Pakistani strikes killed at least 12 people in Afghanistan near their border, Afghan government officials and local sources said on Wednesday.
The US military said late Tuesday that it had “completed” its retaliatory strikes against Iran over the downing of an attack helicopter.
France on Tuesday banned far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich from entering the country, the French foreign minister said, slamming him for actively promoting the annexation of the West Bank and the “re-colonization” of Gaza.
The EU is seeking to impose an entry ban on Russians who fought in Ukraine, as part of a new round of sanctions on Moscow over the war, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said Tuesday.
Indian engineers broke through the final rock section in the strategic Zojila tunnel through a Himalayan mountain on Tuesday, a milestone in providing all-weather access to the frontier Ladakh region with China.
Beijing said on Tuesday that it “firmly opposed” the US blacklisting of Chinese companies after Washington added tech giants Alibaba and Baidu to a list of firms it says are aiding the Chinese military.
The heads of the Pakistani and Lebanese armed forces agree to boost cooperation as they meet in Pakistan, with peace talks over the Middle East war dragging on.
Iranian government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani affirmed that Iran and Lebanon “are not proxies for each other,” emphasizing that neither is fighting on behalf of the other.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke by phone with US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in an effort to revive negotiations aimed at ending the war in Ukraine.
US President Donald Trump says he is in the “final throes” of reaching a Middle East peace deal. “We’re in the final throes of what will be a very, very good deal,” he said.
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