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Royal Thai Army soldiers
World
Thursday, 7/23, 07:33 AM

Five Soldiers Killed in Attack on Checkpoint in Southern Thailand

  • Around 10 attackers stormed a security checkpoint in Thailand's southern Narathiwat province, killing five paramilitary soldiers and wounding six civilians.
  • It is one of the deadliest recent attacks in a separatist conflict that has killed more than 7,000 people since 2004.
A road winding through the Peruvian Andes (file image)
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Minibus plunges into ravine in Peru's Andes, killing at least 14

  • A minibus carrying 19 people ran off a mountain road in Peru's northern Cajamarca region and fell into a deep ravine, killing at least 14, among them the driver and a child.
  • Five survivors were taken to hospital as rescuers struggled to reach the wreckage.

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The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington
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Bill Maher takes the Mark Twain Prize at a changed Kennedy Center

  • Bill Maher, the provocative comedian and longtime HBO host, received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center on Sunday — an award handed out this year against the backdrop of a turbulent period at the institution and Maher's own hard-to-pin-down place in America's culture wars.

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