Imprisoned former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was taken to a private hospital in the capital after midnight Thursday for medical treatment, his party said, hours after a senior Cabinet minister pledged to comply with a Supreme Court order on his care.

The stalled operation, code-named “M&Ms,” sought to isolate Russian elites and force Vladimir Putin to negotiate a truce.

The suspected launch on Thursday comes a day after North Korea shrugged off a U.S. decision to scale back military drills with South Korea in an apparent bid to resume diplomacy.

The United States has deported nearly 2,300 Mexicans to Guatemala this year and sent at least dozens more to Honduras, according to official data, a shift from the beginning of U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term when such transfers were minimal.

Japan says it has executed a man convicted of killing five people after setting fire to a pachinko parlor in 2009

Critics in the small West African nation say their government has not said why it agreed to one of the largest U.S. deportation deals, who the deportees are, or how they will be handled.

Paul Biya, the world’s oldest president, left the Central African country in June for what was said to be a brief stay in Europe but became the longest recorded absence of his 44-year presidency.

Zambian police have summoned for questioning opposition leader Brian Mundubile, who came ​second in last week's election but alleges it ‌was rigged to hand President Hakainde Hichilema a second term.