Sixty-four South Koreans who had been detained in Cambodia for alleged involvement in cyberscam operations returned home yesterday and were under arrest, a police official told AFP.

Pakistan and Afghan officials were due to meet in Qatar yesterday, a day after Islamabad launched air strikes that killed at least 10 people in Afghanistan and broke a ceasefire that had brought two days of calm to the border.

The 48-hour truce paused nearly a week of bloody border clashes

Japan’s former prime minister Tomiichi Murayama, best known for making a statement apologising over World War II, died Friday aged 101, officials said.

Pakistan and Afghanistan yesterday mutually agreed to extend their 48-hour ceasefire until conclusion of planned talks in Doha, according to three Pakistani security officials and one Afghan Taliban source.

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Murayama, in office from 1994-1996, issued the 1995 statement on the 50th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II

Dozens of troops and civilians were killed in a fresh round of border skirmishes between Pakistan and Afghanistan yesterday, officials on both sides of the frontier said, hours before Islamabad said the two sides had agreed to a 48-hour ceasefire.

Agree on 48-hour ceasefire after clashes

More than 80 women and children had been wounded

The private bus, carrying 57 passengers left Jaisalmer at around 3:00pm

Eighty South Koreans who were possible victims of fake jobs or scam centres were unaccounted for in Cambodia, South Korea’s foreign ministry told AFP yesterday, after the torture death of a student there shocked the country.

Gunmen in northwest Pakistan killed a police officer guarding polio vaccinators yesterday, police said, on the second day of a nationwide campaign to counter rising cases.

Indian officials said yesterday that a senior Maoist rebel leader and around 60 fighters have surrendered, weeks after the guerrillas announced a halt to their decades-long insurgency.

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Pakistani troops were on high alert on the border with Afghanistan yesterday after fierce fighting between the two sides at the weekend left dozens dead and drew the attention of US President Donald Trump, who said he could help end the conflict.

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Dozens of fighters were killed in overnight border clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan, both sides said yesterday, in the most serious fighting between the neighbours since the Taliban came to power in Kabul.

The Pakistani Taliban yesterday claimed responsibility for deadly attacks in several northwestern districts that killed 20 security officials and three civilians.

Seven police personnel martyred, 13 injured in the attack