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Up to 10 children were killed and three others injured A US airstrike in Afghanistan on Tuesday killed as many as 23 civilians, with most victims women and children, the UN says. The strike on a compound in Helmand province was called in during a joint operation between Afghan and US forces. Investigators said up to 10 children and eight women may have been killed. US forces say they are investigating. Civilian casualties from aerial attacks have surged since the US announced a new Afghan strategy last year. President Trump committed more troops to America's longest war and significantly boosted the number of strikes targeting Taliban and Islamic State group positions in August 2017. The rules of engagement were also loosened, allowing more bombings. The US-led Nato mission in Afghanistan said that Tuesday's helicopter strike took place amid a firefight between US-advised Afghan special forces and Taliban fighters in Garmser district. Nato said the Taliban had been using the building that was hit "as a fighting position", and accused the militants of continuously using civilians as human shields. A local resident who did not want to be named for fear of retaliation told the BBC that Taliban fighters were indeed near the building that was hit by the US strike. He said the youngest victim was about six years old, but this could not be verified. The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan recorded 649 civilians casualties (dead and injured) as a result of aerial attacks in the first nine months of this year, the highest number in any any year since systematic recording began in 2009. In April, an attack by the Afghan Air Force - which is trained and equipped by the US - killed 30 children in north-eastern Kunduz province at a graduation ceremony. The US Air Force released nearly 6,000 weapons in the first 10 months of this year, compared to 4,361 in all of 2017 and 1,337 in all of 2016. Most civilian casualties in Afghanistan are however still caused by anti-government groups like the Taliban and the Islamic State group (IS). The Taliban are gaining ground across Afghanistan, as US officials pursue a peace deal that would bring an end to the 17-year war. The militants attended a landmark international meeting earlier this month in Moscow and a delegation from the group has also recently held meetings with US envoys in Qatar.

The only surviving whale was too badly injured to be saved Fifty-one pilot whales have died after becoming stranded on a beach on the Chatham Islands off New Zealand. The mass stranding means more than 200 whales have died in separate incidents over the past week in the region. New Zealand's Department of Conservation says between 80 and 90 whales were found to have become stranded in Hanson Bay on Thursday. Several dozen managed to refloat themselves but 50 were found dead and one had to be put down. "There was no likelihood of being able to successfully save the remaining whale. Sadly, the decision was made to euthanise. It was the most humane thing to do," said DOC's Chatham Islands Operations Manager, Dave Carlton. "This is always an awful decision to have to make." The dead are being buried close to the beach on the remote island As is common practice in New Zealand, officials are working closely with local Maori communities to arrange for the handling of the whales. They are being buried in the sand just behind the beach. The DoC said skin and blubber samples were being taken for analysis. The remote and sparsely populated Chatham Islands are about 800km (500 miles) off the east coast of New Zealand's South Island. The deaths there come less than a week after 145 pilot whales were found dead on a remote beach in New Zealand's far south Stewart Island. Ten pygmy whales were also found dead on a beach in Northland on Sunday. Whale strandings are not uncommon in New Zealand, but mass incidents are rare and the cause is rarely clear. Officials say it could be the whales make navigational errors, lose their way in bad weather or while escaping predators, or that they fall victim to illness.

For the first time in more than a decade, a train has travelled from South Korea across the heavily guarded border into North Korea. On board is a team of South Korean experts investigating ways to help North Korea modernise its rail network. The two Koreas have made significant progress in improving their relationship over the past year. The hope is that it will eventually become easier to travel and trade across the border. The train had to make its way over one of the most heavily guarded borders in the world South Korean officials say opening the line will improve peace and prosperity on both sides When the leaders of North and South Korea had their historic meeting in April, North Korea's Kim Jong-un asked for help with updating his country's railways, which he said were in an "embarrassing" state. Some of the infrastructure dates back to the early 20th Century, so if it is ever to link up with the South it needs a full overhaul. The engineers boarded the train in Dorasan, just north of Seoul, on Friday morning for the short journey to the Demilitarised Zone which has divided the Korean peninsula since the Korean War in the 1950s. A banner displayed across the train as it headed over the heavily armed border described it as an Iron Horse, running towards an era of peace and prosperity. At Panmun Station across the border, a North Korean engine took over to take them further north. The 28 experts will live on the train for the next 18 days while inspecting 1,200km (745 miles) of track and railway infrastructure. The BBC's Laura Bicker in Seoul says the engineers can only look at the North's network but they can't touch it just yet. They also had to get special one-off clearance from the UN to get around sanctions, which prohibit taking fuel and certain equipment into North Korea. Cho Myoung-gyon, who heads the Unification Ministry which oversees relations with North Korea, said the project was "intended to overcome division and open a new future of the Korean Peninsula". "Through the one connected railway, the South and the North will prosper together and the ground for peace on the Korean Peninsula will be consolidated. The trains running on the track will also carry peace and prosperity with them to North East Asia and the world," South Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted him as saying. Could 2019 see a regular scheduled train crossing the DMZ? But while inter-Korean relation-building has continued apace over the past year, talks with the US have stalled. Pyongyang and Washington have repeatedly accused each other of failing to honour the vague agreements about denuclearisation they made at their landmark summit in Singapore in June. South Korea's President Moon Jae-in is determined that this railway project will go ahead, says our correspondent. The US has given its support to the rail survey, but Mr Moon will have to have a number of difficult conversations if he's to persuade President Donald Trump that easing sanctions at this stage would be worthwhile so the project can go ahead, our correspondent says.

The legal age for marriage is 18 years for women and 21 years for men Police in the Indian city of Mumbai have arrested a 20-year-old woman for marrying a 17-year-old boy. The woman and the couple's five-month-old daughter have been in prison for the past fortnight. She was arrested after the teenager's mother lodged a police complaint. She has been charged under the stringent child sex abuse act. The woman says their relationship is consensual, and also contests the claim that her husband is underage. Although the age of consent for sex in India for all genders is 18, the legal age for marriage is 18 years for women and 21 years for men. So in this case, police have also charged the woman under the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act. The BBC's Geeta Pandey in Delhi says it's a rare case where a woman has been arrested for marrying an underage man. There are many instances where young men in consensual relationships have been arrested after complaints from the parents of girls who are less than 18 years of age. The teenager's mother registered a complaint with the police in December last year accusing the woman and her family of kidnapping her son and forcing him into marriage, a Mumbai police official told BBC Hindi. He said they carried out the arrest after a thorough inquiry and taking legal advice because the accused was a woman. In the complaint, the mother also said that her son had been in contact with the woman for two years and that she had threatened to kill herself if he stopped meeting her. The woman has filed a bail petition where she has claimed that her husband is over 18 and that their relationship was consensual, according to Indian media reports. She says that he has two sisters aged 20 and 18 so it's not possible for him to be 17 years and eight months old.

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u so nice.... i can join... but cfm giving part abit hard for me.... think really need u to deliver.... lol...

someone is gonna get hurt real bad...

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u can bubble wrap it.... itsa up to u.... lol....

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i miss u many many yamato.... lol....

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i foresee this ger next time kanna pwn deep deep by some fake rich dude or some mcp.....

then bery good liao wat..... hiam wat.... lol....

tsk.... u say till like she only cooks instant noodles....... my riser pls... arigato.....

later ur wifu come aft me ar....

i diff... my family lives on wonton mee.... wahhahaha

cannot be cook italian but name is kaya loti mah...... restaurant no lah..... wan open wonton mee store nia.....

i also limited ar... limited kitchen space.... whahhahaha~~

throwback the many hungry nites.... (mostly is him).......

for 2.... lol.... dinner nv jiak wat... so hungry lor..... huh... i thought is u who is always doing the cooking de..... ur wifu dunno how to cook?