As many as 13 Pakistani soldiers were killed and 29 others injured, including 19 civilians, in a suicide attack early Saturday morning in Khadi area of North Waziristan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Citing security agencies, Pakistani media outlet Mashriq TV stated that a suicide bomber crashed an explosive-laden vehicle into a mine-resistant Improvised Explosive Device (IED) vehicle belonging to the Bomb Disposal Unit amid a curfew imposed due to military movement in the area. The powerful blast resulted in the killing of 13 military personnel and injuring 24 people, including 14 civilians.

There were reports of indiscriminate firing also which caused injuries to 19 civilians, including women and children, in the area.

Reports suggest that the rescue operations were launched immediately following the blast. According to local authorities, the condition of several injured, including women and children, remains critical and the number of casualties might rise significantly.

Heavy flooding has returned to Rongjiang County in southwest China's Guizhou Province, prompting local authorities to re-activate the highest-level emergency flood response, effective from 12:30 p.m. (local time) on Saturday.

Hydrological forecasts indicate that the Duliu River is expected to reach a peak flood level of 253.5 metres around 5 p.m. on Saturday. This level, which corresponds to a peak flow of 8,360 cubic metres per second, exceeds the guaranteed water level of 251.5 metres.

South Korea on Saturday held its first official memorial ceremony for those abducted by North Korea during the 1950-53 Korean War, reaffirming its commitment to resolving long-standing humanitarian issues stemming from the country's division.

The inaugural Korean War Abductees Remembrance Day event was held at Imjingak Peace Park in the border city of Paju, north of Seoul. It marked the first official observance of Korean War Abductees Remembrance Day, which was designated by law last year to be held annually on June 28.

Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol appeared for questioning by a special counsel team on Saturday over insurrection charges related to his December 3 martial law declaration.

Yoon arrived at the Seoul High Prosecutors' Office in southern Seoul at 9:56 a.m., two weeks after the special counsel probe was launched and just 85 days after his impeachment.

This marks the ousted President's first appearance before an investigative body in about 5 months, following his arrest and questioning by the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) in January.

In addition to his insurrection charges in connection with the failed martial law bid, Yoon is accused of ordering the Presidential Security Service (PSS) to physically block his arrest when the CIO attempted to execute a warrant in January, and directing the PSS to delete records from secure phones used by military commanders shortly after his failed attempt to impose martial law.

Ukraine's accession to the European Union (EU) does not align with Russia's interests, said Vladislav Maslennikov, Director of the European Problems Department at the Russian Foreign Ministry, on Saturday, as the EU is moving towards active militarisation and adopting countermeasures against Moscow.

"I see no reason why we should support the idea of Ukraine joining the European Union, particularly because the EU is moving towards active militarisation, virtually setting the task of constantly opposing us, including in terms of resolving the Ukrainian crisis," Russian newspaper Izvestia quoted the Russian official as saying.

"One should not forget here that the European Union has an article in the Treaty of Lisbon, which is no less significant than Article 5 of the Washington Treaty on collective defence in NATO. This is why Ukraine's accession to the EU does not meet our interests," the official added.

According to a statement of the European Council, during the two-day EU summit in Brussels, which ended on Friday, Hungary blocked the adoption by the summit of the final statement on Ukraine by refusing to sign the EU's joint statement of support for Kyiv.

US President Donald Trump has said his administration will send letters to countries "over the next week and a half or so" to tell them about their tariff rates, while noting that his pause on "reciprocal" tariffs could be extended or shortened.

Trump made the remarks as South Korea and other countries have been seeking to strike a trade deal with the United States to avoid or minimise the impact of the reciprocal tariffs, with his pause on the new tariffs scheduled to end on July 8, reports news agency.

"So at a certain point over the next week and a half or so, or maybe before, we're going to send out a letter. We talked to many of the countries," Trump told a press briefing. "So we're just going to tell them what they have to pay to do business in the United States.

Asked whether the pause on the tariffs can be extended, the president said, "We can do whatever we want."

"We could extend it. We could make it shorter," he said. "I would like to make it shorter. I'd like to just send letters out to everybody, (saying) 'Congratulations. You are paying 25 percent.'"

The US Supreme Court ruled that district judges lack the authority to grant nationwide injunctions against the Trump administration's executive order to effectively end birthright citizenship.

In a 6-3 vote along ideological line, Supreme Court justices granted a request by the Trump administration to narrow the scope of nationwide injunctions imposed by district judges, news agency reported.

"Federal courts do not exercise general oversight of the Executive Branch," Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote for the majority, noting that "When a court concludes that the executive branch has acted unlawfully, the answer is not for the court to exceed its power, too."

However, the three liberal justices issued dissents to the decision.

British counter-terrorism police have arrested four individuals in connection with an investigation into an incident involving damage to two aircraft at a Royal Air Force (RAF) base in Oxfordshire, Counterterrorism Policing South East announced on Friday.

Two men and a woman were arrested on suspicion of a terror offence, with a second woman also being arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.

The pro-Palestine group, identified as Palestine Action, said on its website on June 20 that members had damaged two military aircraft at RAF Brize Norton, news agency reported. The base operates daily flights to RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, a key hub for British military operations in the Middle East.

The Royal Malaysian Police (PDRM) on Friday announced the arrest of 36 Bangladeshi nationals for their involvement in a radical movement and bringing extremist beliefs based on the Islamic State (IS) ideology into the country.

According to Malaysia's Ministry of Home Affairs, the planned security operation to nab Bangladeshis began on April 24 and was carried out in three phases in the states of Selangor and Johor.

Seven people died after 18 tourists, including women and children, were carried away by flash floods on Friday in the Swat River in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The incident occurred in the Fizagat area, where the members of two families were having breakfast near the riverbank when a sudden rise in the water level swept away many of them, local media reported.

According to the rescue officials, three individuals have been pulled to safety during the rescue operation