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The Iranian authorities in the southeastern Province of Sistan and Baluchistan said Saturday that an Iranian border guard was martyred during skirmishes with the Taliban forces at the shared borders.

Incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu have rallied their supporters on the final day of campaigning before Sunday’s decisive presidential election run-off.

Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah responded to the Israeli regime's threats, saying that "hundreds of thousands of resistance fighters across the region are ready to fight against the regime."

Ankara calls on Israel to "act responsibly, and to put an end to all kinds of provocative actions violating the historical status of Al Haram Al Sharif that is based on the international law".

Israeli authorities have beefed up security in Jerusalem, particularly in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City, as the annual “flag day” march by Orthodox Jews and settlers takes place amid an already tense situation in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Polls have opened across Türkiye on Sunday morning for the country's presidential and parliamentary elections.

On Thursday, the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) expressed its readiness to cooperate with Arab countries over a solution for the Syrian crisis based on the UN Resolution No. 2254.

Palestinian fighters have fired hundreds of rockets from the Gaza Strip towards southern Israel, while Israel continued with a series of air attacks that have killed 21 Palestinians.

Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang and the Taliban’s Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi attended the 5th China-Afghanistan-Pakistan Foreign Ministers’ Dialogue in Islamabad and stressed the need for peace, security, and economic development of the region.

Chromite mining has started in the Tani District of Khost Province, according to the Department of Mines and Petroleum of Afghanistan.