Prime Minister and Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul will lead a multi‑agency delegation to Chiang Mai on Monday to follow up on efforts to address forest fires, haze and PM2.5 pollution cloaking the upper North.

Protesters gathered in Jerusalem on Saturday evening (April 18) for a weekly protest against the Israeli government's policies and settler violence. - REUTERS

Ukrainian police killed a man alleged to have opened fire on Saturday (April 18) in Kyiv, before barricading himself in a supermarket with hostages, in an incident that killed at least six people. - REUTERS

A police investigation is underway after a car struck and killed at least one pedestrian, authorities said on Saturday (April 18). The incident occurred at the venue of the Supanova Comic Con and Gaming event, according to media reports. - REUTERS

A landslide in northern Peru has forced more than 170 residents to evacuate the area after their homes and crops were put at risk by ground movement, local authorities said on Friday (April 17). - REUTERS

SOFIA - Bulgarians were voting in the country's eighth election in five years on Sunday, with ex-president Rumen Radev's grouping tipped to win on a pledge to fight corruption, after an anti-graft movement triggered a long political crisis.

PATTAYA - A police investigator was arrested and charged with murder after the owner of a cannabis shop was shot dead during a drunken argument near Walking Street in the early hours of Sunday.

Two people died, one a 70-year-old German woman, and two German men suffered injuries when a fire destroyed a townhouse in Bangkok’s Bang Na district in the early hours of Sunday.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has unveiled Muse Spark, its first AI model developed by Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), in a direct challenge to rivals OpenAI and Google.

Most people agree with the new, harsher penalties for key traffic violations, but not for the offence of speeding, according to an opinion survey by the National Institute of Development Administration.