A passenger bus plunged into a ravine in Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province on Saturday, claiming six lives while leaving 24 others injured, police said.

The incident happened when the vehicle tumbled off a road in the Dhana Sar area of the Zhob district of the province, according to the police in the area, reports news agency.

Following the incident, police, along with rescue teams, reached the site and shifted the bodies and injured to a nearby hospital. Local volunteers also participated in the rescue activities.

The condition of several of the injured is reported to be critical, according to the hospital sources.

The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People's Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) expressed its strong opposition to the latest round of sanctions imposed by the United States on Venezuelan officials.

"The ALBA-TCP forcefully repudiates this new attack against public officials, their human and civil rights, and the Venezuelan nation in general," the bloc said in a statement on Friday.

The US Treasury Department on Thursday announced sanctions against 16 Venezuelan officials, accusing them of "obstructing democratic political participation and undermining the electoral process" of July 28 in the South American nation, according to news agency.

Japan's weather agency announced a high alert situation, warning of landslides, floods, severe gust, storms and high tides as typhoon Bebinca approaches the country's southwestern island of Amami on Saturday.

The season's 13th typhoon could bring violent winds and rough seas to the country's southern island prefecture of Okinawa, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said.

"Be on high alert for strong winds, high waves and heavy rain disasters due to the influence of Typhoon No. 13, strong winds will blow in the Amami and Okinawa regions, fierce winds will blow on the September 14. In southern Kyushu, the Amami region and the Okinawa region, the sea will be very rough through Sunday, and some areas will experience very heavy rain," JMA posted on X.

The International Conference titled 'Echoes across the Waves: Revisiting the Intersections of India and Indonesia’s Shared Cultural Heritage' is set to take place on September 14 and 15 in Bali.

It aims to commemorate 75 years of diplomatic relations between India and Indonesia.

This event, organised by the Consulate General of India in Bali, the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies (MAKAIAS), the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, and Institute of Social and Cultural Studies (ISCS), the External of India, Jakarta said.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said his three-day trip to Iraq was aimed at promoting unity and solidarity between the two countries.

He made the remarks in an address to reporters upon his arrival in the Iranian capital, Tehran, from Iraq on Friday while elaborating on the outcomes of the visit, according to a statement released by the website of his office.

He noted that his discussions with Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, and other senior officials covered political, economic, cultural, and security ties, reports news agency.

Twenty-two people were injured in a car crash in South Korea on the first day of the five-day Chuseok holiday, the country's autumn harvest celebration, on Saturday.

An express bus collided with a guardrail and hit a median strip near a toll of an expressway in western Busan, the country's southeastern port city, at about 6:56 a.m. local time, reports.

All the 22 people on the bus, including a driver, were wounded, and four of them were seriously injured.

Two of the seriously injured were found on the opposite lane of the expressway after being thrown out of the bus due to the impact of the accident.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a funding agreement with Telesat to complete and operate Lightspeed, one of the world's most innovative satellite networks.

With a loan of 2.14 billion Canadian dollars (US$1.57 billion) from the federal government, Telesat Lightspeed will be Canada's largest-ever space programme, the Prime Minister said in a news release.

Telesat Lightspeed will expand internet and 5G networks in communities across Canada, reports news agency.

As a low-Earth-orbit satellite network, it will take less time to send and receive information and accelerate the federal government's work to connect all Canadians to high-speed internet by 2030, the release said.

Top Iranian and Belarusian security officials highlighted the need to strengthen bilateral political, security and economic relations, Iran's official news agency reported.

During a meeting in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, Ali Akbar Ahmadian, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, and Alexander Volfovich, Belarus's State Secretary of the Security Council, on Friday, called for expanded cooperation in the industrial, mining, and trade sectors, reports news agency, quoting IRNA.

Local media reports suggest that the two sides also called for enhancing bilateral relations in strategic areas and fostering cooperation between Tehran and Minsk in international arenas, including frameworks such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and BRICS.

Three Iranian border guards were killed and one civilian wounded in a "terrorist" attack by gunmen in southeastern Iran's Sistan and Baluchestan province, the local media reported.

The three victims, one officer named Amin Narouei and two conscript soldiers named Parsa Soozani and Amir Ebrahimzadeh, were refuelling at a gas station in Mirjaveh county when a group of "unidentified armed individuals" opened fire on them, reports.

Mehdi Shamsabadi, Prosecutor of the provincial capital of Zahedan, informed that this incident took place on Thursday evening, and the civilian injured was present at the scene.

Czech is preparing for potential major floods after meteorologists extended an extreme flood warning to most of the country over the next few days.

"As a result of heavy rainfall, we expect significant rises in water levels from Friday evening. The highest rises with numerous excesses of the third level of flood activity are expected during Saturday and Sunday," the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute said on social media platform X on Friday.

Some 100,000 professional and voluntary firefighters are standing ready to deal with floods over the weekend, reports news agency.