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South Korea's central bank raises rates in a bid to boost the economy

South Korea’s central bank cut its policy rate for the first time in more than four years as pressure to revive a sluggish economy outweighed concerns about the country’s level of household debt
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Bank of Korea Gov. Rhee Chang-yong speaks during a press conference at the central bank in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Oct. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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An ex-judge from mainland China is set to take Macao's top job. What's at stake for the casino hub?

Some 400 pro-establishment electors are set to approve the sole candidate for Macao’s chief executive job on Sunday, making him the Chinese casino hub’s first leader born in mainland China
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FILE The sole candidate for the upcoming election for the Macao chief executive post, Sam Hou Fai, the city's former top judge, waves as he leaves the stage after a press conference at the China-Portuguese-speaking Countries Commercial and Trade Service Platform Complex in Macao, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Anthony Kwan, File)
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British YouTuber and rapper Yung Filly is charged with rape in Australia

A British YouTuber and rapper known as Yung Filly has been charged with raping and choking a woman in a hotel room following an Australian music performance
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An 'appalled' New Zealand official says a navy ship didn't sink because its captain was a woman

New Zealand’s Defense Minister Judith Collins has decried what she called misogynistic online comments about the woman commander of a navy ship which ran aground, caught fire and sank off the coast of Samoa on Sunday
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In this undated photo provided by New Zealand's Defence Public Affairs, a hydrographer surveys uncharted positions during the transit to Vanuatu on Op Calypso onboard HMNZS Manawanui. (Petty Officer Chris Weissenborn/Defence Public Affairs via AP)
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A new mayor takes office in southern Mexico after his predecessor was beheaded

A new mayor has been sworn in a city in southern Mexico where his predecessor was killed and beheaded less than a week after taking office
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People demand justice for murdered Mayor Alejandro Arcos in Chilpancingo, Guerrero state, Mexico, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Alejandrino Gonzalez)
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Mexico sends 660 soldiers, National Guard to protect lime growers suffering extortion by cartels

Mexico has sent 660 soldiers and militarized National Guard officers to the western state of Michoacan to protect lime growers who complained they were suffering extortion demands by cartels
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FILE - A worker unloads a truck-full of Mexican limes at a citrus packing plant in La Ruana, in the state of Michoacan, Mexico, Nov. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, File)
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Police rescue 170 animals from a home in Puerto Rico including turtles, donkeys and dogs

Police in Puerto Rico say they have rescued 170 animals from a home in a mountain town and arrested their owner
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UN bases in Lebanon hit by artillery more than 100 times in past year, official says

Israeli forces have asked U.N. peacekeepers to withdraw.
October 10
Spanish peacekeepers of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) coordinate their patrol with the Lebanese army in Marjayoun in south Lebanon on Oct. 8, 2024.
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Missing Mexican human rights activist and lawyer regularly received threats

A human rights lawyer and activist missing for nearly a week in southern Mexico regularly received threats related to her work
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After a 2-year investigation, South African president won't be charged over $580K hidden in a couch

Prosecutors say South African President Cyril Ramaphosa won’t face criminal charges over a hidden cash scandal that was revealed more than two years ago and triggered an investigation by a special police unit
October 10
FILE - Cyril Ramaphosa waves as he arrives ahead of his inauguration as President, at the Union Buildings in Tshwane, South Africa, June 19, 2024. (Kim Ludbrook/Pool Photo via AP, File)
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Lebanon's Health Ministry says death toll from Israeli airstrikes on central Beirut climbs to 18, with 92 others wounded

Lebanon's Health Ministry says death toll from Israeli airstrikes on central Beirut climbs to 18, with 92 others wounded
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A chilling nonfiction thriller about nuclear war is up for the UK's Baillie Gifford book prize

A chilling, thriller-like account of how a nuclear war might unfold and books by two award-winning novelists are among finalists for Britain’s leading nonfiction book prize
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Israeli strikes in central Beirut kill 11 people and wound 48, Lebanon's health ministry says

Israeli strikes in central Beirut kill 11 people and wound 48, Lebanon's health ministry says
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Wildlife populations declined by 73% in 50 years: Study

The study’s findings revealed declines in “every indicator that tracks the state of nature on a global scale."
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The study’s findings revealed declines in “every indicator that tracks the state of nature on a global scale."
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South Korean author Han Kang awarded Nobel Prize in literature

The poet and novelist was praised by the Nobel committee for her “intense poetic prose.”
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The poet and novelist was praised by the Nobel committee for her “intense poetic prose.”
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Wildlife populations have declined by 73% in 50 years: Study

A study suggests the coming years are "crucial for the future of life on Earth."
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African penguins are seen at the coast of Simon's Town as the number of endangered African penguins has declined due to numerous human factors such as industrial fishing and fuel oil spills in Western Cape, South Africa on Sept.  7, 2024.
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Mozambique awaits election results as the ruling party looks to extend its reign past 50 years

Mozambicans are waiting for early election results a day after a vote for a new president passed off peacefully despite opposition candidates claiming fraud and manipulation by the longtime ruling party
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Vote counting gets underway at a polling station in Maputo, Mozambique, in general elections Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Carlos Uqueio)
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South Koreans are joyful after Han Kang wins Nobel Prize for literature

South Koreans have reacted with joy and astonishment after learning that homegrown writer Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in literature, an unexpected moment that stoked national pride about the country’s growing cultural influence
October 10
A TV screen shows a file image of the winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature, South Korean writer Han Kang, during a news program at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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Prince and Princess of Wales meet with families of dance class stabbing attack

Prince William and the Princess of Wales have carried out their first joint public engagement since the end of Kate’s chemotherapy by meeting the bereaved parents of victims of a stabbing rampage in the seaside town of Southport
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Britain's Kate, Princess of Wales, meets rescue workers and the families of those caught up in the Southport knife attack earlier this year in Southport, England, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024. (Danny Lawson, Pool Photo via AP)
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Rwanda's Marburg outbreak is under control, Africa's health chief says

The head of Africa’s top public health agency says that an outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg fever in Rwanda is under control and that travel bans to the East African country are unnecessary
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FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2014 photo, a medical worker from the Infection Prevention and Control unit wearing full protective equipment carries a meal to an isolation tent housing a man being quarantined after coming into contact in Uganda with a carrier of the Marburg Virus, at the Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
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One killed as protests over high cost of living in Martinique turn violent

Protests over the high cost of living in the French Caribbean island of Martinique have turned violent, with demonstrators setting fire to a police station, cars and roadblocks as they clashed with officers
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Turkey’s Erdogan inaugurates a Turkish-funded mosque in Albania's capital

Turkey’s president has traveled to Albania’s capital to inaugurate a Turkish-funded mosque as part of a trip to boost ties and discuss regional issues
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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claps hands during a news conference with Prime Minister of Albania Edi Rama, after after they sing bilateral agreements in Tirana, Albania, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Vlasov Sulaj) i
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UN bases in Lebanon hit by artillery more than 100 times in past year: Official

ABC News correspondent Patrick Reevell has the latest from the war in the Middle East.
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VIDEO: UN bases in Lebanon hit by artillery more than 100 times in past year: Official
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Train evacuated in Strasbourg due to 'light smoke'. No injuries reported

Passengers including European Parliament officials were evacuated from a train departing from the eastern French city of Strasbourg after “light smoke” emerged from the train
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Cyprus police arrest 8 Syrians suspected of helping to fund a militant group in their homeland

A Cyprus court has ordered eight Syrians to remain in police detention for six days on suspicion they helped fund an alleged “terrorist organization” in their native country
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UN-backed experts say Israel is destroying Gaza's health sector and both sides have tortured people

A U.N. commission has accused Israel of destroying Gaza’s health care system through “relentless and deliberate attacks” in its yearlong war with Hamas
October 10
FILE - Palestinians walk through the destruction left by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip near Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Monday, April 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammed Hajjar, File)
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International headlines from ABC News

Catch up on the developing stories from around the globe making headlines.
October 10
Catch up on the developing stories from around the globe making headlines.
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Haiti town comes under attack a week after gangs killed at least 115 people

Gunmen have invaded another town north of Haiti’s capital, just a week after a massacre killed at least 115 people in the country’s central region
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Relatives of people injured during armed gang attacks wait around at Saint Nicolas hospital in Saint-Marc, Haiti, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
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Poland tightens visa rules as probe confirms previous government's cash-for-visas scandal

Poland's foreign minister says the European Union nation is tightening its visa regulations as probes into alleged cash-for-visa scandal have confirmed irregularities under the previous governmnet going into millions of dollars
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Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski speaks during a news conference with U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)
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Sudan’s RSF paramilitary group chief accuses Egypt of involvement in civil war

Officials in Cairo denied the claims, saying they sought "to halt the war."
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In this Aug. 10, 2022 file photo, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, Sudanese Deputy Chairman of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, talks during a press conference in Khartoum, Sudan.
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Indonesia arrests a suspect wanted by China for running a $14 billion investment scam

Immigration officers in Indonesia’s tourist island of Bali have arrested a Chinese suspect sought by Beijing for helping run over $14 billion investment scam to clients in China
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Chinese fugitive identified only by his initial LQ covers his face after during a news conference in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)
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World Trade Organization slightly raises 2024 goods trade forecast but wary of potential setbacks

The World Trade Organization has raised its outlook for global goods trade this year slightly, but cautions that increasing geopolitical tensions and uncertainty over economic policy pose “substantial” risks to its forecast
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FILE - The 'OOCL United Kingdom' container vessel is anchored at the 'Jade Weserport' container terminal in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)
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Middle East latest: 22 people killed and 117 wounded in Israeli airstrikes in Beirut, Lebanon says

Authorities say that Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip and Beirut have left dozens of people dead
October 10
A Palestinian man carries an injured child after an Israeli airstrike in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
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UK's new Labour government unveils overhaul of workers' rights

Britain’s new Labour government has unveiled a slew of new rights for workers, including more generous rules for sick pay and parental leave and major restrictions on certain precarious employment practices such as fire and rehire
October 10
Britain's Secretary of State for Business and Trade Jonathan Reynolds speaks during the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, England, Monday, Sept. 23, 2024.(AP Photo/Jon Super)
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Fire at noted huge Brutalist block in Moscow leaves 2 dead

Two people died in a fire at one of the Russian capital’s most notable buildings, a gargantuan Brutalist apartment block that viewers have likened to a toppled skyscraper
October 10
This photo released by Moscow Prosecutor's office on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024, shows the aftermath of a fire in one of the apartments of the Dom Korabl (Ship Building), stretching along a main street for 400 meters (1,300 feet), in Moscow, Russia. (Moscow Prosecutor's Office via AP)
October 10

AP PHOTOS: Ratan Tata's legacy is seen throughout India — from meals to work to luxury

It's hard to imagine many Indian households that aren't somehow touched by the $100 billion conglomerate named for the family of Ratan Tata, who died this week at the age of 86. Tata has been a mythical name in Indian consumers' imaginations for generations. Every day, all across India, people consume the Tata Group's salt and lentils, commute to work on Tata buses passing Tata cars and trucks after applying Tata beauty products in homes built from Tata steel. In Kashmir, Firdosa Jan makes tea for her family from a packet labeled Tata Tea Gold. Hundreds of miles away in the northeastern Indian state of Nagaland, 25-year-old Teisovinuo Yhome is cooking a dish on an open fire, using Tata salt for seasoning. Even though it was a business conglomerate, in the popular imagination, Tata was a man to envy and emulate. At the turn of the 20th century, Ratan Tata’s grandfather, Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata, built the first luxury hotel in India, and many saw it as better than any the British...
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A man cleans his Tata Nano car in Hyderabad, India, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
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NATO will start an annual nuclear exercise as Russia threatens Ukraine's Western backers

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte says the alliance will hold its annual nuclear exercise next week
October 10
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, right, and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte hold bilateral talks in Downing Street, in London, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024. (Dan Kitwood/Pool photo via AP)
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UN official says Israeli fire has wounded two peacekeepers in Lebanon

UN official says Israeli fire has wounded two peacekeepers in Lebanon
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Nobel Prize in literature awarded to South Korean author Han Kang “for her intense poetic prose"

Nobel Prize in literature awarded to South Korean author Han Kang “for her intense poetic prose"
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Asylum-seeker to film star: Guinean's unusual journey highlights France's arguments over immigration

Landing in the midst of heated arguments in France about immigration comes an award-winning film about the issue with an eye-popping twist: Its lead actor Abou Sangare is himself an immigrant lacking permanent legal status
October 10
Abou Sangare, lead actor in "Souleymane's Story," poses for photographs after a premiere at the Louxor cinema in Paris, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024.(AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)
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Hong Kong court rejects activist Jimmy Lai's bid to have a jury trial for libel case

A Hong Kong court has rejected jailed publisher Jimmy Lai’s request to have a jury trial for his libel case against a pro-Beijing newspaper
October 10
FILE - Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai pauses during an interview in Hong Kong on July 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)
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Palestinian officials raise death toll from Israeli strike on Gaza shelter to 21

Palestinian officials raise death toll from Israeli strike on Gaza shelter to 21
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At least 22 killed in airstrikes in central Beirut, with Israel also firing on UN peacekeepers

Lebanon’s health ministry says at least 22 people have been killed and 117 have been wounded in Israeli airstrikes that hit two different areas in central Beirut
October 10
A Palestinian man carries an injured child after an Israeli airstrike in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
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Palestinian officials say an Israeli strike on a Gaza shelter has killed 13 people

Palestinian officials say an Israeli strike on a Gaza shelter has killed 13 people
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Zelenskyy meeting UK and NATO leaders as he seeks support for Ukraine's peace plan

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has arrived at 10 Downing St. in London.
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Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte arrive at 10 Downing Street in London, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024.(AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
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With roads often blocked by rebels in Congo, boats — the only alternative — have become death traps

The overcrowded boat that capsized in eastern Congo last week killed eight members of Serge Nzonga’s family along with 70 others
October 10
A ferry leaves Goma, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024, for Bukavu on lake Kivu. (AP Photo/Justin Kabumba)
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Nobel Prize in literature is awarded to South Korean author Han Kang

The Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang for what the Nobel committee called her “intense poetic prose.”
October 10
A TV screen shows a file image of the winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature, South Korean writer Han Kang, during a news program at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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China will lift 4-year ban on Australian lobster imports, Australia's prime minister says

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says China will resume importing Australian live lobsters by the end of the year
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Chinese Premier Li Qiang arrives to participate in ASEAN-China summit in Vientiane, Laos, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
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AP PHOTOS: Artisans in India’s Assam state make colorful mud idols of Hindu gods for Durga Puja

Kanchan Paul is deep in concentration as he paints the right eye on a clay idol of the Hindu goddess Durga. He stands on a plastic stool and leans in toward the 8-foot-tall figure. It is delicate work, requiring him to remain eye-to-eye with the goddess for long periods of time. He describes the experience as “having a direct connection with the goddess ... It can also be very frightening at times, when you feel her gaze upon you." Kanchan, 39, is the fourth generation in his family to build clay idols. His 70-year-old father, Ratan Paul, who is working inside, has been making idols since 1975. Their narrow workshop is located in an urban area on the outskirts of Guwahati, the capital of the northeastern Indian state of Assam, and the idols are being prepared for Durga Puja, a festival celebrating the victory of good over evil. The idol that Kanchan is painting depicts Goddess Durga with 10 arms. She stands with her left foot on a muscular man and her right on a lion, her mount,...
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An artisan works on a mud idol of the Hindu goddess Durga at a workshop during the Durga Puja festival in Guwahati, India, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
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2 Pakistani police and 4 insurgents killed in the restive north west ahead of Asian security summit

Militants riding on a motorcycle have opened fire on a vehicle carrying police officers in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban, killing two of them and wounding two others
October 10
This is a locator map for Pakistan with its capital, Islamabad, and the Kashmir region. (AP Photo)