Investigators say a party in South Texas to mark a toddler's first birthday erupted in gunfire, leaving four men dead and a fifth man wounded.
The Texas Department of Public Safety says the shooting happened shortly after 5 pm Saturday in Taft, 12 miles (19 kilometers) north of Corpus Christi.
Sgt Nathan Brandley says an altercation erupted between two families attending the party and escalated into a deadly shooting.
Brandley said the wounded man was airlifted to a Corpus Christi hospital.
His condition wasn't clear.
Brandley said two suspects are on the loose.
No identities or other details have been released.

4 men killed in shooting at child's birthday party in Texas

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Saudi Arabia warned Sunday it will respond to any "threats" against it as its stock market plunged following President Donald Trump's warning of "severe punishment" over the disappearance of Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi.
Trump made a point of visiting the kingdom on his first overseas trip as president and has touted arms sales to Saudi Arabia.
But both the White House and the kingdom are under mounting pressure as concern grows over the fate of the veteran journalist, who hasn't been seen since he entered the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on October 2.
Already, international business leaders are pulling out of the kingdom's upcoming investment forum, a high-profile event known as "Davos in the Desert."
"The kingdom affirms its total rejection of any threats and attempts to undermine it, whether by threatening to impose economic sanctions, using political pressures or repeating false accusations," the statement published by the state-run Saudi Press Agency read.
"The ...

Saudis reject threats as stocks plunge after Trump comments

Several thousand pro-military and nationalist demonstrators have marched through Yangon, voicing their support for Myanmar's armed forces and government while condemning foreign involvement in the country's affairs.
The march led to a stage lined with portraits of Senior Gen Min Aung Hlaing, where speakers addressed a flag-waving crowd and condemned the international community's involvement in Myanmar, claiming groups would "fight back" against international bodies who have called for the investigation and prosecution of the country's top generals.
A United Nations fact-finding mission reported last month that Myanmar's military systematically killed thousands of Rohingya Muslim civilians, burned hundreds of their villages and engaged in ethnic cleansing and mass rape.
It called for top generals to be investigated and prosecuted for genocide.

Myanmar demonstrators condemn foreign intervention

Afghan officials say the Taliban have attacked an army base, killing 17 Afghan soldiers and abducting 11 others.
Ghausuddin Noorzai, the district chief in Pusht Rod, in the western Farah province, says another four soldiers were wounded in the attack, which began late Saturday and continued into Sunday morning.
He says the Taliban also overran two checkpoints near the base, seizing weapons and ammunition.
Abdul Samad Salehi, a member of the provincial council in Farah, confirmed the death toll and said the troops defending the base received no air support or reinforcements.
The Taliban claimed the attack.
The insurgents attack security forces on a near-daily basis and have seized several districts across the country.

Taliban attack Afghan army base, killing 17 soldiers

, Oct 14 PTI) A 31-year-old farm worker  allegedly died after being struck by lightning at Pedayadara  village in Krishna district Sunday, a Revenue official said.
The incident occurred when B Jagapathi Rao, an  agriculture labourer was returning home from the field,  Machilipatnam Mandal Tahsildar K Srinivas said adding heavy  rains lashed the village this afternoon.
A case has been registered, police said.

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Democratic Sen Kamala Harris of California is making her first campaign trip to Iowa before Election Day, adding to speculation about a potential presidential run in 2020.
Harris plans to visit the state on Oct 22-23. It'll be her first visit to the leadoff presidential caucus state since she was elected to the Senate in 2016.
She's among a large group of Democrats, including several senators, who are contemplating a challenge to President Donald Trump.
Harris has gotten increased attention in recent weeks for her visible role on the Senate Judiciary Committee in opposition to Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Democratic Sen. Harris to make campaign trip to Iowa

Charismatic Malaysian politician Anwar Ibrahim won a by-election for a parliamentary seat with a landslide victory on Saturday in a grand political comeback to help him prepare for his eventual takeover from Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.
Anwar was designated as Mahathir's successor after the two men set aside a bitter feud and joined hands to win a stunning victory in May's general election.  Anwar couldn't participate in the election due to a sodomy conviction  a charge that he alleged was politically motivated  but he was freed and received a royal pardon days after the polls.
The Election Commission said Anwar received 31,016 votes for the parliamentary seat in the southern coastal town of Port Dickson, defeating six other candidates. His closest rival secured only 7,456 votes.
He will be sworn in as a lawmaker in parliament on Monday.
Anwar was once a high-flying member of the former ruling coalition but was convicted of homosexual sodomy and corruption after a power struggle ..

Malaysia PM-in-waiting Anwar wins parliamentary by-election

President Donald Trump said he looked forward to Saturday's Oval Office meeting with Andrew Brunson, the American pastor whose release after nearly two years of detention in Turkey was a diplomatic triumph for Trump.
"It will be wonderful to see and meet him. He is a great Christian who has been through such a tough experience," Trump said in a tweet confirming the White House meeting for 2:30 pm local time.
The president also asserted anew that he had made "no deal" with Turkey to win Brunson's long-sought freedom. "I don't make deals for hostages," he said.
Brunson was due at the White House following his brief stop at a US military hospital in Germany for a health assessment.
Trump also thanked Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had resisted the demands of Trump and other high-level US officials for Brunson's release. Erdogan had insisted that his country's courts are independent, though he previously had suggested a possible swap for Brunson.
Trump said the US greatly ..

Trump to meet with American pastor freed by Turkey

The Islamic State group stormed a settlement for displaced people in eastern Syria and abducted scores of civilians in the latest attack by the extremists on civilians, a US-backed Syrian force and a war monitor said on Saturday.
The area in Syria's eastern Deir el-Zour province has been witnessing days of intense clashes between IS and the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces amid bad weather and low visibility.
The SDF said in a statement that the fighting on Friday in the Hajin camp for the displaced left 20 IS gunmen and "several" SDF fighters dead.
It added that IS gunmen seized civilians by force and took them to areas in the last pocket of territory they control in the region.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors Syria's war, said as many as 130 families were abducted by the extremists.
The Observatory warned that IS might kill them.
The Observatory said the families are mostly made up of foreign women, including widows of IS members who had been .

IS militants abduct scores of civilians in eastern Syria

Torrential rains triggered flash floods and landslides on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing at least 27 people, including a dozen children at a school, officials said Saturday.
A flash flood with mud and debris from landslides struck Mandailing Natal district in North Sumatra province and smashed an Islamic school in Muara Saladi village, where 29 children were swept away on Friday afternoon, said local police chief Irsan Sinuhaji.
He said rescuers retrieved the bodies of 11 children from mud and rubble hours later.
The National Disaster Mitigation Agency's spokesman, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, said rescuers and villagers managed to rescue 17 other children and several teachers on Friday and pulled out the body of a child on Saturday near Aek Saladi river, close to the school.
A video obtained by The Associated Press showed relatives crying besides their loved ones at a health clinic where the bodies of the children were lying, covered with blankets.
Nugroho said two bodies were ...

27 dead in floods, landslides on Indonesia's Sumatra island

An influential body of newspaper editors in Bangladesh on Saturday criticised the government for a new digital security law that they say will stifle constitutionally protected freedom of speech and curtail press freedom.
Members of the Editors' Council told a news conference in the nation's capital, Dhaka, that they were not pleased that the bill was made a law despite their objections.
President Abdul Hamid approved the bill, known as the Digital Security Act, despite promises by three Cabinet ministers and an adviser to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina that they would address the journalists' concerns about some disputed provisions.
Shyamal Dutt, editor of the Bhorer Kagoj daily, said protesters would form a human chain in Dhaka on Monday to demand changes to the law.
The Editors' Council had postponed a street protest last month after the country's information minister said officials would look into the journalists' concerns.
"There is a Parliament session soon. We hope they will keep 

Bangladeshi newspaper editors protest digital security law

The Taliban held talks with the US special envoy tasked with finding a negotiated end to Afghanistan's protracted and increasingly bloody war, a Taliban official said Saturday.
In a statement, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the meeting with Zalmay Khalilzad was held Friday in the Middle Eastern state of Qatar, where the Taliban maintain a political office.
Taliban political chief Abbas Stanikzai led the five-member delegation that discussed with Khalilzad "ways of finding a peaceful end to the occupation of Afghanistan," the statement said.
It went on to say that the presence of "foreign forces" in Afghanistan was the biggest concern of the Taliban.
Mujahid said the two sides discussed "finding a good way for the withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan."
The US Embassy in Kabul said only that Khalilzad was in the Afghan capital Saturday meeting with President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah.
Khalilzad arrived in Kabul from Qatar, winding up his ...

Taliban say 'general' discussion held with US special envoy

A motorcycle rigged with explosives detonated at an election rally in northeastern Afghanistan on Saturday killing at least 14 people, including civilians and security forces, officials said.
Khalil Aser, spokesman for the provincial police chief in Takhar province, said 32 others were wounded when the explosives-laden motorbike parked near the rally in Rustaq district exploded.
"There are a number of wounded people in critical condition," he said.
The attack took place at about noon before Nazefa Yusoufi Beg, a female candidate running for a seat in parliament in October 20 elections, arrived at the rally, Aser said.
It was not immediately clear if she was the target.
Jawad Hajri, spokesman for the provincial governor, said Rustaq is a remote district where insurgent attacks have not occurred in the past and the candidate's supporters had gathered for the rally confident they would be safe.
Adeb Hamra, a local resident, said in a telephone interview that the district government ...

Afghan official: 14 killed in bombing at candidate rally

Yemeni rebel officials say an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition targeting Shiite rebels has killed at least 17 people in the port-city of Hodeidah.
A spokesman for the Houthi-rebel-run Health Ministry, Youssef al-Hadari, says that beyond the 17 killed there were also 20 wounded in the Saturday strike on the Gabal Ras area.
Hodeidah, with its key port installations that bring un humanitarian aid, has become the center of Yemen's conflict, with ground troops allied to the coalition struggling to drive out the rebels who control it.
The coalition has been locked in a stalemated war with the rebels since 2015. An estimated 10,000 people have been killed in Yemen's conflict, which has produced what the UN says is the world's worst humanitarian crisis.

Saudi-led airstrike kills 17 in contested Yemeni port city

Thousands of people are demonstrating in Berlin against racism and discrimination, a protest that comes amid concern about an increasingly confident far right.
A wide range of groups, including pro-refugee, gay rights and Muslim organizations, backed Saturday's "Indivisible" protest in the heart of the German capital under the slogan "solidarity instead of exclusion  for an open and free society."
Among supporters was Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, who in comments to the Funke newspaper group welcomed "a great signal" that "the majority in our country stands for tolerance and openness."
Last year's German election saw the far-right Alternative for Germany party enter the national parliament. Anti-migrant violence a few weeks ago in the eastern city of Chemnitz added to concerns.

Thousands protest in Berlin against racism, discrimination

Banned charcoal exports from Somalia are thriving, generating millions of dollars a year for al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremists  and often passing through Iran to have their origins obscured, according to UN sanctions monitors.
Six years after the UN Security Council prohibited exports of prized Somali charcoal to try to choke off a money stream to al-Shabab, an estimated three million bags of the commodity are making their way out of the Horn of Africa country each year, the monitors say in excerpts of a yet-unpublished report seen by The Associated Press.
The main destinations are ports in Iran, where the charcoal  already falsely labelled as coming from Comoros, Ghana or Ivory Coast  is transferred from blue-green bags into white bags labelled "product of Iran," the report says.
The bags are then loaded on Iranian-flagged ships and sent to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, with certificates claiming Iran as the charcoal's country of origin.
Iran "has been a weak link in ...

UN report: Banned Somali charcoal exports pass through Iran

Activists are protesting Hong Kong's disqualification of a legislative candidate on the grounds that she advocated self-determination for the Chinese territory.
Lau Siu-lai, who was stripped of her seat in the Hong Kong legislature last year, was barred by the government on Friday from running in a November 25 election.
Hong Kong authorities are trying to quash pro-independence voices ahead of the election.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and other officials have warned separatist activity will not be tolerated.
The pro-independence Hong Kong National Party was banned in September by authorities who invoked a 1997 national security law for the first time.
Pro-democracy activists complain Beijing interferes in Hong Kong's affairs in violation of its promise of a "high degree of autonomy" when the former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997.
Some have called for more autonomy or outright independence for this prosperous business center of 7.5 million people.
Authorities said ...

Activists criticize Hong Kong's ban of legislative candidate

The disappearance of journalist and US resident Jamal Khashoggi after visiting a Saudi consulate in Turkey has thrown the large number of diplomatic vacancies under President Donald Trump into the spotlight  notably in Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
It's a gap the administration says it has been trying to fix but with limited success.
Khashoggi's case and the fact that there are no American ambassadors in either Ankara or Riyadh have prompted concerns about dozens of unfilled senior State Department positions almost two years into Trump's presidency.
And, those concerns have sparked an increasingly bitter battle with Congress over who is to blame.
Aside from Saudi Arabia and Turkey, Trump has yet to nominate candidates for ambassadorial posts in 20 nations, including Australia, Egypt, Ireland, Mexico, Pakistan, South Africa, Singapore and Sweden.
At the same time, 46 ambassadorial nominees are still awaiting Senate confirmation, prompting angry complaints from the administration and ...

Saudi Arabia, Turkey have no US ambassadors amid crisis

Turkish officials have an audio recording of the alleged killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi from the Apple Watch he wore when he walked into the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul over a week ago, a pro-government Turkish newspaper reported Saturday.
The new claim published by the Sabah newspaper, through which Turkish security officials have leaked much information about the case, didn't immediately explain how officials there also reportedly have video of Khashoggi's alleged slaying.
However, it puts more pressure on Saudi Arabia to explain what happened to Khashoggi, who has written critically about Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, after he walked into the consulate October 2.
The kingdom has maintained the allegations against it are "baseless," though an official early Saturday acknowledged for the first time some believe Khashoggi was killed by the kingdom.
Authorities recovered the audio from Khashoggi's iPhone and his iCloud account, the newspaper said.
The journalist had ...

Newspaper says Turkey has audio of Saudi writer's slaying

Torrential rains triggered flash floods and landslides on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing at least 22 people, mostly children at a school, and leaving 15 others missing, officials said Saturday.
A flash flood with mud and debris from landslides struck Mandailing Natal district in North Sumatra province and smashed an Islamic school in Muara Saladi village, where 21 children were swept away on Friday afternoon, said local police chief Irsan Sinuhaji.
He said rescuers retrieved the bodies of 11 children from mud and rubble hours later.
The National Disaster Mitigation Agency's spokesman, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, said rescuers were searching for 10 other children still missing.
A video obtained by The Associated Press showed relatives crying besides their loved ones at a health clinic where the bodies of the children were lying, covered with blankets.
Nugroho said two bodies were found early Saturday from a car washed away by floods in Mandailing Natal, where 17 houses collapsed ..

Floods, landslides in Indonesia leave 22 dead, 15 missing

A car carrying migrants collided with a truck in northern Greece on Saturday, killing 11 people, police said.
Ten of the victims were believed to be migrants who crossed into the Greece from Turkey. The 11th person was the driver and a suspected migrant smuggler, police said.
Police said the car in which the migrants were packed had another vehicle's license plates and is suspected of having been used for migrant trafficking.
The car had not stopped at a police checkpoint during its journey, but it wasn't immediately clear how close to the site of the crash that it happened.
Police said the crash occurred just after 5 am (0200 GMT) near the town of Kavala.
The car, which had been heading to the main northern city of Thessaloniki, collided with a truck heading in the opposite direction and burst into flames.
All of the victims have been burned beyond recognition. The truck caught fire as well.
All those in the car were killed. The truck driver, a 39-year-old Greek man, was treated for .

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