At least 16 Taliban militants have been killed in separate airstrikes in Afghanistan within the past 24 hours, command of Afghan special forces said Monday.
U.S. President Donald Trump has directly told Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that he is tolerant of North Korea's launches since May of short-range ballistic missiles, diplomatic sources said Saturday.
Police in the US state of Texas have detained a suspect in a fatal mass shooting at a shopping mall in El Paso. They are investigating the incident with a number of possibilities in mind, including it being a hate crime against Hispanic immigrants.
Four militants, including a commander of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), were killed in two separate encounters with security forces in Baramulla and Shopian districts of Jammu and Kashmir in the last 36 hours, police said on Saturday.
-- Southwest China's Yunnan Province reduced its poverty-stricken population from 8.04 million in 2012 to 1.79 million in 2018, according to the survey team of the National Bureau of Statistics in the province.
Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong are set to defy Chinese authorities with another two major rallies later Sunday, a day after police fired tear gas to disperse them in one of the city's most renowned tourist districts.
A Thai government spokesperson said on Friday that Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha had ordered an immediate investigation into various bombing incidents, urging the public not to be panicked.
