An Australian journalist and his Thai colleague were acquitted of criminal defamation on Tuesday over an online news report implicating Thailand's navy in human trafficking.
Satellite images confirm the destruction of another famed temple in Syria's Palmyra, the United Nations said late on Monday.
Palmyra, the ancient Syrian city that has fallen to the Islamic State jihadist group, has withstood the last 2,000 years with its immaculate temples and colonnaded streets.
Trainloads of migrants arrived in Austria and Germany from Hungary on Monday as European Union asylum rules collapsed under the strain of a wave of migration unprecedented in the EU.
Chinese residents in the United States are paying close attention to recent comments by Republican presidential candidates about "Asian people" and "anchor babies", referring to Chinese tourists who give birth in the US while visiting.
US President Barack Obama was scheduled to propose on Tuesday a faster timetable for buying a new heavy icebreaker for the US Arctic, where quickly melting sea ice has spurred more maritime traffic, and the United States has fallen far behind Russian resources.
South Sudan's rebel leader is warning that attacks by government troops on rebel-held areas could sabotage a peace agreement.
Hillary Rodham Clinton and her aides at the State Department were acutely aware of the need to protect sensitive information in their e-mails, according to the latest batch of messages released by the agency.
European Union ministers were summoned on Sunday to meet in two weeks' time to seek urgent solutions to a migration crisis unprecedented in the bloc's history, as the mounting death toll on land and sea forced governments to respond.
Hungary lashed out on Sunday at French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius over his criticism of the country's new anti-migrant border barrier, accusing him of "shocking and groundless" judgements.
Islamic State militants in Syria severely damaged the Bel Temple, considered one of the greatest sites of the ancient world, in a massive explosion on Sunday, activists said.
Thai police issued two new arrest warrants and released images on Monday of more suspects, a Thai woman and a foreign man of unknown nationality, in the widening investigation into Bangkok's deadly bombing two weeks ago.
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