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Three males and two females were killed, police said.

This election cycle, younger voters were outnumbered by those over 60, official data showed.

The Southeast Asian nation has been in turmoil since the military seized power in February 2021, ending a brief democratic experiment and sparking clashes with ethnic rebel groups and anti-coup fighters.

The new measures come a day after Turkey said Israel had blocked its attempt to airdrop aid to Gaza.

A senior police official said the blast took place when there was a crowd, including women and children in the market for Eid shopping.

Israel on Sunday pulled its forces out of the southern Gaza Strip and the main city there, Khan Yunis, allowing large numbers of displaced Palestinians to return to the devastated urban area.

Such is the destruction of the city that many residents returning from neighbouring Rafah, where more than 1.5 million Gazans have been sheltering, have struggled to find their way around.

The post, which has since been deleted, showed the Maldivian Democratic Party's (MDP) campaign poster, where the party's logo was replaced with what appears like Ashok Chakra in the Indian flag.

Motorcycle bomb kills 2 people and wounds 5 in Pakistan’s restive southwest

Tehran has vowed to avenge air strike on Damascus that levelled the Iranian embassy's consular annex, killing seven Revolutionary Guards including two generals.

Speaking as truce talks were expected to resume in Cairo, he said: "There will be no ceasefire without the return of hostages. It just won't happen."

Khan, 71, who was ousted from power in April 2022 via the opposition's no-confidence motion, had blamed Gen Bajwa for playing a vital role against his government.

Microsoft's threat intelligence report shared screenshots of AI-generated videos in Mandarin and English which alleged that the US and India were responsible for unrest in Myanmar.

Chinese influenced operations continue to "opportunistically jump" on events such as a train derailment in Kentucky and wildfires in Maui to promote mistrust of the US government, according to the report.

The High Commission of India in the Maldives posted on Thursday on X, stating that the quotas for each of these items have been revised upwards.

The US tech firm said it expected Chinese state-backed cyber groups to target high-profile elections in 2024, with North Korea also involved, according to a report by the company’s threat intelligence team published on Friday.

The findings of an investigation into the Monday killings marked an embarrassing admission by Israel, which faces growing accusations from key allies, of not doing enough to protect Gaza's civilians.

The small village's residents are gathering daily to share their fears since Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan signalled in March his readiness to make territorial concessions to Baku to put some momentum into stalled peace talks.

Mayor Hsu Chen-wei said 48 residential buildings were damaged in Wednesday's quake, some of which were tilting at precarious angles with their ground floors crushed.

The number of dead is almost as large as from a similar attack in December, which the same group claimed and was followed by tit-for-tat air strikes with neighbouring Pakistan.