Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, June 5

Turkish warplanes hit the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) positions in southeastern Turkey and Northern Iraq, military sources said Sunday.

Airstrikes killed at least 20 militants in the Yuksekova district, southeastern Hakkari province and destroyed several PKK positions in the Lice district of Diyarbakir province on Saturday, according to the sources.(Turkey-PKK-Airstrike)

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LAGOS -- At least 19 Boko Haram fighters were killed during a military operation in northeast Nigeria's Borno State, the Nigerian Army said Sunday.

In a statement made available to Xinhua, the Army spokesman, Col. Sani Usman said several arms, ammunitions, vehicles and other items were recovered during the operation.(Nigeria-Boko Haram)

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PUL-E-ALAM -- At least seven people, including a senior local judge, were killed and 19 others wounded after militants stormed a provincial court office in Afghanistan's eastern province of Logar on Sunday, police said.

"The initial reports found, five civilians were killed and 19 others wounded in Sunday morning's attack on Logar provincial Appeal Court office building," Nisar Ahmad Abdulrahimzai, deputy provincial police chief, told Xinhua.(Afghanistan-Military Attack-Court Office)

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NEW DELHI -- At least 17 people were killed and more than 40 others injured after a private bus crashed into two cars before plunging into a 20-feet deep ditch on Mumbai-Pune Expressway in India Sunday morning, a senior police official said.

"The accident took place around 5:30 a.m. (local time) when the speeding bus rammed into a car that had stopped on the side of the high-speed corridor to help the driver of another car that had also stopped to replace a flat tyre," he said, on condition of anonymity.(India-Mishap-Deaths) Endi