KANDAHAR. — A bomb killed 13 civilians, including women and children, in southern Afghanistan yesterday as they travelled to attend the funeral of earlier bomb victims, police said.

WASHINGTON. — Unknown gunmen opened fire at a Mother’s Day parade in New Orleans on Sunday, wounding 19 people in an incident the FBI attributed to “street violence.”

MOSCOW. — President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree waiving visa requirements for foreign athletes, coaches and other staff attending international sports events in Russia, the Kremlin announced

CAIRO — Iran could be part of a solution to the Syrian crisis, Egypt’s presidential spokesman Ehab Fahmi said yesterday.

ROME. — Beetles, caterpillars and wasps could supplement diets around the world as an environmentally friendly food source if only Western consumers could get over their “disgust”, the

BENGHAZI. — A car bomb exploded near a hospital in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi yesterday, killing at least 15 people, wounding dozens more and destroying a restaurant, a top official said.

NEW YORK. — Republicans accused the Obama administration yesterday of covering up the handling of the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, as the scandal threatened to engulf Hillary Clinton

RIO DE JANEIRO. — The number of new guns legally sold in Brazil sextupled in the last eight years, growing from 5 161 in 2004 to a record 31 500 in 2012, local daily O’Globo reported on Sunday.

JOHANNESBURG. — A South African mining union called for calm yesterday after one of its organisers was shot dead in the country’s restive platinum belt over the weekend.

ADEN. — A group of armed tribesmen kidnapped a Swiss Red Cross worker in Yemen’s southern province of Abyan yesterday, a security official told Xinhua.

MANDERA. — Kenyan authorities have directed all residents holding illegal arms to surrender them by tomorrow before disarmament exercise begins in the northern town of Mandera which borders Somalia