Omkar Kandekar

Rubio says the U.S.

has agreed to share maritime surveillance data across the Indo-Pacific region with India, Japan and Australia.

He suggested the Quad security cooperation was prompted by fallout from Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

Speaking to journalists in India, Rubio said that 60% of global trade passes through the Indo-Pacific and China's foreign ministry spokesperson said that cooperation between countries should contribute to regional peace and not target any third party.

Omkar Khandekar, NPR News, New Delhi.

A resident of Pakistan's Kurram district sent an NPR producer footage of the aftermath of the strike.

Elders were gathered around wooden coffins, some of them small.

They had placed them in front of a paramilitary headquarter to protest the deaths of the children, whose ages ranged from 17 to 6.

Pakistan's army had no immediate comment regarding that strike, but a spokesman for the military insisted his forces were not behind an earlier strike in Afghanistan that had killed nine children and a woman.

The strikes come amidst tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

They have been brewing as extremist groups loyal to the Taliban have been conducting militant attacks inside Pakistan.

Omkar Khandekar, NPR News, Mumbai.