Amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, US officials are discussing the post-war Gaza governance plans with the Palestinian Authority along with regional allies, CNN reported.
The Sri Lankan government will be establishing an independent commission to develop legislation for strengthening and safeguarding 'national unity' through truth, transitional justice, and social cohesion, Colombo Gazette reported.
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif has said that those behind his "political victimization" will be held accountable, The News International reported.
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report that at least 13 people were killed in a gun fight in Leithao village near Saibol in Tengnoupal, Manipur, on Monday.
Pakistan's former finance minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Senator Shaukat Tarin announced on Friday to quit the party and politics, reported ARY News.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) highlighted on Friday that Gaza is on the brink of full-blown collapse as civil order is breaking down in the region, The Times of Israel reported.
The United Nations Special Rapporteur for Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, has emphasised the limitations of "how the Taliban have really clamped down and imposed a system of widespread discrimination against women and girls," TOLOnews reported.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday confirmed that he will be running for a fifth term in office in the 2024 presidential elections, state news agency TASS reported.
A 15-year-old sophomore student, Ethan Crumbley, who was arrested for killing four of his classmates in the 2021 Michigan school shooting, is scheduled to be sentenced on Friday, as reported by ABC News.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) issued a notice to the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Friday alleging the party's intra-party elections were "rigged and fraudulent", Dawn reported.
Amnesty International expressed concern over the detention and alleged torture of women rights defenders in Taliban prisons and demanded their release, as reported by Khaama Press.
"NCW is deeply concerned by the tragic incident in Thiruvananthapuram where a young doctor died by suicide allegedly due to dowry demands. The reported incident falls under sections of the Dowry Prohibition Act and IPC. We urge invoking these provisions in the FIR if allegations are verified