Attackers in Pakistan leave ten dead

PESHAWAR, Pakistan – Militants armed with assault rifles and grenades attacked a security post in northwestern Pakistan, killing 10 officers in a gun battle, police said Friday.

Three other officers were injured in the overnight attack in Dera Ismail Khan, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, local police official Abdul Rauf said.

He said the attackers fled with their dead and wounded as authorities sent reinforcements to the security post in the town of Draban.

Also Friday, suspected militants ambushed a police vehicle, killing a local police chief and another police officer, authorities said.

In a new attack on Friday evening, militants opened fire on a mosque in the northwestern town of Lakki Marwat and killed a soldier who was on leave and praying with other worshipers, the army said. It identified the dead soldier as Arif Ullah, 19, who responded to the attack by returning fire.

No one has claimed responsibility for either attack. Suspicion would likely fall on the Pakistani Taliban, who often attack security forces across the country, especially in former tribal areas in the restive northwest.

Striking workers cut off power from Guadeloupe

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Striking workers cut off power on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe on Friday, leaving its more than 370,000 residents without electricity, officials said.

According to a government statement, the workers had raided the control room of the power plant, prompting police to rush to the scene to secure the control room.

On Friday evening, the government announced a precautionary curfew because power had not yet been restored. It noted that 30% of the population was without water as a result of the power outage and that mobile phone service was severely affected.

Marie-Line Bassette, director of EDF, the company that supplies Guadeloupe with electricity, told France Télévisions that it was “irresponsible to go so far as to cause a blackout and deprive the whole of Guadeloupe of electricity for the demand, while there are resources to manage this type of flow.” situation.”

Union workers have been on strike for almost two months over salaries and other issues. The union did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The judge of the Criminal Court resigns

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The chairman of an International Criminal Court panel hearing a request to issue arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his defense minister and senior Hamas leaders has been replaced for medical reasons.

The court published a decision on Friday granting a request by Romanian judge Iulia Motoc to be removed from the case “on the basis of medical grounds and the need to ensure the proper administration of justice.”

The ruling did not elaborate or reveal any further details, saying that “Judge Motoc’s personal medical situation is entitled to medical confidentiality.”

Motoc was replaced by Beti Hohler, a Slovenian who was elected a court judge last year after previously serving as a trial lawyer in the court’s prosecutor’s office.

The decision is likely to further delay a decision on the request from the court’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan.

In his May request for arrest warrants, Khan accused Netanyahu, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and three Hamas leaders – Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif and Ismail Haniyeh – of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip and Israel.

Netanyahu called the prosecutor’s accusations against him a “disgrace” and an attack on the Israeli army and all of Israel.

US President Joe Biden called the request for arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant “outrageous,” adding that “whatever this prosecutor may imply, there is no equivalence – none – between Israel and Hamas.”

Hamas also denounced the actions of the ICC prosecutor, saying the request to arrest its leaders “equates the victim with the executioner.”

3 Indian soldiers and 2 aides die in an ambush

SRINAGAR, India — Three Indian soldiers and their two civilian porters were killed in a rebel ambush in Indian-controlled Kashmir, officials said Friday.

Police said rebels sprayed bullets at an army vehicle carrying troops near the highly militarized Line of Control near the resort town of Gulmarg on Thursday evening. The de facto border divides disputed Kashmir between India and Pakistan, both of which claim it in its entirety.

Two soldiers and two civilians working as porters with the Indian Army were killed and three other soldiers were injured, police said. One soldier later died in a hospital, they said. The military said it was a brief firefight and gave no further details.

On Sunday, gunmen shot dead at least seven people and injured five others working on a strategic tunnel project near the seaside town of Sonamarg. Police blamed militants in Indian-administered Kashmir, who have been fighting New Delhi’s rule since 1989, for the attack. Many Muslim Kashmiris support the rebels’ goal of unifying the region either under Pakistani rule or as an independent country.