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

The grieving father told Secretary of State Antony Blinken that the killings by Israel in the Hamas-run territory must end.

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."

More than 4,500 homes have been flooded and more than 4,000 people evacuated from Orsk to temporary housing centres.

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.

Syrian state news agency SANA, citing an unnamed police official in Daraa, blamed militant groups, which are still active in the area.

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.

Tehran has vowed to avenge Monday's air strike on the Syrian capital it blamed on its arch-enemy Israel, which has not commented.

Ivan Korcok, a pro-Western former foreign minister, and Peter Pellegrini, a Ukraine-sceptic backed by the ruling populists, are vying to replace the outgoing liberal President Zuzana Caputova.

Trump's lawyers urged the Manhattan Judge to step aside from the case, alleging bias and a conflict of interest because his daughter is a Democratic political consultant.

The families thanked the Biden administration for its efforts to negotiate a deal and keep them informed — but urged the president to get results.

Overall, Russia fired 32 Iranian-made Shahed drones and six missiles at Ukraine overnight, according to the air force commander.

Mall managers said in a statement that they had put additional security measures in place and that part of the development would reopen Saturday night.

Many of the new jobs were created in the health care and government sectors, while construction and leisure and hospitality also saw big gains.

Moscow has launched almost daily strikes on Ukraine's power grid since late March, repeating its campaign of aerial bombardment that plunged millions into darkness.

At the United Nations, which has its headquarters in New York, a Security Council meeting on the situation in Gaza was temporarily paused after the tremor.

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.