MUSLIM worshippers and Israeli police have clashed at a major Jerusalem holy site during prayers marking the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha.
Palestinian medics said at least 14 people were wounded, one seriously, in the skirmishes with police at the site, which Muslims refer to as the Al-Aqsa mosque compound and Jews refer to as the Temple Mount (pictured).
It is the holiest site for Jews and the third holiest for Muslims, after Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia. It has long been a flashpoint at the epicentre of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Police said at least four officers were wounded, while witnesses said at least two people were arrested.
In a separate incident on Sunday, Israeli troops killed a Palestinian gunman after he opened fire on them from across the perimeter fence around the Gaza Strip.
NORTH Korea has said leader Kim Jong Un supervised test-firings of an unspecified new weapons system.
The incident extended a streak of weapons demonstrations that are seen as an attempt to build leverage before negotiations with the United States.
The report by North Korean state media (KCNA) came hours after US President Donald Trump said Kim has expressed a desire to re-commence nuclear negotiations after joint US-South Korea military exercises end.
Trump also said his counterpart had apologised for the flurry of recent short-range ballistic launches that rattled US allies in the region.
The KCNA report came a day after Seoul said it had detected North Korea launching what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea.
KCNA said Kim expressed “great satisfaction” over the testing firings, which it said verified that the new weapon system performs as designed.
AT least 93 people have been killed and more than 400,000 displaced in floods and mudslides caused by days of torrential rain in southern India.
The worst-hit has been the state of Kerala where the death toll rose to 57 by Saturday evening.
More than 165,000 people have left their homes for relief camps.
Kerala suffered catastrophic floods a year ago when heavy downpours killed 223 people and drove hundreds of thousands from their homes.
AND in the US, people gathered at an Ohio bar where the gunman in last week’s mass shooting was killed by police.
Residents observed a moment of silence at 1.05am on Sunday at Ned Peppers Bar, where nine people were killed and more than 30 were injured when 24-year-old Connor Betts opened fire with an AR-15 style gun on August 4.
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