At least 15 dead in mudslide in Peru
Lima: An avalanche of mud and rocks crashed into a hotel during a wedding celebration in southeastern Peru, killing at least 15 people, authorities said on Sunday. “The avalanche broke through the walls of the hotel, entering into it with force,” the mayor of the city of Abancay, where the hotel is located, told RPP radio.
Baghdad to summon Turkey envoy
Baghdad: Iraq on Sunday said it would summon the Turkish ambassador over the death of a Kurdish protester after Turkish troops opened fire on demonstrators in the country’s northwest. On Saturday night, Kurdish protesters stormed a Turkish Army position in the Shiladzeh region of northwestern Iraq to protest the deaths of four civilians they said were killed last week in Turkish bombardment.
Record breaking floods hit n Australia
Cairns (Australia): Communities were cut off, farmers stranded and cows washed offshore as heavy rain pelted northeast Australia on Sunday, with one major river breaking 118-year-old floodwater records.
Four police dead in bomb blasts in Iraq
Samarra: Four Iraqi policemen were killed on Sunday in two back-to-back bomb blasts at one of their positions north of the capital, near a former jihadist bastion, local officials and officers said.
new constitution a non starter: Rajapaksa
Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Opposition leader Mahinda Rajapaksa has said Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s government lacks political capability and does not have adequate support in Parliament to pass the new Constitution, which he claimed that if introduced will divide the country. He also reiterated his demand for a fresh poll in the island nation.