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Investigators have uncovered evidence linking last month’s deadly attack on the Karakoram Highway to the same Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan cell that killed nine Chinese nationals in a 2021 bombing on the same road.

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Analysts say a thaw in tensions could come with a changing of the guard in Pakistan, with both sides keen to not let ties worsen amid significant challenges.

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Rally in Jerusalem calls for remaining hostages held by Hamas in Gaza to be brought home. It came as talks to secure another ceasefire that would include the release hostages resumed in Egypt.

Nicaragua has asked International Court of Justice to hand down preliminary orders, including that Germany ‘immediately suspend its aid to Israel’. Initial hearings start on Monday.

Islamic State, which harbours a virulent hatred for Iran’s dominant Shiite sect, also claimed responsibility for two explosions in Iran in January.

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The drone team who killed the aid workers made an ‘operational misjudgment’ after spotting a suspected Hamas gunman shooting from the top of one of the aid trucks.

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Health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza reported earlier that ‘dozens of bodies, some of them decomposed’ had been found around the hospital as Israeli forces pulled out after a military operation there.

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Readers discuss what the global response to the massacre that claimed over 130 lives should be, and cases involving the question of genocide in the recent past.

Suspect was armed with ‘several knives’ that he showed to hostages, prosecutor said. Police said there was no reason to suspect ‘terrorist motive’ for ordeal at night spot in town of Ede.

Using Afghanistan as a homebase, Isis cells have hit targets in Russia, Pakistan, Iran and Turkey this year. Baloch separatists have also stepped up their attacks on Chinese interests in South Asia.

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In a message posted on Telegram, IS spokesman Abu Huthaifa al-Ansari also praised the group’s attack that killed more than 140 people in a Russian concert hall near Moscow last week.

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In an interview with The New York Times, Amit Soussana said she was forced at gunpoint to perform a sex act on her man guard. Hamas has repeatedly rejected accusations of sexual violence.

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Belarusian president, a close Putin ally, said Belarus and Russia had coordinated actions as suspects fled to Bryansk, bordering Ukraine and Belarus, where they were apprehended.

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Putin said investigators have not determined who ordered attack but it was necessary to ‘find out why the terrorists, after committing their crime, tried to flee to Ukraine’.

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Attack in Russia sparks online debate in China over whether extreme security measures might hurt the post-Covid economy or boost investor confidence.

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Announcement came after President Emmanuel Macron held emergency security meeting prompted by Friday’s attack at a Moscow concert venue that killed more than 130 people

Questions over how Russian security system was unable to thwart deadliest attack on country in 2 decades even as Western counterparts issued warnings 2 weeks ago.

The video, which appeared on a Telegram account linked to the militant group, shows the attackers firing several bursts of gunfire, numerous inert bodies strewn around and a fire starting in the background.

Russia was observing a national day of mourning on Sunday after more than 130 people were killed when gunmen opened fire and set off explosives, reminding residents of similar violence in the early years of Putin’s presidency.

Former US president Donald Trump in 2013 held a Miss Universe contest at Crocus City Hall, where 40 people were killed and at least 100 injured in a shooting claimed by Islamic State on Friday.