Taliban officials say that they will not attend peace talks scheduled for next week inSaudi Arabia because they "cannot afford" to meet theAfghan government delegation at present.(Reuters)
TheZwicky Transient Facility in California discovers a largeAtira asteroid,2019 AQ3, an asteroid with a diameter of 1.4 kilometres (0.87 miles) that stays closer to the Sun during its orbit than any other known asteroid, passing from inside the orbit of Mercury to just outside the orbit of Venus.(Minor Planet Center)
