A Pakistani court indicted jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday on charges of inciting his supporters to attack the country's military and its installations in 2023, Geo TV reported.
Khan pleaded not guilty to the charges while the court also indicted more than 60 others in the same case, Geo TV and ARY News reported.
Thousands of supporters of Khan had attacked and torched several military buildings and offices on May 9 last year to protest against his arrest on graft allegations.
At least eight people were killed in the violence.
Khan faces anti-terrorism charges in connection with the violence, considered the most serious challenge to the power of the military in Pakistan's history. Several of Khan's supporters have already been sentenced in connection with the violence.
The 72-year-old cricketer-turned-politician has been named in dozens of cases since he left office in 2022 and has been behind bars for more than a year.
A suspected gas explosion at a department store in the central Taiwanese city of Taichung killed at least four people and injured 24 others on Thursday, the fire department said.
US President Donald Trump said Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressed a desire for peace in separate phone calls with him on Wednesday, and Trump ordered top US officials to begin talks on ending the war in Ukraine.
Israel's military has called up reservists in preparation for a possible resumption of fighting in Gaza if Hamas fails to meet a Saturday deadline to release more Israeli hostages and a nearly month-old ceasefire breaks down.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the ceasefire in Gaza would end and the military would resume fighting Hamas until it was defeated if the Palestinian group did not release hostages by midday Saturday.
Officials from Bangladesh's former government and security apparatus systematically committed serious human rights violations against protesters staging mass demonstrations last summer, the UN human rights chief said on Wednesday.