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By Saud Mehsud and Mushtaq Ali Reuters A car bombing at a police post in northwestern Pakistan followed ‌by an ambush on police personnel rushing to the scene has ‌killed at least 21 officers, police said on Sunday. Images from after the attack on Saturday showed ​the structure had been reduced to rubble, with bricks, charred wreckage and mangled vehicles scattered around the area. Police official Sajjad Khan said in a statement that the bodies of 14 officers had been recovered from the collapsed outpost and three other personnel ‌were found alive and ⁠rushed to hospital. A police official who asked not to be identified because he is not authorised to speak to the media ⁠said militants first rammed into the post with an explosive-filled car and then entered the premises and began firing on any remaining officers. “Other law enforcement personnel were sent ​to help ​the police, but the terrorists ambushed them ​and caused some casualties,” he ‌said. ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has voiced confidence of victory in Ukraine as he oversaw a military parade on Red Square commemorating the defeat of Nazi Germany in the Second World War. Speaking in front of hundreds of military personnel and flanked by a few world leaders, the Russian president said he was fighting a “just” war as he identified Ukraine an “aggressive force” that is being “armed and supported by the whole bloc of NATO”. Security was tight in Moscow as Mr Putin and several foreign leaders attended the parade, even as a US-brokered three-day ceasefire eased concerns about possible Ukrainian attempts to disrupt the festivities. Mr Putin, in power for more than a quarter of a century, has used Victory Day, Russia’s most important secular holiday, to showcase the country’s military might and rally support for his military action in Ukraine. Malaysia’s King Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar, Lao President Thongloun Sisouli...

Russia and Ukraine launched major attacks on each other Friday, with a two-day unilateral ceasefire that Moscow had declared around its World War II commemorations appearing to be in tatters. Ukraine never said it would abide by Moscow’s call to halt strikes and lambasted Russian leader Vladimir Putin for only wanting to pause fighting so he could stage a grand parade on Red Square on Saturday. Kyiv said Moscow ignored a Ukrainian call to halt fighting earlier this week — a counter-proposal for a short-term ceasefire that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky cast as a test of whether the Kremlin was serious about providing a brief respite in the four-year war. Russia has threatened a massive strike on the heart of Kyiv if Ukraine disrupts the Victory Day parade on Saturday, repeatedly urging foreign diplomats to evacuate the Ukrainian capital ahead of time. “On the Russian side, there was not even a token attempt to cease fire on the front,” Ze...

By Amel Emric and Daria Sito-Sucic Reuters A new silver, lead and barite mine offered hope to the small town of Vares, in mountainous central Bosnia, when it opened in 2024. After decades of economic decline, new roads and houses were built, cafes and restaurants filled up, and the long-dwindling population ‌swelled with workers and new residents. In recent months, however, blood tests have revealed exposure to lead in more than 300 residents living near the mine, some at elevated ‌levels, alarming locals and throwing the town’s future into doubt. On Wednesday, four Bosnian environmental agencies filed criminal charges against Dundee Precious Metals, the Canadian mining company that took over the mine in September when it acquired the previous owner, UK-based ​Adriatic Metals, with the Zenica-Doboj cantonal prosecutors’ office. “We think that the situation is ripe to declare an emergency situation,” Miroslav Pejcinovic, the president of Opstanak...

An overnight attack by suspected Boko Haram jihadists on a Chadian military base has killed at least 24 people, a military official and regional administrator told AFP on Tuesday. The Barka Tolorom base is on the shores of Lake Chad, which straddles Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria and whose islands provide a refuge for jihadists from Boko Haram and other radical Islamist groups. The raid late on Monday “left 25 dead and 46 wounded on the Chadian army side”, the army source told AFP. The administrative official gave a toll of “24 dead and several wounded”. Both attributed the attack to Boko Haram, with the administrator insisting that “the situation is under control”. “Once again, the nebulous Boko Haram terrorist group carried out a cowardly attack last night on our military base at Barka Tolorom,” Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno said on Tuesday in a Facebook post. “We will continue the fight wit...

The Sudanese government accused Ethiopia of being behind recent drone attacks on sites  including Khartoum airport  and recalled its ambassador on Tuesday. A military spokesperson in Sudan said the government has evidence that four drone strikes that have happened since March 1 came from Ethiopia’s Bahir Dar airport. It also accused the United Arab Emirates of supplying the drones. The Sudanese military has been at war with a paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces since April 2023, when the RSF stormed the capital. The battles have now shifted towards more drone warfare concentrating in the Kordofan and Blue Nile states. Sudan has long accused the UAE of supporting the RSF, and U.N. experts and rights groups have also accused the it or providing arms to the group. The UAE has rejected the accusation. The most recent attack came on Monday and targeted the airport in Sudan’s capital Khartoum. The previous attacks were launched towards the Sudanese ...