A motorcycle bomb exploded at a market Monday morning in southern Thailand, killing three people and injuring 18, police said.

There were more than 25,000 murders across drug-ravaged Mexico in 2017, the highest annual tally since modern records began, government data showed.

Egypt s Foreign Affairs Minister Sameh Shoukry will head to Riyadh on Monday to participate in a meeting of foreign ministers supporting the Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen, scheduled to address ways to support and coordinate the delivery of humanitarian assistance to Yemen.

Ethiopias Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has rejected a call by Egypt for World Bank arbitration in a dispute over a hydroelectric dam Addis Ababa is building along its share of the Nile.

Iran on Sunday urged an end to a Turkish military offensive in northwestern Syria and called on Ankara to play a "constructive role" in the war-torn country.

Syria said its air defense would shoot down any Turkish jets that carry out attacks within Syria, a stark warning as tensions soar over apparent preparations by the Turkish military to invade a northern Syrian Kurdish enclave.

A powerful storm lashed Europe with high winds and snow Thursday, killing at least two people, grounding flights at Amsterdam s Schiphol Airport, halting trains and blowing over trucks in several countries.

Pope Francis wraps up his Chile visit Thursday by meeting with members of the South American nation s booming immigrant community, who are flocking to the region s strongest and most stable economy but are increasingly the focus of political and social discontent.

The U.N. Relief and Works Agency, the main body providing aid to millions of Palestinian refugees and their descendants across the Middle East, made an urgent appeal for international support Wednesday, one day after the State Department announced it will withhold more than half its annual funding.

Saudi Arabia announced Wednesday that it will transfer $2 billion to war-torn Yemen s central bank. The move comes in response to desperate pleas for funding from the country s president and prime minister a day earlier. On Tuesday, the prime minister pleaded to the international community for help to prop up the country s sagging currency, the rial, and the food supply. Millions of Yemenis are threatened with hunger and starvation.

The test President Donald Trump specifically asked to take to prove his cognitive abilities can t tell us anything about his psychiatric health, experts say.

President Rumen Radev on Tuesday vetoed anti-graft legislation passed by Bulgaria’s parliament, saying the bill failed to offer the means to effectively investigate corruption networks. Radev acted only a day after Bulgaria, the European Union’s poorest country, assumed the six-month, rotating presidency of the bloc for the first time since it joined the EU in 2007.

Thousands of Dalits, who rank at the lower end of India’s ancient caste hierarchy, disrupted traffic and threw stones at buses in Mumbai on Tuesday as they protested against violence in a nearby city in which a man was killed. The protest came a day after celebrations by Dalits in Pune, 150 km (95 miles) from Mumbai, of the 200th anniversary of a battle they won, fighting alongside British colonial forces, against an upper caste ruler, were marred by clashes with right-wing Hindu groups.

South Korea has suggested a meeting to talk about the North’s participation in the Winter Olympics, claiming there is a “groundbreaking” chance to improve relations. North Korea’s leader has also suggested dialogue. South Korea on Tuesday said an improvement in relations with the North must be linked to Pyongyang’s nuclear program, but offered high-level diplomatic talks with the North on January 9.

A decision by Japan to deploy a U.S. missile defence system will damage Moscow s relations with Tokyo and is a breach by Washington of a landmark arms control treaty, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday. Japan formally decided this month it would expand its ballistic missile defence system with U.S.-made ground-based Aegis radar stations and interceptors in response to a growing threat from North Korean rockets.

The United States should look within to cut down demand for opioids which are fueling its deadly drug crisis rather than stressing unsubstantiated claims that China is the major source of these chemicals, a top Chinese drug enforcement official said Thursday. China and the US have worked to build a close working relationship to fight global flows of illicit synthetic drugs, but their collaboration remains fraught.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday signed agreements in Tunis on defence, investment and the environment as he and his Tunisian counterpart expressed their determination to strengthen economic cooperation. "We affirmed the desire of the two states to strengthen cooperation... taking into account the circumstances affecting Tunisia," the North African country s President Beji Caid Essebsi said.

The swap comes after a recommitment to a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine, where over 10,000 people have been killed. A US decision to provide Ukraine with weapons has seen Russia warn the US is encouraging “new bloodshed.” Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels began a landmark prisoner swap on Wednesday, following the recommitment to a ceasefire in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine last week.

Russia s Central Election Commission on Monday unanimously rejected top opposition figure Alexei Navalny s bid to run against President Vladimir Putin next year, leading him to urge a boycott of the polls. The commission voted 12 to zero in barring Navalny from the presidential election, citing a controversial embezzlement conviction for which he received a five year suspended sentence.

Ousted Catalan president Carles Puigdemont was weighing up whether to return to the region, where he faces arrest, close aides said Saturday, after pro-independence parties defeated Spain s central government in pivotal elections. Puigdemont campaigned from Brussels, where he sought self-imposed exile after he was sacked by Madrid and a Spanish court charged him with rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds.

China tested the world s largest amphibious aircraft on Sunday. The 37-meter (121-feet) long AG600 aircraft plane, codenamed “Kunlong,” took off from the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai and flew for almost an hour on its maiden voyage. The aircraft has a 38.8-meter wingspan and four turboprop engines. It is around the size of a Boeing 737 and can carry 50 people.