LA PAZ -- The death toll due to intense rains in Bolivia since November last year has risen to 28, said Juan Carlos Calvimontes, vice civil defense minister, on Friday.

The rains have affected eight of the country's nine departments. "We are talking about 83 municipalities affected and I am sure that within a week many of them will declare themselves in disaster," the official told a press conference. (Bolivia-Heavy Rains)

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BEIRUT -- Former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri declared on Friday he would revive his Future Movement party and re-engage in elections, reversing a 2022 decision to quit politics, during a rally marking 20 years since his father Rafik Hariri's assassination

Speaking in Beirut's Martyrs' Square on the 20th anniversary of his father Rafik Hariri's assassination, Hariri positioned himself as a unifier. "We return not to repeat mistakes but to rebuild Lebanon with state authority, Arab partnerships, and peace," he said, endorsing President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam's reform agenda. (Lebanon-Politics)

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KIEV -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine stands ready to move towards peace following his meeting with U.S. Vice President JD Vance in Munich of Germany on Friday.

"We are ready to move as quickly as possible towards a real and guaranteed peace," he said on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. (Ukraine-U.S.-Peace)

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CAIRO -- Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim affirmed on Friday the two countries' rejection of the displacement of Palestinians from their land, the Egyptian presidency said in a statement.

In a phone conversation, the two sides discussed the situation in Palestinian territories, stressing the need to intensify international efforts to establish a Palestinian state along the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital, which they said is the only guarantee for achieving permanent peace in the region. (Egypt-Malaysia-Palestinian Displacement) Enditem

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