ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI -- Pakistan and India announced on Saturday that they agreed on a ceasefire. The announcement came following four days of military strikes on each other.
Pakistan's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar said on Saturday that Pakistan and India have agreed on a ceasefire with immediate effect. (Pakistan-India-Ceasefire)
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KIEV -- Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said on Saturday that Kiev is ready for a "full and unconditional" 30-day ceasefire with Russia starting Monday.
Sybiha made the statement in a post on social media X, following a meeting with leaders of the "coalition of the willing," an initiative led by Britain and France in support of Ukraine. (Ukraine-Russia-Ceasefire)
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KABUL -- At least one person has been confirmed dead and 32 others sustained injuries as a flash flood swept through parts of eastern Afghanistan's Nangarhar province on Friday night, the state-run Bakhtar news agency reported Saturday.
Heavy rains triggered a flash flood in the provincial capital Jalalabad City, leaving one dead and 32 others injured, the report said, adding that the incident also inflicted property damages as several shops, houses and farmlands were smashed in the natural disaster. (Afghanistan-Flood-Casualties)
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KHARTOUM -- At least 19 inmates were killed and more than 45 others injured in a drone strike targeting a central prison in El Obeid in western Sudan's North Kordofan State on Saturday, according to a medical source and eyewitnesses.
A medical source at El-Obeid Hospital, who requested anonymity, told Xinhua that the 19 dead bodies and the 45 injured have arrived at the hospital, and that "the number of casualties is expected to rise." (S.Sudan-Strike-Casualties) ■
