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Facebook Tweet Email Link Bangkok, Thailand / Phnom Penh, Cambodia  —  Fighting has resumed for a second day between Cambodia and Thailand at several locations along their disputed border, Thai and Cambodian officials told CNN on Friday. Clashes broke out at 4:30 a.m. local time on Friday after Cambodia initiated firing, using small arms and heavy weapons, Col. Richa Sooksuwanon, the deputy spokesperson for the Thai army, told CNN. The Thai army responded with artillery fire, he said. The Thai army in the region also posted on Facebook in the following hours into Friday morning, warning that its forces were…

Facebook Tweet Email Link New Delhi  —  Buckets of holy water slung over their shoulders, millions of Hindu devotees have been walking for days. The water, scooped up from the holy river Ganges, is destined for the pilgrims’ local temples. And the precious cargo must be treated delicately: spilling a single drop, or touching another person before reaching home, would cancel out the devotional deed. Breaking up the wearying journey, devotees gather for outbreaks of extravagant revelry – ground-shaking music and dancing fueled by devotion, ganja and alcohol, as befits in their eyes Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction and…

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has urged Israel to “immediately” meet its obligations under international law and allow food into Gaza, which he said was in the grip of “a humanitarian catastrophe.” “This includes allowing the United Nations and NGOs to carry out their lifesaving work safely and without hindrance,” he said in a statement on Friday. “Any proposals for the permanent forced displacement of the Palestinian population must be abandoned.” Albanese stressed while Australia is proud to have supported the creation of the modern state of Israel, the situation in Gaza has “gone beyond the world’s worst fears” in…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Paleontologists have discovered remarkable fossils in the Grand Canyon that reveal fresh details about the emergence of complex life half a billion years ago. The newfound remains of fauna from the region suggest that it offered ideal conditions for life to flourish and diversify, in a “Goldilocks zone” between harsh extremes elsewhere. This evolutionary opportunity produced a multitude of early animals, including oddballs with peculiar adaptations for survival, according to new research. During the Cambrian explosion, which played out in the coastal waters of Earth’s oceans about 540 million years ago, most animal body types that…

Facebook Tweet Email Link “You know, everything you tell us will be used against you,” the interviewer on Russian TV warns Timur Shagivaleev, the man behind one of the country’s biggest drone factories. Rather than shy away from discussing details of the plant, Shagivaleev replies with a defiant quote that he attributed to a Soviet World War II hero: “You don’t have the right to be afraid.” Standing at the Alabuga factory amid rows of the distinctive black, triangular Iranian-designed attack drones (known as “Geran” in Russian), he has every reason to feel emboldened. Satellite imagery shows that construction has…

CNN  —  The deadly conflict on the Thai-Cambodian border pits a longtime United States ally with decades of experience against a relatively young armed force with close ties to China. Bangkok and Phnom Penh are fighting over territory disputed since colonial power France drew the border between them more than a century ago. More than a dozen people have been reported killed and more than 100,000 civilians evacuated since fighting began on Thursday. Here’s a look at the histories and capabilities of the two sides. Numbers favor Thailand Thailand’s military dwarfs that of neighboring Cambodia, both in personnel and weaponry.…

Facebook Tweet Email Link (CNN) — The 50-foot sailboat bashed against huge Pacific waves as it beat a course upwind. The few cruise ships that were visible on the horizon soon disappeared, and seasickness set in, leaving a few among the crew doubled over with each crest and trough. The boat slammed down so violently at one point that the microwave door in the galley snapped off. For those who still had an appetite, their chili dinner would be served cold. The group of friends sailing the boat, who were all in their mid-20s, were a long way from their…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Federal prosecutors amassed millions of records during the sex trafficking investigation and prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice and former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell. The question of what is actually in those pages — and whether the public will ever see them — has become central to a growing public relations crisis for President Donald Trump and his aides. Having said it would release case documents, now the Justice Department is trying to staunch the public outcry from some of Trump’s ardent supporters along with some Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill who believe the administration…

Donald Trump Interior design Federal agencies Interest rates See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link Washington  —  The long-simmering clash between President Donald Trump and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell was on full public display during a Thursday afternoon tour of the renovation site at the central bank’s headquarters in Washington, DC. The tension between the two men was apparent during an exchange about the total cost of the Fed’s renovation project. Trump cited a figure above $3 billion, higher than the $2.5 billion in expected costs. Powell appeared shocked by Trump’s comment and said “I’m not aware of that.”…

Facebook Tweet Email Link Protesters in Scotland say they will mount a wave of resistance as US President Donald Trump prepares to travel to the country on Friday for a five-day private visit. Trump is traveling to his golf resort in the small village of Turnberry, on the west coast, where he will meet UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday, before going to his other resort near Aberdeen, on the other side of Scotland, and open an 18-hole course dedicated to his Scottish-born mother Mary. Several protest groups, ranging from trade unions and climate justice campaigners to sections of…