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Pakistan and Russia have underlined the imperative of greater regional coordination on ways of bringing peace and stability to Afghanistan.

Five people, including four children, were killed and 14 other persons injured in a bomb blast in the North Waziristan District of Pakistan on Thursday, a media report said.

US President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida as his attorney-general.

The US will continue to cling to its strategic interests and will not change its stance on the Ukraine conflict after the Nov. 5 presidential vote, believes a top Russian diplomat.

Russia has voiced stout support for a new UN Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in the embattled Gaza enclave, a media report said on Wednesday.

US President-elect Donald Trump has announced more cabinet picks, including Fox News host Pete Hegseth as his defence secretary.

At least 35 people have been killed after a man ploughed his car into crowds exercising at an outdoor sports centre in southern China, media reports said on Wednesday.

Twenty-six members of a wedding party lost their lives as the bus carrying them fell into a river in northwestern Pakistan.

Despite last month’s election setback, Shigeru Ishiba has retained the post of Japan’s prime minister, say media reports.

Following his emphatic election win, the US president-elect is choosing his loyalists as cabinet picks, media reports say.

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has demanded that Israel immediately stop its military aggression in Gaza and Lebanon at the opening of a summit of Arab and Muslim leaders in Riyadh, a media report said.

One individual has been killed and 16 others have been injured in a shooting at the Tuskegee University in Alabama, the United States.