GAZA -- No positive progress has been made in the Gaza truce talks on Saturday, a source from the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) said.

The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Xinhua that the negotiations encountered challenges due to Israel's insistence on not committing to a (permanent) ceasefire. (Gaza-Israel-Truce)

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KINSHASA -- At least 14 people were killed and 35 others injured, mainly women and children, after rebels of the March 23 Movement (M23) dropped "around 10" bombs on Friday on three sites for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a local official said Saturday.

The toll could still go up in the attack, on the IDP sites in the Lac Vert, Lushagala, and Mugunga neighbourhoods of Goma, capital of the eastern province of North Kivu, said Peter Chirimwami, the military governor of North Kivu. (DRC-M23-Attack)

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JERUSALEM -- The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on Saturday that Aiman Zaarab, a senior commander of the Islamic Jihad Rafah Brigade, was killed in an airstrike on the southernmost Gazan city of Rafah.

Zaarab directed the Islamic Jihad's elite forces during the Oct. 7 onslaught on Kibbutz Sufa and the Sufa military post bordering the Gaza Strip, said the IDF in a statement. (Israel-Gaza-Killing)

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ISTANBUL -- Türkiye celebrated the inauguration of a new high-speed train line on Saturday, linking Istanbul to the central Anatolian city of Sivas, according to the state-run Anadolu agency.

The Istanbul-Sivas line will take seven hours and 18 minutes, serviced by trains accommodating up to 483 passengers, added the report. (Türkiye-High-Speed Train Line) Enditem

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