New Zealand beat India by 10 wickets in the opening Test, finishing the game with one full day and a half to spare for a 1-0 lead in the two-match series here on Monday.
New Zealand knocked off the required nine runs in 1.4 overs.
Resuming on overnight 144 for four in their second innings, India lost the wickets of Ajinkya Rahane and Hanuma Vihari for the addition of only four runs to put the Kiwis on top.
The fall of Ravichandran Ashwin, trapped by Tim Southee, left the visitors reeling at 162 for seven, still trailing by 21 runs on a Basin Reverse pitch where the Indian batsmen were severely tested by Trent Boult and company.
Returning from an injury he had sustained during last year's Boxing Day Test against Australia, Boult finished with figures of 4/39, while his pace partner Southee picked up 5 wickets for 61 runs.
Opting to field after winning the toss, New Zealand bowled out India for 165 in their first innings and then, riding skipper Kane Williamson's 89 and useful knocks by 

India lose opening Test by 10 wickets, New Zealand go 1-0 ahead

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Scoreboard on day four of the opening Test between India and New Zealand here on Monday.
India 2nd Innings:
Prithvi Shaw
c Latham b Boult
14
Mayank Agarwal c Watling b Southee
58
Cheteshwar Pujara
b Boult
11
Virat Kohli
c Watling b Boult
19
Ajinkya Rahane
c Watling b Boult
29
Hanuma Vihari
b Southee
15
Rishabh Pant c Boult b Southee 25
Ravichandran Ashwin lbw b Southee 4
Ishant Sharma lbw b de Grandhomme 12
Mohammed Shami not out 2
Jasprit Bumrah c Daryl Mitchell b Southee 0
Extras: 2 (w-2)
Total: 191 all out in 81 over
Fall of wickets: 27-1, 78-2, 96-3, 113-4, 148-5, 148-6, 162-7, 189-8, 191-9
Bowling: Tim Southee 21-6-61-5, Trent Boult 22-8-39-4, Colin de Grandhomme 16-5-28-1, Kyle Jamieson 19-7-45-0, Ajaz Patel 3-0-18-0.

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India were all out for 191 in their second innings of the first Test against New Zealand here on Monday, leaving the hosts with only nine runs to take a 1-0 lead in the two-match series.
Resuming on overnight 144 for four in their second innings, India lost the wickets of Ajinkya Rahane and Hanuma Vihari for the addition of only four runs to put the Kiwis on the top.
The fall of Ravichandran Ashwin, trapped by Tim Southee, left the visitors reeling at 162 for seven, still trailing by 21 runs on a Basin Reverse pitch where the Indian batsmen were severely tested by Trent Boult and company.
Returning from an injury he sustained during last year's Boxing Day Test against Australia, Boult finished with figures of 4/39, while his pace partner Southee picked up five wickets for 61 runs.
Brief scores:
India: 165 all out & 191 all out in 81 overs (Mayank Agarwal 58; Trent Boult 4/39, Tim Southee 5/61).
New Zealand: 348 all out in 100.2 overs (Kane Williamson 89, Ross Taylor 44, Kyle ...

India all out for 191 in second innings of opening Test against New Zealand

Israel said Sunday it struck bases of the Islamic Jihad militant group near Damascus, while Syria claimed that its air defences shot down "enemy missiles".
The Israeli army said in a statement that fighter jets "struck Islamic Jihad terror targets south of Damascus," following rocket fire from the Gaza Strip.
"In the Adeliyah region, outside of Damascus, an Islamic Jihad compound was struck, used as a hub of Islamic Jihad's activity in Syria," it added, while confirming a number of other strikes in Gaza.
Islamic Jihad operates in both the Palestinian territories and Syria and fired more than 20 rockets from Gaza throughout Sunday.
An AFP correspondent in Damascus heard several strong explosions shortly before midnight (2200 GMT).
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the attacks were "near the Damascus international airport".
The Syrian state news agency Sana said "most of the enemy missiles were shot down before reaching their targets," stressing that "no airport" was ...

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The Israeli army carried out airs trikes against Islamic Jihad in Syria on Sunday in response to rocket fire from Gaza, it announced.
A statement said Israeli "fighter jets struck Islamic Jihad terror targets south of Damascus, as well as dozens of Islamic Jihad terror targets throughout the Gaza Strip," in response to more than 20 rockets and mortars fired from the Palestinian enclave throughout the day.

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Haitian police demanding better working conditions shot up the army headquarters Sunday, the head of the armed forces said.
Media reports said six people were wounded in the attack in Port-au-Prince.
"We are under siege. We are coming under fire with all kinds of weapons -- assault rifles, Molotov cocktails, tear gas," General Jodel Lessage told AFP.
He said soldiers had returned fire but did not give an injury toll, nor could he say how many people were at the army headquarters, near the presidential palace, at the time of the attack.
For months, Haitian police have been demanding better working conditions, in particular the right to form a union so as to ensure transparency in talks with the police hierarchy.
Last week, some officers took to the street, blocking them and setting fire to cars.
On Saturday, President Jovenel Moise announced measures designed to ease the crisis, including the creation of a compensation fund for families of police who die in the line of duty and a fund .

Disgruntled Haitian police attack army HQ

Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders has said that if elected president he would "absolutely" use the military if warranted, both to protect US interests and to support its allies.
He also said he would be willing to meet with the North Korean dictator, Kim Jong Un, as President Donald Trump has done.
Sanders has emerged with an early lead in the Democratic nominating process, and as a self-declared democratic socialist his foreign and security policies are starting to draw closer scrutiny. But he has denied being a pacifist.
In an interview airing Sunday on CBS's "60 Minutes," the Vermont senator was asked in what circumstances he, as commander-in-chief, would deploy US military forces. He listed these criteria: "Threats against the American people, to be sure. Threats against our allies. I believe in NATO.
"I believe that the United States, everything being equal, should be working with other countries in alliance, not doing it alone." - 'We will not sit by'
When the interviewer ...

Sanders would 'absolutely' use military if needed

- The Canadian government warned Sunday that indigenous protests that have blocked rail lines for more than two weeks could cripple the economy, and urged a swift resumption of dialogue to end the crisis.
The main blockades -- which were set up around the country 18 days ago to protest a natural gas pipeline being built across indigenous lands in British Columbia -- were still in place Sunday, two days after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called for their immediate lift.
What had started as a localised protest by members of the Wet'suwet'en tribe opposed to the pipeline quickly spread across the country as others joined efforts to "shut down Canada."
On Saturday, leaders of that tribe reiterated their conditions for restarting talks: complete withdrawal of federal police from their ancestral lands and suspension of work on the pipeline by the company Coastal GasLink.
"We are working at the federal level to try to resume dialogue, for hereditary leaders to accept the fact that we agree .

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One protester was shot dead and at least six wounded in renewed violence between anti-government demonstrators and security forces in central Baghdad on Sunday, Iraqi officials said.
Separately, Prime Minister-designate Mohammed Allawi received a call from US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo who congratulated him on his nomination and emphasised joint coordination between Iraq and the US as relations between the two countries soured after a Washington-directed attack January 3 near Baghdad airport killed top Iranian general Qassem Solimani.
One protester was killed in Baghdad's central Khilani Square Sunday evening and at least six were wounded when security forces fired live rounds to disperse crowds, Iraqi security and medical officials said. The clashes occurred near the Sinak bridge, which was recently reopened by security forces after protesters had blocked access for months.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.
Protesters continue to occupy ...

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- DR Congo forces have killed six fighters of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) in two operations targeting the group accused of killing nearly 400 civilians since November 2019, the army said Sunday.
The main action took place early in the day east of Beni, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
"The toll is five ADF cutthroats neutralised, one captured and one soldier wounded," army spokesman brigadier general Sylvain Ekenge told AFP.
Separately, "the army pounded an ADF position" near Beni and killed another fighter, he said.
DR Congo forces "have adapted their tactics against the ADF by becoming highly mobile, which allowed patrols to intercept ADF fighters trying to massacre civilians" in the area, the spokesman said.
"The captured terrorist is being interrogated and will reveal the true identity of these cutthroats," who use rifles as well as machetes, the army statement said.
The ADF began as an Islamist-rooted rebel group in Uganda that opposed President Yoweri Museveni.
It 

DR Congo army kills six fighters accused of massacres

Austria halted all train traffic to and from Italy following fears that a train on Sunday night had two people on board who may have been infected with the COVID-19 virus, authorities said.
The train was stopped at the Brenner crossing on the Italian side, Austrian Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said, according to Austrian broadcaster ORF.
The train came from Venice in Italy and was on its way to Munich. Austria, which shares its southern border with Italy has expressed concern about the recent outbreak of the virus in the north of the country.
The region has seen the number of infected people in the country soar to at least 152, the most outside Asia.

Austria stops all trains to and from Italy over virus fears

Italy scrambled Sunday to check the spread of the new viral disease amid rapidly rising numbers of infections in the country and a third death, calling off the Venice Carnival attended by thousands of revelers, scrapping major league soccer matches in the stricken area and shuttering theatres, including Milan's legendary La Scala.
Also rising was concern in Europe, including by neighbouring Austria, which dangled the spectre of closing its border if the health emergency worsens.
The decision to call off Carnival was announced by Veneto regional Gov. Luca Zaia as the numbers of confirmed virus cases soared to 152, the largest number outside Asia.
"The ordinance is immediately operative and will go into effect at midnight,'' said Zaia, whose area includes Venice, where thousands packed St Mark's Square. Carnival would have run through Tuesday.
Road blocks were set up in at least some of 10 towns in Lombardy at the epicentre of the outbreak, including in Casalpusterlengo, to keep people .

Italy cancels Venice Carnival in bid to halt spread of virus

Three children were killed and seven other members of the same family were seriously injured when a gas tank for cooking exploded in their home Sunday in northern Macedonia, authorities said.
Police said that the three children, an 8-year-old boy, and girls aged 9 and 11, died instantly when the gas tank exploded in the living room of a family house in the village of Romanovce.
Firefighters later extinguished the blaze.
Local media later reported that the gas tank exploded while the Albanian-minority family was preparing breakfast.
Health authorities said the seven injured, including four women, one of whom is pregnant, and a 10-year-old boy were brought to a clinic in the capital, Skopje, with serious burns.
Health Minister Venko Filipce said three of the women, ranging in age from 40 to 45, were transferred to intensive care with severe burns and were in life-threatening condition.
The injured boy was later also transferred to intensive care, with burns over 60 per cent of his body.

3 children killed in gas tank explosion in North Macedonia

President Donald Trump said Sunday that he has never been briefed about Russian efforts to help Bernie Sanders win the Democratic presidential nomination and he accused the Democratic chairman of the House Intelligence Committee of leaking election security information from a classified briefing.
Sanders acknowledged on Friday that he was briefed last month by U.S. officials about Russian efforts to boost his chances to be the nominee against Trump in November.
"I read where Russia is helping Bernie Sanders," Trump told reporters before leaving on a trip to India. Nobody said it to me. Nobody said it to me at all. Nobody briefed me about that at all. ... They leaked it.
He accused Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the committee chairman who played a lead role in Trump's impeachment, of leaking information from a classified briefing.
Schiff and his group, they leaked it to the papers and as usual, Trump said.
They ought to investigate Adam Schiff for leaking that information. He should ..

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A "bomb attack" on a rally in support of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed injured nearly 30 people Sunday, a police official said, in the latest sign of instability ahead of elections in August.
The incident occurred in the town of Ambo, located roughly 100 kilometres (60 miles) west of the capital, Addis Ababa.
"The bomb attack on a rally for Dr Abiy has injured 29 people, of whom 28 have been treated and sent home," Arasa Merdasa, the top police official in Ethiopia's Oromia region, where Ambo is located, told the state-run Ethiopian News Agency.
"Police have arrested six people who are suspected in the attack," Arasa said.
Ethiopia's electoral board has scheduled landmark national polls for August 29.
Opposition parties and civil society organisations have questioned whether the elections will be peaceful and credible, citing persistent ethnic violence since Abiy was appointed in 2018 following several years of anti-government protests.
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A magnitude 5.7 earthquake in northwestern Iran on Sunday killed nine people, including children, in neighbouring Turkey and injured dozens on both sides of the border, authorities said.
Ambulances and teams of medics rushed to the scene after the quake left homes in piles of rubble in eastern Turkey, picking through the wreckage, while nearby schools were also reported damaged.
Turkish officials said four children were among the nine dead, and Iran reported more than 65 people injured, including 39 who were hospitalised.  In Turkey, the earthquake was felt mostly in the eastern district of Baskale in Van province on the Iran border.
"We have right now no citizens trapped under the rubble," Turkey's Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said.
At least 37 people were injured, nine in critical condition.
The epicentre of the quake, which struck at 0553 GMT was near the Iranian village of Habash-e Olya, less than 10 kilometres (six miles) from the border, according to the US Geological ...

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An elderly cancer patient became the third person known to be infected with the coronavirus to die in Italy, health officials said on Sunday, as the number of people contracting the virus continued to mount.
The death of the woman in a hospital in the small city of Crema in Lombardy, the centre of Italy's coronavirus scare, followed that of a 77-year-old woman on Saturday and a 78-year-old man on Friday, the first victim of coronavirus in Europe.
The head of Italy's civil protection department, Angelo Borrelli, said during a news conference that 152 people had now tested positive for the virus, including the three deceased.
The cancer patient had been hospitalised for a few days, said Lombardy's health chief, Giulio Gallera.
"She'd been tested and they already knew she had the coronavirus," Gallera said, adding that it was too early to know whether the virus was the actual cause of death.
The deaths, and steadily rising cases of infected people, have prompted a series of security ...

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Palestinian militants fired some 20 rockets toward southern Israel on Sunday evening, the Israeli military said, hours after Israel said it killed a Palestinian militant who tried to place a bomb along the Israel-Gaza barrier fence.
There was no immediate claim for the rocket fire, but it appeared to be meant to avenge the death of the militant. Palestinians were furious over the image of the man's lifeless body dangling off the front of an Israeli bulldozer that had crossed into Gaza to retrieve it.
There was also criticism in Gaza of the territory's Hamas rulers for not responding. Israel said another Palestinian militant was shot and wounded in the clash.
The Israeli military reported air raid sirens throughout southern Israel, and said at least 20 rockets had been fired. There were no reports of damage or injuries on the Israeli side, but it was the heaviest barrage of rockets from the Gaza Strip in several months.
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Model, restaurateur and lifestyle guru Barbara "B." Smith has died at her Long Island home, her family announced in a statement on social media. She was 70.
Smith died Saturday evening after battling early onset Alzheimer's disease, which she was diagnosed with in 2013. She and her husband, Dan Gasby, raised awareness of the disease, and particularly its impacts on the African-American community, following her diagnosis.
"Heaven is shining even brighter now that it is graced with B.'s dazzling and unforgettable smile," Gasby said in a lengthy Facebook post honoring her life.
Smith wrote three cookbooks, founded three successful restaurants and launched a nationally syndicated television show and a magazine.
Her successful home products line was the first from a black woman to be sold at a nationwide retailer when it debuted in 2001 at Bed Bath & Beyond. In 1976, she became the second black model to be on the cover of Mademoiselle magazine, after Joli Jones in 1969.
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It was the Trumpiest of offers.
A rally at one of the world's largest stadiums. A crowd of millions cheering him on. A love fest during an election year.
President Donald Trump's packed two-day visit to India promises the kind of welcome that has eluded him on many foreign trips, some of which have featured massive protests and icy handshakes from world leaders.
He is expected to receive a warm embrace from the ideologically aligned and hug-loving Prime Minister Narendra Modi, complete with a massive rally soon after his arrival Monday and then a sunset visit to the Taj Mahal.
After hosting Modi at a Howdy Modi rally in Houston last year that drew 50,000 people, Modi will return the favor with a Namaste Trump rally (it translates to, "Greetings, Trump) at the world's largest cricket stadium in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. Tens of thousands are expected to line the streets.
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Iran's confirmed death toll from the new coronavirus rose to eight on Sunday, the highest outside China, sending neighbouring countries scrambling to contain the outbreak.
Turkey said it would "temporarily" shut its border with Iran, while Pakistan also said it was closing its frontier with the Islamic republic and Afghanistan banned all ground and air travel between the two nations.
The moves come amid growing regional concerns about the spread of the virus.
Lebanon on Friday confirmed its first case -- a 45-year-old Lebanese woman who had travelled from Qom in Iran -- and Israel on Sunday quarantined at home nearly 200 school pupils who came into contact with South Korean tourists who contracted the virus.
Iran on Sunday reported three more novel coronavirus deaths among 15 new cases in the past 24 hours, taking its total number of fatalities to eight and infections to 43.
Four new COVID-19 cases surfaced in Tehran, seven in the holy city of Qom, two in Gilan and one each in Markazi 

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