ecuadoran prison in the city of Latacunga in central Ecuador, some 300 kilometers (186 miles) northeast of the port city of Guayaquil.
Myanmar jails Japanese journalist for 10 years on 2 charges
By GRANT PECK
A court in military-ruled Myanmar has sentenced a Japanese journalist to prison after he filmed an anti-government protest in July, a Japanese diplomat and the Southeast Asian nation's government said Thursday.
Toru Kubota was sentenced Wednesday to seven years for violating the electronic transactions law and three years for incitement, said Tetsuo Kitada, deputy chief of mission of the Japanese Embassy. The sentences were to be served concurrently.
A statement sent to journalists from the military's information office explained that Kubota was sentenced to seven years in total, while a trial continues on the charge of violating immigration law against him.
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