Taryn Wilson

Apr 20, 2024 | efe.com | Taryn Wilson

NB: This article from Feb 11, 2019, was republished on Apr. 21, 2024Bangkok, Feb 11 (EFE).- Refugee soccer player Hakeem al-Araibi was on Monday released from a Bangkok prison after nearly 80 days of detention and was heading home to Australia, Canberra confirmed Monday night. Bahraini footballer and refugee Hakeem Al Araibi (2nd left) is escorted by two Thai prison officers after attending a hearing of his extradition process before the Criminal Court in Bangkok, Thailand, on Feb. 4, 2019.

Apr 20, 2024 | efe.com | Taryn Wilson

NB: This article from Oct 10, 2019, was republished on Apr. 21, 2024Bangkok, Oct 10, 2019 (EFE).- It took five days for Toshi Kazama to unexpectedly awake from a coma. Someone had tried to kill him, he says, but exactly 16 years later, he still can’t remember anything about the moment someone smashed his head into the New York pavement as he was walking his daughter home from school.

Apr 20, 2024 | efe.com | Taryn Wilson

NB: This article from Sep 11, 2018, was republished on Apr. 21, 2024Mataram, Indonesia, Sep 11, 2018 (EFE).- After a series of major earthquakes, residents in the devastated north of Indonesia’s Lombok island are now facing health and economic problems as they try to rebuild their homes and their lives. At least 555 died in the quakes, National Agency for Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) spokesperson Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said on Aug 24.

Apr 20, 2024 | efe.com | Taryn Wilson

NB: This article from Jun 7, 2018, was republished on Apr. 21, 2024Kuala Lumpur, Jun 7, 2018 (EFE).- Hassan al-Kontar can only watch as thousands of people stream past him through Malaysia’s KLIA2 airport and disappear through immigration. For more than three months he has been living in the corridor of the arrivals hall where he sleeps on the floor and survives on airline food. An undated handout photo shows Hassan al-Kontar at Malaysia’s KLIA2 airport.

Mar 5, 2024 | efe.com | Taryn Wilson

NB: This article from Aug. 9, 2019, was republished on Mar. 6, 2024. Pailin, Cambodia, Aug 9 (EFE).- Fireworks cracked through the sky as smoke billowed from a cremation pyre holding the body of the Khmer Rouge’s chief ideologue, who was handed two life sentences in his sunset years for committing genocide and crimes against humanity, thus bringing his five-day funeral to an end on Friday in Cambodia’s Pailin province.