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.

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

Cuba suffered a general blackout on Friday caused by a crash of its national electricity grid, officials said, the fourth major power outage on the cash-strapped communist island in five months.

At least 14 people were dead and dozens injured after violent tornadoes swept across the central United States, officials said yesterday.

The US decision to expel South Africa’s ambassador was “regrettable,” the office of the South African president said yesterday, after Washington’s top diplomat accused the envoy of hating America and President Donald Trump.

Canada’s new Prime Minister Mark Carney on Friday launched his term in office with a whole-hearted rejection of US President Donald Trump’s repeated threats to annex his northern neighbor.

President Vladimir Putin has called for beleaguered Ukrainian troops in the Russian region of Kursk to “surrender” as Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky accused the Russian leader of seeking to sabotage a ceasefire initiative.