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Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has won a confidence vote in Parliament after a frenzy of speculation over the makeup of the ruling coalition. Rumors his own political allies might try to unseat him had recently overshadowed harsh criticism from the opposition about his government’s coronavirus response. Thai media were instead abuzz with rumors that the secretary-general of the military-backed ruling party was leading the effort to unseat Prayuth and to add the main opposition party to the coalition. Prayuth won 264 votes in the House of Representatives against 208 no confidence votes Saturday. Thai lawmakers are due to vote…

Rep. Jim Jordan was seen in a video saying Trump is ‘ready to announce’ a 2024 run, but the Ohio lawmaker’s spokesperson denied it Rep. Jim Jordan on Thursday evening suggested that a 2024 campaign announcement from former President Donald Trump is imminent. “He’s gonna run again,” Jordan is heard telling Lauren Windsor, executive producer of the political webshow “The Undercurrent,” in a video posted on Twitter. “I know so. I talked to him yesterday. He’s about ready to announce after all this craziness in Afghanistan,” the Ohio Republican continued. Republicans, including Trump and Jordan , have criticized President Joe…

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will resign this month, throwing wide open the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s presidential election — a crucial race that could set the tone for an upcoming lower house campaign. In light of the Suga cabinet’s slumping approval rating — down to a low of 34% in the latest Nikkei poll — there have been widespread worries in the party that it would lose the lower house election without a change of prime minister. Suga had been planning to reshuffle party executives such as Secretary-General Toshihiro Nikai next Monday, and go into the party and general…

A few moments make a great difference in rescuing life of a person. In a video that has gone viral on Facebook, a brave man rescued a child, who was exposed to electrocution in a public street, in Al Muneer village, Al Sharqiya Governorate, Egypt. In just 10 seconds, a boy had been exposed to electrocution when he touched an electrify pole before a man rushed and pulled him by his full strength to rescue him. The child who is called “Reda” got frozen in his place when he touched a pole, and the passersby quickly noticed him and tried…

US supreme court fails to act to block near-total ban that allows private citizens to sue abortion providers. The most radical abortion law in the US has gone into effect, despite legal efforts to block it. A near-total abortion ban in Texas empowers any private citizen to sue an abortion provider who violates the law, opening the floodgates to harassing and frivolous lawsuits from anti-abortion vigilantes that could eventually shutter most clinics in the state. “Abortion access will be thrown into absolute chaos,” says Amanda Williams, executive director of the abortion support group the Lilith Fund, a plaintiff in the…

Fujimori, who conceded last month after a failed presidential run, is accused of taking illicit money from Brazil’s Odebrecht firm. Corruption proceedings against Peruvian opposition politician Keiko Fujimori kicked off with a preliminary court hearing on Tuesday, just weeks after she conceded defeat in her third unsuccessful presidential run. Fujimori lost the June 6 runoff against leftist Pedro Castillo with 49.87 percent of the vote to his 50.12 percent. Keiko Fujimori, the 46-year-old daughter of jailed former President Alberto Fujimori, denies the allegations against her [File: Sebastian Castaneda/Reuters] Keiko Fujimori, the 46-year-old daughter of jailed former President Alberto Fujimori, denies…

Real Madrid have reportedly had a bid worth €215 million for top target Kylian Mbappe being accepted by Paris Saint-Germain. According to Italian journalist Rudy Galetti, Real Madrid are inching closer to finally secure the services of Kylian Mbappe before the summer transfer window slams shut. The Spanish giants have had an offer worth €215 million being accepted by Paris Saint-Germain, bringing them closer to signing their top target. Mbappe has been nothing short of sensational since his breakout campaign in senior club football, back in the 2016/17 season with AS Monaco. Over the last four seasons, following his move…

U.S. forces preparing the final civilian evacuations amid tightened security at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport intercepted as many as five rockets aimed at them Monday morning, CNN reports. No one has claimed responsibility for Monday’s attempted attacks, but military experts say it is likely retaliation for U.S. drone strikes that took out two ISIS-K operatives and quashed a car bomb attempt Saturday after the Islamic State terror group offshoot claimed responsibility for sending a suicide bomber to the airport Thursday. That attack killed 13 U.S. service personnel and more than 180 civilians who had hoped to be evacuated to…

President Joe Biden, his voice breaking with emotion, has vowed the US will hunt down those responsible for twin explosions at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan.Mr Biden asked the Pentagon on Friday morning (Australian time) to develop plans to strike back at those responsible. The blasts killed at least a dozen American troops and scores of civilians in what was the worst day of casualties for US forces there in a decade. Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K), an affiliate of militants who previously battled US forces in Syria and Iraq, claimed responsibility for the attack. “We will not forgive, we will…

The baby was born on August 21 after her mother went into labor while being flown to the U.S. military’s Ramstein Air Base in Germany following an evacuation from Kabul airport. An Afghan baby born aboard a U.S. military plane after her family fled Kabul has been named after the aircraft, a U.S. military official said. The girl was named Reach after the plane’s call sign, said General Tod Wolters, head of the U.S. European Command, at a briefing on August 25. The baby’s mother went into labor on August 21 while being flown from Qatar to the U.S. military’s…