Hundreds rescued from Indian train trapped by flood

A boat taking people wearing life jackets moves away from a stranded train in Badlapur in the western state of Maharashtra, India, on Saturday. More than 800 people were stranded on the Mahalaxmi Express, which left Mumbai late Friday for Kolhapur but traveled only 60 kilometers before it became stranded after a river burst its banks during a torrential rain shower, covering the tracks.SD-Agencies

At least 20 killed in attack in Kabul

The death toll from a suicide attack on the Kabul office of Amrullah Saleh, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s running mate in the September elections, reached 20 with at least 50 wounded, officials said on Monday as cleanup operations began.

Saleh, a former intelligence chief and security adviser who is running for vice president with Ghani, was slightly wounded in Sunday’s attack on the office of his Green Trends party in central Kabul.

Athletes injured in S. Korea nightclub collapse

Eight athletes were confirmed injured in an incident on Saturday, in which a loft inside a nightclub collapsed in the South Korean southwestern city of Gwangju, where the 18th FINA World Championships is going on.

According to the Gwangju Fire and Safety Headquarters cited by Yonhap news agency, the loft, about 2.5 meters above the lower floor inside the nightclub, caved in on top of people at about 2:29 a.m. local time, killing two South Koreans. Yonhap earlier reported that nine athletes were injured.

EU lawmakers see higher risk of no-deal Brexit

The European Union lawmakers dealing with Brexit said there was an increased risk of a disorderly* British exit from the bloc after Boris Johnson became prime minister.

Johnson, the face of the “Leave” campaign in Britain’s 2016 EU membership referendum*, became prime minister last week, succeeding Theresa May, after he campaigned for the leadership of his Conservative Party promising to deliver Brexit on October 31, with or without a divorce deal with the EU.

The bloc has congratulated Johnson on his victory but was firm that it would not offer Britain better departure terms.

Two American teenagers jailed in Italy

Two American teenagers who were classmates at a California high school spent a second night in a Rome jail on Saturday after they were interrogated* for hours about their alleged roles in the murder of an Italian policeman.

Investigators contended in written statements on Saturday that the pair had confessed to their roles in the grisly* slaying. Vice Brigadier Mario Cerciello Rega, a member of the storied Carabinieri paramilitary corps, was stabbed eight times.

US resumes death penalty, schedules 5 executions

The U.S. Justice Department last week reinstated a two-decades-long dormant* policy allowing the federal government’s use of capital punishment and immediately scheduled the executions for five federal death-row* inmates.

“Congress has expressly authorized the death penalty through legislation adopted by the people’s representatives in both houses of Congress and signed by the president,” Attorney General William Barr said.(SD-Agencies)