Lahore: As Pakistan’s former prime minister Nawaz Sharif has not yet condemned the Pahalgam terror attack, local media says he wants diplomatic channel to be used to deescalate tensions between Pakistan and India.

Barcelona: Spanish power distributor Red Eléctrica said that restoring power to large parts of the country after a massive and unprecedented outage Monday that also hit Portugal could take 6-10 hours.

Kyiv: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday declared a unilateral 72-hour ceasefire next week in Ukraine to mark Victory Day in World War II as the US presses for a deal to end the three-year-old war. Kyiv insisted on a longer and immediate truce.

The death toll from a huge explosion that rocked one of Iran's main ports rose Monday to 46 people killed, authorities said.

China has called for a "swift and fair investigation" into the Pahalgam terror attack and expressed support for its all-weather ally Pakistan in safeguarding its sovereignty and security interests amid Islamabad's rising tensions with India.

Vancouver: A man drove a vehicle into a crowd at a Filipino heritage festival in the Canadian city of Vancouver, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 20 others, authorities said Sunday.

Deir al-Balah (Gaza Strip): Hospitals in the Gaza Strip received the remains of 51 Palestinians over the past 24 hours who were killed in Israeli strikes, the local Health Ministry said Sunday, bringing the Palestinian death toll from the 18-month-old Israel-Hamas war to 52,243.

Amid rising tensions between India and Pakistan following the Pahalgam terror attack, Pakistan’s Minister Hanif Abbasi issued a provocative threat of nuclear retaliation, warning that the country’s nuclear arsenal is aimed directly at India. Abbasi’s remarks came after India’s suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty, a decades-old water-sharing agreement, in response to the terror attack that claimed 26 lives.