News brief: Big stories of the day

As Kremlin announced last week about a meeting with John Bolton meeting top Russian officials, the US national security adviser said targeted China, Iran, North Korea including Russia over possible meddling in the US mid-term polls in November.

The IAF dropped relief materials in flood-hit regions of Kochi on Sunday. Aircrafts are dropping relief packages in all the flood-hit regions. Around 75 tonnes of relief material have been airdropped in affected areas.

India's wicket-keeper batsman Rishabh Pant, 20, who impressed everyone with the bat in India's first innings against England at Nottingham, became the fourth wicket-keeper to take five catches on Test debut.

Pakistan's Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa rebuffed claims from Kabul that Islamabad supported the Taliban in carrying out an attack in Afghanistan's Ghazni city.

A convoy of buses carrying dozens of the South Korean family members entered North Korea on Monday for a government-arranged reunion -- the first time since being separated from nearly 70 years ago.