A policeman who was under investigation as part of a high profile royal insult probe has died in custody after he hanged himself in his cell, Thailand’s justice minister on Sunday. Police Major Prakrom Warunprapa had been jailed by a court on Wednesday along with two other people as part of a probe into a group of people who allegedly falsely claimed ties to the monarchy for personal benefit.[L3N12L1GJ] The
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ImageContent(562a59d3e4b0ec0a3894369d,562a59b81400002b003c8fc6,Image,HectorAssetUrl(562a59b81400002b003c8fc6,Some(),Some(jpeg)),Paul Bradbury via Getty Images,)(Reuters Health) – People who get less than six hours of sleep a night may be more likely to have risk factors that increase their odds of diabetes, heart disease and strokes, a Korean…
ImageContent(5626b77ae4b08589ef499087,5626b6a61400002b003c8b6f,Image,HectorAssetUrl(5626b6a61400002b003c8b6f,Some(),Some(jpeg)),JGI/Tom Grill via Getty Images,)It’s marathon season. As an endurance runner myself, I often feel there are not enough hours to get in my training amidst a world of family, work and other obligations. On top of it all,…
(Reuters) – A preliminary NATO report into a U.S. air strike on a hospital in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz on Oct. 3, originally expected to be released within a few days, has been delayed while investigations continue, officials said. U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter told a briefing in Washington on Friday that the report into civilian casualties at the hospital from the commander of international forces in Afghanistan,
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Technical experts were trying to discover the cause of an engine problem on an Ethiopian Airlines jet stranded in Dublin after being forced to turn back over the Atlantic on Friday. The crew of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner returned to the Irish capital after the plane’s left engine signalled a fault following a scheduled stopover en route from Addis Ababa to Washington. In a statement, Ethiopian Airlines praised the crew
Convicted mass killer James Holmes, who is serving multiple life sentences for gunning down a dozen people at a movie theater in 2012, was assaulted by another inmate at a high-security Colorado prison, a corrections official said on Friday. Holmes was not injured when he was attacked by 27-year-old Mark C. Daniels at the Colorado State Penitentiary in Canon City, said Adrienne Jacobson, spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Corrections.
A dual U.S.-Iranian citizen apologized on Friday for exporting sensitive information about U.S. military jets to his native Iran, saying he was simply applying for a job, before a judge sentenced him to eight years and one month in prison. Mozaffar Khazaee, who had worked as an engineer at U.S. defense contractor Pratt & Whitney, was arrested in January 2014 as he tried to leave the country with sensitive material
Merrimack Pharmaceutical Inc’s pancreatic cancer therapy, Onivyde, became its first ever drug to win approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday. The drug when used in combination with chemotherapy drugs 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) and leucovorin, is designed to treat metastatic pancreatic cancer in patients who have failed to respond to chemotherapy drug gemcitabine. Pancreatic cancer, which is known as the “deadliest” kind of cancer, is seldom detected in