Six French tourists and their local guide and driver were killed Sunday by gunmen riding motorcycles in an area of southwestern Niger that is home to the last West African giraffes, officials said.

Six French tourists among eight killed by gunmen in Niger

A former BJP Bandipora district president and current in charge of training wing for the part in Kashmir Waseem Bari has been killed along with father and a young brother in a terrorist attack.

BJP leader, his brother and father killed in terror attack in J&K's Bandipora

At least 43 people have been killed in attacks in northern Burkina Faso, the government said on Monday, in what local sources described as apparent vigilante reprisals for jihadist assaults.

At least 43 killed in attack on Burkina Faso villages

A policeman was killed and two others wounded Tuesday by a roadside bomb aimed at polio vaccination workers in Pakistan's restive northwest, officials said. The attack came a day after Islamabad launched a nationwide anti-polio drive, aiming to immunise tens of millions of children in Pakistan - one of only three countries, along with Afghanistan and Nigeria, where the crippling disease remains endemic.

Pakistan policeman killed as blast hits polio vaccine team

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Farrukhabad police shot and killed a man who held more than 20 children hostage, after staging a fake birthday party for his one-year-old daughter. Subhash Batham, the deceased criminal was accused of murder but had been out on bail.

Farrukhabad police killed hostage-taker whose wife was later beaten to death

At least 12 people were killed and two others suffered injuries after gas cylinders exploded in a perfume factory in Shahdara area of Lahore. An operation is underway to rescue the remaining people trapped under the debris.

Pakistan: 12 killed, 2 injured in gas clyinder blast in Lahore

Eight people were killed when a bomb exploded on Sunday in an area of northeast Syria controlled by Turkish troops and their Syrian rebel allies, Turkey's defence ministry and local emergency workers said.

Eight killed in bombing in Turkish-controlled northeast Syria

A car bomb detonated near a police event in Maidan Shahr city of Wardak province on Sunday, which killed three policemen and injured two, according to Tolo News.

Car bomb in Afghanistan's Wardak province kills three cops

At least 35 civilians were killed and 13 people were injured during an attack conducted by the Afghan government forces in southern Helmand province, two provincial officials said on Monday.

At least 35 civilians killed by Afghan forces in southern Helmand province

As many as 23 Taliban terrorists were killed in airstrikes carried out by Afghan security forces in the provinces of Kandahar, Ghazni, and Badghis, state media reported on Saturday.

At least 23 Taliban terrorists killed in airstrikes by Afghan security forces

One person was killed and at least nine others wounded on Saturday in the city of Villeurbanne near Lyon in central France after a suspected knife attack, a police source told Reuters.

One dead, nine wounded in France after suspected knife attack

Nineteen people died when a fuel truck barrelled into other vehicles in a busy town in western Uganda and exploded, police said Monday. The blast occurred Sunday evening in the Kyambura trading centre, a mountainous area near the Queen Elizabeth National Park.

At least 19 killed in Uganda fuel truck blast: Police

Three people were killed and at least 10 injured in riots Saturday night before a football match between rival teams after suspected fans attacked a bus carrying one of the two teams to the game, wounding three players, officials and the team said.

The old grudge between Honduras football fans sparks a riot that kills three

Three Palestinians were killed by Israeli soldiers in the northern Gaza Strip, the Palestinian health ministry said Sunday, hours after three rockets were fired at Israel from the blockaded enclave.

Three Palestinians killed by Israeli troops at Gaza border: Ministry

Eighty-eight people have died across 14 districts of flood-battered Kerala while 40 are missing, authorities said on Tuesday. As per official data recorded till 9 am today, 34 people have sustained injuries in the natural calamity.

Flood fury in Kerala kills 88 people, 40 missing

The death toll from a landslide triggered by monsoon rains in eastern Myanmar rose to at least 41, an official said late Saturday, as emergency workers continued for a second night their desperate search through thick mud for the scores feared missing.

Myanmar landslide kills 41, many more feared missing

At least five Taliban terrorists were killed in a drone strike by the US military in Laman area of Afghanistan on Saturday. According to Geo News, two missiles hit a house in the area, killing five militants affiliated with Hafiz Gul Bahadur terror group.

Afghanistan: 5 Talibani militants killed in drone strike by US

The Indian Army said Tuesday that "anyone who has picked up a gun (in Jammu and Kashmir) will be killed". The statement was made by Kanwal Jeet Singh Dhillon, Corps Commander of the Chinar Corps.

J&K: 'Anyone who has picked up a gun will be killed,' says Indian Army

Two vehicles carrying passengers collided head-on in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Wednesday, killing at least 16 people and injuring four others, police said.

Pakistan: 16 dead, four injured in road accident in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province

Australia on Friday acknowledged it may have killed as many as 18 civilians in an air strike on Mosul two years ago, during a massive and ultimately successful campaign to dislodge jihadi fighters.

Australia admits 'may have killed' civilians in 2017 Mosul raid

The death toll from the collapse of a Brazilian dam rose to 84 on Tuesday as mining giant Vale announced that moves to dismantle similar structures would hit production.

Brazil dam burst: Toll rises to 84, mining firm's output to be hit

As many as eight Taliban militants were killed in a clash with security forces in Herat province in western Afghanistan, officials said on Sunday. Ziarat Shah Abed, a top commander in Herat, was quoted by TOLOnews as saying that the skirmish occurred in Shayan village of Obe district in Herat when the Taliban launched an attack at an army check-post.

Eight Taliban terrorists killed in clash with security forces in Afghanistan

At least 13 people were killed Saturday in a double car bomb attack claimed by the jihadist Shabaab group near the presidential palace in the Somali capital Mogadishu, police said.

At least 13 killed in Somalia capital car blast: Police

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