Posts Tagged ‘ thursday ’

REYKJAVIK: A huge cloud of ash from an Icelandic volcano covered northern Europe on Thursday, grounding thousands of flights as countries imposed the biggest airspace closure since the September 11 attacks.
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Rescuers and aid began trickling in Thursday to a remote area of northwest China devastated by a quake that left more than 600 people dead and 100,000 homeless.
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BANGKOK: Thailand's government urged "Red Shirt" protesters Thursday to return to negotiations as the army cleared abandoned armoured vehicles from Bangkok's streets after deadly weekend clashes.
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The government has no plan to use force to disperse red-shirt protesters early next week as claimed by leaders of the United front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), acting government spokesman Panitan Wattanayakorn affirmed on Thursday.
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All London flights, including those from Heathrow, will be suspended from noon (1100 GMT) Thursday due to volcanic ash from Iceland that has already caused almost 300 cancellations here, officials said.
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Rescuers with shovels and bare hands clawed through rubble on Thursday to hunt for survivors of a quake in a remote area of China which killed over 600 people and left thousands homeless.
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Hundreds of flights worldwide were cancelled on Thursday as volcanic ash from Iceland swept across northern Europe, causing eight countries to close their airspace amid warnings of days of disruption.
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Indian authorities battled blocked roads and downed power lines on Thursday as they rushed aid to victims of a storm that has left hundreds of thousands homeless and killed 116 people.
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Indian aid workers battled blocked roads and downed power lines Thursday as they rushed aid to victims of a giant tornado that ravaged hundreds of thousands of homes and killed 129 people.
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There were 567 road accidents on April 14, the third day of the week-long Songkran holiday, killing 52 people and injuring another 613, Uthairat Chaiprasert, an assistant to the justice minister, said on Thursday.
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The United front for Democracy against Dictatorship will not make any mobile rally against the government today, but will rearrange utilities system at the Ratchaprasong intersection rally site instead, UDD core leader Natthawut Saikua said on Thursday.
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Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva should dissolve the House of Representatives in six months as recommended by the reconciliation committee, Chartthai Pattana leader Chumpol Silpa-archa said on Thursday.
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The Centre for Public Administration in Emergency Situations (CPAES) on Thursday denied rumours the government would use force to break up the red-shirt protesters and impose a night curfew.
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A total of 37 senators had signed their name in a letter requesting an urgent, extraordinary meeting of the Senate and submitted it to Senate Speaker Prasopsuk Boondej this afternoon, Gen Lertrat Rattanavanich, an appointed senator, said on Thursday.
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A total of 303 academics at universities throughout the country on Thursday signed a statement opposing the use of violence and "unreasonable" demands for a House dissolution, and calling on the the government to implement political and social reforms.
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Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has at the last minute cancelled his trip to attend the 16th Asean summit in Hanoi, Vietnam, today and tomorrow, acting government spokesman Panitan Wattanayakorn said on Thursday.
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BANGKOK: Bangkok was under a state of emergency on Thursday after anti-government protesters stormed the Thai parliament, but the demonstrators remained defiant and said they were ready for "war".
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Six people were shot dead by suspected militants and 10 police officers were wounded by a roadside bomb Thursday in the latest attacks in Thailand's restive south, police said.
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A Malaysian Muslim model who faced a caning for drinking beer in a case that grabbed headlines around the world has had her sentence reduced to community service, her father said on Thursday.
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The red-shirts have not yet replied to the government on the possibility of a third round of talks to settle their political dispute, Deputy Prime Minister overseeing security Suthep Thaugsuban said on Thursday.
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Forty-five companies of police will be deployed to maintain peace and order during the red-shirt rally on Saturday, Piya Uthayo, spokesman for the Metropolitan Police Bureau, said on Thursday.
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The confiscation of 46 billion baht of the assets of fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra will not have any impact on liquidity in the commercial bank system, chairman of Thai Bankers Association, Apisak Tantiworawong, said on Thursday.
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Red-shirt protesters may gather at the NBT if the state-run television station continues to air reports suggesting that the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) is against the country's most revered institution, UDD leader Jatuporn Prompan warned on Thursday.
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BANGKOK : Thailand's "Red Shirt" protesters remained defiant Thursday in the face of mounting pressure from the battered tourism industry to end mass demonstrations seeking to topple the government.
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Former secretary-general of the Democrat Party Lek Nana died of heart failure early Thursday morning, reports said.
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More than 1,000 people on Thursday morning flocked to the Sa Kaew residence of Pracharaj Party leader Sanoh Thienthong who turns 76 today, reports said.
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Police said they have arrested a suspect in Thursday's murder of a police lieutenant, his wife and two of their children in Pathum Thani, reports said.
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The Vatican hit back Thursday at new paedophilia revelations, defending Pope Benedict XVI against an allegation that he failed to act over a US priest accused of molesting up to 200 deaf children in the 1970s.
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The Federal Reserve will be ready to unwind massive measures that helped rescue the US economy "at the appropriate time," chairman Ben Bernanke said Thursday.
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European leaders moved on Thursday towards calling in the IMF to conquer Greece's debt crisis after overcoming their divisions hours before from a summit overshadowed by a sliding euro currency.
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