New Delhi - Indian police sources said on Saturday that at least 18 persons mostly women and children were killed and hundreds injured in a stampede which took place at a religious gathering in the city of Varanasi in the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
KUWAIT -Security authorities arrest "big drug supplier."
BAGHDAD - Ten people were killed and 15 more got injured in a suicide attack in Baghdad on Saturday, the Iraqi Police said.
CAIRO - The Egyptian Armed Forces launched on Saturday a successful airstrike on gunmen's hideouts, killing a number of "terrorist elements" in a counter attack after the "terrorist attack on an army checkpoint last Friday in North Sinai." (end) nfm