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Pakistan’s rightwing Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) wants Kabul and Islamabad to enter substantive talks on issues of bilateral importance.

Three people have been killed and four others injured in a knife attack at a festival in Solingen city in Germany, the BBC reported.

The second-largest diamond ever found - a rough 2,492-carat stone - has been unearthed in Botswana at a mine owned by Canadian firm Lucara Diamond, a media report said.

At least 17 people were killed and 40 others injured as a result of an explosion in Andhra Pradesh state of India, Reuters reported on Thursday.

The helicopter crash that killed Iranian President Ebrahim Ibrahim Raisi and his foreign minister was an accident, say investigators.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, currently on a visit to the Middle East, says Israel has agreed to withdraw some of its army units from the Gaza Strip.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has made an unscheduled trip to Chechnya, a Muslim country within the Russian Federation.

Thirty-five Pakistani pilgrims were killed and 18 others wounded in a bus crash in neighbouring Iran on Wednesday morning, local TV channels reported.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Israel has accepted a “bridging proposal” of ceasefire deal in Gaza and wants Hamas to do the same.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says there is no question of negotiations with Ukraine after its attack on Kursk Region.

At least eight people were killed and seven others wounded as a result of a traffic accident in Pakistan on Monday, a media report said.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Israel to push for achieving a ceasefire in Gaza and end the 10-month-old conflict.