Militants have opened fire at a bus in northern Pakistan, killing nine people including two soldiers, and injuring more than 20 others, local police say.
Gunmen in military uniforms have fatally shot a governor and five civilians while the provincial leader was meeting villagers at his home in the central Philippines.
Police investigating a suicide bombing that killed more than 100 people at a Pakistan mosque say that several people have been arrested, and they can't rule out the possibility that the bomber had internal assistance evading security checks.
Dozens of police officers are thought to have died in a powerful bombing that killed at least 59Â people at a crowded mosque in the Pakistani city of Peshawar.
Somali security forces have stormed a hotel in the capital ending a siege by al Shabaab militants following a nearly day-long battle in which at least nine people were killed, police said.
Russia has rained cruise missiles on busy Ukrainian cities in what the United States called "horrific strikes," killing civilians and knocking out power and heat with its most widespread air attacks since the start of the war.
Pakistan has fired off a sharp warning to Afghanistan's hard-line religious rulers to stop sheltering homegrown Pakistani Taliban militants who have staged increasingly deadly attacks.
Iraq's Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi has survived an assassination attempt with armed drones that targeted his residence and officials says he was unharmed.
David Amess was a man of the people, a hard-working British MP who had no grand political ambitions beyond serving those who had elected him for almost 40 years.
The FBI has released a newly declassified 16-page document related to logistical support provided to two of the Saudi hijackers in the run-up to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
