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Israel’s military said a Hezbollah drone had killed four soldiers at one of its northern bases Sunday, as it expanded its bombardments of Lebanon and troops battled militants across the border.

The attack on a military training camp in Binyamina, near Haifa, is the deadliest such assault on an Israeli base since September 23, when Israel increased its attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon. Emergency services reported more than 60 wounded.

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A Pakistan Air Force training aircraft crashed due to a technical fault in the mountainous region of Gadoon Amazai, in the village of Gandaf Bar Kali, Swabi. Both pilots successfully ejected using parachutes, but sustained minor injuries. They were immediately airlifted by an Air Force helicopter to the hospital.

It was reported that the Pakistan Air Force training aircraft was on a routine training flight on Tuesday, passing through the mountainous area of Gadoon Amazai in Swabi, when it suddenly encountered a technical issue and crashed into the hills of Gandaf Bar Kali.

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Sri Lanka’s newly-appointed Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath on Tuesday defended the government’s move to allow a Chinese military training ship to arrive in Colombo, saying the decision falls within the framework of the country’s diplomatic engagements and such visits “pose no threat”.

He was responding to a question on the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy training warship “Po Lang” which arrived at the port of Colombo on Tuesday “as part of an ocean-going voyage aimed at enhancing the professional capabilities of midshipmen and conducting naval exchanges with other countries,” said a statement.

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Iran said early on Wednesday that its missile attack on Israel was finished barring further provocation, while Israel and the US promised to retaliate against Tehran’s escalation as fears of a wider war intensified. Washington said it would work with longtime ally Israel to make sure Iran faced “severe consequences” for Tuesday’s attack.

The United Nations Security Council scheduled a meeting about the Middle East for Wednesday, and the European Union called for an immediate ceasefire. “Our action is concluded unless the Israeli regime decides to invite further retaliation. In that scenario, our response will be stronger and more powerful,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said in a post on X early on Wednesday.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised that arch foe Iran would pay for its missile attack against Israel on Tuesday, while Tehran said any retaliation would be met with “vast destruction”, raising fears of a wider war.

As Washington expressed full backing for its longtime ally Israel, Iran’s armed forces said direct intervention by Israel’s supporters against Tehran would provoke a “strong attack” from Iran on their “bases and interests” in the region.

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At least three Iranian border security guards have been killed and several others injured in fresh violence that has erupted in Iran’s southeastern Sistan-Baluchistan area, bordering Pakistan’s Balochistan province.

Four different attacks were reported overnight from different cities along the Pak-Iran border on Monday. “An Iranian border guard was killed and two others sustained injuries in a clash with unidentified armed persons in the Parud intersection of the Rask district of Iran’s Sistan-va-Balochistan province,” confirmed a source.

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strike, along with his deputy and several other leaders of the Iran-backed movement.

Israeli fighter jets killed “Muhammad Ali Ismail, the commander of Hezbollah’s missile unit in southern Lebanon, and his deputy,” the military said in a statement on Telegram, adding that “other Hezbollah commanders and terrorists were eliminated”.

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 Satellite imagery showed that China’s newest nuclear-powered attack submarine sank alongside a pier while under construction, a senior U.S. defense official said Thursday.

China’s first Zhou-class submarine sank likely between May and June, when satellite images showed cranes that would be necessary to lift it off the bottom of the river, said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to provide details about the submarine loss.

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 The Chinese navy for the first time carried out exercises and tests of all three of its aircraft carriers recently to highlight that its carrier warship programme has entered a fast lane, official media reported on Tuesday.

Currently, China has two aircraft carriers in operation – the Liaoning, a refit of the Soviet-era ship commissioned on Sept 25, 2012 – and Shandong, an indigenously built 2nd aircraft carrier commissioned in 2019.

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Pagers used by hundreds of members of the militant group Hezbollah exploded near simultaneously in Lebanon and Syria on Tuesday, killing at least nine people — including an 8-year-old girl — and wounding several thousand, officials said. Hezbollah and the Lebanese government blamed Israel for what appeared to be a sophisticated, remote attack.

A U.S. official said Israel briefed the U.S. on the operation — in which small amounts of explosive secreted in the pagers were detonated — on Tuesday after it was concluded. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the information publicly.

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Accusing the US of adopting “double standards” and “discriminatory” practices, Pakistan on Saturday rejected unilateral American sanctions on technology companies allegedly linked to the country’s ballistic missile programme and said such actions “endanger international peace”.

The US on Thursday said it has taken action against four Chinese entities, one Pakistani company, and one Chinese individual involved in the expansion of ballistic missiles and controlled missile equipment and technology to Pakistan.

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There is an “undeniable complicity” of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) with terrorist groups, former US National Security Advisor Lt Gen (retd) H R McMaster has said, revealing that during his tenure under then President Donald Trump, the White House faced resistance from the state department and Pentagon over providing security aid to Islamabad.

Despite directions from Trump to stop all aid to Pakistan till it stops giving safe havens to terrorists, McMaster in his latest book ‘At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House’ says that the then Defence Secretary Jim Mattis was planning to deliver a military aid package to Islamabad that included over USD 150 million worth of armoured vehicles.

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More than 70 people have been killed in multiple cases of terror attacks in the Balochistan province in southwestern Pakistan, media reported, quoting military and police officials. The country’s military said that 14 soldiers and police were killed as well as 21 terrorists were also killed in fighting in a major attack that targeted vehicles on a major highway in Bela, a town in Lasbela district, Al Jazeera reported.

In a separate attack in Musakhel district, local officials said at least 23 civilians were killed after attackers reportedly stopped their convoy, checked their IDs and determined they were from Punjab, with 35 vehicles also set ablaze.

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earing Bangladesh could well be the next Pakistan in the making in India’s troubled neighbourhood, several scholars and experts on Wednesday severely condemned the recent statements given by Shafiqur Rahman, the radical leader who currently heads Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami (BJI), in which he has openly backed implementation of Sharia law in the country.

Rahman, the Ameer (Chief) of the largest Islamist party in the country which has been banned from contesting elections, was arrested in December 2022 before being released in March, this year.