India relocates 10,000 from around Kashmir as tensions rise
Updated 0850 GMT (1650 HKT) October 1, 2016
India relocated more than 10,000 people from around the disputed border area of Kashmir as tensions with Pakistan continue to escalate.
The two nations exchanged gunfire Saturday morning, with each side accusing the other of provocation, as tensions rose yet again between the two nuclear neighbors.
Simrandeep Singh, magistrate of Jammu District in India, accused Pakistani troops of firing across the Line of Control in two separate incidents. There were no fatalities, according to Singh.
The Line of Control divides Indian and Pakistani-controlled parts of Kashmir.
"We have set up 47 camps to accommodate those migrating from the border areas," he said.
Sons of El Chapo suspected of Mexican convoy ambush that killed five soldiers
Five Mexican soldiers were killed in a brazen ambush on a military convoy apparently launched by the sons of imprisoned drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, officials said on Friday.
The attack in northern Sinaloa state left two military vehicles completely burned out and dead soldiers scattered across a highway. Officials believe the ambush was launched to free a wounded drug suspect being transported in an ambulance guarded by the convoy.
“Up this point we are not certain about this group, but it is very probable that it was the sons of Chapo,” said the local military commander, Gen Alfonso Duarte.
Saudi Arabia to increase visa fees for foreign visitors and some Mecca pilgrims
Fees come as the kingdom tries to plug the gap in its finances caused by the slump in the oil price
Saudi Arabia will increase charges for visas for people to visit the country in order to complete Islamic pilgrimages.
The ruling Council of Ministers, chaired by Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Naif, announced that anyone applying for a visit to complete the Hajj for a second time will be charged SR2000 (£410) for each visit.
The same fee with apply for people wishing to complete the Umrah, a similar pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca but one that can be completed at any point in the year, for a second time. A visa for the first visit for Hajj will remain free.
Boko Haram region poised for world’s worst crisis, says UN
Without more donor support the emergency situation caused by Boko Haram will become the world's worst humanitarian crisis, a top UN official said Friday, as a massive appeal remained just a quarter funded.
United Nations assistant secretary general Toby Lanzer said the suffering in northeast Nigeria and surrounding areas was the worst he had ever witnessed.
"I have worked in Darfur," Lanzer told reporters, referring to the war-torn Sudanese region. "The scale and the depth of suffering that I have seen (in Nigeria) is unparalleled in my experience."
Nigeria-born Islamist group Boko Haram has waged a brutal insurgency in the country's northeast, with violence spreading more recently to western Cameroon as well as the south of Chad and Niger.
Against tradition and scepticism, India's Wall of Kindness flourishes
Amrit Dhillon
New Delhi: In a country where philanthropy has yet to take root, a simple idea is growing.
In Bhilwara, Rajasthan, India, a Wall of Kindness is groaning under the weight of all the clothes, books, shoes, school bags, kitchen utensils, and books that have been donated by residents.
A resident who had heard about the first wall of kindness in Iran contacted Pradeep Singh, secretary of the Urban Improvement Trust in Bhilwara. Singh was sceptical.
"I thought, first no one will give anything much and even if they do, it will be looted at night," he said.
Alfred Olango: Police release videos of fatal shooting
Following days of protests calling for justice over police killing of black man, El Cajon authorities release footage.
After days of protests, US authorities released on Friday two videos showing police fatally shooting an unarmed black man in California, but the low-quality footage, much of it without sound, was not likely to pacify outrage over the killing of yet another African American at the hands of officers.
The grainy cellphone and surveillance videos show two officers in a San Diego suburb confronting Alfred Olango, 38, in the parking lot of a restaurant before opening fire, one with a gun and the other with a Taser.
In the cellphone video, which lasts only about 17 seconds, a woman can be heard shouting: "Officer don't shoot him!" before at least four shots ring out and she screams.
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