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I'm Dave DeFrost reporting.

Gulf officials meet at Camp David. U.S. President Barack Obama has updated the U.S.

position on the Iran nuclear talks to Gulf Arab leaders taking part in the summit.

President hoped to ease their concerns over the potential nuclear agreement with

Iran.

"Fortunately because of the depth and breadth of our cooperation and partnerships,

we've been able to strengthen each other, and work together."

The summit at Camp David focused also on other middle-east issues, including the

fighting in Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Libya.

Burundi's presidential office says President Pier Nkurunziza is backing the country,

saying the military coup attempt while he was in Tanzania has failed. VOA was unable

to verify the statement.

Islamic State group has released an audio message, it says, from its leader Abubakar

Al Badadi. Badadi has not been seen or heard from in months. The message urges

Muslims to take up arms in its cause.

Afghan and the United Nations officials say the death toll in the overnight Taliban

assault on a Kabul guesthouse has risen to at least 14. Ayaz Gul has more.

Foreign nationals, 2 Pakistanis, and American and Britain and an Italian are among

the foreigners' list confirmed dead in the Abslong assault, the most audacious the

Taliban has carried out since launching its annual spring offensive last month, the

victims including women what are tending a garden party Wednesday night at a Barle

guesthouse in the upxx of the central Kabul. It is not clear how many gunmen

participated in the siege that entered early Thursday with security forces killing the

assailants. Ayaz Gul, from Islamabad.

I'm Dave DeFrost in Washington.

This is VOA news.

Nepalese Prime Minister Sushi Koirala says his government was not ready for a

second earthquake which struck the country this week. He spoke to the journalists

Thursday in the town of Cherikar Tuesday's 7.3-magnitude quake killed at least 100

people and triggered landslide also collapsed already damaged houses at nearly 3

weeks after a 7.8-magnitude quake killed more than 8000 people.

The U.S. House of Representatives has overwhelmingly passed a bill giving Congress

the right to approve or reject a nuclear agreement with Iran. Thursday's vote was 425.

The Senate passed a measure last week 98-1. And the White House says President

Barack Obama plans to sign it.

Myanmar says the migrant crisis in the Southeast Asia should only be discussed in

reference to both people and not rogen jar. Deputy Foreign Minister Tard Kar told

VOA that the matter was a sensitive one for his country.

U.S. investigators are trying to determine why a passenger train was traveling at more

than twice supposed speed limit before it crashed in Philadelphia. In what could be a

hindrance to the investigation, the lawyer for the train's engineer says he suffered a

concussion in the accident and can not recall what happened.

Suspected Boko Haram militants have attacked the northern Nigerian city of

Maiduguri. It is the first major assault on the Borno state capital in 2 months.

Witnesses say hundreds of militants assaulted the area near the city's Guiwar Baras

Lake Wednesday. With guns and heavy explosives, there were also reports that

several suicide bombers were among the attackers.

The United Nations says Uganden's xx EDF rebels were mainly responsible for the

summary executions of at least 237 civilians in the eastern Democratic Republic of

Congo between October and December last year. Nicklong reports.

On Wednesday the head of U.N. Human Rights Office in Dionse Hussein Marian

Arranas gave a reported brief summary of their findings.

The main conclusion, he says, is between Oct. 1st and Dec. 31st. Summary execution

is more than 230 people carried out in the systematic planned and pre-mediated way

by the EDF. Their report says the EDF was primarily responsible for the attack. It says

although the EDF's leader Uganden mostly recon far a Congolese, which explained

why many who saw the attacks said they spoke Congolese languages. Nick Lung,

Gamar.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has welcomed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to

his family's ancestral home. Therefore his visit is expected to further boost

diplomatic and economic ties between the two countries.

On Wall Street, the U.S. stock indices were up today.

In Washington, I'm Dave DeFrost.

That's the latest world news from VOA.