Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev stressed that the Caspian Sea littoral states should restrict their military operations to their borders if they intend to resolve their conflicts.

Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed that littoral states widen North-South transit corridor through digging a canal between the Caspian and the Black seas.

KABUL, Afghanistan: A mother who tried to stop her son from carrying out a suicide bomb attack triggered an explosion in the family’s home in southern Afghanistan that killed the would-be bomber, his mother and three siblings, police said.