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US President Donald Trump said on Friday he would like to get rid of the main federal agency that responds to natural disasters during a visit to areas of North Carolina that were devastated by Hurricane Helene in September.

A French woman was sentenced on Friday to life in prison for starving her daughter to death, who died of a heart attack in 2020 at the age of 13 after years of abuse.

The Sindh government has announced that all educational institutions in the province will be closed to mark the occasion of Shab-i-Meraj, according to an official notification issued on Friday.

Denmark charged two people on Friday under its law banning desecration of the Quran, a first for the legislation adopted after a series of holy book burnings that sparked outrage among Muslims, authorities said.

PTI MNA Junaid Akbar Khan was elected chairman of the National Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee on Friday, the NA Secretariat confirmed in a press release.

A six-year-old boy was killed and two others, including another six-year-old, were injured in an incident of aerial firing during a wedding ceremony in Surjani Town on Friday, police said.

The administrator of a WhatsApp group in Pakpattan was arrested on Friday for allegedly violating the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act 2016 (Peca) by permitting an insulting post targeting Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz to be shared in the group.

At least eight workers were killed in a blast at a munitions factory in western India, government officials said on Friday, with several other workers still trapped inside the building.

A former member of the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) on Friday claimed that the banned militant group brainwashed average citizens into thinking a certain way about Balochistan and resorting to terrorist activities.

Afghanistan’s Taliban government said on Friday an arrest warrant sought by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for its leaders was “politically motivated”.