Separatists in southwest Pakistan killed at least five paramilitaries and wounded more than 30 yesterday, police told AFP, days after an attack on a train in Balochistan province left dozens dead.

Russia and the United States have discussed the “next steps” of how to end the war in Ukraine, the Kremlin said yesterday, hours after Kyiv’s European allies urged Moscow to commit to an unconditional 30-day ceasefire.

A fire tore through a nightclub in North Macedonia early yesterday, killing 59 people, apparently after on-stage fireworks set the place ablaze, authorities said, announcing arrest warrants for four people.

Israel and Hamas are set for more indirect talks yesterday on the Gaza ceasefire, but deep divisions persist between the two warring sides on the terms of the fragile truce.

Yemen’s Iran-backed Huthis yesterday vowed to meet “escalation with escalation” after a wave of deadly US air strikes, with witnesses to the bombing saying they were taken aback by its intensity, even after years of war.

A Peruvian fisherman was found alive after drifting at sea for 94 days, a navy official said Saturday, as he was discharged from hospital following his ordeal.

The power cut, which struck shortly before midnight, was caused by damage to a private generator, President Jose Raul Mulino said.

The agency reported that the fire broke out in "Pulse", a nightclub in the small town with around 30,000 inhabitants during a concert by DNK, a hip-hop duo popular in the country.

The NASA crew-swap mission will allow a pair of stuck astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, to return home after nine months on the orbiting lab

Mahmoud Khalil - a 30-year-old permanent US resident of Palestinian descent - was arrested a week ago at his university residence.

Hours earlier, Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 against the group, saying the United States was facing an "invasion" from a criminal organization that has been linked to kidnapping, extortion, organized crime and contract killings.

The Friday afternoon strike hit the village of Letpanhla around 60 kilometres (40 miles) north of the country's second biggest city of Mandalay.

A senior Hamas official said Tuesday fresh talks had begun in Doha, with Israel also sending negotiators.

The statement gave no details on when the next round of US-Russia talks, which are being hosted by Saudi Arabia, would begin.

Local news showed roofs torn off homes and large trucks overturned, as forecasters warned of more tornadoes to come this weekend.

Trump also warned Iran, the Houthis' main backer, that it needed to immediately halt support for the group

Gaza’s civil defence agency said nine people including journalists were killed in Israeli strikes in the north yesterday, an attack Hamas denounced as a “blatant violation” of the fragile ceasefire.

Iraqi security forces have killed a senior Islamic State (IS) group leader responsible for foreign operations, according to the country’s prime minister, with US President Donald Trump saying later Friday his “miserable life was terminated”.

UK premier Keir Starmer yesterday said the “ball was in Russia’s court” and that President Vladimir Putin would “sooner or later” have to “come to the table,” after a virtual summit to drum up support for a coalition willing to protect any eventual ceasefire in Ukraine.

US President Donald Trump’s administration is mulling a new travel ban that would affect citizens from dozens of countries to varying degrees, the New York Times reported Friday.