Several people have reportedly been killed in an explosion at a mosque near a police complex in northwest Pakistan. Authorities say an explosives-laden vehicle rammed the complex’s gate before exploding, followed by gunfire and a second suicide blast. Published On 18 Sep 202618 Sep 2026 Share Deadly blast hits mosque at Pakistan police complex on…

In international politics, it is often assumed that wars end when the fighting becomes unbearable and the parties turn to diplomacy. But diplomacy requires interlocutors — figures with the standing to negotiate and the authority to deliver. Remove them, and a war loses not only its potential mediators but the very possibility of a settlement….

A ninth woman has been found dead in South Africa’s Ekurhuleni municipality in about two months, intensifying concerns over violence against women and prompting renewed scrutiny of the government’s response to the country’s femicide crisis. The latest victim was found on Thursday morning in Dawn Park, a residential area of Boksburg, east of Johannesburg. The…