Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the country's top security agency to investigate nearly simultanious crashes of two passenger planes, which flew out of Moscow late Tuesday.
Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali- al-Sistani has returned to Iraq after undergoing treatment for a heart condition in Britain.
Authorities in Thailand have ordered some 1,500 ethnic Hmong migrants to leave a Budhhist temple and refugee camp in central Thailand.
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