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A typhoon that lashed Taiwan battered the mainland with heavy rain and winds on Sunday, leaving more than a dozen people dead or missing, levelling homes and cutting power to more than a million households.

Heyatullah Amiri, district administrative chief of Khan Abad district, said a suicide bomber on foot targeted a meeting of criminal groups late on Saturday.

Earlier in the day, a massive truck bomb killed at least 15 people in a residential area of Kabul.

At least four people were killed and four were missing when powerful Typhoon Soudelor slammed into Taiwan, authorities said Saturday.

Further south, in Fujian province where the typhoon made landfall on Saturday night, three people were killed by a mudslide and one was missing after being swept away by floods in Ningde, the Fujian Daily reported.

Malian security forces on Saturday stormed a hotel used by United Nations staff and freed four hostages held there by suspected Islamist militants who had killed at least six people during their attack.

But a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation official said members also used the closed-door meeting to call on Turkey not to use excessive force in reaction to attacks, while urging it to continue with peace efforts.

A bombing in Afghanistan’s northern Kunduz province has killed 22 members of illegal armed groups, including four leaders, an Afghan official said Sunday.

Six people have been reported dead in the wake of Soudelor, which has also left four others missing and more than 100 injured.

The typhoon ripped up trees and triggered landslides in Taiwan.

Four hostages have been freed from a hotel in central Mali after a standoff with Islamic extremists that left 13 people dead.

Days after the arrest of Pakistani militant in Udhampur, police picked up many youth who allegedly have helped the captured militant in carrying out attack on BSF convoy at Samruli Udhampur.

The Saudi-led Arab coalition struck Houthi forces and weapons in a number of Yemeni cities on Friday including Hodeida where more than a dozen of the Houthis were killed.

Gunmen in Mali have killed at least five people in an attack on a hotel in the central town of Sevare, officials say.

The Pentagon has said that it does not know the location of its recently deployed New Syrian Forces, despite pledging this week to support them if they come under attack.