Thai riot police reclaimed a main Bangkok thoroughfare on Friday that had been occupied for months by demonstrators seeking to topple Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and said they would move to seize other protest sites in coming days.
Venezuela's government and the opposition traded accusations after at least three people were shot dead in the worst unrest since protests last year that followed President Nicolas Maduro's narrow election victory.
A deadly winter storm gripped the southeastern United States on Wednesday, crippling travel, grounding flights, knocking out power to 363,000 customers and encasing magnolia and palmetto trees in ice.
The European Commission called on Wednesday for a dilution of US influence over the organization of the Internet, a sign of tension following snooping exposed by former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden.
The German government's new coordinator for trans-Atlantic relations says he doubts talks aimed at securing a "no-spy" agreement with the US will produce a deal that's legally binding.
Tens of thousands of Chinese may have applications scrapped in Canada
A loss of trust in Switzerland's business and political elite may be one of the reasons the nation voted in favor of putting strict limits on immigration, Swiss Economy Minister Johann Schneider-Ammann said on Wednesday.
US president hopes four-nation trip will help build regional engagement
A denial of Japan's wartime atrocities by NHK executives has sparked widespread fear among international media that the public broadcaster is losing its independence and becoming the mouthpiece of Shinzo Abe's government.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday that military exercises later this month with the Republic of Korea will be the same as drills that have been conducted in previous years and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea should not link them with reunions of separated Korean families.
One Chinese worker died and six were injured after gunmen attacked a Chinese company in the Zambian capital on Wednesday in a case that has renewed fears for workers' safety in Africa.
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