A 27-year-old man has been shot dead in Marseille in a slaying reminiscent of a scene from "The Godfather" that was the 10th murder of its kind in and around the city this year and the 34th since the start of 2012.

Djibril Abbas, who had a record of violent armed robbery and drugs offenses, was shot around 30 times after being ambushed by three men as he left a girlfriend's home in the Bon Secours district of the southern port on Saturday evening, police said.

Two Philippine soldiers were killed in a clash with communist rebels waging one of Asia's longest running insurgencies, the military said Sunday.

The troops were on a routine patrol when they encountered the New People's Army (NPA) fighters in the town of Esperanza on the southern island of Mindanao on Saturday, army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Leo Bongosia said.

One man was killed and three people were wounded in an apparently politically motivated shooting in Albania on Sunday during a crucial vote that could determine whether one of Europe's poorest countries has a chance of joining the EU.

The shootout in the northern town of Lac "might be related to the vote," police spokeswoman Alma Katragjini told AFP without elaborating.

Bad weather hampered rescue operations Sunday in northern India where up to 1,000 people are feared to have died in landslides and flash floods that have left pilgrims and tourists stranded without food or water for days.

So far 557 bodies have been found after torrential rains struck the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand on June 15, flooding the Ganges river and devastating the region known as the "Land of the Gods" for its revered Hindu shrines.

North Korea on Sunday blamed the United States for escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula and called for "real actions" if Washington wants peace.

"The U.S. can never cover up its true colors as the chief culprit escalating the tensions on the peninsula in a planned and deliberate way," the North's ruling party newspaper Rodong Sinmun said in a commentary.

Gunmen killed nine foreign tourists in an unprecedented attack in Pakistan's normally peaceful Himalayan region, spotlighting violence just weeks after a new civilian government took office vowing to quell militancy.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif swiftly condemned the attack in an area of the far-flung north not previously associated with violence or Islamist militancy that plagues other parts of the country.

The United States is the world's "biggest villain" for IT espionage, China's official media said Sunday after new allegations of anti-Beijing snooping emerged.

"These, along with previous allegations, are clearly troubling signs," the Xinhua news agency said in a commentary following the new claims by former U.S. spy Edward Snowden made to Hong Kong's Sunday Morning Post.

Britain is planning to force visitors from India, Pakistan, Nigeria and other countries whose nationals are deemed to pose a "high risk" of immigration abuse to provide a cash bond before they can enter the country, a report said Sunday.

The Sunday Times newspaper said that from November, a pilot scheme would target visitors from those three countries plus Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Ghana.

Turkish police used water cannon on Saturday to disperse thousands of demonstrators who had gathered anew in Istanbul's Taksim Square, calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Hundreds of riot police backed up by water cannon trucks moved in on several thousand protesters chanting for Erdogan's dismissal.

A bomb killed two members of a Pakistani pro-government militia Saturday in a tribal region near the Afghanistan border, officials said.

The blast went off in Chamarkand town, 40 kilometers (25 miles) northwest of Khar, the main town of Bajaur tribal region in the northwest of the country.