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ISLAMABAD: In the newly filed Toshakhana case, a Pakistani court extended Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi's confinement by seven days on Monday. Anti-corruption agency the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) accused the former couple of…

MANILA: After escalating South China Sea clashes with Beijing, President Ferdinand Marcos stated Monday that the Philippines "cannot yield" in territorial disputes. Manila and Beijing have long disputed portions of the key waterway that…

Palestinian Territories: After rockets were fired from a humanitarian zone, the Israeli military ordered Gazans to leave the eastern part of Khan Yunis city on Monday, saying it will "forcefully operate" there. "Due to significant…

DEIR AL-BALAH: Hospital officials and an Associated Press correspondent counted 15 people, including women and children, killed by Israeli airstrikes overnight in Gaza. The new strikes occurred as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin…

Dhaka: On Sunday, Bangladesh's top court cut back, but did not abolish, contentious civil service hiring rules that provoked national police-university student confrontations that killed 151 people. This week, a protest against…

Jerusalem: Despite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's staunch opposition to a Palestinian state, the EU's Middle East peace envoy believes a two-state solution is possible. In an AFP interview, Sven Koopmans said Netanyahu's…

BEIJING: A heavy rain-caused bridge collapse in northern China killed 12 and left over 60 missing on Saturday, officials said. Shaanxi province's Shangluo river bridge collapsed "due to a sudden downpour and flash floods" at 8:40 pm…

GENEVA: UN human rights chief Volker Turk said Friday he was deeply concerned by this week's violence in Bangladesh, calling the attacks on student protesters "shocking and unacceptable". "There must be impartial, prompt and exhaustive…

HANOI: Nguyen Phu Trong, Vietnam's most powerful contemporary leader and architect of the country's largest anti-corruption campaign, died Friday at the age of 80, state media said. During Trong's 13 years as general secretary of the…

TEL AVIV: An explosion rumbled through the streets of central Tel Aviv early Friday morning after an apparent drone strike caused shards of shrapnel to rain down, injuring at least 10 people and leaving one dead, authorities said.…

DHAKA: Bangladesh students vowed Thursday to continue nationwide protests against civil service hiring rules, rebuffing an olive branch from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina who pledged justice for seven killed in the demonstrations.…

Ben-Gvir said he was pressuring Netanyahu not to give in to international pressure and to continue with the military campaign in Gaza.

International mediators are pushing Israel and Hamas toward a phased deal that would halt the fighting and free about 120 hostages held by the militant group in Gaza.

Some universities quickly moved to comply, but others, including the major university at the centre of the violence, were still deciding how to respond.

Nepal's newly appointed Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli succeeds Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda,' who lost the vote of confidence in the HoR last week, leading to the formation of the new government.

Around 30 others have been rescued from the shopping complex in the city Zigong in Sichuan province, the channel said.

The case was reported at 4:30 pm (0930 GMT) after cleaning staff discovered the bodies when they arrived to make up the room on the fifth floor, police said.

The demonstrations are in response to a High Court ruling in June that reinstated a controversial quota system for government jobs.

"The casualties were caused by heavy storms and rains that collapsed trees, walls and roofs of people's houses," said Quraishi Badloon, head of the Department of Information and Culture.

Oli, 72, is the leader of Nepal’s largest communist party who succeeded Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda after losing his vote of confidence in the House of Representatives on Friday.