Thai authorities have detained an activist wanted by Hong Kong authorities for national security violations just hours before she was to fly to Canada under a refugee resettlement agreement.

Thai security authorities in Sa Kaeo province received 79 Thai nationals repatriated by Cambodia on Friday, with five of them reportedly linked to 20 criminal cases.

The Labour Court on Friday accepted a petition from three Thai sailors seeking damages after a deadly attack on their cargo vessel in the Strait of Hormuz in March, during the US-Israeli war on Iran, their lawyer said.

A prime suspect in a heroin trafficking network linked to the case of a Thai flight attendant detained in Australia was arrested in Phayao province on Thursday night, authorities said on Friday.

LONDON - The mediaeval Bayeux Tapestry arrived in London in the early hours of Friday after leaving France for the first time in more than 900 years on a hugely complicated journey to an exhibition in the British capital.