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BANGKOK – Thailand’s national police chief says the suspects in a weekend grenade attack at a Bangkok courthouse are connected to those behind a bombing at an upscale shopping mall in the capital. Saturday’s attack at the Criminal Court, in which no one was hurt, came five weeks after small …

UNITED NATIONS – Satellite images of Syria show that 83 percent of the country’s lights have gone out over four years of devastating conflict that has left cities shattered and forced millions of people to flee their homes. A global coalition of human rights and humanitarian groups released the analysis …

BEIRUT – Syrian government warplanes pounded a suburb of Damascus on Sunday, killing at least 18 people and scattering shattered concrete blocks and mangled cars in the streets, activists said. The Local Coordination Committees activist collective and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Sunday’s air raids targeted the …

ISTANBUL – A 21-year-old British woman suspected of trying to travel to Islamic State group territory in Syria has been detained in Turkey, government officials said Tuesday. The woman, identified as J.N.H., was detained at a bus terminal in Ankara late Monday and is being held pending deportation hearings. One …

DAKAR, Senegal – Rebels in eastern Congo have killed at least four civilians as they fled a Congolese army operation, a representative of civil society groups said Thursday. Fighters from the Allied Defense Forces-NALU attacked three villages in region around the town of Beni on Wednesday, according to Omar Kavota, …

CANBERRA, Australia – Australia’s competition watchdog has foreshadowed plans to block a tie up between Qantas Airways and China Eastern Airlines because it could increase fares on the popular Sydney-Shanghai route. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission issued a draft decision Tuesday proposing to deny authorization for Qantas and China …

LAUSANNE, Switzerland – Iran’s foreign minister is criticizing Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen but says the focus at nuclear talks between his nation and six world powers remains on reaching a deal. Mohammad Javad Zarif leads the Iranian delegation at the talks. He said Friday that Iran condemns the air attacks …

WARSAW, Poland – Poland’s electoral authorities say that the votes in the May presidential election will be counted by hand and calculator because of a lack of a reliable electronic system. The decision by the State Electoral Commission follows a major computer malfunction that largely delayed the vote count in …

BERLIN – German prosecutors say they have arrested a suspected member of the Islamic State group. The federal prosecutor’s office said in a statement late Saturday that a 24-year-old man identified as Nils D. was arrested in Dinslaken in western Germany and his apartment was raided. The suspect allegedly traveled …

JOHANNESBURG – Satellite images show widespread destruction in two Nigerian towns that were recently attacked by Islamic extremists, an international human rights group said Wednesday. Amnesty International said it will release early Thursday detailed images of Baga and Doron Baga, taken before and after the attack earlier this month, that …