BAKU - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Azerbaijan on Sunday for Victory Day celebrations, hoping to ease an unusually public rift between two close regional allies.

KRAKóW (POLAND) - Krakow's Main Market Square remained sealed off Sunday while some mourners brought candles to pay tribute to six people killed by a gunman who authorities said was "fascinated by far-right ideologies".

PHUKET - Authorities have made arrests and demolished structures encroaching on Freedom beach in Muang district, where foreigners were duped into buying illegally issued land title deeds at inflated prices.

PETCHABURI - A black panther has again been spotted in Kaeng Krachan National Park, highlighting the rich biodiversity of Thailand's largest national park and one of its most elusive predators.  

KYIV - Russian strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure cut power to hundreds of thousands of homes in the Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv regions, authorities and an energy provider said on Sunday.