Three Thai policemen were killed and two wounded on Friday in a bomb and gun attack in the southern province of Yala where Muslim separatists have been waging a simmering insurgency against the state. The attack came just over a month after a series of bombs in three of Thailand's main...

“We have no permission for go out. Now we are prison [sic],” a 17-year-old Pakistani migrant texted, along with a sad emoji face, locked inside a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. Just under a hundred minors aged 12 to 17 find shelter in the rooms reserved for them. “We have...

President Vladimir Putin's United Russia party won Sunday's parliamentary elections, having garnered 54.2 percent of the votes, the Central Election Commission announced Friday. The Communist Party came second with 13.3 percent, while the Liberal Democratic Party was third at 13.1, followed...

Two soldiers and 15 Boko Haram fighters were killed Thursday as the Nigeria-led multinational troops repelled an attack by militants in Abadam town of the country's northeastern Borno state, an army spokesman said Friday. "During the fierce battle, the troops killed 15 of the insurgents,...