Reporters in N. Korea for Congress Get Wire Factory Instead and other top stories.

• Reporters in N. Korea for Congress Get Wire Factory Instead

  

  PYONGYANG, North Korea — They came for North Korea's biggest political event in decades. What they have been getting is a lot of sightseeing — except one, who got kicked out.North Korea has brought in more than 100 journalists from around the world to make sure that the 7th Congress of its ruling Workers' Party gets global attention. But four days into the event, which is being held in an ornate hall called the April 25 House of Culture, only the trusted state-run media has been allowed inside..

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• Pakistani Rights Activist, Khurram Zaki, Is Fatally Shot in Karachi

  

  Photo The coffin of Khurram Zaki, who was killed in a drive-by shooting on Saturday, was carried during his funeral in Karachi, Pakistan, on Sunday. Credit Fareed Khan/Associated Press KARACHI, Pakistan — Unidentified gunmen have killed a Pakistani rights activist known for campaigning against both religious extremism and the head cleric of a radical Sunni mosque, police officials said.The drive-by shooting took place late Saturday in the southern port city of Karachi. ..

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• BBC correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, team expelled from North Korea

  

  53 photos: Inside North KoreaOn May 5, 2016, CNN toured the Man Gyong Dae School Children's Palace, an after school activity complex, in Pyongyang. 53 photos: Inside North KoreaYoung singers practice their performance at the "children's palace" in Pyongyang. 53 photos: Inside North KoreaChildren play volleyball at an after school center in Pyongyang.53 photos: Inside North KoreaAn Olympic-sized swimming pool at a "children's palace" after school center in Pyongyang.53 photos: Inside North Korea5..

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• Dozens die in collision of buses, fuel truck in Afghanistan

  

  KABUL — As many as 73 people were killed Sunday in southeastern Afghanistan’s Ghazni province when two buses collided with a fuel truck, which then exploded, officials said. Scores of others were injured, many of them critically.The crash in Ghazni was bad even by the standards of Afghanistan’s notoriously dangerous mountain highways. Advertisement About 50 people have been confirmed dead, and another 73 people who had been on the buses were wounded in the accident, the Associated Press repo..

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