BBC News with Stewart Macintosh.
The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has described a missile strike close to a UN run school in Gaza as a moral outrage and a criminal act. The Israeli army said it was investigating the consequences of the strike. From Gaza, Martin Patience reports.
The UN says this is the third deadly attack on one of its schools since this conflict began. The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon described the latest incident as a moral outrage.
“I condemn this attack in the solemnest possible terms. It is outrageous, it is unjustifiable. And it demands accountability and justice.”
But Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev said Palestinian militants were ultimately responsible for the deaths. With no let off the fighting, the UN is now warning of a rapidly unfolding health disaster. It says Gaza’s medical services are on the verge of collapse.
A massive rescue and relieve operation is underway in southwest China, where state media says more than 360 people have died in a strong earthquake. Almost 2000 people were injured in the quake in remote mountainous area in Yunnan Province. John Sudworth reports from Shanghai.
One resident living close to the epicenter told state media that the streets looked like a battlefield after bombardment. Many building are reported to have collapsed, communications are being seriously affected and some roads are being blocked by landslides. News reports show that the rescue effort in the mountainous region is already well underway with troops carrying the injured to safety outstretches. A major relief operation has been launched with thousands of tents and beds being sent to the affected areas.
Fighters from the militant group Islamic State also known as ISIS in northwest Iraq have now seized two towns, an oil field and a main dam in the region of Mosul from Kurdish peshmerga militia. Eyewitness confirmed that black flags of the Islamic State group are flying over Zumar, a mainly ethnic Kurd community close to an oil field and nearby Sinjar, where thousands of people displaced by earlier fighting have taken shelter.
The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has offered Nepal 1 billion in loans to help build power plants and roads during a historic visit. Mr Modi is hoping to reach an agreement on a plan to harness Nepal’s significant hydro-electric potential to meet the needs of Nepal’s domestic market and India’s energy hungry economy.
My intention is to double the amount of electricity we are giving right now and to install transmission line soon. Right now, our electricity will remove Nepal’s darkness, but in a decade, electricity from Nepal will remove India’s darkness.
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International officials involved in the audit of votes in Afghanistan’s disputed presidential election say both candidates have now agreed to take part in the process. Earlier on Sunday, the audit restarted in Kabul without cooperation of one of the candidates Abdullah Abdullah.
A Roman Catholic priest detained in El Salvador for alleged links with a criminal gang has received demonstration of public support from hundreds of people in his hometown in Spain. The people took to the streets to demand the release of Father Antonio Rodriguez, declaring he dedicated 15 years of his life in the Central American nation to helping gang members turn away from crime. The priest is accused of smuggling mobile phones and other objects to gang members in jail.
The 2014 Commonwealth Games have drawn to a close in Scotland at a colorful ceremony featuring more than 2000 performers. There is a party atmosphere in the Hampden Park Stadium in Glasgow, where an appearance by the Australian pop star Kylie Minogue is expected to be the highlight. England topped the medals table with 58 gold followed by Australia who won 49. Speaking earlier in the day, Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond said the event would live long in people’s memories.
The overwhelming impression of Glasgow, Scotland Games is of a job extremely well done, seven years and more in the planning. And the Commonwealth Game is a wonderful display of international friendship and cultural exchange as well as sporting endeavour, can now go from strength to strength.
At the spot Kylie is now performing in Glasgow.
An Italian politician has demanded a judicial inquiry after a photographer was allowed to publish pictures of a famous statue of a naked Greek warrior, dressed in a pink feather boa and a leopard-skin thong. The 2500 year-old statue, one of the pair known as Riace Bronzes is housed in the museum Reggio Calabria in southern Italy.