Thai election runners-up agree coalition
BANGKOK, Aug 07: Thailand's election runners-up announced a fresh coalition with a government-aligned party on Monday as lawmakers attempt to overcome resistance from military and pro-royalist senators to break a political deadlock. The kingdom has been unable to form a government after the reformist Move Forward Party (MFP) fell short of a majority, despite winning the most seats in May's polls, and was later excluded from a progressive coalition. The party's closest rival, Pheu Thai, announced the new partnership on Monday along with another party, Bhumjaithai, bringing together a total of 212 seats in the country's parliament. — AFP
Modi faces a no-confidence vote
NEW DELHI, Aug 07: His social media accounts suggest that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is launching high-speed trains and rubbing shoulders with foreign leaders as a powerhouse on the global stage and the face of an ascendant India. But that carefully crafted image, followed by millions, sits uncomfortably at odds with his silence on what's come close to a civil war engulfing India's northeastern state of Manipur. For three months, the strongman leader has been absent on arguably the worst ethnic violence ever seen in the remote state, where Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party is in power. — AP
Four dead, 51 missing as migrant ship sinks
DOVER, Aug 07: At least four migrants died and 51 were missing after a migrant ship sank off Tunisia's Kerkennah island, a judicial official told Reuters on Sunday, adding that all the migrants onboard were from sub-Saharan Africa. The Tunisian coast guard recovered 901 bodies of drowned migrants off its coast from Jan 1 to July 20 this year, the country's interior minister said in July, marking an unprecedented number of victims off the country's coasts. — Reuters
Iran's foreign minister visits Japan
TOKYO, Aug 07: Iran's foreign minister visited Japan on Monday for the first time since 2019, in a rare trip to a G7 member country by the Islamic republic's top diplomat. The purpose of the visit by Hossein Amir-Abdollahian to the current chair of the G7 was not announced, but reports said Japan would press Iran to stop supplying Russia with arms. Kyiv's military said last month it had destroyed dozens of Iran-built attack drones targeted at Ukraine's Odesa region. — AFP
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