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Police and wildlife officials hold back traffic while approximately 40 elephants emerge from the jungle in 2016 in Chanthaburi province’s Kaeng Hang Meao district.

Elephant Fatally Stomps Driver After Car Strikes Its Legs

NAKHON NAYOK — A man was killed by a wild elephant after his speeding car hit the animal near a national park in northeastern...
Boeing's first 737 MAX 9 jet at the company's delivery center before a ceremony transferring ownership to Thai Lion Air in Seattle in a March 2018 file photo. Photo: Elaine Thompson / Associated Press

Indonesian Investigators Say Doomed Lion Air Jet ‘Airworthy’

JAKARTA — Investigators of the Oct. 29 crash of a Lion Air flight into the Java Sea say the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft was...
Blacktip Reef sharks swim in 2011 in Bora Bora, French Polynesia. Photo: Supertoff / Wikimedia Commons

Shark Population Increases After Maya Bay Tourist Ban: Officials

KRABI — Six months after a famous bay was declared closed to tourists, its waters have seen an increase in the population of sharks,...
Surat Phaeoket embraces Tongkum on Thursday at Khan Na Yao Police Station.

Summoned by Police, Farmer Briefly Reunites with Smiling Buffalo

BANGKOK — After spending two days apart from his beloved buffalo, which authorities seized earlier this week, Surat Phaeoket rushed to the police station...

Buddhist Authorities Hunt Monk For Being Too Ripped

BANGKOK — Less than a week after anonymous photos of a ripped monk went viral online, national Buddhism authorities are on the hunt for...
A doctor measures the arm of a malnourished girl in October at the Aslam Health Center, Hajjah, Yemen. Photo: Hani Mohammed / Associated Press

UN: Climate Change, Depleted Resources Leave World Hungry

BANGKOK — Feeding a hungry planet is growing increasingly difficult as climate change and depletion of land and other resources undermine food systems, the...
A Lion Air passenger jet takes off from Juanda International Airport in Surabaya, Indonesia, in a 2012 file photo. Photo: Trisnadi

Report Faults Safety Failures, Defects in Lion Air Crash

JAKARTA — Pilots fought against an automated system that pitched a Boeing jetliner's nose down repeatedly because of a faulty sensor until they finally...
Sundra Rajoo delivers a speech in 2017. Image: Asian International Arbitration Centre / YouTube

FIFA Ethics Judge Resigns While Suspected of Corruption

ZURICH — FIFA says one of its ethics committee judges resigned after he was investigated for alleged corruption in Malaysia. Sundra Rajoo was appointed one...
Spokesman and group leader Timo Valtonen, center, holds up a pen as he makes a statement to the press upon his Wednesday arrival, with three other Finns after being deported from Malaysia, at the airport in Vantaa, Finland. Photo: Associated Press

Finnish Christian Missionaries Held in Malaysia Return Home

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Four Finnish tourists who were arrested in Malaysia last week for distributing Christian materials in public places on a resort island...
A Piper PA-31 Navajo, similar to the one used by Vortex Air, overflies Coventry Airport in 2015 in Coventry, England. Photo: Rob Hodgkins / Flickr

Sleeping Pilot Overflies Aussie Island Destination by 46KM

MELBOURNE, Australia — A commercial pilot is under investigation after falling asleep in the cockpit of a freight plane and overflying his Australian island...

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