U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden seeks Russian passport for sake of future son

 

FILE PHOTO: Edward Snowden speaks via video link during a news conference in New York City, U.S. September 14, 2016. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo

 

MOSCOW (Reuters) - U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden and his wife are applying for Russian citizenship in order not to be separated from their future son in an era of pandemics and closed borders, he said on Monday.

 

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Japan opens airport coronavirus test lab for departing travellers

 

A medical worker wearing a protective suit conducts a simulation for a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test at newly-opened Narita International Airport PCR Center operated by Nippon Medical School Foundation, a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing facility aimed at outbound travelers who need proof that they do not have the virus before arriving at their destination, at Narita International Airport in Narita, east of Tokyo, Japan November 2, 2020. REUTERS/Issei Kato

 

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's largest airport opened a novel coronavirus testing facility on Monday as it takes steps to reopen international travel that has been largely grounded for months by the pandemic.

 

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Pollution Alert on Wastewater Leakage

 

 

RAYONG, Nov 2 (TNA) – The director-general of the Pollution Control Department inspected a waste treatment plant in the eastern province and will impose a pollution control area and sue a company for wastewater leakage. 

 

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'I waited all my life': Elderly indigenous people struggle for Thai citizenship

By Rina Chandran

 

Ethnic Akha women, once regarded as stateless, holding their Thai citizenship identity cards in Chiang Rai province in northern Thailand. August 31, 2020. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Rina Chandran

 

KIEW SA-TAI, Thailand (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - At 93 years, Chungyung Bekaku did not think she would get her Thai citizenship after having lived all her life in the hills of northern Thailand among other ethnic Akha people who are largely regarded as stateless by the government.

 

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Samuel L. Jackson says he doesn’t think he should be called a “legend”

By Elizabeth Aubrey

 

Samuel L. Jackson - Credit: Getty Images

 

Samuel L. Jackson says he doesn’t think he should be called a “legend”.

 

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Wesley Snipes on art, excellence and life after prison: 'I hope I came out a better person'

By Simon Hattenstone

 

Wesley Snipes: ‘I was not just an actor for hire. I had authority to dictate, to decide. That was a hard concept for a lot of people.’ Photograph: Jens Koch/Camera Press/Picture Press

 

Wesley Snipes seemed to have everything in the 90s and early 00s. He was a film star, gifted, gorgeous, chiselled from top to bottom.

 

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Sean Connery’s wife reveals late actor’s battle with dementia: “It was no life for him”

By Will Richards

 

Sean Connery and Micheline Roquebrune. Credit: Tom Maelsa/Getty Images

 

Sean Connery’s wife has revealed that the James Bond star battled with dementia before his death.

 

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PM Prayut arrives in Phuket

By The Phuket News

 

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha arrives at Phuket International Airport earlier today (Nov 2). Photo: PR Phuket

 

PHUKET:-- Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha arrived in Phuket this afternoon (Nov 2) ahead of the mobile Cabinet meeting to be held in Mai Khao tomorrow. At the airport today, his first action was to officially review the procedures for processing and screening foreigners entering the country via Phuket International Airport.

 

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Teacher who abused children at Bangkok kindergarten jailed for seven months

 

 

A teacher who was sacked from a private school in Bangkok for beating a kindergarten has been jailed for seven months.

 

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