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France surveys damage from riots as teen’s funeral is held

France is tallying the costs from a fourth night of street violence and looting as the family of the teenaged boy whose killing by police triggered a wave of anger prepared to bury him.

Tribune News Service

Rioting rages across France for fourth night ahead of funeral for teenager shot dead by police

Despite 45,000 officers on country’s streets, cars and buildings were set ablaze and stores were looted, while 994 arrests made by early Saturday

The Independent UK

More than 900 people are arrested overnight as young rioters clash with police around France - OLD

Rioting raged in cities around France for a fourth night despite massive police deployment, with cars and buildings set ablaze and stores looted

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'ThaID' officially launches to spearhead Thailand 4.0

The Interior Ministry on Friday officially launched a mobile application to support its digital ID programme aimed at making government services more efficient and easier to access.

Bangkok Post

Small hotel policy gets THA approval

The Thai Hotels Association (THA) approves of the Ministry of Interior's new regulations that will allow smaller accommodation operated prior to 2016 to be regulated as hotels, as the government would be able to receive more income from tax collection.

Bangkok Post

French climate protest group vows to fight on despite order to disband

Protests are planned and a legal battle is taking shape after the French government outlawed a climate activist group that it accuses of instigating violence and vandalism at demonstrations around France.

Radio France Internationale

‘Wild Boars’ governor Narongsak dies of cancer

Narongsak Osotthanakorn, the former Chiang Rai governor who won worldwide praise for his leadership of the mission to rescue the “Wild Boars” football team from the Tham Luang cave in 2018, has died of cancer at the age of 58.

Bangkok Post

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France rolls out plans to get tough on costly social security fraud

The French government is clamping down on social security fraud - which the Court of Audit says costs the country between 6 and 8 billion euros a year – rolling out plans to make it harder to get benefits while also hiking up penalties for those who cheat the system.

Radio France Internationale

Namibia's top court recognises same-sex marriages formed elsewhere

Namibia's Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the government must recognise the unions of same-sex couples who married in countries where it was legal for them to do so, even though same-sex marriage remains illegal in Namibia itself.

Reuters

Six dead after attack near synagogue on Tunisia’s Djerba island

Tunisian naval guard shot dead two visitors to Djerba’s Ghriba Synagogue and a security guard before being killed.

Al Jazeera

Death toll rises to 23 after Russian shelling of Ukraine's Kherson - governor

Russian shelling killed 23 people in and near the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson on Wednesday, hitting a hypermarket, a railway station and residential buildings, the regional governor said.

Reuters

Push to reduce premature births begins

The Interior Ministry aims to reduce the rate of premature births by 50% and also cut down teenage pregnancies through promotion of preventive measures from the grassroots level.

Bangkok Post

Soccer-Chainsaw-wielding fan arrested at Tunis CAF quarter-final

A soccer fan wielding a chainsaw was arrested during riots at a CAF Champions League match in Tunis, a source at the Interior Ministry said on Monday.

Reuters

Songkran road accidents top 2,000

During the first six days of Songkran festival travel there were 2,008 traffic accidents, an increase on last year's more subdued celebrations and with more casualties, but road deaths are down, according to the Interior Ministry.

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Police to revoke woman's Thai citizenship

The Royal Thai Police (RTP) will work with the Interior Ministry to revoke the Thai citizenship of a Chinese woman who has a long history of alleged involvement in fraud, human trafficking, surrogacy and document forgery.

Bangkok Post

Samui ferry sinks at Don Sak pier

SURAT THANI: A ferry on the route between Koh Samui and mainland Surat Thani sank at Don Sak pier after passengers and vehicles had left the vessel. No one was injured, according to the Interior Ministry.

Bangkok Post

Songkran road accidents claim nearly 200 lives

During the first five days of Songkran festival travel, traffic accidents killed 197 people and injured 1,738 others, according to the Interior Ministry.

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Helping seniors to a better life

Songkran, the traditional New Year in Thailand, is a special time of year when people return home to honour their parents. So, the first day of Songkran, April 13, was designated National Elderly Day.

Reuters

Ukraine trains 40,000 storm brigade troops for counter-offensive

More than a year into Russia's full-scale invasion, Aleks, a translator with no prior military experience, was advancing through forest with rifle raised, training to ambush enemy forces in one of Ukraine's newest military units.

Bangkok Post

New village created after 2018 landslide

The Interior Ministry has approved the creation of a new village in Bo Klue district of Nan province, to take in residents of another village that was badly damaged by a landslide in 2018.

Reuters

Mexican blame game over migrant deaths fuels tension in presidency race

The fire at a Mexican migrant holding center that killed dozens has triggered recriminations inside and outside President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's government, exposing tensions in his party ahead of next year's presidential election.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Tunisian President Names Kamal Feki as New Interior Minister

Tunisian President Kais Saied on Friday appointed the governor of Tunis, Kamal Feki, as the new interior minister. This came hours after Taoufik Charafeddine announced his resignation from the post, Reuters reported. This month, Feki refused to grant a protest permit to the opposition Salvation Front coalition, saying that its…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iran Arrests 100 People Over Female Students’ Poisoning

The Iranian authorities announced the arrest of more than 100 people as part of an investigation into a series of poisonings of thousands of schoolgirls that sparked outrage in the country. In a statement published by the official IRNA news agency, the Interior Ministry said that more than 100 suspects…

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