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Turkey cuts off all trade with Israel in protest against Gaza war: report

Turkey reportedly cut off all trade with Israel on Thursday, the latest move in the nation’s protest against the war in Gaza.Turkey’s government, under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has yet to formally announce the move, but members of the Israeli government are already reacting to the potential fallout. Israel and…

Mass broadband outages reported in Nepal

Broadband internet was disrupted in many parts of Nepal on Thursday as Indian vendors from whom most Nepali private operators source the bandwidth stopped providing the services because of payment defaults.Private internet service providers in Nepal issued notices saying their services were either disrupted or connections were slow. The state-run…

Landmine blasts kill 1, injure 18 in southwestern Pakistan

Double land mine blasts killed one person and wounded at least 18 on Thursday in Pakistan’s southwest, a police officer said.The first mine exploded when a truck was passing through a valley in coal-rich Duki district in Baluchistan province. The second detonated when counter-terrorism officials and civilians were examining the…

Gangs in Haiti launch fresh attacks, days after a new prime minister is announced

Gangs in Haiti laid siege to several neighborhoods in Port-au-Prince, burning homes and exchanging gunfire with police for hours as hundreds fled the violence early Thursday in one of the biggest attacks since Haiti’s new prime minister was announced.The attacks began late Wednesday in neighborhoods including Solino and Delmas 18,…

M23 rebels seize key smartphone mineral mining town in eastern Congo

A rebel group with alleged links to Rwanda this week seized Rubaya, a mining town in eastern Congo known for producing a key mineral used in smartphones, the group said Thursday in a statement.In a statement shared with The Associated Press, a spokesperson for the M23 rebel group said the…