Why are Thailand and Cambodia engaged in a border conflict?
Territory mapped during France’s colonial rule is behind clash that has exposed tensions between the countries
Thu 24 Jul 2025 15.01 BST
A long-running border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia escalated dramatically on Thursday, with Thailand launching airstrikes on Cambodian military targets and accusing Cambodia of firing rockets and artillery.
At least 11 Thai civilians, including an eight-year-old boy, and a Thai soldier were killed in the violence. It is not yet clear if there are Cambodian casualties.
Thailand and Cambodia accused each other of opening fire first
ICC convicts 2 over Central African Republic war crimes
Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday convicted two Central African Republic militia leaders of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Patrice-Edouard Ngaissona, a former football official, was sentenced to 12 years, while militia commander Alfred Yekatom, known as "Rambo," received a 15-year term.
‘Japanese First’: The deep roots of the rising far right
Japan’s centre-right Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which has governed the country almost without interruption since the end of World War II, lost its majority in the country’s upper house over the weekend. Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba seems determined to remain in office despite calls from both party and public for his resignation. At this point, it’s not clear that he can.
More surprising than the party’s loss of support, though, is where those votes went. Rather than benefitting the established opposition, the LDP instead found itself losing ground to more strident right-wing groups, including the far-right Sanseito party, which seized a record 14 seats.
Sanseito refuses entry to critical reporter at news conference
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
July 24, 2025 at 16:55 JST
Sanseito refused admittance to a reporter from The Kanagawa Shimbun who had written critically about one of its candidates from its regular news conference in the Diet building on July 22, sources said.
On July 23, Sanseito, a rising opposition party, told The Asahi Shimbun that “it is true that we denied the attendance.”
The Kanagawa Shimbun protested Sanseito’s action on July 23, saying that, “It is an act of disregarding the public’s right to know and it is unacceptable.”
‘Shoot them’: Sheikh Hasina ordered firing on Bangladesh protesters in 2024
Evidence obtained by Al Jazeera reveals the former Bangladesh leader ordered police to use ‘lethal weapons’.
Former prime minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, “issued an open order” to “use lethal weapons” on students protesting against her government’s policies last year and shoot “wherever they find them”, her secret phone call recordings, accessed by Al Jazeera, have revealed.
Hasina, who ruled Bangladesh for 15 years, resigned from office and fled to India on August 5 after weeks of bloody protests and brutal action by government forces killed nearly 1,400 people and wounded more than 20,000, according to the country’s International Criminal Tribunal (ICT).
Five Australian women have won the right to sue Qatar Airways for forcing them to undergo invasive physical examinations on a Doha airport tarmac in 2020 after a federal court upheld their appeal.
The women, whose identities remain confidential, were among dozens of female passengers removed from flights and subjected to bodily examinations, according to their lawyer, after a newborn was found abandoned in Hamad International Airport.
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