Gunmen kill dozens in multiple attacks in a Pakistani province

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Officials in Pakistan say gunmen in the restive southwest have killed at least 38 people in three separate attacks in one of the deadliest days of violence in Baluchistan province. Twenty-three people were fatally shot on Monday morning after being taken from buses, vehicles and trucks in Musakhail, a district in Baluchistan. Police say the attackers burned at least 10 vehicles before fleeing. In a separate attack, gunmen killed at least nine people, including four police officers and five passersby, in Qalat district. Six people were killed elsewhere. Insurgents also blew up a railway track.

Hospital in central Gaza empties out as Israeli forces draw near

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — One of Gaza’s last functioning hospitals has been emptying out in recent days as Israel has ordered the evacuation of nearby areas. Israel has signaled a possible ground operation in Deir al-Balah, a town that has been largely spared throughout the 10-month-old war ignited by Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital is the main hospital serving central Gaza. The Israeli military has not ordered its evacuation, but patients and people sheltering there fear it may be engulfed in fighting or targeted in a raid. The hospital said Monday that it was treating more than 600 patients before the exodus and now has around 100, including seven in intensive care.

German leader vows tougher knife laws and more deportations after fatal attack

SOLINGEN, Germany (AP) — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has vowed to toughen knife laws and step up deportations of rejected asylum-seekers as he visited the scene of the knife attack in which a suspected Islamic extremist from Syria is accused of killing three people. Pressure is mounting on his government over migration and deportation. Scholz spoke after he joined regional officials Monday in laying a white rose at a makeshift memorial in the western city of Solingen. He said he was “furious and angry” about the attack, in which eight people also were wounded. The suspect turned himself in to police on Saturday evening, a day after the attack at a festival marking the city’s 650th anniversary.

At least 100 people killed in central Burkina Faso in latest jihadi attack

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — At least 100 villagers and soldiers were killed in central Burkina Faso during a weekend attack on a village by al-Qaida-linked jihadis. Regional specialist called the attack one of the deadliest this year in the conflict-battered West African nation. Wassim Nasr, a Sahel specialist and senior research fellow at the Soufan Center security think tank, said that at least 100 bodies were counted in videos of the attack. He said villagers were helping security forces dig up trenches to protect security outposts on Saturday, when fighters with the JNIM group opened fire on them. Burkina Faso’s security minister Mahamadou Sana said the victims included soldiers and civilians.