Protesters Disrupt Water Supplies to India's Capital and other top stories.

• Protesters Disrupt Water Supplies to India's Capital

  

  More than half the water supply to 18 million people in India’s capital is being disrupted after deadly unrest in a neighboring state.Protesters in Haryana shut off a canal carrying water to New Delhi amid at least three days of unrest over caste rights that also forced the country’s top automaker Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. to close some factories. As many as 5,000 security personnel have been deployed in the region to restore order."Delhi has to rely on this one canal for a substantial part of i..

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• Fiji: 6 dead from 'monster' Cyclone Winston; schools shut down for a week

  

  Authorities believe the brunt of Tropical Cyclone Winston, which struck Saturday night, has passed. Now comes the arduous task of assessing and cleaning up the damage inflicted by the most powerful storm on record in the Southern Hemisphere.All Fiji's schools will be closed for one week after the storm struck the island nation, the country's Ministry of Rural and Maritime Development and National Disaster Management said.Winds that reached 296 kph (184 mph) lashed the tiny island nation in the P..

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• Three Turkish journalists freed after kidnapping by Kurdish militants: agency

  

  DIYARBAKIR, Turkey Three journalists from Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency were freed on Sunday after being kidnapped by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the mainly Kurdish southeast, the news agency said.The journalists were abducted and held for more than 48 hours, Anadolu said on its website. The correspondent, photojournalist and cameraman had been assigned last week to Nusaybin district of Mardin province.Security sources in the southeast told Reuters the three were believed to have..

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• Uber driver arrested in Kalamazoo rampage that killed 6

  

  "Jason Brian Dalton had passed a background check, and was a driver-partner with Uber," said Uber's chief security officer, Joe Sullivan, in a statement. "We have reached out to the police to help with their investigation in any way that we can." While the company did not address reports that Dalton picked up and dropped off customers Saturday night, authorities told CNN that it was "certainly part of our investigation." "We're looking into his connection to Uber and whether or not he was picki..

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• London Mayor Boris Johnson backs 'Brexit,' boosting anti-EU campaign

  

  LONDON — Mayor Boris Johnson, one of the most charismatic figures in U.K. politics, threw his considerable influence behind the push for a British exit from the European Union on Sunday, instantly galvanizing the campaign and potentially tipping the country toward a vote to leave in a June referendum. The decision to defy Prime Minister David Cameron, a fellow Conservative, represents a personal gamble and a major coup for the “leave” camp, which has been riven by bickering factions and has l..

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• Islamic State Claims Deadly Blasts near Damascus, Homs

  

  U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday a "provisional agreement" has been made with Russia for a ceasefire in Syria's five-year civil war, but violence continued unabated throughout the country, with scores of people killed in two separate attacks claimed by the Islamic State group. Early estimates indicate a deadly double bombing in Homs early Sunday killed up to 60 people before a series of blasts later in the day hit Sayeda Zeinab, south of Damascus, killing at least 50 people. In la..

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• The pope wants a death penalty ban during his year of mercy

  

  ROME — Pope Francis appealed to Catholic leaders around the world to work to stop executions during this year, and said the death penalty should be abolished permanently. “The commandment ‘You shall not kill’ has absolute value, and covers both the innocent and the guilty,” Francis said Sunday after his weekly Angelus prayer. “…even the criminal keeps the inviolable right to life, a gift from God.” “I appeal to the conscience of the rulers, so that we achieve an international consensus for the ..

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• Syria: Dozens killed as bombers strike in Homs and Damascus, regime says

  

  Thirty-nine people were killed when two car bomb explosions struck a pro-regime neighborhood in central Homs on Sunday, Syria's SANA news agency reported.The London-based monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights gave the death toll as 46, with more than 100 people wounded. Then on the southern outskirts of the Syrian capital, Damascus, three bombers struck in the Sayyidah Zaynab district Sunday, Syrian state media reported, citing security sources who said many casualties were feared..

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• Banned Islamist group suspected behind slaying of Hindu priest in Bangladesh

  

  Police suspect the outlawed Islamist organization Jamaatul Mujahedin Bangladesh carried out the attack, said Monirul Islam, joint commissioner of the Bangladesh Police.The 50-year-old Hindu priest was attacked by two assailants in a temple in Bangladesh's northern district of Panchagarh on Sunday morning, Panchagarh district police chief Giasuddin Ahmed said.The attackers approached on a motorcycle, hurling grenades and firing bullets at the temple, before slitting the priest's throat and fleein..

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