One killed, 29 wounded as 2 bombs strike southern Thailand and other top stories.

• One killed, 29 wounded as 2 bombs strike southern Thailand

  Two bombs exploded near a hotel in insurgency-wracked southern Thailand, killing one employee and wounding 29 people, police and hospital officials said Wednesday. The explosions occurred late Tuesday outside the Southern Hotel in Pattani, one of the biggest towns in a region where Muslim separatists have waged an insurgency since 2004 that has left more than 6,000 people dead. The first bomb exploded in the hotel's car park, but caused no casualties, said police Lt. Sirisak Wungkulum. He said ..

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• UK police arrest member of armed forces under Terrorism Act

  

  LONDON –  London's Metropolitan Police say they've arrested a member of Britain's armed forces as part of an investigation into Northern Ireland-related offenses under the Terrorism Act. Police arrested the 30-year-old man at a house in south Devon, in southwestern England, on suspicion of being involved in preparing acts of terrorism. Authorities carried out searches in a wooded area in south Devon and Northern Ireland. The dominant IRA faction renounced violence in 2005, but dissident groups ..

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• Powerful 6.8 Earthquake Shakes Central Myanmar

  

  YANGON, Myanmar (CBS / AP) – A powerful earthquake measuring magnitude 6.8 shook central Myanmar on Wednesday, damaging scores of ancient Buddhist pagodas in the former capital of Bagan, a major tourist attraction, officials said. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was centered about 25 kilometers (15 miles) west of Chauk, an area west of Bagan. It was located fairly far below the Earth’s surface at a depth of about 84 kilometers (52 miles), it said. Deep earthquakes generally cause less..

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