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22:41 Prominent Muslim leader appeals to community not to consume beef

To send a message of social harmony, a cow milk party was today organised here during which a prominent Muslim leader asked people of his community not to consume beef for peace and harmony in the country.

Those who took part in the party were distributed cow milk with a message to discourage cow slaughter and consumption of beef. Noted Sunni leader and member of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, Maulana Khalid Rasheed Farangimahli who attended the party said "this will send a good message the world over...whenever anything goes out from Lucknow it reaches far off places".

"Even when riots took place in the country or during the Ayodhya incident, Lucknow remained calm and I appeal to Muslim brothers not to consume cow meat so that there is peace and harmony in our country," he said.

The speakers during the party said that at the time when one person is killed in Dadri on rumours of beef consumption and another is lynched in Himachal Pradesh on doubt of beef smuggling, the Milk party in Lucknow will send out a message of brotherhood and amity.

22:35 Security alarm near Rashtrapati Bhavan

In a major security alarm, an unidentified person was spotted flying a suspected helicam near the high-security Vijay Chowk intersection close to Rashtrapati Bhavan and Parliament today.

Helicams are remote-controlled mini aerial devices, fitted with still or motion film cameras, that are used to shoot aerial pictures or videos. Police said that the incident was reported in the evening after a media person spotted a foreigner standing on the pavement near Vijay Chowk with a remote control in his hands.

The foreigner was operating a flying object -- suspected to be a helicam -- which was seen hovering around 20-30 feet above the ground, said a police official.

The Rajkot administration tonight banned mobile internet services in the district, ahead of the India-South Africa cricket ODI to be played tomorrow, after Patel quota stir leader Hardik Patel threatened to stage a protest at the cricket stadium during the match.

"We have decided to ban mobile internet service from 10 PM tonight to 8 AM on October 19," District Collector Manisha Chandra said. "The ban has been imposed to maintain peace, stop spread of rumours and for smooth conduct of the international cricket match", she said.

The third ODI of the five match series will be played at SCA stadium in Khandheri village on the outskirts of the city.

The ban comes a day after Hardik had threatened that his community members would block the way of Indian and South African cricket teams to Saurashtra Cricket Association stadium and not let them enter the venue if he and his supporters are not allowed to go inside to stage an agitation.

The 22-year-old leader today said they have got tickets for the match and will go to the stadium.

21:57 MBA pass out refuses to take degree from Irani

A young MBA pass out has decided not to accept his degree at the first convocation of Islamic University of Science and Technology in Kashmir from Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani as a protest against "diminishing freedoms" in the country.

"Though, for a student, receiving a master's degree is no less than any prestigious award. But on October 19, (the Convocation Day) I Sameer Gojwari won't accept it," Gojwari, who completed his MBA from the IUST in 2008, wrote on his facebook page.

Gojwari's post came in response to unconfirmed reports that Irani will be giving out degrees to the pass outs of the IUST at the varsity's first ever convocation on Monday.

Ace Indian shuttler P V Sindhu today made it to her maiden Super Series final with a stunning upset victory over reigning world champion Carolina Marin of Spain in the Denmark Open in Odense.

The unseeded Indian beat the world number two and All England champion Marin 21-15 18-21 21-17 in a closely-fought semifinal that lasted one hour and 14 minutes at Odense Sports Park in the $650,000 Super Series Premier event here. This was 20-year-old Hyderabadi's first win against Marin in their last four outings.

Sindhu, a twice bronze medallist in World Championships, will now take on former world number one and reigning Olympic champion Li Xuerui -- ranked fourth in the tournament -- of China in the summit clash tomorrow.

Xuerui had beaten Korean seventh seed Sung Ji Hyun 21-8 20-22 21-10 in the other semifinal. Sindhu had never gone past the semifinals in the Super Series or Super Series Premier events.

CBI has recovered fake currency of Rs 4 lakh among Rs 27 crore recovered from Railway caterers during its searches in connection with alleged corruption in the supply of Rail Neer on premium trains.

Sources said during the searches, the agency stumbled upon cash which was so huge that it took 15 hours of counting the currency with the help of three counting machines and five officials of the agency.

They said cash recovery of Rs 20 crore was made from the residence of Shyam Bihari Agrawal, his sons Abhishek Agrawal and Rahul Agarwal who own RK Associates and Brandavan Food Product. Agrawal, who hails from Durg in Chhattisgarh, started as a small time caterer somewhere in 2004 and slowly increased the business taking the turnover of his company to around Rs 500 crore catering in almost all the Shatabdi and Rajdhani trains, the sources said.

They said cash of Rs 1 crore was recovered from the office of his firms while Rs 52 lakh was recovered from the residence of his Chief Executive Officer. The sources said CBI may slap charges of fake currency on Agrawal.

Geeta, the deaf-mute Indian woman living in Pakistan after accidentally crossing the border over a decade ago, has expressed desire to meet Bollywood superstar Salman Khan with family on her return to the country.

City-based sign language expert Dyanendra Purohit spoke to Geeta through online video call from a help centre for persons with special needs in Tukoganj police station.

Purohit later told reporters, "Geeta through her gestures has expressed desire to meet Salman Khan with her family. She is an admirer of the 49-year-old actor. She is also keen to return to India." Geeta will return home soon with the Indian government "almost completing the procedure" for bringing her back.

Geeta was reportedly just seven or eight years old when she was found sitting alone on the Samjhauta Express by the Pakistan Rangers 15 years ago at Lahore railway station. A couple based in Uttar Pradesh has claimed that Geeta is their daughter and were ready for a DNA test to prove their parentage.

Night curfew has been imposed along 380 Km Indo-Myanmar border in Ukhrul, Chandel and Churachandpur districts in Manipur for six months following a request made by Indian Army and Assam Rifles authorities.

The magistrates of the three districts issued separate orders in their respective districts prohibiting movement of any person within 3 km belt from the international border, government officials said. The curfew would be in force from 5 pm to 5 am, the officials said. Army and Assam Rifles deployed along the international border in Manipur are maintaing strict vigil to check night movement, they said.

Myanmar government had signed the ceasefire accord with eight out of 15 ethnic armed groups involved in the peace deal on Thursday, signalling an end to nearly six decades of civil conflict in that country. The impact of the ceasefire in Myanmar might have effect on the porous Indian border, the sources said.

Roiled by desecration of their holy book, Sikhs continued to hold protest in several parts of Punjab blocking key roads, even as chief minister Parkash Singh Badal today sought to assuage the community saying divisive forces bent on disrupting the peace will be exposed.

The protest also spread to Jammu and Kashmir as Sikhs held protests in Srinagar and Jammu cities. In Jammu, a large number of Sikhs held the protest march. Two fresh incidents of alleged desecration of Sikh holy book came to light yesterday in Tarn Taran and Ferozepur districts, leading to tension in both areas.

In Punjab, the protesters blocked roads traffic at national and state highways at various places, crippling traffic movement and causing inconvenience to commuters and keeping security personnel on their toes to prevent any untoward incident.

Public transport was also hit because of the protest as people as well as private buses remained off the road at several parts. Lahore-bound India-Pakistan international bus coming from New Delhi had to be diverted through Phillaur, Noormahal, Nakodar to Kartarpur in the wake of protest.

19:31 Iran fires mortar across border in Pakistan

Iranian border guards today fired eight mortar shells into Pakistan's restive Balochistan province but no loss to life or property was reported, a security official said.

The firing incident occurred early morning when mortar shells landed in a border village of Panjgur district. A security official said that at least eight mortars were fired across the border.

"Security forces were dispatched to the areas where the mortar fell. No loss occurred," he said on condition of anonymity. Iranians occasionally fire across the border to foil bids by smugglers to cross the border or efforts by the anti-Shiite militants to sneak into Iran's volatile border regions, authorities say.

BJP today claimed NDA will win a big majority in Bihar polls, asserting that it will bag between 55-65 seats out of 81 which have gone to polls in the first two phases amid claims by grand alliance leaders that they had so far got the better of the saffron combine.

Describing Prime Minister Narendra Modi as their "biggest advantage" against the JD-U-RJD-Congress alliance, a top BJP leader said Modi will hold 13 more rallies in the state, rejecting reports that the party had cancelled some of his rallies to shift focus from him, a point also made by disgruntled party MP Shatrughan Sinha.

Amid a lull of 12 days due to Durga Puja before the third phase of polling is held on November 28, the party leader said the NDA will lead the grand alliance of Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad by a big margin in the next phase and "sweep" the fourth phase, scheduled for November 1.

"Reports of Modiji's rallies being cancelled are totally misleading. No rally has been cancelled. We had announced that the Prime Minister will address 20 rallies in Bihar and he will be holding a total of 22 rallies, including 13 more," he said, adding that Modi will address four rallies each in the third and fourth phase and another five in the last phase. Party chief Amit Shah has held 29 rallies and will address 18-20 more.

A 57-year-old terminally ill company director has used his LinkedIn profile to announce the dates of his death next week and funeral before he ends his own life at a Swiss euthanasia clinic.

Simon Binner, operations director at a health and social care organisation Caremark in Sutton, was diagnosed with aggressive motor neuron disease in January following which he handed over his role to another person and became a non-executive director.

"I died in Switzerland with Eternal Spirit on Mon 19 Oct 2015 and my funeral was on Fri 13 Nov 2015," Binner's profile on the website, mainly used for professional networking, reads.

"As I was driven home I had already decided what I would gladly have to do when my time was upon me.

Three Palestinians were shot dead trying to stab Israelis in east

Jerusalem and the West Bank today, as violence that has fuelled international concerns of a full-scale uprising showed no let-up.

The deadly unrest that has raged for more than two weeks prompted a "very concerned" US President Barack Obama to call for calm as the UN Security Council held an emergency meeting yesterday.

Including alleged assailants, 40 Palestinians have been killed since the violence erupted on October 1. Seven Israelis have lost their lives.

The mounting death toll has prompted fears of a new Palestinian intifada, or uprising, like those of 1987-93 and 2000-2005, when thousands were killed in near-daily violence.

Two of the attacks today happened in the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron where some 500 Jewish settlers live in a heavily guarded enclave in the city centre surrounded by nearly 200,000 Palestinians.

Activists say a top commander in al-Qaida's Syrian affiliate has been killed in an airstrike.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says Abdul Mohsen Abdallah Ibrahim al-Charekh, a Saudi better known as Sanafi al-Nasr, was killed Thursday in an airstrike near the northern Syrian town of Dana.

The Observatory's chief Rami Abdurrahman said today it was not clear if al-Charekh was killed by US or Russian warplanes.

Jihadi activists on social media say he was killed by a US drone strike.

Al-Charekh, the alleged leader of al-Qaida's operations in Syria, was one of six men that the UN Security Council imposed sanctions on last year.

His death came three months after the US killed top al-Qaida official Muhsin al-Fadhli. Al-Qaida's Syrian affiliate is led by Abu Muhammed al-Golani.

17:08 Durga Puja pandal hopping made easy

Get Durga puja bhog delivered at your doorstep or avail guide to your favourite Puja pandals this year through various smartphone apps.

The Kolkata Police is promoting smart puja guide 2015 powered by city based startup developing Utsavapp that will offer easy guide to revellers based on their location to visit their favourite puja mandaps.

"Kolkata police has taken-up the Utsavapp for the 10 days of this Puja as Kolkata Police puja guide. It is a big thing for us that Kolkata Police has agreed to promote it," Utsavapp Chief Technology Officer Sumit Das told PTI.

After one follows the download and sign-in route, he can explore puja and choose location where to visit with google map.

One can find eight locations for searching famous puja pandal with locations in North Kolkata, South Kolkata, Central Kolkata, East Kolkata, Behala Area, Port Area, South East Kolkata and Jadavpur Area.

"You will find puja pandel after selecting a location, press your famous Puja and find the location with Google Map."

There is a SOS button on the app which can be used a person in distress to send his or her present location to friends and relatives.

You may also be lucky to get puja bhog delivered at your doorstep free meant for a lucky few on this Maha-Ashtami by the app-based cab operator Ola.

15:49 'I see women as my sisters' says Eshwarappa

"I see Karnataka women as my sisters. We ask the State Govt what they are doing," BJP's KS Eshwarappa on his controversial statement.

Senior BJP leader and former deputy CM K S Eshwarappa, who is popular for his controversial remarks, has landed in trouble once again. "What can we (Opposition parties) do if someone rapes you?" he told a lady journalist near Bengaluru on Saturday.

His shocking comments came at the funeral of a police sub-inspector, who was stabbed to death by robbers on Friday. His funeral became a political mela with politicians cutting across party lines attending it.

Two Iranians have been killed in a shooting attack on Shiite worshippers marking Ashura, one of the holiest commemorations of the faith, the official IRNA news agency reported.

Two people were also wounded in the attack in the town of Dezful in Khuzestan province, the news agency said.

The southwestern province, which borders Iraq, has a significant ethnic Arab community, some of it Sunni, and has seen a number of armed attacks in recent years, according to Iranian media.

The assailants opened fire on the Shiite place of worship from a car carrying no licence plates.

"It's not still clear whether the attack was a terrorist one," provincial police official Colonel Rahman Mousavi said.

"Investigators are reviewing the matter and will announce the results as soon as possible."

A group of Palestinians set fire overnight to a compound housing Joseph's Tomb -- a religious site in the West Bank venerated by Jews -- sparking condemnations from Palestinian and Israeli authorities.

The tomb appeared to be unharmed, but the fire marked another downturn in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after weeks of renewed violence, including the stabbings of Israeli civilians and clashes between Palestinians and Israeli forces.

Jews consider the site in Nablus the final resting place of Joseph, a high Israelite patriarch and son of Jacob who, according to biblical accounts, was sold into slavery as a boy but then rose to become a powerful figure in ancient Egypt, second only to the pharaoh.

Jewish devotees at times go to the tomb under Israel Defense Forces escort at night to pray. Christians also consider Joseph's Tomb a holy site. It's been targeted before -- including in 2011 when vandals painted swastikas on its walls.

Read more HERE.

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12:58 Mexico drug lord Guzman hurt eluding capture

Fugitive drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman eluded an operation to recapture him in northwestern Mexico in recent days, injuring his leg and face, authorities said, as the manhunt heats up.

Authorities said on Sunday that efforts to nab Guzman, who embarrassed President Enrique Pena Nieto with his brazen July jailbreak, have focused on the northwest region in the past few weeks after foreign governments shared intelligence information.

"Due to these actions and to avoid his arrest, the fugitive escaped in a hurry (in recent days), which according to the information that was collected, caused him injuries to his leg and face," the government said in a statement.

"It is important to specify that these injuries were not the product of a direct clash," it said, without specifying the extent of the injuries.

The authorities did not say exactly where and when the operation took place, but raids have reportedly taken place in the neighboring states of Durango and Sinaloa.

12:06 Minor gangraped in Delhi

A two-and-half yea old girl was kidnapped from a Ram Lila program in Delhi's Nangloi area and was allegedly gangraped.

The victim has been admitted to hospital.

'Repeated rape of minors is shameful and worrying. Delhi police has completely failed to provide safety. What are PM n his LG doing?' Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal tweeted.

Speculation is rising that Vice President Joe Biden is close to a decision on entering the 2016 US presidential race even as the White House has been silent and President Barack Obama evaded queries on the issue.

The immediate provocation appeared to be an email written by Biden's close aide Ted Kaufman to his supporters that the vice president's campaign would be "optimistic", "from the heart" and unscripted.

The email was written late on Thursday and yesterday the International Association of Fire Fighters informed Biden that its union will endorse him if he enters the race.

"If he runs, he will run because of his burning conviction that we need to fundamentally change the balance in our economy and the political structure to restore the ability of the middle class to get ahead," Kaufman wrote according to multiple media reports.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Biden is expected to announce in the coming days whether he will enter the presidential race and, at this point, signs point to him running for the Democratic nomination, people familiar with the matter said.

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute has its eyes -- and soon possibly one of the United States' premier telescopes -- focused on an anomaly that some astronomers can't quite explain.

Users on the online astronomy crowdsourcing interface Planet Hunters discovered a peculiar light pattern between the Cygnus and Lyra constellations a few years ago. The group uses publicly available data gathered by NASA's Kepler Telescope, which has been tasked with finding Earth-like planets by searching for the periodic dimming of stars that might suggest such a planet is passing by.

Read more HERE.

The 88-year-old author and Sahitya Akademi award recipient Prof Namwar Singh, has accused those writers of being headline hunters who returned their Sahitya Akademi awards or Padma awards to register their protest.

"I respect all my colleagues,but they should not have returned Sahitya Akademi awards. The awards were not given to them by the Govt but by the Sahitya Akademi," Singh said.

Asserting that the only way to end the civil war in Syria was through a legitimate, inclusive government there, US President Barack Obama has said that he hopes Russia would soon realise it can't "buy peace" in the

war-torn coutry through air strikes.

Obama's statement comes in the backdrop of Moscow continuing to bomb ISIS targets in Syria.

"(Russian) President (Vladimir) Putin believes that if he continues to do what he's been doing over the last five years -- and that is prop up the Assad regime -- that the problem will be solved. Our belief is, is that we have to go after ISIL and violent extremist groups," Obama told reporters at a White House news conference yesterday.

"But the magnet that the civil war there is serving in bringing in foreign fighters and recruiting people to this extremist cause will only go away if we're able to get a political track and a legitimate, inclusive government inside of Syria," he said.

So there's no meeting of the minds in terms of strategy between the US and Russia, Obama said.

The two officers who were raided by CBI last night have been suspended.

The Railway Ministry confirmed of the same in an official tweet.

"Ministry of Railways intend to suspend two officers raided by CBI," Railways Ministry said in a tweet on Friday night.

Earlier on Friday, the CBI had recovered Rs 20 crore in cash during searches at 13 locations against two former Northern Railways officials and seven private firms in connection with alleged corruption in supply of packaged drinking water other than mandatory 'Rail Neer' in premium trains.

09:37 MSF bombing: 'Pilots weren't told'

The initial findings of an investigation into a U.S. airstrike against a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan have concluded that the U.S. government was aware the site was a hospital, two U.S. officials told CNN Friday. But that information did not get passed to the correct military personnel, they said.

The officials declined to be identified because the investigation remains ongoing, and both emphasized the initial information could still change as the investigation proceeds. But Doctors Without Borders (MSF), who ran the hospital, "did everything right in informing us," one of the officials said. The location of the hospital "was in the military database" of restricted sites such as hospitals, mosques and schools that U.S. pilots are not allowed to strike even if insurgents are present.

Military investigators are reviewing all available audio tapes and other technical data that may have passed from a command center to the air crew, and also to a special operations forces unit on the ground that was talking to the plane.

Read more HERE.

Just in: 13 people died while 15 others were injured after a truck collided with a mini-bius in the Kandukuru area in Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh.

More details awaited.

And so, the controversy over big game hunting -- the killing of majestic animals as trophies -- erupts again.

This time the hunt was legal. And the animal was not Cecil the lion but a nameless elephant of enormous size and advanced years. The creature was, by some accounts, the largest elephant shot in Africa in 50 years.

And, legal or not, the central question remains: Is the thrill-killing of majestic animals, legal or not, acceptable? Or should big game hunting be relegated to the era of Teddy Roosevelt more than 100 years ago?

The hunter this time was not an American dentist, as was the case with Cecil the lion, but a German hunter who paid $60,000 for the hunt, according to the Telegraph, a British newspaper.

The animal was shot October 8, according to the Telegraph, and was estimated to be between 40 and 60 years old.

Read more HERE.

The United States has confirmed that Iran tested a medium-range missile capable of delivering a nuclear weapon, in "clear violation" of a United Nations Security Council ban on ballistic missile tests, a senior US official said.

"The United States is deeply concerned about Iran's recent ballistic missile launch," the US ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, said in a statement.

"After reviewing the available information, we can confirm that Iran launched on Oct. 10 a medium-range ballistic missile inherently capable of delivering a nuclear weapon," she said. "This was a clear violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1929."

The United States is preparing a report on the incident for the Security Council's Iran Sanctions Committee and will raise the matter directly with Security Council members "in the coming days," Power said.

The Supreme Court has said that it would seriously consider limiting the cracker bursting time on Diwali to between 5 pm and 10 pm.

Hearing a petition filed by three toddlers seeking a complete ban on crackers, a bench of Chief Justice H L Dattu and Amitava Roy on Friday asked solicitor general Ranjit Kumar and additional solicitor general Maninder Singh to consult the departments concerned in the government and come out with their response within a week to six suggestions given by the petitioner's counsel A M Singhvi.

The court posted the matter for October 27.

One of the suggestions which caught the court's attention related to limiting the cracker bursting time between 7 pm and 9 pm.

The bench thought it was too small a window and suggested that it could be from 5 pm to 10 pm on Diwali day.

Read more HERE

US astronaut Scott Kelly has set a new record for the most days spent in space by an American, marking October 16 as his 383rd day spent off Earth.

Kelly's record surpasses astronaut Mike Fincke's cumulative 382 days in space, NASA announced Friday.

On October 29, Kelly will make history again when he breaks Expedition 14 commander Michael Lopez-Alegria's record for the longest spaceflight by an American, which currently stands at 215 days.

Kelly has been living aboard the International Space Station, where he conducts scientific experiments and uses social media to document life aboard the craft.

Former Zimbabwe Test batsman Mark Vermeulen has been banned from all cricket activities for referring to black people as "apes".

The 36-year-old, who played nine Tests and 43 one-day internationals, made his views in a Facebook post in July.

Vermeulen was responding to a complaint by Prosper Utseya, which alleged that there was racism in Zimbabwe cricket.

"Racism is abominable and there can be no defence for it," Cricket Zimbabwe said in a statement.

On Friday, a Zimbabwean newspaper published an apology from Vermeulen. In it, the former international said that he had made a personal apology to Utseya, and that it had been accepted.

"I know my comments were over the top and I apologise to all that I have offended. But as a cricketer, it's how our minds work," he said.

Syrian troops backed by Russian airpower and allied militias opened a new front today against rebels around second city Aleppo, where Washington claimed up to 2,000 Iran-backed forces were deployed.

The offensive came as Turkey said it had downed a drone of unknown origin that violated its air space close to the Syrian border, and a monitor said the toll in the conflict had risen to more than 250,000 people.

The Aleppo offensive is the fourth that President Bashar al-Assad's regime has launched since Moscow began an air campaign on September 30.

Control of Aleppo city, once the country's economic hub, has been divided between the regime and rebels since mid-2012.

There and in the surrounding countryside the front lines have long been static.

A security source said the operation in southern Aleppo province was backed by Russian strikes and fighters from Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah militia.

And a US official said as many as 2,000 Iranian and Iran-backed forces were aiding the offensive.

The world is capable of ending global poverty in the next 15 years if countries make tough decisions to enact reforms that will spur growth, the president of the World Bank Group said today during a visit to Ghana.

Nations must also invest in their people and provide insurance so citizens don't fall back into poverty, said World Bank Group head Jim Yong Kim. He spoke in the capital, Accra, to mark the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.

Kim said the World Bank wants to improve the lives of people around the world and has two goals: "end poverty by 2030 and to boost shared prosperity for the bottom 40 percent of the population in developing countries."

However, he cautioned that reducing poverty by 2030 "will be extraordinarily difficult, especially during this time of low global economic growth, low commodity prices and pending interest rate hikes."

A positive sign is that the number of people who earn less than USD 1.90 a day is likely to fall below 10 percent this year to 9.6 percent, he said. Poverty in sub-Saharan Africa has fallen from 56 percent in 1990 to a projected 35 percent in 2015, according to World Bank figures.

Progress in many countries is challenged by a rapid population growth, the group has said.

A gunman opened fire at a Shiite gathering in eastern Saudi Arabia today, wounding four people before being killed himself, state TV said.

"A man who opened fire at a hussainiya in Saihat was killed," Al-Ekhbariya news channel reported, without saying how he died.

A hussainiya is a Shiite hall used for commemorations.

"Four wounded, including a woman, in the shooting," the channel said, adding that the attacker was 20 years old and his motives were unknown.

The shooting, in the Qatif area of Eastern Province, came two days after the start of commemorations of Ashura, one of the holiest occasions of the Shiite faith.

During Ashura last year, gunmen killed seven Shiite worshippers, including children, in the eastern town of Al-Dalwa.

The interior ministry said the suspects in the unprecedented attack were linked to the Islamic State jihadist group.

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