Gangs unleash new attacks on upscale areas in Haiti’s capital

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Gangs have attacked two upscale neighborhoods in Haiti’s capital in a rampage that left at least a dozen people dead in surrounding areas. Gunmen looted homes in the communities of Laboule and Thomassin before sunrise on Monday. They forced residents to flee as some called radio stations pleading for police. The neighborhoods had remained largely peaceful despite a surge in violent gang attacks across Port-au-Prince that began on Feb. 29. An Associated Press photographer saw the bodies of at least 12 men strewn on the streets of Pétionville, located just below the mountainous communities of Laboule and Thomassin.

SKorea suspends the licenses of 2 senior doctors over doctors’ walkouts

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean authorities have suspended the licenses of two senior doctors for allegedly inciting the weekslong walkouts by medical interns and residents that have disrupted hospital operations. That’s according to one of the doctors who spoke to The Associated Press. The suspensions are the government’s first punitive step against physicians after thousands of doctors-in-training walked off the job last month to protest the government’s plan to sharply increase medical school admissions. The two doctors also face police investigations that they allegedly incited and abetted the junior doctors’ walkouts.

Pakistani jets target suspected Pakistani Taliban hideouts in Afghanistan

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry and officials say the country’s jets targeted multiple suspected hideouts of the Pakistani Taliban inside neighboring Afghanistan, attacks that the Afghan Taliban say killed eight people. Monday’s airstrikes also drew return fire from the Afghan Taliban in an escalation that’s likely to further increase tensions between Islamabad and Kabul. The Pakistani strikes came two days after insurgents killed seven soldiers in a suicide bombing and coordinated attack in northwestern Pakistan. The Afghan Taliban said the strikes are an aggression on Afghanistan’s territorial integrity.

At least 100 villagers are kidnapped in the latest mass abduction in northern Nigeria

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Armed gangs attacked two villages in Nigeria’s northwest over the weekend and seized at least 100 people from their homes. That’s according to residents and a state official who spoke to The Associated Press on Monday. The attacks occurred in Nigeria’s Kaduna state, where nearly 300 schoolchildren were abducted less than two weeks ago. Such abductions are blamed on bandit groups known for mass killings and kidnappings in Nigeria’s northwestern and central regions. Residents are concerned about the absence of security forces in remote villages across the region where arrests are rare.