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At least six people were killed after hundreds of protesters stormed the US Consulate in Karachi on Sunday, according to AP. Police said clashes broke out as officers tried to control the crowd. Several others were reported injured before the situation was brought under control.

The unrest followed joint strikes by the United States and Israel on Iran. It has triggered outrage and protests in several areas. Authorities later dispersed the demonstrators around the consulate. AP reported, security was tightened across the city to prevent further violence. Tensions remain high amid fears of wider regional escalation.

China has urged for an immediate ceasefire after the US and Israel’s strikes on Iran. China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed concern over the strikes and urged all sides to avoid escalation and to resume dialogue and negotiation. In a statement yesterday, the ministry said Iran’s sovereignty, security and territorial integrity should be respected, Reuters reported. 

China’s state-run news agency called Washington’s use of military coercion was a flagrant violation of the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter and a departure from fundamental norms of international relations. China’s embassy in Israel has issued a notice advising Chinese citizens in Israel to evacuate to safer areas within the country as soon as possible or to leave for Egypt via the Taba border crossing. China’s foreign ministry also urged Chinese citizens in Iran to leave as soon as possible, listing four land routes to Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkey and Iraq.

Israel said it had launched another wave of strikes on Iran on Sunday, as Iranians faced uncertainty after the killing of their supreme leader in US and Israeli attacks that threatened to destabilize the wider Middle East, Reuters reported. 

Hours after the United States and Israel said that an air strike killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as part of the most ambitious series of attacks on Iran in decades, Iranian state media confirmed the 86-year-old leader’s death on Saturday.

US President Donald Trump said the air strikes on Iranian targets were aimed at ending a decades-long threat from Iran and ensuring it could not develop a nuclear weapon as he sought to justify a risky gambit that seemed to go against his professed opposition to American involvement in complex overseas conflicts, according to Reuters. 

Russia said at recent talks in Geneva it would accept the U.S. proposal for Ukraine's post-war security guarantees, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's chief of staff said on Saturday, Reuters reported. 

"At the last talks, the Russian side said for example that they would accept the security guarantees offered to Ukraine by the United States," said top aide Kyrylo Budanov in an interview aired on Ukrainian television.

U.S. President Donald Trump is urging Moscow and Kyiv to strike an agreement to end Europe's biggest war since 1945, though Zelenskiy has complained that his country is facing more pressure to make concessions, according to Reuters.