GERMANY: German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Friday that Russia will face consequences after accusing its military intelligence service of masterminding an “absolutely intolerable” cyberattack.

Ms Baerbock said Russian state hackers were behind last year’s attack on the Social Democrats, the leading party in the governing coalition.

She said: “We can attribute this attack to the group called APT28, which is steered by the military intelligence service of Russia.”

PAKISTAN: A bus plunged into a rocky ravine in northern Pakistan on Friday after its driver lost control, killing at least 20 people and seriously injuring more than 30 others, police said.

The bus was travelling to Hunza on the Karakoram Highway in Gilgit-Baltistan's Diamer district when the accident occurred, senior police officer Fayaz Ahmed said.

DENMARK: Denmark’s government said on Friday it is relaxing its abortion restrictions for the first time in 50 years, increasing the legal time limit for terminations from 12 to 18 weeks.

Gender equality minister Marie Bjerre said: “It is about the individual woman’s freedom, about the right to decide over her own body and her own life. It is a historic day for women’s equality.”

CAMBODIA: On Friday the nation’s supreme court upheld the two-year prison sentence of a trade union leader who led a long-running strike against the country’s biggest casino.

Chhim Sithar, president of the Labour Rights Supported Union of Khmer Employees of NagaWorld, had originally been convicted in May 2023 of incitement to commit a felony.

She led a strike that began in December 2021 to protest mass lay-offs and alleged union-busting at the NagaWorld casino in Phnom Penh.