内容摘要：Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and New South Wales Premier Christopher Minns visited affected communities on Friday, some of which have experienced their worst flooding on record this week.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and New South Wales Premier Christopher Minns visited affected communities on Friday, some of which have experienced their worst flooding on record this week.

Pakistan’s army is considered the most powerful institution in the country, wieldingacross nearly every sphere of society. It has ruled the country directly for more than three decades since independence in 1947.

The army chief is widely seen as the single most powerful position in Pakistan, often overshadowing the elected civilian government. The military has long faced allegations of manipulating election results to support favoured candidates.Munir’s predecessor, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, acknowledged the military’s history ofpolitical interference

in his farewell speech in November 2022 but said that such meddling had ended.But under Munir, the Pakistani military has been accused by leaders of former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf party of cracking down on the group’s leaders, including Khan. In Pakistan’s 2024 election, the PTI alleged widespread rigging, even as the party’s candidates – who ran as independents to get around a ban on the party’s participation – won more seats than any other party. Prime Minister Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) teamed up with the Pakistan People’s Party to form a government after fractured results.

Pakistan’s government rejected allegations of rigging, and the military under Munir has consistently rejected accusations of interference in the country’s civilian politics.

At the same time, the military has integrated itself into the country’s economic affairs, with Munir co-chairing the Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC) with premier Sharif, a high-level body created in 2023 to help investors bypass bureaucratic hurdles.Ukrainian air force officials said on Tuesday that Russia deployed 60 drones across multiple regions through the night, injuring 10 people. Kyiv’s air defences intercepted 43 of them – 35 were shot down while eight were diverted using electronic warfare systems.

In Dnipropetrovsk, central Ukraine, Governor Serhiy Lysak reported damage to residential properties and an agricultural site after Russian drones led to fires during the night. In Kherson, a southern city frequently hit by Russian strikes, a drone attack on Tuesday morning wounded a 59-year-old man and six municipal workers, officials said.The barrage came days after Ukraine endured one of the heaviest aerial offensives of the war. On Sunday night alone, Ukraine’s air force claimed Russia launched 355 drones, a record number.

That escalation prompted United States President Donald Trump tothat Vladimir Putin had “gone absolutely CRAZY” and to threaten new sanctions. The Kremlin brushed off the remarks, accusing Trump of suffering from “emotional overload”.