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An 11-year-old boy crashed a pickup truck into a group of monks on a pilgrimage walk in northeastern Thailand on Thursday, killing nine, officials said.

A powerful general who leads Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard emerged from hiding as Tehran prepared Friday for the dayslong funeral for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Michael Scurr has been volunteering at Britain's National Archives for the last 11 years, spending his Thursday mornings painstakingly cataloging documents for the benefit of future researchers.

After two surgeries and several rounds of radiation therapy over the past four years to treat a tumor, Irisleydis Trista has spent the past seven months unable to get a CT scan to determine whether the cancer has grown or spread.

An explosive device was detonated Thursday in a cafe in the Syrian capital of Damascus, killing at least nine people, Syria's Health Ministry said.

Iran's joint military command warned Thursday that all oil tankers moving through the Strait of Hormuz must use its approved routes or face a "forceful response," ratcheting up tensions again over a waterway crucial for international energy supplies.

Queen Camilla is facing criticism from transgender rights activists after the British royal family posted a photo of her meeting with "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling at the tail end of Pride month.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen visited Armenia on Thursday, promising to provide a $20.5-million aid package and the elimination of import duties on most Armenian farm products to support the South Caucasus nation's push for ...

Overseas opposition to China's new "Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law" took off Thursday after Beijing made the act official a day earlier.

Syria's foreign minister, Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani, on Thursday began a diplomatic tour of Lebanon as his country looks to maintain comfortable relations with its unstable neighbor.