boko haram; Several killed in northeast Nigeria bombing

A London-based monitoring group says a US-led airstrike on a school near the Syrian city of Raqqah has left at least 33 civilians dead.

Turkish police have clashed with Kurds celebrating the Persian New Year, Nowruz, in the city of Istanbul.

Tensions are escalating between Turkey and the Kurdish forces in Syria over the death of a Turkish soldier.

China calls for restraint on the Korean peninsula tensions, saying any selfish action complicates the situation.

At least eight people have been killed in multiple bomb blasts in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri.

At least two students have died and over 20 others injured in a stampede during a break at an elementary school in central China.

Salvage operators have begun to raise South Korea's sunken Sewol ferry nearly three years after the disaster killed more than three-hundred people.