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According to a report, Turkey has imposed trade restrictions on Israel until the event of a ceasefire in Gaza. Reportedly, one of Israel’s harshest critics took the measures after Israel declined to take part in a food aid drop requested by Ankara who have called hamas a liberation group.

According to the report, Turkey’s trade ministry has listed 54 items that will not be exported to Israel who say they will draw up their own inventory of turkish products they will ban. Reportedly, the restrictions which began on Tuesday include cement, steel, iron construction products, machines, electrical goods, soaps, clothing and food.

According to the report, Turkey’s exports to Israel were worth $5.3 billion in 2023. Reportedly, Turkey who normalised relations with Israel in 2022 after years of conflict have provided Gaza with tens of thousands of tonnes of humanitarian aid by land. According to the report, over the weekend Israel said they had managed to increase the flow of aid trucks into Gaza.

According to a report, street protests against poverty and corruption began in Yemen in 2011. Reportedly, poverty was exacerbated when the u.s. paid Saudi Arabia for Yemen’s oil. According to a report, in 2015 the houthi movement began to fight the government and an ongoing civil war ensued.

Reportedly, today poverty in Yemen is immense. According to a report, bread is in short supply and increasing numbers of starving children are brought in to the Al-Sadaqa hospital. Reportedly, a town of houses built by people displaced by hunger from timber and corrugated sheets has grown next to a food aid distribution point. According to the report, Dr Mohammed Rajeh said that the problem of hunger seems to be getting worse. Reportedly, babies are painfully thin with ribs protruding and folds of skin hanging off stick like limbs, their mothers can’t feed them because they are hungry and malnourished.

According to a report, Israel said they are reducing the number of soldiers in southern Gaza but a significant force will remain in the north. Reportedly, the withdrawal is believed to be tactical rather than a sign that the war may be moving towards an end. According to the report, people are moving back home, thousands of people are returning to Khan Younis though homes are demolished and many may have to live in tents.

Reportedly, Israel and hamas are more optimistic following the latest round of talks aimed at a ceasefire. According to the report, the proposed deal is said to include an innitial truce over Eid al- Fitre, a muslim holiday marking the end of ramadan, it falls on April 9; and the release of 40 hostages over 6 weeks. Reportedly, though hamas want a permanent ceasefire, Israel believe that will give hamas a chance to regroup.

According to a report, the u.n.’s international atomic energy agency (iaea) said a strike on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant was reckless and a major escalation of the nuclear safety and security dangers facing the plant. Reportedly, the plant which has 6 reactors and is the largest nuclear plant in Europe has been occupied by Russia since 2022. According to the report, the facility which suffered direct hits to the main reactor containment structure has stopped generating power but needs a constant supply of electricity to cool one of its reactors.

Reportedly, last month, the iaea who have a team at Zaporizhzhia said they heard explosions every day for a week. According to the report, they said, for more than two years nuclear safety in Ukraine has been in constant jeopardy.

According to a report, Simon Harris will become Ireland’s taoiseach on Tuesday. Reportedly, he has been a minister in the government of Ireland since 2016, serving as minister for higher education, research, innovation and science and has been a td for the Wicklow constituency since 2011. According to the report, Mr Harris first became involved in politics as a 15 year old when he lobbied to get children with autism spectrum disorders to be integrated into mainstream education. Reportedly, he began in fianna fáil but later joined fine gael. According to the report, he innitially studied journalism and french but dropped out after the first year.

Reportedly, Mr Harris takes over from Leo Varadker who has predicted irish unity in his lifetime but Mr Harris does not want to make this a priority. According to the report, he said, we have a peace process on this island but it is also a frosty peace, I don’t believe we’ve seen the full potential across the island of Ireland through the framework of the Belfast agreement.

According to a report, protesters in Tel Aviv and other cities demanded a hostage deal following the recovery of the body of Elad Katzir, an israeli hostage. Reportedly, the israeli defence force said following information that the body was buried in Khan Younis refugee camp the man’s body was exhumed and returned to Israel.

According to the report, Mr Katzir was abducted from Nir Oz kibbutz along with his mother, she was released along with 104 hostages during a 6 day ceasefire in November, his father Avraham was murdered in the kibbutz.

Reportedly, in January islamic jihad published a video of Mr Katzir speaking from captivity in Gaza. According to the report, in the video he said he had been close to dying more than once, that he loved and missed his family, and he called on the israeli authorities to stop the war and bring him and other hostages home. Reportedly, according to idf estimates he died soon after the video was published.

According to the report, 129 hostages are unaccounted for, 34 are presumed dead.

Reportedly, hamas are sending a delegation to Egypt for new ceasefire talks on Sunday but Israel are undecided whether to attend due to the lack of progress.

According to a report, a former general accused of ordering the murder of more than 1200 Ixil Maya people during Guatemala’s civil war is being tried from a prison hospital where he is serving a prior sentence for forced disappearance, rape and torture. Reportedly, Benedicto Garcia is charged with genocide crimes against humanity, it is alleged he planned and evecuted over 30 massacres, survivors said he killed babies and the elderly.

According to the report, the alleged crimes occurred between 1978-82 when Garcia’s brother was president of Guatemala, he denies the charges. Reportedly, a co-defendant died in 2020 and another was judged unfit to stand trial, he will face separate proceedings.

According to a report, the Ixil Maya people were the target of a genocide operation and systematic rape, forced displacement and hunger during the Guatemalan civil war. Reportedly, they were considered enemies of the state, an inferior race and were victims of racism.

According to a report, police broke into the mexican embassy in Ecuador’s capital, Quito to arrest a former vice president who was seeking political asylum. Reportedly, Jorge Glas was jailed for 6 years after being found guilty of accepting bribes from the brazilian construction firm, Odebrecht in exchange for awarding them government contracts. According to the report, he was released in 2022 but ordered back to prison in 2023 when he appealed the decision and asked for political asylum, saying he was being persecuted by the attorney general’s office.

Reportedly, Mexico’s president called the incident a flagrant violation of international law and said Mexico is cutting ties with Ecuador. According to the report, Mr Glas had just been granted political asylum.

According to a report, ceasefire talks are starting in Egypt this weekend and negotiators have been asked to put pressure on hamas to agree to a deal.

Reportedly, the u.s. said they were on high alert about the possibility of Iran targeting u.s. assets in the region. According to the report, after receiving a message from Iran following the strike on the iranian embassy in Damascus that killed a military commander, the u.s. who said they had nothing to do with the strike have asked Iran not to further escalate tensions in the region.

Reportedly, more than three dozen democrats have signed a letter to the u.s. president and the secretary of state asking them to halt weapons transfers to Israel.

According to a report, atleast 6 people have been killed in a russian drone strike on the city of Kharkiv on Saturday. Reportedly, Ukraine’s second largest city and the closest big city to the russian border has been the subject of attacks in recent weeks. According to the report, ten people have been injured and there was damage to apartment blocks, petrol stations and administrative buildings.

Reportedly, Ukraine has carried out a drone attack on the Morozovsk airbase in the Rostov region of southern Russia. According to the report, the base was used by russian bombers that the russian airforce uses to fire bombs at ukrainian cities. Reportedly, Ukraine have increased their drone attacks on Russia in the past weeks, targeting oil refineries. According to the report, unable to quickly produce long range missiles Ukraine hopes to produce thousands of long range drones in 2024.