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The Israel Defense Forces said in a post to X on Monday that it had launched “a widespread wave of attacks” against Iranian government infrastructure in the capital Tehran.


Anutin Charnvirakul, leader of Thailand’s second-largest opposition party, Pheu Thai, easily secured a majority in parliament on the 5th, becoming the country’s next prime minister. A 58-year-old veteran of Thai politics, Anutin has served in various positions, including deputy prime minister. A Cantonese descendant, he goes by the Chinese name Chen Xiyao. He speaks Cantonese at home and is also a saxophone player who can fly airplanes.
Anutin, a major shareholder in Thailand’s largest construction company
, comes from a family of politicians and businessmen. Over decades of political upheaval, he has served as Minister of Health, Minister of the Interior, and Deputy Prime Minister.

Anutin is a pure Cantonese descendant, and his Chinese name is Chen Xiyao. In a 2023 CCTV interview, he revealed that his ancestors were from Guangzhou, and his parents were also Cantonese-Chinese. Although he was born in Thailand, he was deeply influenced by Thai and Chinese culture. “I am also 100% Chinese. My parents, grandparents, and grandparents are all from China. I was born in Thailand, I have a Chinese name (Chen Xiyao), and Cantonese is spoken every day at home.”
Anutin, who loves to “street-walk” and eat snacks,
comes from a very wealthy family. He has always presented himself as a friendly person in Thailand. He often shares his daily life in T-shirts and shorts, cooking with a spatula, and “street-walking” and eating snacks in Thailand on social platforms.
In addition, Anutin is proficient in music. He is a saxophone player and also knows how to play the piano. He loves to share his playing of Thai pop songs from the 1980s on social media.
Anutin was once an official of Thaksin’s Thai Rak Thai Party. However, after the party was dissolved in 2007, he was banned from politics for five years. During this time, Anutin used his free time during the pause in his political career to learn to fly and subsequently acquired several private jets. These aircraft were not only used for personal purposes, but were also used to transport patients to the hospital and to transport donated organs.
President Donald Trump this week spoke at length about his relationship with accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, but his accounts raise new questions about when exactly the two fell out and why.
Trump said on Monday that his relationship with Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial on charges of trafficking young girls and women, soured because Epstein poached some employees after he explicitly warned him not to do so.
Trump on Tuesday went on to say that Epstein “stole” young women who worked at the spa at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida. “People were taken out of the spa, hired by him. In other words, gone,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One.
One of those workers, Trump said, was Virginia Giuffre, an Epstein accuser who said she was recruited by his associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, when Giuffre was an underage teenager working as a locker-room attendant at Mar-a-Lago in 2000. Maxwell, convicted of sex trafficking minors and now serving a 20-year prison sentence, has denied the allegations. Giuffre died by suicide this past April at age 41.
“I don’t know. I think she worked at the spa, I think so, I think that was one of the people,” Trump first said when asked about Giuffre before going on to say more definitively, “Yeah, he stole her. And by the way, she had no complaints about us, none whatsoever.”

According to Social Security records submitted to the court during Giuffre’s defamation case against Ghislaine Maxwell, Giuffre was employed at Mar-a-Lago Club LLC in 2000 and earned $1,866.50 during that calendar year. The duration and precise dates of her employment at Trump’s club remained in dispute when the lawsuit settled in 2017.
Giuffre — then known as Virginia Roberts — subsequently went on to travel extensively around the world with Epstein and Maxwell over the next two years, according to flight logs kept by one of Epstein’s pilots that have been entered into court records in civil and criminal cases.
Trump’s comments came after the White House last week said Epstein was kicked out of Mar-a-Lago for being a “creep.”
Asked about the discrepancy between the White House’s reasoning for his split with Epstein and his own that it was over Epstein stealing his employees, Trump said on Tuesday “it’s sort of a little bit of the same thing.”
As he told reporters that Epstein poached young female staff, Trump said “people would come and complain, ‘this guy is taking people from the spa.’ I didn’t know that.”
“And then when I heard about it, I told him, I said, ‘Listen, we don’t want you taking our people, whether it was spa or not spa.’ I don’t want him taking people. And he was fine. And then not too long after that, he did it again and I said, ‘Out of here,'” Trump said.

But previous comments from Trump suggested his falling out with Epstein occurred several years later than that.
In 2002, Trump praised Epstein in a New York magazine profile of the now-deceased financier and convicted sex offender.
“I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy,” Trump told the magazine. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”
Then in 2004, the two men were rivals over a property in Florida as reported by the Washington Post. Trump ultimately won the property at auction.
In 2019, when Epstein was arrested on federal charges, Trump said he hadn’t spoken with Epstein in 15 years.
“I knew him like everybody in Palm Beach knew him. I mean, people in Palm Beach knew him. He was a fixture in Palm Beach,” Trump said in the Oval Office. “I had a falling out with him a long time ago. I don’t think I’ve spoken to him for 15 years. I wasn’t a fan. I was not, yeah, a long time ago, I’d say maybe 15 years. I was not a fan of his, that I can tell you. I was not a fan of his.”
Asked at the time for the reason behind their falling out and why Epstein was banned from Mar-a-Lago, Trump responded: “The reason doesn’t make any difference, frankly.”
ABC News has reached out to the White House for comment on Trump’s explanations of his fallout with Epstein.
A 9-year-old Canadian girl whose father had reported she had been kidnapped in upstate New York was found dead Sunday afternoon, with investigators saying she had not been abducted and they were now questioning inconsistencies in her dad’s story, according to authorities.
The body of the girl, identified by the Warren County Sheriff’s Office as Melina Galanis Frattolin, was discovered in Ticonderoga, New York, near the New York-Vermont border, about 15 miles from Lake George, where her father initially claimed she had been kidnapped on Saturday by a man driving a white van.
The report from the father led the New York State Police to issue an Amber Alert earlier on Sunday. A massive search was launched, involving State Police K-9 and aviation units, New York State Park Rangers, the Essex and Warren County sheriff’s offices, the New York State Department of Conservation, and the Ticonderoga Police Department.

“As the case progressed, law enforcement identified inconsistencies in the father’s account of events and the timeline he provided,” according to a statement from the State Police.
The investigation was ongoing Sunday afternoon as State Police took over the investigation from the Warren County Sheriff’s Office.
There was no immediate comment from the State Police on whether Melina’s father, who police identified as 45-year-old Luciano Frattolin, also of Canada, had been arrested in his daughter’s death.
State police did not disclose how Melina died.
“At this time, there is no indication that an abduction occurred, and there is no threat to the public,” the State Police said in its statement.
Luciano Frattolin called 911 in Warren County late Saturday night, claiming his daughter had been abducted by a stranger, according to police. The father claimed the girl was kidnapped around 9:40 p.m. at a rest stop off Interstate 87 near Lake George, where he allegedly claimed they pulled over to use the restroom, according to police radio dispatches provided by Broadcastify.
The father told police his daughter was wearing light colored shorts, a blue-and-white striped shirt and white Adidas sneakers, police said.

“The child was taken under circumstances that lead police to believe that they are in imminent danger of serious bodily harm and/or death,” authorities said in an initial statement that accompanied the Amber Alert.
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