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Investigators in the UAE and other countries were working on Thursday to determine the motive of the co-pilot who allegedly stabbed the captain of a Flydubai flight bound for Israel, sending the aircraft into a dangerous descent and forcing it to divert to Saudi Arabia. The flight, carrying 174 people from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates to Tel Aviv, was forced into an emergency landing after the co-pilot allegedly attacked Captain Smit Machchhar in the cockpit. Israeli passengers aboard the aircraft described how the bloodied captain managed to open…

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The federal government has intensified high-level political and legal consultations in Islamabad over the security situation and constitutional matters in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the wake of the long march announced by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday held consultations with his key ministers and advisers to review the KP situation and finalise decisions to prevent the situation from escalating. The meeting at the Prime Minister’s House was attended by National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq, Federal Ministers Azam Nazeer Tarar, Mohsin Naqvi, Amir Muqam and Attaullah Tarar, as…

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A court in Lahore on Thursday granted a three-day physical remand of Muskan, a suspect in the alleged rape of a foreign woman Diana and ordered that she be sent to jail. Judicial Magistrate Azhar Mahmood issued the written order, according to which the investigating officer had sought a 14-day physical remand of the suspect. The court allowed police to interrogate Muskan in jail in the presence of a female police officer but ruled that she could not be kept in direct police custody. According to the written order, police…

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British film editor John Grover, whose career included work on six James Bond films and Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’, has died at the age of 87. Grover died on Monday at his home in Buckinghamshire, England, after a short illness, his son Tim told The Hollywood Reporter. His Bond credits included editing ‘For Your Eyes Only’ (1981), ‘The Living Daylights’ (1987) and ‘Licence to Kill’ (1989). He also worked on the assembly of ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’ (1977) and ‘Moonraker’ (1979). A longtime vice chairman of the…

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Christa Pike, convicted of murdering a schoolmate three decades ago, survived Tennessee’s effort to execute her by means of lethal ​injection late on Wednesday, prison officials said, foiling the state’s first attempt to put a woman to death in two centuries. Pike’s condition following the ordeal was ‌not immediately known, and it was not clear what legal avenues her lawyers or the state might pursue next after she was taken for medical treatment from the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville. The Tennessee Department of Correction defended its handling of…

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Bollywood actors Kareena Kapoor Khan and Mira Rajput Kapoor recently came together for a candid conversation on the new season of Kareena’s show, ‘What Women Want’. Kareena shared a picture with Mira from the show’s sets on Tuesday, describing her guest as “absolutely warm and lovely”. Mira later reshared Kareena’s post and thanked her for inviting her to the show. She also shared several pictures from their meeting on her Instagram feed. The two celebrities appearing together caught social media users by surprise, with fans flooding the posts with humorous…

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Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei on Wednesday warned the United Arab Emirates about the consequences of hosting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who made an unannounced visit to the country last weekend. “Just as hosting US military bases has not brought you security, hosting the ‘Butcher of Gaza’ will similarly yield no pleasant consequences,” Rezaei said in a post on X. He also urged the UAE to refrain from “fuelling conflicts”, calling on it to learn from the recent war and avoid making what he described as…

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New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has received federal security clearance after a months-long wait, allowing him to participate in classified briefings on security threats and emergencies affecting the city. “I have my security clearance now,” Mamdani told reporters at an unrelated press conference in Brooklyn on Wednesday. Sam Raskin, a spokesperson for Mamdani, did not specify when the Trump administration granted the clearance, saying only that it was issued sometime this week, according to a Politico report. The clearance was granted days after Mamdani held a friendly meeting with President…

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Swiss glaciers are ​shrinking rapidly after suffering one of their worst years of ice loss during ‌a record-breaking European heatwave. Switzerland’s glaciers lost more than 5% of their ice in 2026, a report by the Swiss Glacier Monitoring Network (GLAMOS) and the Swiss Commission for Cryosphere Observation of the Swiss Academy of ​Sciences showed on Thursday. The findings underscore the accelerating pace of glacier retreat as extreme ​melt years become routine. Over the past five years, Swiss glaciers have ⁠shed almost a fifth of their ice, the report showed, threatening…

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At least six militants were killed in an intelligence-based operation in the Sanni area of Kachhi district, Balochistan, under Operation Radd-ul-Fitna 3, security sources said on Thursday. The militants affiliated with Fitna Al Hindustan were successfully targeted using quadcopters, the sources said, adding that a large quantity of weapons and ammunition was recovered from the militants. Security forces also conducted a clearance operation in the area to eliminate any remaining militants. Separately, security forces destroyed several hideouts and tunnels used by militants in an intelligence-based operation in the North Waziristan…

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