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Thai authorities released video and photos showing the person they say left a rucksack at the exact spot where the bomb went off at the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, killing at least 20 people and injuring more than 120 - mostly foreign tourists. The suspect appears to be a man in a baggy yellow shirt, and is seen with and without the suspicious package. Although Thai government spokesman Major General Weerachon Sukhontapatipak claimed investigators were "close" to identifying the suspect, others said it's not clear if the person was Thai or a foreigner.
Another explosion in Bangkok was caught on security video. Someone tossed an explosive - possibly a hand grenade, according to investigators - into a canal beneath the King Taksin Bridge. No one was injured.
Owners of the warehouse that blew up in China last week apparently didn't have the proper permits to handle dangerous chemicals until just a few weeks ago, but had been storing them for several months anyway. The blast at Ruihai International Logistics killed more than a hundred people, injured more than 700, and caused all sorts of destruction to the port at Tianjin and surrounding areas.
Bangladesh arrested three people in the gruesome hacking deaths of secular bloggers earlier this year. The most-prominent victim was Avijit Roy, whose writings on Atheism were popular in the West as well. One of the three suspects - 58-year old Bangladesh-born British citizen Touhidur Rahman - is accused of planning the murders. The suspects are described as "active members" of Ansarullah Bangla Team, a banned Islamist fundamentalist group.
Amnesty International says all sides in Yemen's civil war have caused "civilian death and destruction" and may have committed war crimes. The group says the violence has been particularly deadly in the southern city of Aden and in Taiz, with dozens of children among those killed. Houthi rebels, backed by Iran, effectively overthrew the government earlier this year. What's left of government forces and Saudi Arabia have been trying to reestablish rule by former president Ali Abdullah Saleh. Lurking in the shadows and carrying out separate attacks are Al Qaeda, Islamic State, and other groups opposed to all of the above. And none of them seem to be able to aim very well.
Vladimir Putin tweeked Kiev by visiting the Crimean Peninsula, which Russian forces took from Ukraine last year. True to his penchant for manly stunts, Putin hopped into a Dutch-made mini-submarine to to view some 10th century Byzantine-era wreckage in the Black Sea. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said the visit was a provocation that would worsen the 16-month old conflict with Kremlin-backed separatists. Putin blamed the "rival side" for the violence.
Organizers of a Reggae festival in Spain are coming under fire for stomping all over the third rail in international geopolitics. The Rototom Sunsplash Festival cancelled the planned performance by the American singer Matisyahu ("One Day", "King Without A Crown", "Sunshine"), apparently because of he wouldn't fill out a questionaire about his opinions on the Middle East. Jewish-American Matisyahu said demands to air his views are "appalling and offensive", and apparently not required of any of the other acts. For the record, Matisyahu says he doesn't put politics in his music, although from his videos it's pretty apparent he wants peace in the Middle East. The organizers of the festival back the BDS movement, which urges a boycott of Israeli goods until Israel complies with International Law in its treatment of the Palestinians.
In Aomori in the north of Japan, workers began the process of lifting the 200-year old tower of Hirozaki Castle off of its base so work can commence on building its stone base. They'll carefully move the 400-ton structure to a temporary base 70 meters away,and put it back in a few years when the project is completed.