GAZA -- Hamas has started consultations and discussions with other Palestinian factions to study a plan proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump to end the war in the Gaza Strip, a Hamas source said on Tuesday.
The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Xinhua that mediators from Qatar and Egypt reviewed the plan before presenting it to Hamas leadership and other factions. (Gaza Strip-Hamas-Israel)
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WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that if a government shutdown were to occur, the administration would be laying off "a lot of people," blaming the Democrats for the current stalemate in funding negotiations.
"Well, the Democrats want to shut it down. So when you shut it down, you have to do layoffs. So we'd be laying off a lot of people that are going to be very affected, and the Democrats, they're going to be Democrats," Trump told reporters at the White House. (US-Trump-Shutdown)
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MANILA -- At least 18 people were killed and dozens injured as a 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit Cebu province in the central Philippines on Tuesday night, local media reported Wednesday.
The death toll is expected to climb as more reports trickle in. (Philippines-Earthquake)
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ISLAMABAD -- Ten people were killed and 30 others injured in a suicide attack targeting the headquarters of paramilitary forces in Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province on Tuesday, the provincial Health Minister Bakht Muhammad Kakar told media.
The attack took place in Quetta, the provincial capital, at around 11:30 a.m. local time (0630 GMT), when a terrorist rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into an outer wall of the Frontier Corps (FC) headquarters, while four of his accomplices wearing FC uniforms managed to slip into the building, security sources told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. (Pakistan-Suicide attack) ■
