A roadside bomb killed at least 19 Afghan civilians including nine children in a southern province, while Taliban fighters in the north captured a key district on the frontline of the battle for Kunduz city, officials said on Sunday. – Source
The revelations appear in a trove of documents said to have come from inside the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs and released by the group WikiLeaks.
MIDYAT, Turkey (Reuters) – Hollywood actress and director Angelina Jolie on Saturday described a spiralling global refugee crisis as an “explosion of human suffering” whose causes the international community refuses to confront.
Live cricket score of the second One Day International between India vs Bangladesh played at Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur. – Source
Mumbai was hampered due to heavy rain and the city came to a standstill. 15 days’ worth of rain in 24 hours left the city crippled. – Source
Candidates suffering from blindness, locomotor disability and cerebral palsy can use scribes to write civil services preliminary and main examination, the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has said. – Source
NEW DELHI (AP) — Millions of yoga enthusiasts across the world bent and twisted their bodies in complex postures Sunday to mark International Yoga Day…. – Source
K Mookupori was 25 years old when the mighty tidal waves brought down the buzzing port town Dhanushkodi to nothing but ruins. – Source
PARIS (AP) — Its imams preach austere piety, its tenets demand strict separation of sexes – and some of its most radical adherents are heeding the call of jihad. Salafism, an Islamic movement based on a literal reading of the Quran, is on the rise in France, Germany and Britain, security officials say, with Salafis sharply increasing their influence in mosques and on the streets…. – Source
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida held talks with his South Korean counterpart on Sunday in a bid to mend ties strained by a territorial dispute and a feud over “comfort women” forced to work in Japan’s wartime military brothels.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A Palestinian stabbed an Israeli paramilitary policeman at the entrance to the walled old city of Jerusalem on Sunday and was then shot by the policeman, police said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi led tens of thousands of people in a yoga session in the centre of the capital on Sunday to showcase the country’s signature cultural export, which has prompted criticism of fomenting social divisions at home. – Source
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s parliament has voted to ban access to military sites and scientists as part of a future deal with world powers over its contested nuclear program…. – Source
