A suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, during Friday prayers claimed the lives of at least 31 people and injured 169 others, according to officials. The attack, a rare occurrence in the capital, comes as the Pakistani government grapples with a rise in militant attacks across the country, as reported by The Associated Press.
The bombing took place on the outskirts of Islamabad. Television footage and social media images depicted police and residents transporting the wounded to nearby hospitals.
In other news, defense attorneys for Roberto Carlos Muñoz-Guatemala, convicted in December of assaulting Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Jonathan Ross, are seeking access to investigative files related to the killing of Renee Nicole Good. According to Wired, Ross, the ICE agent, shot and killed Good during a targeted operation in Minneapolis last month. Muñoz-Guatemala's attorneys asked a federal judge to order prosecutors to turn over training records and investigative files related to Ross.
Meanwhile, in the tech world, OpenAI released GPT-5.3-Codex, its most capable coding agent to date, as reported by VentureBeat. The announcement coincided with Anthropic's unveiling of Claude Opus 4.6, marking the beginning of what industry observers are calling the AI coding wars. The two companies are also set to air competing Super Bowl advertisements.
In medical advancements, an experimental surgical procedure is helping cancer survivors give birth. According to MIT Technology Review, the procedure involves stitching the uterus, ovaries, and fallopian tubes out of the way during cancer treatment to protect them from the damaging side effects of radiation and chemotherapy. After treatment, the organs are repositioned. A team in Switzerland announced the birth of a baby boy, Lucien, the fifth baby born after the surgery and the first in Europe, according to Daniela Huber, the gyno-oncologist who performed the operation.
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