PAKISTAN: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif vowed to continue operations against militants during a visit to south-west Balochistan province today.

Authorities have responded to the back-to-back attacks by launching operations since Monday, killing at least 54 insurgents, according to the military and local officials.

The escalating violence prompted Mr Sharif to travel to Quetta, the provincial capital, where members of the Baloch Liberation Army have killed at least 42 people in separate attacks since Monday.

CHINA: At least 39 people have died in floods after Tropical Storm Maysak dumped heavy rain in the south, as the east coast and Taiwan prepared for a typhoon expected to make landfall in the coming days.

Most of the deaths were in Hengzhou, where the partial collapse of a reservoir dam sent torrents of water into the city and claimed 26 lives, said Ding Wei, the vice mayor of Nanning city. Nine people remained missing in the broader Guangxi region.

INDIA: Australia will begin to sell uranium to Delhi for peaceful purposes after the two countries’ leaders signed an administrative deal today.

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi made the joint announcement after a meeting in Melbourne, neither explaining how much uranium would be sold, or when.

Exports of Australian uranium to India stalled after an agreement to do so in 2014, because of concern that the material could be used to make weapons.

MEXICO: President Claudia Sheinbaum announced on Wednesday that her government will take legal action against the US after a Mexican citizen was killed in Houston by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) officer.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 45, was shot on Wednesday. Ice claims Mr Salgado Araujo had tried to ram one of its agents with his vehicle, but the League of United Latin American Citizens says photographs of the van show little damage, undermining the ramming claim.