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  CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Papua New Guinea police shot a young mother dead at a polling station in the capital, Port Moresby, in the latest violence to mar national elections, according to a news report on Friday. Homicide detectives were investigating the fatal shooting, which occurred on Monday, a police statement said. Annaisha Max, 22, was holding her 1-year-old son when she was shot, Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported citing witnesses. “They (police) came with force, excessive force. It was unprovoked,” Emmanuel Kiangu, a community leader who was on the scene, told ABC. Police gave no warning they would open fire, according to Max’s friend, Anna Koip. “They didn’t even say a word. They switched their guns to auto and fired into the crowd, where a lot of us were waiting to vote,” Koip said through a translator. Since voting began on July 4, fights between rival groups have broken out over allegations of vote-fixing. Prime Minister James Marape has apologized to thousands of

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi issued a stern warning to the US and its allies while stating that any "mistakes" made by them to trigger a crisis in the country will be met with a "decisive" response from Tehran, which, they would later regret. While addressing a gathering of Kermanshah residents at the Imam Khomeini (RA) Stadium, Raisi stated, “Let me tell the Americans and their allies in the region that the great nation of Iran does not accept any insecurity and crisis in the region, and committing any mistake in this region will be responded with a decisive and regrettable response," according to a statement from the Iranian government.   According to Ebrahim Raisi, in Iran, some countries are transiting insecurity and terrorism from the West and the United States. The Iranian President further emphasised that the interference of "outsiders and Americans" in the region has no consequence other than generating instability and insecurity" and