Odisha train accident: 'My mother was missing, I got a picture of the body'
The train collision in India's eastern Odisha state on Friday evening - the country's worst this century - involved two passenger trains and a freight train.
At least 288 people were killed and 1,000 injured.
The BBC spoke to villagers who witnessed the crash, and an injured passenger.
Suryaveer
My mother and my grandmother were on the train. They were going to the city to buy medicines.
I found my granny a few hours after the accident. She was alive. But my mother was missing. We looked for her everywhere but couldn't find her.
I didn't know what to do, so I forwarded a photo of my mother to all my friends and acquaintances. I shared her number as well and described the colour of the dress she was wearing when I last saw her.
Ukraine’s cross-border tactics are aimed at destabilizing Russia. Judging by the response, they’re working
Ukraine has opened a new front in its battle to drive out the Russian invader - in Russia. But it is oddly coy about admitting that it has sent troops, fired artillery, and flown drones into its neighbor’s territory.
The operations of Russian citizens, carrying Ukrainian military ID, wearing Ukrainian uniforms and attacking from Ukraine, remain officially opaque. It is Kyiv’s contribution to what’s become known as “hybrid warfare” in the “grey zone” of contemporary conflict.
The two terms provoked books and a tsunami of excited opinion from an army of pundits when Russia first invaded Ukraine in 2014.
Back then, “Little Green Men” in peculiar two-tone sport-hunting uniforms – and Russian military fatigues – appeared in Crimea.
Turkey's Erdogan sworn in for 3rd term as president
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was sworn in for his third consecutive term on Saturday after winning a runoff election last weekend.
The inauguration in the capital, Ankara, will be followed by a lavish ceremony attended by world leaders as well as NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg.
Erdogan's new five-year mandate will allow him to continue pursuing an increasingly authoritarian program domestically while charting an independent path as a regional military power amid global crises like Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the conflict in Syria.
His new government will also oversee efforts to rebuild after a devastating series of earthquakes in February killed 50,000 people and leveled entire cities in the southeast of the country — a disaster he was widely criticized over.
180 dead from Sudan fighting buried unidentified as battles rage
Blasts rocked the Sudanese capital Saturday, as fighting between warring generals entered its eighth week, with volunteers forced to bury 180 bodies recovered from combat zones without identification.
Witnesses told AFP of "bombs falling and civilians being injured" in southern Khartoum, while others in the city's north reported "artillery fire", days after a US- and Saudi-brokered ceasefire collapsed.
Since fighting between Sudan's warring generals erupted on April 15, volunteers have buried 102 unidentified bodies in the capital's Al-Shegilab cemetery and 78 more in cemeteries in Darfur, the Sudanese Red Crescent said in a statement.
Both regular army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his deputy-turned-rival, paramilitary commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, have issued repeated pledges to protect civilians and secure humanitarian corridors.
Man dies, 3 missing after heavy rain pounds Japan
A man died and at least three people went missing after heavy rain pounded wide areas of Japan, local authorities said Saturday, with the weather agency warning of an increased risk of landslides and flooding of rivers in eastern Japan including Tokyo.
Thunderstorms were observed developing in succession from Friday through Saturday morning in western and central prefectures, causing concentrated heavy rainfall.
The severe weather conditions were caused by warm and moist air blowing from tropical storm Mawar, which is passing south of the country, and a rain front near Japan's main island of Honshu.
The storm is expected to move eastward off Honshu later Saturday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.
Gunman kills 3 Israeli troops near border with Egypt
Israeli military says the attack by a man dressed in an Egyptian security forces uniform took place during operations against drug-smugglers in the Naqab desert.
Three Israeli soldiers were killed in an attack near Egypt’s border after a gunman wearing an Egyptian police uniform opened fire.
The Israeli military said an Egyptian policeman shot and killed two soldiers while they secured a military post at the Egyptian border early on Saturday. It said the Egyptian officer and a third Israeli soldier were killed in a confrontation inside Israeli territory hours later.
The Egyptian military said an Egyptian border guard crossed the border security barrier and exchanged fire with Israeli forces while he was chasing drug traffickers.
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