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An elephant dubbed the "world's loneliest" landed in Cambodia Monday from Pakistan, receiving a warm welcome from American superstar Cher who will accompany it to a sanctuary housing potential mates. IMAGES
American pop icon Cher waits at an airport in Siem Reap, where an elephant dubbed the "world's loneliest" has landed in a plane from Pakistan, en route to a sanctuary housing three potential mates in Cambodia. IMAGES
Workers prepare Kavaan the elephant's carrier for travel from the zoo in Islamabad to the airport. Following years of public outcry and campaigning by American pop star Cher, the "world's loneliest elephant" is poised Sunday to embark on a mammoth journey from Pakistan to a sanctuary in Cambodia. +COMPLETES VID8W47CH_EN AND VID8W47GB_EN+ IMAGES
Separatist militants killed at least 39 people in "coordinated" attacks in southwestern Pakistan that largely targeted ethnic Punjabis, government officials said. In one of the attacks, dozens of militants stopped vehicles travelling on a highway through Balochistan province and shot 23 people dead -- one of the worst shootings in the region in the past several years. IMAGES
People struggle to push motorbikes and rickshaws through flooded streets in Pakistan's second-largest city of Lahore after the metropolis, home to 13 million, was deluged with record-breaking rainfall. IMAGES
Pakistan religious party Jamaat-E-Islami holds a protest in Rawalpindi after the killing of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh. IMAGES