AFP, Islamabad
A group of senior Taliban were warmly welcomed by Pakistani officials as they arrived in Islamabad Thursday, where the foreign minister called for a resumption of talks with the US on the war in Afghanistan.
Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban’s co-founder who spent eight years in a Pakistani prison, was greeted with hugs and smiles by Pakistan’s foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and spy chief Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed, footage released by the ministry showed.
At least seven dead as World War II plane crashes in US:
AFP, New York
At least seven people were killed when a World War II bomber carrying 13 passengers and crew crashed at an airport in the northeastern US state of Connecticut Wednesday, local media reported.
The Boeing B-17 aircraft, which the US Air Force deployed against Germany and Japan, crashed at Bradley International Airport while trying to land around 10:00 am (1400 GMT).
Protester killed in Yemen
separatist rally
AP, Sanaa
Yemeni officials and medics say a protester was killed and five were wounded as forces loyal to the country’s internationally recognized government used live ammunition to disperse a rally by separatists in the southern province of Shabwa.
According to the officials, dozens of supporters of separatists took to the streets of the southern town of Azzan on Thursday, to denounce President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi.
Nine killed as typhoon lashes South Korea
AFP, Busan
At least nine people were killed and several others missing after Typhoon Mitag lashed South Korea with heavy rain and strong winds, authorities said Thursday.
The storm hit southern parts of the country on Wednesday night, prompting flood warnings and triggering landslides in affected areas.
