TEHRAN -- Iran's Defense Ministry has thwarted a major sabotage attempt targeting the country's missile and aerospace sectors, Iran's Defanews reported on Thursday.

A group of "moles and infiltrators" with connection to "Israeli intelligence service Mossad" had been trying to introduce defective parts into the production of Iran's advanced missiles, said Defanews, which is affiliated with the Iranian Defense Ministry. (Iran-Missile production-Sabotage)

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SANAA -- Three people lost their lives and seven were injured in northern Yemen due to lightning strikes and floods in the past 24 hours, according to local health authorities on Thursday.

Two women were killed by lightning strikes in separate incidents in the Shaharah and al-Ashah districts of Amran province. Another woman was swept away by floods in the al-Jamimah district of Hajjah province, whose body was later found by local residents. (Yemen-FloodsCasualties)

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JERUSALEM -- A Palestinian truck driver rammed into Israelis near a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, killing one and injuring five, before being shot and killed by soldiers.

The Israeli military issued a statement describing the incident as "a car-ramming attack" at the Maccabim checkpoint in the West Bank, near the central Israeli city of Modiin. (Israel-Attack-Death)

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JAKARTA -- A 5.9-magnitude earthquake jolted East Nusa Tenggara province in central Indonesia on Thursday, the country's meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency said.

The earthquake occurred at 17:29 p.m. Jakarta time (1029 GMT) with its epicenter located at 37 km northeast of Kupang district and a depth of 80 km underground, the agency said. (Indonesia-Earthquake) Enditem

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