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In all, seven individuals were found to be suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning and transported to a hospital.

Blinken said that Washington's partnerships in the Indo-Pacific region have never been stronger and the US will continue to engage with China from a position of strength.

The UN health agency said it had led missions to two badly damaged hospitals, Al-Shifa and Al-Ahli, in the north of the Palestinian territory on Wednesday.

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.

The violence in the city's historic centre sparked frantic evacuations, a massive response by heavily armed police and warnings for people to stay indoors.

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

An autopsy revealed the young woman had a broken neck bone, possibly caused by strangulation.

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

The reform accelerates the vetting of asylum-seekers so those deemed ineligible can be quickly sent back to their home country or country of transit.

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.

Residents were evacuated from the neighborhood most at threat as a precaution, while five helicopters were scooping up water from the ocean to drop it on the blaze.

The top court on December 19 declared Trump ineligible for the US President's office under the Constitution’s insurrection clause and removed him from the state’s presidential primary ballot.

The businessman has also been punished in Britain and had his assets frozen in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

"I will tell you that I don't think Donald Trump needs to be president. I think I need to be president. I think that's good for the country," Haley was quoted as saying by The Des Moines Register.

A rise in the number of asylum seekers, a chronic affordable housing shortage, and a cost-of-living crisis have worsened social tensions in France.

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

Similarly, he said, France was also struggling, while Italy had expressed fears that it might become Europe's refugee camp.

The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz supremo lashed out at former ISI chief Gen Faiz Hamid for his role in ousting him from power in 2017.

Fears are growing that survivors awaiting rescue could succumb to the bitter cold, with temperatures at the epicentre in Gansu's Jishishan county expected to dip as low as - 17 degrees Celsius.