WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden pledged on Friday to tackle racism as the country marked 80 years since the signing of a presidential order that led to the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II.

OTTAWA: Canadian police were working on Saturday restore normality to the country’s capital after trucks and demonstrators occupied the downtown core of Ottawa for more than three weeks to protest against pandemic restrictions.

SONGKHLA: A man wanted for alleged involvement in smuggling illegal migrants from Myanmar to Malaysia was arrested at a house in Sadao district of this southern province on Saturday.

A roadside bombing injured four police officers in Yala province on Friday night, while an assistant village headman was shot dead in Pattani province on the same night, police said.

A woman was killed and 17 other people injured when a pickup truck carrying migrant workers crashed into another pickup truck carrying likay performers in Chai Nat province in the early hours of Saturday.

A coalition of human rights groups is urging the US government to ban imports of fishing nets from two major Thai suppliers, following a Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation into the use of forced prison labour.

MOSCOW: Russia's leader will oversee major military drills along Ukraine's borders on Saturday, further escalating tensions after Washington said Moscow would invade within days, and Ukraine's president headed to Europe to drum up support.

WASHINGTON: United States President Joe Biden said Friday that the US has intelligence showing that President Vladimir Putin of Russia has made a final decision to reject diplomatic overtures and invade Ukraine, in what Biden said would be a “catas...

The country registered 18,885 more Covid-19 cases and 29 new fatalities during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry announced on Saturday morning.

Few side effects have been reported among the 120 million Covid-19 vaccine doses administered, according to the Department of Disease Control (DDC).