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Two dead in shooting at Thai military facility
Two dead in shooting at Thai military facility
by  AFP

A Thai soldier killed two people and wounded one other in a shooting at a military facility in Bangkok on Wednesday, police and army officials said. In the aftermath of the shooting, police officers and soldiers guarded the gates of the facility, part of a large complex of military buildings in the north of the capital.

Health groups calls for fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty
Health groups calls for fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty
by  AFP

Around 200 health organisations and more than 1,400 health professionals on Wednesday called for governments to establish a binding international treaty on phasing out fossil fuels, which they said pose "a grave and escalating threat to human health". The WHO was among the health organisations from around the world who signed the letter.

40 years on, survivors recall horror of Lebanon's Sabra and Shatila massacre
40 years on, survivors recall horror of Lebanon's Sabra and Shatila massacre
by  AFP

Forty years after Christian militiamen massacred Palestinian refugees and Lebanese nationals in the country's Sabra and Shatila refugee camps, the horrors of the tragedy remain seared into survivors' memories. From September 16 to 18, 1982, Christian militiamen allied with Israel massacred between 800 and 2,000 Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila camps on Beirut's outskirts.

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