NEW DELHI -- Heavy snowfall hit plains and upper reaches of Indian-controlled Kashmir Saturday, disrupting normal life and leading to the closure of roads and cancellation of flights, officials said.

The snowfall began Friday afternoon and continued until Saturday morning. (India-Snow)

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MOSCOW/BAKU -- Russian President Vladimir Putin apologized for the "tragic incident" in Russian airspace during a phone talk with his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev on Saturday, referring to a recent Azerbaijani plane crash, the Kremlin said.

The Azerbaijani flight repeatedly tried to land at the airport in Grozny, Putin said, adding that at that time, Grozny was experiencing an Ukrainian drone attack and Russian air defense systems repelled these attacks. (Russia-Azerbaijan-Plane crash)

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SANAA -- Yemen's Houthi group said in a statement on Saturday that it was behind an overnight long-range rocket attack on Israel, which it said was targeting the Nevatim Air Base in southern Israel.

"We targeted the Nevatim Air Base in Negev," Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Sarea said in a televised statement aired by Houthi-run al-Masirah TV. (Yemen-Israel-Rocket attack)

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KABUL -- Heavy clashes erupted between Afghan and Pakistani border forces at border crossing points, killing 19 Pakistani soldiers and three Afghan civilians, local media reported on Saturday.

The fierce clashes are ongoing in eastern Afghanistan's Khost and Paktia provinces bordering Pakistan, TOLOnews reported, quoting a source from the Ministry of National Defense. (Afghanistan-Pakistan-Clashes)

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MEXICO CITY -- At least eight people were killed and 27 others injured after a passenger bus collided with a semi-trailer truck early Friday in eastern Mexico, local authorities said.

The collision occurred on the Perote-Xalapa highway near Los Molinos in the eastern state of Veracruz, killing three men, four women and one minor, the Veracruz State Attorney General's Office said. (Mexico-Traffic-Accident) Enditem

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