An Indian man returned home today after 35 years in Pakistani prisons, receiving an emotional send-off by his former captors who hoped the gesture would reduce deep-rooted enmity between the two peoples.

An international aid group said today it found the bodies of two more of its workers after discovering 15 others killed last week in Sri Lanka’s northeast, as a car bomb explosion outside a girls’ school left at least two people dead.

Two suicide bombers struck the offices of two US-backed Kurdish parties in near-simultaneous attacks today as hundreds of Iraqis gathered to celebrate a Muslim holiday.