Officials in Thailand announced an investigation into accusations that a mayor angrily locked five reporters in his office and forced workers to pull the pants off one reporter to be photographed.
An Egyptian court on Thursday convicted the country's former top anti-corruption official of "spreading false news" over a damning report he had issued, sentencing him to a year in prison that he must pay fines to avoid.
Yemen's Shiite rebels have announced a formal alliance with the country's ousted president and his onetime ruling party by forming a new political council to rule the country.
Kosovo's special prosecutor's office says excavations in the center of the capital, Pristina, have found no traces of any people still missing from the separatist war in 1998-99.
The United Nations chief says the promise of peace and justice in South Sudan has been "squandered" and the country is "poised on the brink of an abyss." Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also said Thursday he is appalled by the scale of sexual violence documented by human rights monitors, who found that South Sudanese government soldiers raped dozens of ethnic Nuer women and girls last week just outside a U.N.
Islamic State said that the Syrian refugee who carried out a suicide bombing in Germany this week was a fighter for the extremist group before migrating to Europe and that he launched the attack with help from a second operative.
Boris Johnson has made his first official visit to Paris as the new British foreign secretary, meeting with his French counterpart Jean-Marc Ayrault for talks on bilateral cooperation and the fight against extremism.
The former employee accused of killing 19 disabled people and injuring others at a care home in Japan moved briskly and methodically inside buildings and rooms he knew, finishing the deadliest mass attack in postwar Japan in less than one hour, officials said Thursday.
A Mexican drug lord convicted in the killing of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent has been transferred from prison to house arrest near Mexico City.
Police said they killed nine suspected Islamic militants, including one identified as an American, during a raid on their den in Bangladesh's capital Tuesday.
China is asking Vietnam to investigate reports that a border agent at the Ho Chi Minh City airport defaced a Chinese passport after images in media reports show the words "f--- you" scribbled twice over maps of the contested South China Sea.
Vacationers in the French Riviera city of Cannes have been banned from bringing big bags to the beach for security reasons in hopes of deterring a terrorist attack.
The hardline branch of the Corsican separatist movement FLNC is warning any Islamic extremists on the French Mediterranean island that it will respond "without hesitation" to any attacks in Corsica.
China's military said Thursday it will hold joint exercises with Russian forces in the South China Sea, following a recent arbitration ruling that rejected Beijing's claim to almost the entire strategic body of water.
Australian officials confirmed on Thursday that data recovered from a home flight simulator owned by the captain of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 showed that someone had used the device to plot a course to the southern Indian Ocean, where the missing jet is believed to have crashed.
Mahashweta Devi, a well-known Indian writer and social activist, who used her writing to give voice to the oppressed poor tribal and forest dwellers, has died.
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