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BERLIN: Germany’s government has decided to back a Saudi Arabia and France-led proposal for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the plan.
Germany is planning to support a United Nations resolution on Friday adopting the declaration, led by France and the Kingdom, the report added.
Reuters could not immediately verify the report.
ISLAMABAD: A suicide attacker was responsible for a deadly blast at a Shiite mosque in Islamabad on Friday, a security source said.
“The attacker was stopped at the gate and detonated himself,” the source told AFP on condition of anonymity.
The blast killed 15 people and wounded at least 80, local authorities said.
A senior police official said, on condition of anonymity, that the “explosion occurred after Friday prayers in a Shiite mosque.”
A statement from local authorities in Islamabad said 15 people were killed in the attack at the mosque in the Tarlai area of the city, adding that the “number of patients brought to various hospitals has exceeded 80.”
An AFP photographer outside the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) hospital saw dozens of wounded people arriving.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif condemned the blast.
