At least eight people were killed and 17 others wounded after a suicide bomber blew himself up near a government ministry office in Kabul on Sunday, authorities said.


8 killed in Kabul suicide bomb attack


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Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik was detained by police on Sunday in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district.


Yasin Malik detained in Kashmir


A total of 1,692 Afghan civilians were killed due to conflicts and terrorist attacks in the first half of this year, hitting a record high, a UN mission said on Sunday.


Record number of Afghan civilians killed in first half of 2018: UN


India has strongly condemned the latest series of terror attacks in poll-bound Pakistan that have claimed over 150 lives.


India condemns terror attacks in Pakistan


Two Border Security Force (BSF) troopers were killed and one was seriously injured in a Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district on Sunday, officials said.


2 BSF troopers killed in Chhattisgarh Maoist attack


Four engineers were kidnapped from an oil field in southern Libya on Saturday, the state-owned National Oil Corporation (NOC) said on Saturday. Two of them were later freed.


4 engineers kidnapped from Libya oil field, 2 later freed


A number of bombings on political rallies over the past one week have shattered peace in Pakistan ahead of the July 25 polls, with the latest in the string being a devastating suicide attack in Balochistan on Friday that killed at least 132 people.


Pakistan mourns loss of 132 lives in savage poll bombing


At least seven people were killed and several others injured on Saturday in two explosions near the presidential palace in Mogadishu, police officials said.


7 killed as blasts strike Somali capital


Visiting Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday inaugurated here the world's largest state-of-the-art visa centre, equipped with a range of modern facilities and, promising shorter waiting times for applicants, and also discussed a range of bilateral and regional issues of mutual concerns, including menace of terrorism, with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.


India unveils world's largest visa centre in Bangladesh, discusses 'mutual concerns'


At least 128 people, including Balochistan Awami Party leader Siraj Raisani, were killed and nearly 200 others injured in a suicide attack in Balochistan on Friday. It was the third such attack on candidates in the run-up to July 25 polls.


128 killed in Pakistan poll meeting, IS stakes claim (Fifth Lead)


The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has summoned a Kashmiri journalist in connection with its probe against Aasiya Andrabi -- chief of the banned Dukhtaran-e-Millat, a separatist organisation -- and accused of waging a war against the state and delivering hate speeches in Jammu and Kashmir.


NIA summons Kashmiri journalist in Aasiya Andrabi case


At least 111 people, including Balochistan Awami Party leader Siraj Raisani, were killed and several others injured in a suicide attack in Balochistan on Friday. It was the third such attack on candidates in the run-up to July 25 polls.


111 killed in Pakistan blast targeting election meeting (Fourth Lead)


The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday summoned a local reporter to Delhi in connection with a case registered against Asiya Andrabi, chief of women's separatist group "Dukhtaran-e-Milat" (daughters of faith).


Asiya Andrabi case: NIA summons Srinagar reporter to Delhi


At least 85 people, including a political leader, were killed in a horrific suicide bombing targeted at a rally in Pakistan's Balochistan province on Friday. It was the third such attack on election candidates in the run up to the July 25 general elections.


85 killed in Pakistan blast, targeted at political rally (Third Lead)


At least 70 people, including a political leader, were killed in a horrific suicide bombing targeted at a rally in Pakistan's Balochistan province on Friday. It was the third such attack on election candidates in the run up to the July 25 general elections.


70 killed in Pakistan blast, targeted at political rally


A Pakistani political leader was among 19 people killed in two bomb blasts in Balochistan's Mastung district and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Friday.


Political leader among 19 killed in Pakistan blasts


Pakistan's Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Friday confirmed the death sentence of another 12 "hardcore terrorists", involved in heinous offences related to attacking the armed forces, law enforcement personnel, destruction of educational institutions and killing of innocent civilians, the military said.


Pakistan Army chief confirms death penalty of 12 terrorists


The UN human rights report on Jammu and Kashmir has ignored ground-level realities in the terror-ravaged state, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Friday.


Ground-level facts ignored in UN report on Kashmir: India


The Pakistan Foreign Office has expressed ignorance about a reported but unprecedented meeting of spy chiefs of Russia, Iran, China and Pakistan here over the growing threat to the region from the Islamic State in Afghanistan.


Not aware of Russia, Iran, China, Pakistan spy chiefs meet: Islamabad


At least four people were killed and 32 injured in a bomb blast that was targeted at the convoy of former Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani on Friday in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.


4 killed in blast targeted at ex-CM of Pakistan


A CRPF trooper was killed and two others were injured on Friday in a grenade attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district, police said.

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