News brief: Big stories of the day

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday saidalthough a lot has been done by his government, a lot more is left to be done to take the country forward.

On the day that theirtalks in Hanoicollapsed last month, USPresident Donald Trump handed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a piece of paper that included a blunt call for the transfer of Pyongyang's nuclear weapons and bomb fuel to the United States, according to the document seen by Reuters.

Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah filed his nomination papers on Saturday for the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat in Gujarat.

Heavy rains caused flash floods in western Afghanistan that killed at least 17 people, destroying homes and sweeping through makeshift shelters that housed displaced families, a government official said on Saturday.

Thousands of Gazans began gathering to mark the first anniversary of massprotests along the Israeli borderon Saturday, testing a fragile truce only 10 days ahead of an Israeli general election.