Tunisia's election credibility affected by candidate's detention - president

By Tarek Amara

 

FILE PHOTO: Nabil Karoui, businessman and owner of the private channel Nessma TV, submits his candidacy for the presidential election in Tunis, Tunisia, August 2, 2019. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi/File Photo

 

TUNIS (Reuters) - Detained Tunisian presidential candidate Nabil Karoui's inability to campaign is affecting the credibility of the elections and the country's image, interim president Mohamed Ennaceur said on Friday.

 

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U.S. retains measles-elimination status despite worst outbreak in quarter century

By Gabriella Borter

 

 

FILE PHOTO: A general view of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia September 30, 2014. REUTERS/Tami Chappell/File Photo

 

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States has kept its World Health Organization designation as a country that has eliminated measles even though it had 1,249 reported cases this year in the worst outbreak since 1992, federal health officials said on Friday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1127051-us-retains-measles-elimination-status-despite-worst-outbreak-in-quarter-century/

 

Judge shoots self in court after being forced to change verdict

 

 

A judge, Mr. Kanakorn Pianchana, shot himself in the chest in an apparent suicide attempt after delivering a verdict in Yala’s provincial court this afternoon (Friday).

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1127056-judge-shoots-self-in-court-after-being-forced-to-change-verdict/

 

Opposition claims they have not considered amending Constitution Section 1

 

 

Opposition parties have distanced themselves from Kasetsart University lecturer Mrs. Chalita Bandhywong, who has come under heavy online criticism for her proposal to amend Section 1 of the Constitution, defining Thailand as a single and indivisible kingdom, a proposal which some have interpreted as advocacy for separatism.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1127062-opposition-claims-they-have-not-considered-amending-constitution-section-1/

 

Heavy rains forecast for most of Thailand

By THE NATION

 

 

Thunder showers, heavy rain and gusts are forecast for most of Thailand on October 5-6, the Thailand Meteorological Department announced on Saturday (October 5).

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1127065-heavy-rains-forecast-for-most-of-thailand/

 

Chinese guide nabbed over 20-year theft of Thai’s identity

By The Nation

 

 

A Chinese guide recently arrested for allegedly stealing the identity of a Thai for nearly two decades drew the attention of officials as she struggled to properly write in the Thai language while filling out a form at Suvarnabhumi airport.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1127068-chinese-guide-nabbed-over-20-year-theft-of-thai’s-identity/

 

Diahann Carroll, TV trailblazer for black women, dead at 84

By Peter Szekely

 

FILE PHOTO: Singer Diahann Carroll poses at the benefit gala for the 50th anniversary of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Beverly Hills, California January 7, 2012. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT)/File Photo

 

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Diahann Carroll, a versatile singer and stage actress who quietly blazed a trail for black women on American television in the late 1960s by playing a widowed nurse and single mother in "Julia," died on Friday at age 84, her manager said.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1127111-diahann-carroll-tv-trailblazer-for-black-women-dead-at-84/

 

Late INXS singer Hutchence remembered in intimate film 'Mystify'

By Lisa Keddie

 

FILE PHOTO: Australian band INXS, (L to R) lead singer Michael Hutchence, Jon Farriss, Kirk Pengilly, Andrew Farriss, Tim Farriss and Garry Beers pose for a photograph after a news conference in Sydney September 25, 1996. REUTERS/Megan Lewis/File Photo

 

LONDON (Reuters) - A new documentary seeks to move away from "rumours and tabloid headlines" to paint an intimate portrait of late INXS frontman Michael Hutchence, charting his rise to global stardom and personal troubles.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1127112-late-inxs-singer-hutchence-remembered-in-intimate-film-mystify/

 

Beatles' 'Abbey Road' back at top of charts 50 years after release

 

 

FILE PHOTO: People take pictures as the Beatles cover band members walk on the zebra crossing on Abbey Road in London, Britain August 8, 2019. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls/File Photo

 

LONDON (Reuters) - The Beatles' "Abbey Road" album has returned to the top of the British album charts 50 years after its first release.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1127114-beatles-abbey-road-back-at-top-of-charts-50-years-after-release/

 

Iran frees Australian couple imprisoned for three months on spying charges

By Lidia Kelly and Babak Dehghanpisheh

 

FILE PHOTO: Australia's Foreign Minister Marise Payne speaks during a news conference at Australian Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, January 10, 2019. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha

 

MELBOURNE/GENEVA (Reuters) - An Australian couple who spent more than three months in a prison in Tehran has been freed, Australia's foreign minister said on Saturday, and an Iranian news agency later reported that an Iranian student was released from detention in Australia.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1127120-iran-frees-australian-couple-imprisoned-for-three-months-on-spying-charges/

 

Sanders health scare involved a heart attack, his doctors say

By Jason Lange

 

FILE PHOTO: Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks at a campaign stop in Hooksett, New Hampshire, U.S., September 30, 2019. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders suffered a heart attack earlier this week, his physicians said on Friday, describing his health scare in more specific terms than previously disclosed.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1127122-sanders-health-scare-involved-a-heart-attack-his-doctors-say/

 

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