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Tourists Targeted In Several Thailand Blasts
A series of blasts across Thailand has targeted tourist towns, killing four people and injuring dozens.
In the resort town of Hua Hin, south of Bangkok, four bombs exploded over the last 24 hours. Several blasts also hit the island of Phuket, one Thailand's main tourist destinations, on Friday.
No group has said it carried out the attacks, but suspicion is likely to fall on separatist insurgents. The timing is sensitive, as Friday is a holiday marking the queen's birthday.
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Man Killed By Canadian Police Was Planning Immediate Attack
A man killed by police in Canada was preparing an immediate attack with a homemade bomb, police said.
He had already detonated one device inside a taxi during rush hour, injuring the driver, and was carrying a second. Aaron Driver, 24, was known to the authorities for supporting the so-called Islamic State (IS) group.
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Theresa May And Vladimir Putin Pledge To Improve Relations
Theresa May has spoken on the phone to Russia's President Vladimir Putin for the first time since she became PM, Downing Street has confirmed.
Both leaders expressed dissatisfaction with UK-Russian relations, and pledged to improve ties, the Kremlin said.
A Downing St spokeswoman said they agreed that co-operation on aviation security was a vital part of efforts to fight terrorism. The pair will meet at the G20 summit of world leaders in China next month.
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Bus Carrying Journalists At Rio Olympics Attacked
Security officials in Rio de Janeiro are investigating whether a bus carrying journalists between Olympic venues was shot at on Tuesday evening.
Two windows were smashed and three of the 12 people on board suffered cuts.
Mario Andrada, chief spokesman for Rio 2016's organising committee, said: "We don't know yet if the bus was shot, or it was a stone." The bus was travelling between the Deodoro hockey venue and the main press centre at Barra da Tijuca. Lee Michaelson, a reporter on women's basketball and a former US Air Force captain, said: "I know what a gun sounds like. With my background and…
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Turkey's President Visits Russia
Turkey has seen an upheaval in its foreign and domestic politics, exacerbated by the near-disastrous coup attempt on 15 July.
In view of the current "frost" in the AKP government's relations with both the US and the EU, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's decision to choose Russia for his first official visit abroad since the botched coup appears rich in symbolism. And Western leaders will be looking on nervously.
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Man Jailed For 27 Years For Killing Shopkeeper Who 'Disrespected' Islam
A man has been jailed for life after he admitted the religiously-motivated murder of a Glasgow shopkeeper whom he claimed had "disrespected" Islam.
Sunni Muslim Tanveer Ahmed, 32, from Bradford in Yorkshire, stabbed 40-year-old Asad Shah outside his store in Shawlands on 24 March. Ahmed had said he killed the shopkeeper because he had posted videos online in which he claimed to be a prophet.
The killer was told he would serve a minimum of 27 years in prison.
Mr Shah was an Ahmadiyya, a minority sect not recognised by all Muslims.
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Control Of Aleppo Continues With More Air Strikes
Rebel factions who claim to have made gains in Syria's city of Aleppo have come under intense air strikes from pro-government forces.
The Syrian government released video of its planes apparently bombing targets in the south-west of the city. The rebels earlier said they had broken a weeks-long government siege of Aleppo - a claim denied by Damascus.
Some 250,000 people reportedly live in the besieged areas.
An AFP news agency correspondent reported that air strikes had targeted rebel-held areas of Aleppo.
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Suicide Bomber Leaves 53 Dead In Pakistan
A bomb blast has killed 53 people at a hospital in the city of Quetta in south-west Pakistan, officials say.
Dozens of people were injured in the attack, which happened at the entrance to the emergency department where the body of a prominent lawyer shot dead earlier on Monday was being brought.
The casualties included lawyers and journalists accompanying the body of Bilal Anwar Kasi. Gunfire followed the explosion. It was not clear who the attackers were.
Pakistani police have said they suspect the bomb was detonated by a suicide attacker.
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Erdogan Tells Istanbul Rally He Would Approve Death Penalty
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has told a vast rally in Istanbul that he would approve the return of the death penalty if it was backed by parliament and the public.
He was speaking to a crowd of at least a million who had gathered in Turkey's biggest city. The rally followed last month's failed military coup.
Mr Erdogan also said the state would be cleansed of all supporters of the US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen. The cleric is blamed by the Turkish government for the attempted uprising. He denies any involvement.
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Group Of Tourists Attacked In Western Afghanistan
Suspected militants have attacked a convoy carrying foreign tourists in western Afghanistan, injuring six.
A group of a dozen travellers were escorted by Afghan army personnel on their way to Herat city when they were ambushed. Jailani Farhad, spokesman for Herat's governor, said the tourists included eight Britons, three US citizens and one German. Some travellers reportedly had light injuries and are in hospital.
Afghanistan's main roads are notoriously dangerous with militant attacks and kidnappings frequent. One Afghan driver was also injured in the attack.
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