INDONESIA Police say a commuter train slammed into a passenger minibus at a railroad crossing in Indonesia’s capital, killing at least 14 people and seriously injuring 10 others.
AFGHANISTAN New Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor denies being wounded in a dispute with another commander.
FRANCE Negotiators adopt a draft climate agreement that is cluttered with brackets and competing options, leaving ministers with the job of untangling key sticking points in what is envisioned to become a lasting, universal pact to fight global warming.
COLOMBIA’s president hails the discovery of a Spanish galleon that went down off the South American nation’s coast more than 300 years ago with what may be the world’s largest sunken treasure.
CHAD A triple suicide bombing at a market on an island in Lake Chad kills at least 27 people and injures 90 others. A top police official blamed the carnage on Nigeria’s Islamic extremist group Boko Haram.
AZERBAIJAN One worker is killed, 30 are missing and 33 have been rescued after a fire swept through a Caspian Sea oil platform owned by Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR. The missing workers were in a lifeboat that fell into stormy seas.
UK Counter-terrorism police in Britain are investigating a stabbing at a London Underground station in which a suspect injured three people with a knife and reportedly said “This is for Syria.” Police arrested a man believed to be 29 years old late Saturday and said they are treating the attack at east London’s Leytonstone subway station as a “terrorist incident.”
VATICAN CITY The Vatican has engaged an outside auditor for its consolidated financial statements as part of economic reforms. The Holy See said Saturday it has chosen PricewaterhouseCoopers, which will get to work immediately on the 2015 audit.
IRAQ The presence of Turkish troops near the Islamic State-held city of Mosul in northern Iraq is a “violation” of international law, Iraq’s president said Saturday. President Fuad Masum called the move a “violation of international norms, laws and Iraq’s national sovereignty,” and said it was contributing to increased tensions in the region.
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