HEART: Two suicide attackers struck a Shiite mosque in Afghanistan today, killing at least one person and wounding eight others, officials said, in the latest assault against the Muslim minority. The men stormed the grounds of the mosque in the western city of Herat, but security guards shot dead one of them and the other blew himself up before reaching the hall. AFP
Grace under probe for ivory smuggling
HARARE: Zimbabwean police are investigating former ruler Robert Mugabe’s wife Grace, accused of smuggling ivory worth millions to underground foreign markets, a state-owned weekly reported on Sunday. The Sunday Mail said investigators from the parks and wildlife authority handed documents to police showing that the former first lady “spirited large consignments of ivory to China, the UAE and the United States. AFP
4 held in Nepal for slaughtering cow
KATHMANDU: Four persons have been arrested in Nepal for allegedly slaughtering a cow, the national animal of the Hindu majority nation. A 70-year-old man named Hum Bahadur Rana was arrested on Friday from Jyotinagar area in Kapilbastu district with 30 kg beef, police said. On interrogation, police found that Rana had hidden a large quantity of beef, which he confessed during the investigation. PTI
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