Bangkok removes Covid-19 checkpoints for travellers from other provinces

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Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has removed from 4pm on Friday 14 checkpoints that had been set up for visitors from other provinces entering Bangkok, as the Covid-19 situation in the province is improving.

 

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Musk's SpaceX violated its launch license in explosive Starship test: the Verge

 

 

SpaceX's first super heavy-lift Starship SN8 rocket explodes during a return-landing attempt after it launched from their facility on a test flight in Boca Chica, Texas U.S. December 9, 2020. REUTERS/Gene Blevins/File Photo

 

(Reuters) - SpaceX's first high-altitude test flight of its Starship rocket, which exploded last month while attempting to land after an otherwise successful test launch, violated the terms of its Federal Aviation Administration test license, the Verge reported on Friday, citing sources.

 

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New U.S. envoy spoke with Europeans on Iran nuclear deal -sources

By John Irish and Arshad Mohammed

 

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, Robert Malley, member of the U.S. National Security Council, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, Head of Iran Atomic Energy Organization Ali Akbar Salehi, and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif wait to start a meeting at the Beau Rivage Palace Hotel in Lausanne March 29, 2015. REUTERS/Brendan Smialowski/Pool/File Photo

 

PARIS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The new U.S. Iran envoy spoke with British, French and German officials on Thursday as the United States explores how to revive the 2015 nuclear deal former U.S. President Donald Trump abandoned, two sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.

 

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930 new Covid-19 cases found, Myanmar labourer dies

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The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) reported 930 new cases on Saturday and the death of a Myanmar labourer in Samut Sakhon province.

 

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Bulgaria busts counterfeit gang that used fake passport of U.S. actor as sample

 

 

A handout image shows a counterfeit Bulgarian passport bearing a picture and the name of U.S. actor Sylvester Stallone, seized during a specialized police operation and released on January 29, 2021, Sofia, Bulgaria. Bulgarian Prosecutor's Office/Handout via REUTERS

 

SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgarian authorities have busted a counterfeit gang that promoted the quality of its illegal documents and banknotes by showing a fake Bulgarian passport bearing the picture of U.S. actor Sylvester Stallone.

 

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A Minute With: Gary Oldman on 'Mank', streaming and revisiting Smiley

By Lisa Keddie

 

FILE PHOTO: British actor Gary Oldman, who stars in the film "Darkest Hour" about Winston Churchill, poses for a portrait in Beverly Hills, California U.S. November 9, 2017. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Oscar winner Gary Oldman goes back to 1930s Hollywood in Netflix film "Mank", playing screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he pens "Citizen Kane".

 

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California's Coachella music festival canceled for third time

 

 

FILE PHOTO: Concertgoers are sprayed with water at the Do LaB stage at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California, U.S., April 15, 2018. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/File Photo

 

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Coachella music festival due to be held in southern California in April 2021 was canceled on Friday by local health officials because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

 

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Vietnam approves AstraZeneca vaccine, cuts short Communist Party congress

By James Pearson and Khanh Vu

 

Journalists hold their sample tubes at the National Convention Center, the venue for the 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Hanoi, Vietnam January 29, 2021. REUTERS/Kham

 

HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam approved its first COVID-19 vaccine and cut short an important ruling Communist Party meeting, state media reported on Saturday, as the country battled its biggest coronavirus outbreak since the pandemic began.

 

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WHO team, on tightly controlled China mission, visits hospital

By Martin Quin Pollard and Thomas Peter

 

Members of the World Health Organisation (WHO) tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, visit an exhibition on how China fought the coronavirus in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, January 30, 2021. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

 

WUHAN, China (Reuters) - The World Health Organization-led team investigating the origins of COVID-19 during a mission that has been tightly controlled by its Chinese hosts visited a hospital on Saturday in the central city of Wuhan that treated early coronavirus patients.

 

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Hanging wires claim yet another life - 74 year old grandfather dead at the scene

 

 

Image: Naewna

 

Thailand's infamous dangling cables have claimed yet another life of an elderly motorcyclist.

 

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End of the road for noisy exhausts of street racers - steamroller does the trick

 

 

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Police in Phatthalung in the far south of Thailand brought in a steamroller to destroy 280 illegal exhausts.

 

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Chiang Mai: Ganja omelette and crispy fried marijuana leaves top menu at Maejo Uni

 

Image: Thai Rath

 

Maejo University in Chiang Mai became the latest organisation jumping on the ganja bandwagon after some restrictions on the plant were eased.

 

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