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Anonymous ID: b089e7 May 26, 2019, 8:04 a.m. No.6592837   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2886 >>2967

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Pro-army party in Thailand to cement deal to keep junta leader as PM: lawmaker

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - A pro-army in Thailand will cement a deal on Monday to gain enough parliamentary seats to keep the current military junta leader in power as an elected prime minister, a lawmaker and executive board member of the party told Reuters.

 

Palang Pracharat contested the March 24 election on a platform of electing retired General Prayuth Chan-ocha as prime minister, five years after he seized power as army chief in 2014.

 

Puttipong Punnakanta, one of Palang Pracharat’s board members and members of parliament, told Reuters that the party - which gained the second-largest number of seats in the election - would formally invite two other medium-sized parties to join in a coalition government.

 

“We will invite the two parties tomorrow. It’s certain that we will be forming a coalition government, with at least 251 seats and more,” he said.

 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-thailand-politics/pro-army-party-in-thailand-to-cement-deal-to-keep-junta-leader-as-pm-lawmaker-idUSKCN1SW0J8

Anonymous ID: b089e7 May 26, 2019, 8:07 a.m. No.6592858   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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Three killed, six injured in two explosions in Nepali capital-police

 

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Three people were killed and six others injured on Sunday in two separate explosions in the Nepali capital, Kathmandu, and police said they suspected a Maoist splinter group may have been responsible.

 

Police official Shyam Lal Gyawali said: “We have three fatalities in two incidents of explosions but the nature of (the) blasts is under investigation.”

 

One person was killed in an explosion inside a house in the Ghattekulo residential area in the heart of the city.

 

“I heard a big noise and rushed to the spot to find the walls of a house had developed cracks due to the impact of the blast,” 17-year-old student Govinda Bhandari told Reuters at the site of the first blast.

 

The second blast took place near a hairdresser’s in the Sukedhara area on the outskirts of the city. Two people were killed in this blast, police said.

 

All six injured have been rushed to hospitals.

 

A Reuters photographer at the site of the second blast said it had shattered the door and window panes of the shop and the area had been sealed off by the army.

 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nepal-blasts/three-killed-six-injured-in-two-explosions-in-nepali-capital-police-idUSKCN1SW0EN

Anonymous ID: b089e7 May 26, 2019, 8:13 a.m. No.6592888   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3077 >>3104 >>3418

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London Plans 15mph Speed Limit To "Cut Air Pollution"

 

In what is a solid contender for this year's Darwin Awards for environmental virtue signalling, the City of London has proposed a 15mph speed limit and the closure of some streets at lunchtime as part of a “radical plan” to reduce air pollution, cut traffic, and promote walking.

 

With more than half a million people commuting into the City of London each day, the authorities have been working to reduce air pollution in the area which contains several of the most polluted spots in the capital, the FT reported quoting Alastair Moss, chair of transport and planning committee at the City of London Corporation, who said the “radical plans” would help Greater London maintain its competitive edge as a business destination. The new 15mph speed limit could go into effect as soon as 2021, pending further approval from the Department for Transport.

 

It was not immediately clear how or why the artificial ceiling of 15mph would help the environment, especially since the maximum emissions from a car engine peak at a low rate of speed, but we'll leave that to the Darwin Award nominations committee to answer. There is another, more pertinent question: why impose a 15 mps limit when the average traffic speeds in the City of London are already roughly half that due to narrow streets and congestion.

 

While the number of vehicles driving in London's “Square Mile” has halved in the last 20 years, the corporation aims to further reduce vehicle traffic by 25% by 2030, and by 50% by 2044. “We are working tirelessly to support the 513,000 workers that commute to the Square Mile every day,” said Mr Moss.

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-25/london-plans-15mph-speed-limit-cut-air-pollution