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Thailand's supreme court to seek arrest warrant for former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra
Thailand's Supreme Court on Friday said it would seek permission for an arrest warrant for former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra after she failed to show up to hear the court's verdict in a negligence case against her. The court set a new date of Sept. 27 for the verdict. The court said Yingluck, who had pleaded not guilty in the case focused on a rice subsidy scheme for farmers, had told the court she could not attend due as she was suffering from an ear problem. "We don't think that the defendant is ill. We think that the defendant is hiding or has fled ... We have pushed back the verdict date to September 27," a statement from a Supreme Court judge said. "She asked for sick leave not to show up today." Her lawyer said on Friday he did not know whether she is still in Thailand after she failed to show up for the verdict in a negligence case that could result in her facing up to 10 years in prison. "At 8 am Yingluck's team contacted me to say it had told the court she could not show up because of an ear fluid imbalance," Norawit Lalaeng, Yingluck's lawyer, told reporters. "In the past one to two days I have not had direct contact with Yingluck but have contacted her team." When asked whether Yingluck was still in Thailand the lawyer replied: "I don't know." A spokeswoman for Yingluck, who was ousted by a military coup in 2014, declined to comment.
After anti-Muslim attack, Brazilians shower victim with love
When video went viral of a racist attack on a Muslim street food vendor in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilians wondered gloomily: had their country also been swept up in a global wave of xenophobia? It all began August 3 when Mohamed Ali Abdelmoatty Kenawy, 33, was manning the cart from which he sells Arab-style meat pies and hummus in the thronging center of Copacabana. The incident might have got even uglier, except that among the growing number of bystanders was 19-year-old Beatriz Bastos de Souza, who intervened, and then began filming on her mobile phone.
Florida executes man with untested cocktail of drugs
Florida has executed a 53-year-old man convicted of two 1987 murders, using a lethal injection that included a drug never before used in a US execution. The execution was carried out at 6.22 pm local time at the Florida State Prison in Bradford County, about 50 miles southwest of Jacksonville, where the two murders took place. Mark James Asay was the first white man to be put to death in Florida for killing a black man since the state reinstated the death penalty in 1979.
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After anti-Muslim attack, Brazilians shower victim with love
When video went viral of a racist attack on a Muslim street food vendor in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilians wondered gloomily: had their country also been swept up in a global wave of xenophobia? It all began August 3 when Mohamed Ali Abdelmoatty Kenawy, 33, was manning the cart from which he sells Arab-style meat pies and hummus in the thronging center of Copacabana. The incident might have got even uglier, except that among the growing number of bystanders was 19-year-old Beatriz Bastos de Souza, who intervened, and then began filming on her mobile phone.
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