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Time to end cycle of violence in deep South

A recent ambush on a police officer in Pattani province, which resulted in the tragic death of his wife as she held their baby in her arms, reminds us that violence in the deep South remains deeply troubling.

Bangkok Post

US winter storm havoc: At least 30 dead, over half a million without power — all you need to know

A massive winter storm swept across large parts of the United States, leaving at least 30 people dead, knocking out power to thousands of homes and paralysing transport networks. From the Deep South to the Northeast, communities are grappling with record snowfall, dangerous ice accumulation and life-threatening cold that forecasters…

The Times of India

Black disabled veteran says Buffalo Wild Wings receipt contained vile racist slur

Exclusive: Virginia resident Marc Loman says seeing the word ‘n*gs’ on his receipt reopened ‘deep emotional wounds,’ as someone who grew up in the Deep South

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Video of the Nottoway Plantation fire sparks jubilation. It's about anger and pain over slavery, too

A fire that engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, destroying one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the Deep South where scores of enslaved Africans labored, has sparked mass jubilation and consternation

The Independent UK

Alabama sheriff asks FBI to probe hanging death of Black man

Dennoriss Richardson’s body was found in a part of the Deep South state with a history of lynchings

The Independent UK

Why more women live in major East Coast counties while men outnumber them in the West

There are more women than men in some of the largest urban U.S. counties east of the Mississippi River, on the Eastern Seaboard and in the Deep South

The Independent UK

A gas station culinary trail around No Man’s Land, Louisiana

Louisiana takes its pit stop grub seriously – Ellie Seymour tastes the region’s homespun soul food dishes on a 450-mile tour of the Deep South’s gas stations, convenience stores and diners

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Why are some Chinese women still looking to the West for love?

Robert, an American truck driver in his 50s, lived in a trailer park in the Deep South. After divorcing his wife, who had cheated on him, he joined an online dating agency that connected Western men with Chinese women through translator-assisted email exchanges.

The Conversation

Southern discomfort

A mock referendum campaign by a group of Muslim students in the deep South on separatism has triggered panic across the kingdom. The move is highly sensitive and risks breaching Section 1 of the charter which says that Thailand is an indivisible kingdom.

Bangkok Post

Pita against vote on separatist state

Move Forward Party (MFP) leader Pita Limjaroenrat on Saturday opposed calls for the separation of the deep South from Thailand, saying the party stands by the principle that Thailand is an inseparable kingdom.

Bangkok Post

Ron DeSantis signs six-week abortion ban into law in Florida

The ban is set to strike another blow against the availability of abortion in the Deep South

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