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Security forces fired warning shots and tear gas canisters while hauling Buddhist monks away in trucks as they tried to stop anti-government demonstrations in defiance of a ban on assembly. About 300 monks and activists were arrested across Yangon.

Authorities in Indonesia now say at least 26 people died in three separate suicide bombings at restaurants on the resort island of Bali. More than 120 people were injured. The attacks are being blamed on the terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah.

For days, much of the Gaza Strip has been without cellphone and internet access. The laws of war were written well before the World Wide Web, but some see communication as a fundamental right.

In the first hours after a cease-fire between Hamas and Israel, each side takes a look at the aftermath.

The Philippines high court extended its temporary ban on the late dictator's burial. President Rodrigo Duterte ordered Marcos to be buried in a hero's cemetery. Human rights activists are opposed.

Conservative political commentator Ann Coulter drew criticism after she called President Obama "the retard" on Twitter. In an open letter to Coulter on the Special Olympics blog, John Franklin Stephens, a Special Olympian living with Down syndrome, asked her to reconsider using that word.

Deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has returned to Thailand from 17 months in exile to face corruption charges. He says the allegations are empty.

The Myanmar government sends troops to the streets of Yangon for a second day to confront thousands of protesters. The military appears to be stepping up efforts to end more than a week of anti-government protests.

On Monday, a group of South Koreans boarded a bus and traveled to North Korea for reunions with relatives who became separated before and during the Korean War.

A commission on American prisons offers a report to the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday. Among the group's findings: Violence is an enormous problem, and health care is a disaster. The panel recommends an end to institutional secrecy that has permitted prisons to evade oversight for decades.