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The target was a police van which was going to pickup a polio (vaccination) team.

Police said the children had been shown videos related to Abuya by the operators of the charity homes involved where they were placed.

The assaults were the most widespread in years by ethnic forces fighting a decades-long insurgency to win secession of the province.

Authorities initially said the suspect, who was killed during the attack, was suspected of being a member of the Jemaah Islamiah group.

The Japanese survivors have been moved to a safe place in police custody, the police spokesperson said.

The main contests are expected to be between candidates backed by jailed ex-PM Imran Khan and the Pakistan Muslim League of Nawaz Sharif.

The suspects were detained in operations and police also confiscated some guns and chemicals to make bombs, a spokesperson said.

The blast killed one of the attackers and authorities "neutralised", or killed, the other, the interior minister said.

The majority of deaths were caused by improvised explosive devices including suicide bombings in mosques, education centres and markets.

The violence began when tribal groups clashed with ethnic majority Meitei people, over economic benefits and quotas given to the tribes.

Israel's air force hit Islamic Jihad targets in Gaza for a second day and Palestinian militants in the enclave began launching rockets across the border, setting off sirens.

The Taliban have killed an Islamic State militant who was the "mastermind" behind a suicide attack at Kabul's international airport in 2021.

The attack took place just a few kilometres from another attack on a village that killed at least 35 people last week.

A resident who escaped said the insurgents who killed the fishermen, suspected them of providing information to the military.

Police here have fought Islamists for years but never have they been the focus of militants' operations as they are today.

Donald Trump says he would impose the tariffs until China stops the flow of illegal drugs, particularly fentanyl, into the United States.

Topping the demands of Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party is the release of all its leaders, including Khan, who has been jailed on a series of corruption charges since August 2023.

The report highlights that "60 per cent of all female homicides" are committed by "people closely related to them".

Two subsea cables, one linking Finland and Germany and the other connecting Sweden to Lithuania, were damaged in less than 24 hours.

It is clear that adding more lanes and highways doesn't work, because we are still attempting the same approach to solve the issue.

This investment includes efforts to upgrade INOKOM's existing assembly capacity to meet Hyundai's automotive needs.

'C4Cinta', directed by young filmmaker Karthik Shamalan, has set a new benchmark in Malaysian Tamil cinema.

The court denied bail and scheduled case mention on Feb 7 for the submission of forensic, autopsy, and chemist reports.

The classroom assessment approach offers a much more interesting learning ecosystem, says Fadhlina Sidek.

Google and Meta says the government should wait for the results of an age-verification trial before going ahead.