BANGKOK (AP) – Drought? What drought? Bring out the water guns! Thailand may be going through its driest period in 20 years. But the country’s military government wants visitors from around the globe to know that the biggest water fight in the world is still on. So, get your buckets, …

PARAVOOR, India (AP) – Medical teams on Monday tended to hundreds of people injured in a massive fire that killed at least 110 people, while authorities searched for those responsible for illegally putting on the fireworks display that caused the weekend blaze at a Hindu temple in southern India. Amid …

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) – A former journalist who joined the Islamic extremist group al-Shabab was executed in Somalia’s capital for the killings of five Somali journalists. Hassan Hanafi Haji, who was extradited from Kenya last year on the request of the Somali government, was killed by firing squad at a …

SANAA, Yemen (AP) – Residents of a western Yemeni city say fighting between Shiite rebels and government forces there has marred the first day of a U.N.-brokered cease-fire. The truce between the Saudi-led coalition, which backs Yemen’s internationally recognized government, and rebel Houthis went into effect at midnight Sunday. It’s …

HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) – The host city of the annual Group of Seven foreign ministers’ meeting that ends Monday has been reborn seven decades after Hiroshima was devastated by an atomic bomb in 1945. Here are five things to know about the western Japanese city of 1.2 million people, other …

WASHINGTON (AP) – As U.S. officials dealt with the fallout of the government’s once-secret “Cuban Twitter” program, they had one thing on their side: notorious delays in the federal Freedom of Information Act. The government didn’t have copies of the documents, which formed the basis of an Associated Press investigation …