A drone attack killed 12 people and injured 30 in Atbara in northeast Sudan, a city that had until now been spared the country's brutal warfare, a medic and witnesses said.
At least 13 Maoist insurgents were killed in a clash in central India, police said, taking the rebel toll in the long-running conflict to 50 this year.
Israel's defense chief said a strike that killed seven aid workers in Gaza was a "grave mistake," after the deaths prompted a chorus of international outrage.
Taiwan said soldiers on one of its tiny frontline islands just off China's mainland were on heightened alert following what it called provocations by Chinese drones.