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Gunmen opened fire on a passenger bus in a tribal area in northwest Pakistan today, killing at least 38 people and wounding 29 others, said Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial chief secretary Nadeem Aslam Chaudhry.
Chaudhry said: “This is a major tragedy and the death toll could rise.” »
There has been decades of conflict between Shiite militants and Sunni Muslims over land and tribal areas in Afghanistan. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.
“There were two passenger buses, one carrying passengers from Peshawar to Parachinar and the other from Parachinar to Peshawar, when gunmen opened fire on them,” Parachinar resident Ziarat Hussain told Reuters by phone, adding that his relatives were travelling in a convoy from Peshawar.
North Korea is believed to have received more than a million barrels of oil from Russia in the first eight months of this year, in violation of UN sanctions, according to an analysis of satellite imagery released today by the UK-based Open Source Center. BBC.
North Korean vessels have made more than 40 stops at Russia’s Far Eastern port of Vostochny since March, according to a report published on the website of the Open Source Center research group. “Multiple high-resolution satellite images, AIS (automatic identification system) data and images released by maritime security agencies monitoring North Korea’s activities in violation of UN sanctions show North Korean vessels repeatedly transiting the Russian port of Vostochny,” the report said, adding that Russian foreign ministry officials did not respond to a request for comment.
A U.N. spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment. North Korea continues to illegally import refined petroleum products, in violation of UN Security Council resolutions, the Security Council said.
Last year, the United States and South Korea launched a new task force to prevent North Korea from illegally importing oil, although the turmoil in the UN Security Council casts doubt on the future of international sanctions. Under UN Security Council sanctions on North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missile development, Pyongyang is limited to 500,000 barrels of refined petroleum products per year.
Pyongyang and Moscow have deepened political and economic ties in recent years, culminating in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to North Korea in June, when the two leaders agreed to a joint security agreement. The military cooperation between the two countries has sparked international concern, with Washington, Kyiv and Seoul condemning North Korea for sending military equipment and more than 10,000 troops to Russia to support its war in Ukraine.
Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia said last month that Russia’s military cooperation with North Korea did not violate international law. North Korea has not yet confirmed the deployment of troops to Russia, but has said that any such deployment will follow international law.
