News of the day from across the globe, Aug. 4

1 Taliban attacks: A Taliban suicide bomber disguised as a woman rammed his motorcycle into an international convoy, killing a NATO soldier from Georgia and two Afghan civilians in an attack north of the Afghan capital, the U.S. military said Friday.

Stepped up Taliban attacks this week have focused mostly on the country’s south, but there was also a deadly bombing in the western city of Herat, where 32 people died in a militant assault on a Shiite mosque.

The day before, a suicide attacker hit a convoy on the edge of the southern city of Kandahar, killing two U.S. soldiers and wounding another four.

The Geneva agency made no reference to President Trump’s calls for tighter border controls, but cited factors like hot weather and swelling Rio Grande waters.

Water surged into the Mir mine in eastern Siberia in Mirny while 142 people were down in the pit, the Russian state-controlled company Alrosa said in a statement.

The U.S. military has opened an inquiry into allegations that Cameroonian troops carried out torture and murder at a base where American troops were present, a U.S. spokesman said Friday.

“The decision not to be buried beside the queen is the natural consequence of not having been treated equally in relation to his spouse,” said Lene Balleby, a spokeswoman for Denmark’s royal house.