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US President Donald Trump on Thursday urged Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to stop buying Russian oil over the war in Ukraine, while hinting that he may drop a ban on Ankara buying US stealth fighter jets.

Clashes between drug gangs on Thursday claimed at least 17 lives in the second deadly riot in an Ecuadoran prison in days, with rampaging inmates beheading and maiming rivals, officials in the violence-wracked country said.

Violence-ravaged Haiti is a nation "at war," its leader Laurent Saint-Cyr warned at the United Nations on Thursday, as he appealed for help from the international community to defeat gangs that have overrun the Caribbean country.

Germany said Thursday it would step up its defences from drone warfare to outer space at a time of growing tensions between Russia and NATO while the Ukraine war grinds on.

Chaos erupted at Yeoville Clinic in Johannesburg as locals and Operation Dudula members blocked foreign nationals from entering the facilities.