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☆ Fact Check: Image shows child in Halloween costume, not crisis actor in Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

An image of a child dressed in a Halloween costume that dates to at least October 2022 has been shared miscaptioned as showing a crisis actor in Gaza pretending to be a corpse amid the Israel-Hamas war that began on Oct. 7, 2023. An Oct. 25 post on messaging platform X, formerly known as Twitter, shared the image with the caption, “One of Gaza's crisis actors got bored pretending to be a dead child killed by Israel. The photograph depicts a child dressed in a Halloween costume for a contest held in Thailand’s Central Korat mall. The image can be found in a Facebook post from Oct. 29, 2022, which shared photographs of two children dressed in Halloween costumes. The image does not show a crisis actor in Gaza.

Persons: Joe Biden, Read Organizations: Twitter, Facebook, Thailand’s Central, Central, Reuters, U.S, Thomson Locations: Gaza, Israel, Thailand’s, Thailand’s Central Korat, Central Korat

☆ Bangkok shooting: Attack in Thailand shopping mall kills at least one person
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-03 | by ( Kocha Olarn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Bangkok, Thailand CNN —Police in Thailand arrested a 14-year-old boy, after a shooting at a luxury shopping mall in the capital Bangkok on Tuesday left at least one person and five others injured, the Metropolitan Police Bureau said. ET) at the Siam Paragon Mall in Bangkok, Police Colonel Noppadol Thiammekha, Pathum Wan Police Chief told CNN on Tuesday. Bangkok Emergency Center revised an earlier death toll, which stated that three people were killed in the shooting. Siam Paragon shopping mall is seen empty, after people were evacuated from the scene of the shooting. “We saw all the people run, run, run, we didn’t understand what was happening,” Yahav said.

Persons: Noppadol Thiammekha, Pathum, Yutthana Setthanan, Yutthana, Lillian Suwanrumpha, Jack Taylor, Shir Yahav, “, ” Yahav, ” Susinee, Srettha Thavisin Organizations: Thailand CNN — Police, Metropolitan Police Bureau, Local, Thailand’s, Investigation Bureau, Siam Paragon, Pathum Wan Police, CNN, Bangkok Emergency, Bangkok Emergency Center, Getty, People, Reuters, Survey, SAS, Institute for Health Metrics, University of Washington’s, Twitter Locations: Bangkok, Thailand, Siam, Chinese, AFP, Thai, Switzerland, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Nong Bua Lamphu

☆ Bank of Thailand Raises Rate to Tame Inflation
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Kosaku Narioka | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Thailand’s central bank increased its policy rate as it continued its efforts to tame inflation. The Bank of Thailand said Wednesday that its policy committee voted unanimously to raise its one-day repurchase rate by 25 basis points to 2.00%, effective immediately. All eight economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had expected the central...

Organizations: Bank, Thailand, Wall Street

Bangkok, Thailand CNN —Thailand recoiled in horror Thursday after at least 36 people were killed, at least 24 of them children, in a massacre at a child care center in northeastern Thailand believed to be the country’s deadliest incident of its kind. Among the dozens of victims are Panya’s wife and stepson, whom investigators say he killed before taking his own life. “He also used a knife to stab both children and staff at the center,” Paisan said. Police General Damrongsak Kittiprapas said that the attacker “mainly used a knife” to kill the children. TPBS/ReutersMedics arrive at the child care center on Thursday, where more than 30 people, mainly children, were killed.

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