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PAKISTAN

5 officials face action over terrorist attack

Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has ordered that at least five senior police officials be punished for negligence after a suicide bomber killed five Chinese engineers at a major dam site last month, the country's Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said on Saturday. The attack in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province forced Power China and the China Gezhouba Company to suspend work on two dam projects after the bombing. Hundreds of Chinese are employed at the Dasu and Diamer Bhasha dam construction sites, located about 100 kilometers apart in the mountainous region.

SLOVAKIA

Pellegrini winner of presidential election

Slovakia's incumbent speaker of the National Council Peter Pellegrini won the country's second round of the presidential election on Saturday, according to preliminary results published by the country's Statistical Office. Results from 99.47 percent of votes showed Pellegrini had 53.38 percent, and former foreign minister Ivan Korcok 46.61 percent. Pellegrini, 48, served as Slovakia's prime minister in 2018-20. Korcok served as the country's foreign minister from 2020 to 2022.

NETHERLANDS

Greta Thunberg held during protest march

Dutch police twice detained climate activist Greta Thunberg on Saturday after a group of marchers blocked a main road in The Hague to protest against fossil fuel subsidies. Police said more than 400 people were arrested, including 12 for incitement. Activists said Thunberg had been freed. The march was organized by the environmental group Extinction Rebellion, which previously swarmed the A12 highway and blocked traffic for hours before being sprayed by police water cannons and taken away.

SUDAN

Paramilitary attack on village kills 20

Sudan's Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group has killed at least 20 people in an attack on a village south of capital Khartoum, a local activists' committee said on Sunday. The RSF "attacked the village of Um Adam", 150 kilometers south of the city, on Saturday, said a statement from the local resistance committee, one of many pro-democracy groups that coordinate aid. Sudan's civil conflict began almost a year ago.

UNITED KINGDOM

World's oldest man: Long life just luck

The world's oldest living man, 111-year-old Briton John Tinniswood, said his longevity was "just luck "and there was no special secret to his diet, though his favorite food was fish and chips every Friday. Tinniswood inherited the Guinness World Records title from Venezuelan Juan Vicente Perez Mora, 114, whose death was announced last week. Born on Aug 26, 1912, a few months after the sinking of the Titanic, Tinniswood lived through two world wars, serving in the British Army Pay Corps in World War II.

Agencies - Xinhua