The following are the top foreign stories at 1700 hours

    
     *FGN15 PAK-BUS-LD ATTACK
     Baloch militants kill 9 passengers from Punjab in southwest Pakistan
     Islamabad/Karachi: Baloch insurgents shot and killed nine passengers from Punjab after offloading them from passenger buses in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province, authorities said on Friday.

     FGN23 LANKA-TAMILS
     Sri Lankan Tamil party urges govt to ‘uncover truth’ at mass grave excavation site
     Colombo: Sri Lanka’s main Tamil party on Friday asked the government to take decisive action to “uncover the truth” at an ongoing excavation site believed to be a mass grave linked to a bloody conflict that ended in 2009.

     FGN13 CANADA-CAFE-RESPONSE
     Processing this shock but we are not giving up: Kapil Sharma's Cap's Cafe on shooting
     Surrey (Canada): A day after shots were fired at comedian Kapil Sharma's newly opened restaurant in Canada's Surrey, the cafe said in an Instagram post that they were "processing the shock" but stand firm against violence.

     FGN19 ASEAN-US-LD RUBIO
     Rubio meets China's foreign minister in Malaysia as US-Chinese tensions mount
     Kuala Lumpur: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrapped up his second and final day at a Southeast Asian security conference in a high-stakes meeting with his Chinese counterpart as tensions grow between Washington and Beijing over issues from trade to security and China's support for Russia's war in Ukraine. (AP)*

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