World News Summary: Suicide bomber kills 3 in Afghanistan; Rohingyas see little hope for future

Rashida Begum abandoned her home in Myanmar and fled to neighboring Bangladesh a year ago, escaping an army crackdown that the United Nations has called "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing".

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Ten killed in a boiler explosion in Iran: Fars News

Ten people were killed and five wounded after a boiler exploded in a residential area of the city of Mashhad in northeastern Iran, Fars News reported in a Twitter post on Saturday. Three residential buildings were completely destroyed in the blast and 15 houses in the area were damaged, according to Fars.

Erdogan says commitment of all Turks needed to combat attacks on economy

The commitment and determination of Turks is the guarantee needed to combat attacks on Turkey's economy, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday, in his first comments on the currency crisis in days. Turkey's lira has tumbled some 40 percent this year as investor concerns over Erdogan's grip on monetary policy and a growing dispute with the United States put pressure on the currency.

Suicide bomber kills three near election office in Afghanistan's east, official says

A suicide attacker killed at least three people on Saturday by detonating explosives near the office of Afghanistan's election commission in the eastern city of Jalalabad, where dozens of protesters had gathered, an official said. The protesters had gathered in support of a parliamentary candidate who electoral officials had disqualified over his suspected links with illegal armed groups.

Trump cancels Pompeo's trip to North Korea over stalled nuclear diplomacy

U.S. President Donald Trump abruptly canceled his top diplomat's planned trip to North Korea on Friday, publicly acknowledging for the first time that his effort to get Pyongyang to denuclearize had stalled since his summit with the North's leader. Trump partly blamed China for the lack of progress with North Korea and suggested that talks with Pyongyang, led so far by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, could be on hold until after Washington resolved its bitter trade dispute with Beijing. It was a dramatic shift of tone for Trump, who had previously hailed his June 12 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as a success and said the North Korean nuclear threat was over, despite no real sign Pyongyang was willing to give up its nuclear weapons.

Pope says church shamed by 'repugnant' Irish abuse

Pope Francis marked the first papal visit to Ireland in 39 years by acknowledging that the failure of Church authorities to adequately address "repugnant" clerical child abuse crimes there remains a source of shame for the Catholic community. Francis arrived on Saturday for a highly charged visit to a society transformed since more than three-quarters of the population flocked to see Pope John Paul II in 1979 and beset by the kind of abuse scandals that have once more mired the Catholic Church in crisis.

Hotel equipment where British tourists died is safe: Egyptian prosecutor

The air conditioning system at a hotel where a British couple died in unknown circumstances while on holiday in Egypt is sound, the public prosecutor said on Saturday, citing a report by engineering experts. The prosecutor's office said it was still waiting for a medical report to determine what caused the death of John and Susan Cooper who passed away hours apart on Tuesday while staying at the Steigenberger Aqua Magic Hotel in Egypt's popular Red Sea resort of Hurghada.

Fire kills 19 people at hot springs hotel in northeastern China

A fire tore through a hot springs hotel in the northeastern Chinese city of Harbin before dawn on Saturday, killing 19 people and causing 23 others to be taken to the hospital, city officials said. Authorities are investigating the cause of the blaze at the four-story Bailong Hot Springs Leisure Hotel, an inexpensive spa resort visited mainly by domestic tourists, which broke out just after 4:30 a.m. (2030 GMT Friday).

A year since fleeing, Rohingya mother sees little hope for the future

Rashida Begum abandoned her home in Myanmar and fled to neighboring Bangladesh a year ago, escaping an army crackdown that the United Nations has called "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing". She now lives with her family at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, the world's largest, among some 700,000 Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar who have taken shelter there since last August. Her eight-month-old son was born in the camp.

Zimbabwe's Chamisa rejects court judgment confirming Mnangagwa as President

Zimbabwe's main opposition leader on Saturday rejected a court ruling that confirmed President Emmerson Mnangagwa as the winner of the July 30 presidential vote and said he had a legitimate claim to lead the country. The Constitutional Court dismissed Nelson Chamisa's challenge on Friday, saying he had failed to prove his allegations of vote fraud.

Russian opposition leader Navalny detained in Moscow: spokeswoman

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been detained in Moscow, his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh wrote on Twitter on Saturday. Yarmuth said Navalny had been taken to a local police station and that the reason for his detention was unclear.

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