Seven people under investigation over the November death of Argentine footballing legend Diego Maradona face charges of premeditated murder, AFP has learned from a judicial source.

Police arrested more than 193,000 drug suspects and seized more than 300 million speed pills, 19,875 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine and 2,747kg of heroin, and other drugs, over the past six months.

REYKJAVIK: The eight countries bordering the Arctic were meeting on Thursday in Iceland to discuss peaceful cooperation in the region amid rising temperatures and tensions, in particular between Russia and the US.

PARIS: From making algae-sequin dresses, dyeing clothes with bacteria to planting trackable pigments in cotton, an emerging tide of technological innovations offers the fashion industry a chance to clean up its woeful environmental record.

There were 25 new Covid-19 fatalities reported over the past 24 hours, lifting the toll to 703, and 2,636 new cases, raising the total to 119,585, the Public Health Ministry reported on Thursday morning.

CHON BURI: Two policemen were shot and wounded at a luxury house on a golf course in Bang Lamung district, near Pattaya, and a Chinese man was later arrested and charged.

KANCHANABURI: Officials have arrested 14 illegal migrants and a Thai smuggler in Thong Pha Phum district before they travelled farther to Bangkok and several other provinces deeper in the country.

The Government Pharmaceutical Organization took delivery of 1.5 million more doses of Covid-19 vaccine from China's Sinovac Co at Suvarnabhumi airport on Thursday morning.

A giant slab of ice about the size of Thailand's Chiang Rai province has sheared off the frozen edge of Antarctica into the Weddell Sea, becoming the largest iceberg afloat in the world.

Domestic car sales surged 93.07% in April from a year earlier to 58,132 vehicles, coming off a very low base last year when the country was in a full lockdown, the Federation of Thai Industries said on Thursday.