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The navy ship KRI Bontang-907 located the boat about 63 nautical miles (72 miles) off the Indonesian coast and drove it out, "ensuring that the boat did not return to Indonesian waters."

The health ministry in a statement also raised the alarm over the spread of disease among children and the overall lack of water, food and medicine in the besieged Strip.

Israel's relentless bombardment and ground invasion of the Gaza Strip have killed at least 21,110 people, mostly women and children, according to the latest toll from Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry.

Bhutto was assassinated in a suicide bomb blast-cum-gun shooting attack outside the famous Liaquat Bagh as she was about to depart after addressing an election rally.

The 73-year-old Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo is the only Pakistani politician who became the prime minister of the coup-prone country thrice.

The 67-year-old two-time former foreign minister was incarcerated in jail along with Khan in the cipher case but the apex court granted them bail in the case last week.

The two -- aged 17 and 31 -- were shot dead in the Fawwar refugee camp, south of Hebron, the ministry said.

Last week, U.N. special envoy Roza Otunbayeva expressed concern that a generation of Afghan girls is falling behind with each day that passes.

The petition was filed with a plea to overturn the August 5 conviction of Khan by an additional sessions judge of the IHC for illegally selling state gifts, Dawn News reported.

Since Israel's ground assault began on October 27, the military has lost 153 soldiers in the Palestinian territory, including 10 on Saturday, making it one of the deadliest days for the army.

An investigation showed the explosion happened when residual slag from the building's furnace flowed out and came in contact with flammable materials around the location.

The magnitude 6.2 quake struck in a mountainous region Monday night between Gansu and Qinghai provinces and about 1,300 kilometers (800 miles) southwest of Beijing.

The UN Agency for Palestine Refugees tweeted that the latest order would affect more than 150,000 people, with an estimated 1.9 million people displaced by the war.

The quake was China's deadliest since 2014 when more than 600 people were killed in southwestern Yunnan province.

Early this week, Sharif had said neither India nor the United States are behind Pakistan's miseries. "No one else but we are responsible for our downfall as we shot ourselves in the foot."

Bombardment and fighting continued Thursday, but with Gaza's internet and other communications cut off for a second straight day, details on the latest violence could largely not be confirmed.

Search teams were using excavators to dig out a thick sea of mud that covered roads and encased and blocked entry to buildings.

Hamas militants have been putting up stiff resistance, even as the Israeli army claims to be making great progress in eradicating them.

The World Bank had pledged USD 500 million in budgetary support and released its first tranche in June to cash-strapped Sri Lanka, which has a total foreign debt of USD 46.9 billion.

Despite a flurry of activity by high-level officials in recent days, the two sides appeared to be far from an agreement.