Rescue crews searching for 10 missing mountaineers following an avalanche on Pakistan's Broad Peak mountain found four bodies, officials said Friday.

The White House announcement comes nine months after a U.S.-brokered ceasefire was signed. Negotiations between Israel and Hamas had largely deadlocked over the implementation of its second phase.

"Untimely assistance and delays in the delivery of anti-ballistic missiles lead to this kind of destruction," said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Searchers continued to work in the Kumamoto area, including at the site of the collapsed mall, where some of the most serious damage was recorded.

The main development in the Middle East on Friday was Hamas confirming that it will disarm in a potential breakthrough for ending the war in Gaza

The U.S. State Department has apologized for using an incorrectly labeled map of Africa during a presentation at the global AIDS conference in Brazil.

South Korea's chip heavyweights SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics soared more than 20% on Friday, tracking a sharp rally in U.S. technology stocks.

Anthropic said on Thursday some of its Claude AI models had hacked into the systems of three companies during cybersecurity tests, a disclosure that comes days after ​rival OpenAI revealed that one of its AI agents went on a rogue attack.