News brief: Big stories of the day

Israel and Gaza militant groups agreed a ceasefire on Saturday, a Palestinian official said, after Israel launched dozens of air strikes against the Palestinian enclave's ruling Hamas group and gunmen fired more than 100 rockets across the border.

Karnataka's Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy on Saturday expressed his distress of being the head of a coalition government in the state. He described his plight similar to swallowing poison. 

As many as 15 people were publicly punished for violating Sharia law in Indonesia's conservative province of Aceh. The violators received canings in public for adultery, alcoholism and homosexuality. 

US President Donald Trump's summit with Russia's Vladimir Putin caps decades of efforts by the New York property tycoon to establish top-level relations in Moscow.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan today on Saturday poohed Rahul Gandhi's visit to Mandsaur to meet farmers, saying the Congress chief does not even know how an onion grows, news agency PTI Reported.