Two bombs exploded Thursday in the popular Thai seaside resort of Hua Hin, killing at least one person and wounding as many as 20 others, Thai media reported.
Thai media are reporting that two small bombs have exploded in the popular seaside resort town of Hua Hin, leaving at least one person dead and 20 others injured.
A Canadian man previously banned from associating with Islamic State extremists prepared a martyrdom video and was about to commit a terrorist attack but was killed after he detonated his explosive device in a taxi and was shot at by officers who say they thwarted the suicide bomb plot after being tipped off by the FBI, police said Thursday.
Inside a large mosque in the Nile Delta, an Egyptian cleric looked over his congregation as he climbed the pulpit clutching a piece of paper and began to speak — delivering a 13-minute discourse on the virtues of personal hygiene.
Ukraine put its troops on combat alert Thursday along the country's de-facto borders with Crimea and separatist rebels in the east amid an escalating war of words with Russia over Crimea.
Syrian activists said airstrikes targeting the Islamic State group's de facto capital of Raqqa on Thursday killed at least 20 civilians, as neighboring Turkey called for greater cooperation with Russia against the extremist group.
A British national driving a small truck with 18 migrants inside, five of them children, has been arrested near the northern French port city of Dunkirk.
Serbia's Parliament has approved a new, populist-led government of Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, who has promised to pursue the Balkan country's integration into the European Union while maintaining close ties with Russia.
While the United Nations touted its efforts in Haiti aimed at ending the world’s worst modern cholera epidemic -- a calamity many experts assert the U.N. itself caused -- U.N. peacekeepers were blatantly violating their own sanitary rules for containing the disease, according to an internal U.N. report that was suppressed for months.
Two Turkish military attaches working in Greece have fled the country for Italy after the failed military coup attempt, Turkey's foreign minister said Thursday, while reports said a naval officer based in the US has also gone missing.
Thursday is designated “National Minority Day” in Pakistan, but U.S. Christians with roots in the Muslim-dominated, Asian nation say it is hardly a cause for celebration.
Disneyland Paris was unaffected after a suspicious package -- which turned out to be a lost package -- was found at a nearby train station on Wednesday.
Pope Francis has had lunch with a group of Syrian refugees who were brought to Italy from the Greek island of Lesbos thanks to the pope's intercession.