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The vehicle was heading from Chilas to Rawalpindi when it fell into the Indus River in the Paniba area of Kohistan district

Eyewitness Paige Martin told reporters a black truck blasted past her and ran a red light as she was walking

Britain will host the event in Cornwall in southwestern England starting June 11 with leaders of France, Italy, Japan, Germany, the United States and Canada attending.

The government said that 'the defence and security forces are at work to neutralise these terrorists and restore calm to populated areas.'

A Kurdish MP added that the strike targeted "a kindergarten near a school" in the camp that houses Kurdish refugees from Turkey.

Vaccinating the world is our best bet against another wave of the pandemic, and the ideal way to speed economic recovery, said Taranjit Singh Sandhu

That was President Joe Biden's message Wednesday in launching a huge final push to inoculate 70 percent of the US adult population by the national holiday of July 4th.

President Joe Biden wants 70 percent of US adults to have received at least one Covid-19 vaccine dose by US independence day on July 4. The 50 percent milestone was crossed on May 25.

Lapid, a former news anchor known for his chiselled good looks, is the Tel Aviv-born son of the fiercely secular former justice minister Yosef "Tommy" Lapid, another journalist who left the media to enter politics.

Viasna, an independent rights group monitoring the trial of Stepan Latypov, said it believed the activist had tried to commit suicide following pressure in detention.

The B.1.617 variant of the virus, which has in part been blamed for India's explosive outbreak, has been dubbed a triple mutant variant since it is split into three lineages.

The prime minister said everyone who is eligible for a vaccination and wants one should be able to get at least their first jab by the country's national day, which falls on August 9.

One expert argued that not knowing how the pandemic started puts the world at risk of future epidemics.

On Sunday, in a key blow to Netanyahu, nationalist hardliner Naftali Bennett says he will 'do everything to form a national unity government with my friend Yair Lapid'.

One of the school's officials said the attackers initially took more than 100 children 'but later sent back those they considered too small for them.'

West African regional bloc ECOWAS on Sunday suspended Mali's membership in response to last week's coup and said authorities must stick to a timetable for a return to democracy, but stopped short of imposing new sanctions.