AFGHANISTAN: An Isis-affiliated group has claimed responsibility for a deadly bombing that targeted people trying to collect their salaries at a bank in the southern city of Kandahar, killing three and wounding 12 others.

Taliban Interior Ministry spokesman Abdul Mateen Qani said the target of the attack was civilians and the victims were local people. He said an investigation is continuing.

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SOUTH KOREA: Thousands of striking junior doctors will have their licences suspended from Monday as a punitive measure against their weeks-long industrial actions that have disrupted hospital operations.

It is unclear whether the move will prompt the doctors to end their strikes, and the stand-off could still deepen as some senior doctors plan to submit resignations on Monday in a show of solidarity with the strikers.

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NIGERIA: Two students were killed and 23 were injured today as hundreds rushed to get food donated to their school by the government to help ease the impacts of the country’s worst economic crises in decades.

The students of Nasarawa State University near the Nigerian capital, Abuja, had gathered to receive bags of rice donated by the state government. The situation got out of control following a crowd surge, university spokesperson Abraham Habu Ekpo said.

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MIGRANTS: About 70 Muslim Rohingya refugees are feared missing or dead after a boat from Bangladesh sank off Indonesia’s coast this week as the number of people taking the same dangerous path has increased.

A statement by the UNHCR today said they were “extremely concerned about the scale of potential loss of life,” and that accounts from survivors indicated about 150 people originally were aboard.