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Pakistan Retaliates After Deadly Attacks; Swiss Bar Fire Death Toll Climbs; Iran Faces Internet Blackout; and More
Pakistan reported killing 145 individuals it identified as "Indian-backed terrorists" in counterterrorism operations in Balochistan province, following coordinated suicide and gun attacks that killed at least 33 people, mostly civilians, on Saturday. Meanwhile, the death toll from a New Year's Eve bar fire in the Swiss Alps rose to 41 after an 18-year-old Swiss national died from injuries sustained in the blaze. Separately, Iran experienced its longest internet blackout in history after protests erupted in early January.
Pakistani officials stated that the counterterrorism operations, conducted over 40 hours, were in response to the attacks in Balochistan. According to Euronews, the Pakistani government described the initial attacks as "coordinated suicide and gun attacks."
In Switzerland, the aftermath of the "Le Constellation" bar fire in Crans-Montana continued to unfold as the number of fatalities increased. The Associated Press reported that the 18-year-old victim died in a Zurich hospital on Saturday, a month after the fire. Initial investigations suggest that sparkling candles on wine bottles ignited the fatal blaze.
Iran's internet shutdown, triggered by protests in early January, marked the country's longest blackout to date. Sarah Jeong of The Verge reported that the shutdown, while slowing the spread of information both inside and outside Iran, did not stop the protests. "Despite this attempt to stop the protests from spreading, they did not stop," Jeong noted.
In other news, an intercity bus crash in Turkey's Antalya province on Sunday resulted in nine fatalities and numerous injuries. Euronews reported that the bus veered off the road and rolled down an embankment in the Döşemealtı district. A survivor, Ahmet Kodaz, recounted the moments before the crash: "We were travelling from Isparta to Antalya. There was already fog on t." The driver died in the crash after the speeding bus failed to take a bend. A separate crash in Burdur killed seven more.
Additionally, Notepad++, a popular text editor, was reportedly targeted by state-sponsored hackers. According to a security disclosure, malicious actors intercepted and redirected update traffic destined for notepad-plus-plus.org. The attack involved infrastructure-level compromise at the hosting provider level, rather than vulnerabilities in the Notepad++ code itself. The investigation is ongoing to determine the exact technical mechanism of the compromise.
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