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A group of assailants shut down Kabul’s airport for several hours early Monday in a brazen pre-dawn attack that shook the capital hours after Afghan President Hamid Karzai delivered a speech in which he implied that U.S. counterterrorism policies have radicalized Muslims around the world.

Afghan police snapped into action moments after residents of the city awoke to thundering blasts around 4:30 a.m. At least seven gunmen, including two wearing suicide vests, had taken refuge in buildings under construction adjacent to the northern tip of the airport compound, which includes an international military base.

Clashes between protesters and militias aligned with the military in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi left 27 people killed and dozens wounded, a health official said Sunday.

The violence broke out Saturday after protesters stormed a base belonging to Libya Shield, a grouping of militias with roots in the rebel groups that fought in the country's 2011 civil war who are tasked with maintaining security.

At least 23 people are dead and thousands were evacuated Sunday in Germany and Hungary amid some of the worst flooding ever in central Europe, authorities said.

Heavy rains across the region during the past week, combined with a wet spring, prompted the flooding and swelling of the Elbe and Danube rivers. High waters have receded in parts of Austria and the Czech Republic, but the swollen rivers are inundating Germany and Hungary downstream.

Israel cannot rely on international forces for its security, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said during Sunday's weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem.

The prime minister referred to the decision by the United Nations peacekeeping forces in the Golan Heights Thursday to pull out 380 Austrian troops from the U.N. Disengagement Observer Force on the Syrian-Israeli border, following the fierce fighting between pro-Syrian regime army forces and rebel forces in Quneitra, The Jerusalem Post said.

Destruction and Death, as Pope Francis offered this homily in St. Peter's Square, had just left the scene in the central African nation of Chad, where in a single night in mid-March 89 elephants were slaughtered for their tusks.

Reports described the ivory poachers as 50 or so men on camel and horseback, speaking Arabic, armed with AK-47s, and presumed to be the same band that came over from Sudan last year to execute more than 450 elephants in Cameroon -- on that foray, dispatching their victims with rocket-propelled grenades.

Former President Nelson Mandela has been admitted to hospital in South Africa with a lung infection. A presidential spokesman said he is in a "serious but stable condition", although he was able to breathe on his own - a "positive sign".

Mr Mandela, 94, has been ill for some days but deteriorated overnight and was transferred to a hospital in Pretoria.