23 May 2014 Last updated at 08:31
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. Afghanistan is experiencing a rise in insurgent attacks as foreign troops plan to withdraw from the country by the end of the year.
Lizzy Davies
Thailand coup: Yingluck meets military leaders
Ousted Thai leader Yingluck Shinawatra has appeared at a military facility in Bangkok, a day after the army took power in a coup.
Ms Yingluck is one of more than 100 political figures summoned by the army.
The army has banned 155 prominent political figures from leaving the country without permission.
On Thursday the military suspended the constitution, banned gatherings and detained politicians, saying order was needed after months of turmoil.
On Friday afternoon it appeared Ms Yingluck had left the facility where she had been summoned and was going to another military location, the BBC's Jonah Fisher reports from Bangkok.
It was not clear if she was still being detained, our correspondent says.
The leaders of both her Pheu Thai party and the opposition Democrats were released from military detention overnight, he adds.
Indian consulate attacked in Afghanistan
Insurgents killed by police after unleashing machine gun fire and rocket-propelled grenades against diplomatic post in Herat
Gunmen armed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades attacked the Indian Consulate in western Afghanistan's Herat province on Friday in an assault that injured no diplomatic staff, police said.
Indian diplomats said there had been a threat against its diplomats in Afghanistan but gave no other details.
Two gunmen were killed by police after a group opened fire on the consulate from a nearby home, provincial police chief Abdul Sami Qatra said.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. Afghanistan is experiencing a rise in insurgent attacks as foreign troops plan to withdraw from the country by the end of the year.
Mafia ‘super boss’ turns state witness
Antonio Iovine is one of the four bosses of infamous Casalesi clan
Lizzy Davies
A so-called super boss of a powerful clan within the Camorra mafia has turned state witness and is collaborating with investigators in Naples, Italian media reported yesterday.
Antonio Iovine, one of the four bosses of the infamous Casalesi clan, started answering the questions of anti-mafia prosecutors this month, La Repubblica wrote. The Naples daily Il Mattino declared it “a historic choice”.
Aged 49, but known to all as o’ninno (the baby) for his youthful face and rapid ascent of the Casalesi power structure, Iovine is thought to have led the business side of the clan’s activities before his arrest in 2010 and subsequent jailing for life.
'They should be chopped into minced meat': Fury in Xinjiang as terror toll rises
May 23, 2014 - 4:23PMPhilip Wen and Sanghee Liu
Urumqi: Anger and shock were the main emotions at the scene of the latest terrorist attack in China's far west.
“These bastards should be shot to death,” one man, who lived in the street, said on Friday.
"They should be chopped into minced meat," said another woman, who declined to be named.
The toll from the deadly blasts at a morning market in Urumqi was likely to rise, state media said, as outrage over the worst attack in a recent terror wave threatened to exacerbate ethnic divisions in China’s troubled far-western region of Xinjiang.Did Robert Mugabe fake a flood in Zimbabwe this February?
Human Rights Watch alleges that villagers were evacuated from a 'national disaster' and put to work as cheap labor in sugarcane fields.
This February 3,000 families were driven out of an area in southeast Zimbabwe known as Tokwe-Mukosi when flood waters rose dramatically.
The flood was proclaimed a “national disaster” by Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe, after state media reported it was caused by the broken wall of a dam.
International donors pledged food and humanitarian aid, which has been steadily delivered.
In an operation conducted partly by the military, the displaced and destitute families -- about 20,000 people -- were quickly whisked off and resettled in a “transit camp” of tents 80 miles away, on something called the Nuanetsi Ranch.
The ranch is home to sugarcane fields that feed a large ethanol production facility that is also on the ranch. The sugar cane and ethanol project is jointly owned by Mr. Mugabe’s political party, Zanu (PF), and a controversial Zimbabwe businessman named Billy Rautenbach, sometimes called “Africa’s Napoleon.”Despite Obama's new rules, no end in sight for drone war
By Matt Spetalnick, Mark Hosenball and Yara Bayoumy3 hours ago
When a barrage of drone-fired missiles hit al Qaeda cells in Yemen in mid-April and killed dozens of militants, the results were strikingly different from a mistaken U.S. attack on a Yemeni wedding convoy just four months earlier.
But even though the drones apparently found their targets this time, they were still blamed for a number of civilian deaths.
It was a stark reminder that a year after Obama laid out new conditions for drone attacks around the world, U.S. forces are failing to comply fully with the rules he set for them: to strike only when there is an imminent threat to Americans and when there is virtually no danger of taking innocent lives.
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