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Expired chemo drugs kill 10 Yemeni children in Houthi rebel-held city: report

FILE: A dispensing chemist prepares drugs for a chemotherapy treatment in a sterile room at Antoine-Lacassagne Cancer Centre in Nice October 18, 2012. 

Houthi health officials in Yemen on Friday announced that expired doses of a cancer treatment found their way to leukemia patients and killed 10 children in the capital.  The officials said that around 50 children had received an expired dose of chemotherapy treatment Methotrexate that had originated in India. The children ranged in age from three to 15 years old …

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German chancellor hopes to get key raw materials from Mongolia

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (right) and Mongolian Prime Minister Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene (left) speak on their way to a joint press conference in Berlin, Germany, on Oct. 14, 2022.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Friday that his country wants to strengthen ties to Mongolia, citing the country’s wealth of key commodities such as copper and rare earth metals. Speaking after a meeting in Berlin with Mongolian Prime Minister Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene, he said the two leaders had agreed to “deepen and also expand cooperation between our two countries.” GERMANY PLANS …

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Russia’s Wagner group makes ‘some’ advances in Donbas in first tactical gains since July: UK intel

Anti-tank hedgehogs block the streets in downtown Bakhmut as fighting between Ukrainian forces and Russian troops intensifies for control of the city in Bakhmut, Ukraine on Oct. 4, 2022. 

The Kremlin-linked Wagner Group has helped Russia make some of it first tactical advances in the Donbas region since July, defense officials said Friday.  The United Kingdom defense ministry said that over the last three days pro-Russian forces have advanced towards the city center of Bakhmut in Donetsk, where its mercenary group remains “heavily involved” in fighting. Some strategic advancements …

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Iraqi lawmakers elect new president hours after rockets fall near parliament building

Newly elected Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid gives a speech at the 37th FAO Conference in Rome, Italy, on June 25, 2011.

Iraqi lawmakers on Thursday elected former minister Abdul Latif Rashid as the country’s next president, defying threats of further violence following a barrage of rocket attacks earlier in the day and taking a key step toward ending a crippling political vacuum. At least nine rockets targeted Iraq’s Parliament inside the heavily fortified Green Zone, the seat of the government, ahead …

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Qatari Emir met with Putin to ‘defuse tensions’, source says

Abu Dhabi CNN  —  Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim al-Thani met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of a conference in Astana, Kazakhstan, on Thursday to “defuse tensions” between Moscow and Doha, a source familiar with the talks, but not authorized to speak about them publicly, told CNN. The United States and the European Union were briefed on the …

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France starts exporting gas to Germany amid energy crisis

Pipelines and tanks are pictured in a gas terminal Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022 in Obergailbach, eastern France. France has for the first time started conveying natural gas to Germany, French gas network operator GRTgaz said Thursday, as Berlin strives to diversify its energy supply following the interruption of Russian gas deliveries. GRTgaz said in a statement the gas pipeline connecting both countries at the French border village of Obergailbach has began delivering an initial daily capacity of 31 gigawatt-hours. 

France has for the first time started conveying natural gas to Germany, French gas network operator GRTgaz said Thursday, as Berlin strives to diversify its energy supply following the interruption of Russian gas deliveries. GRTgaz said in a statement the gas pipeline connecting both countries at the French border village of Obergailbach has began [sic] delivering an initial daily capacity …

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Ukraine’s Kyiv region attacked with Iranian-made kamikaze drones

A man drives his motorcycle past a destroyed car in the retaken village of Velyka Oleksandrivka, Ukraine, Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022. 

The capital region of Ukraine was hit by Iranian-made kamikaze drones on Thursday morning as the Russian military ramps up attacks against the country. Kyiv Oblast residents woke up to blistering air raid sirens for the fourth day in a row this week. Rescue workers were seen rushing to the sites of Thursday’s strikes. The strikes reportedly hit somewhere along …

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US citizen sent back to prison in Iran

Waving Iran flag above skyline of Tehran at sunset. 

U.S. citizen Siamak Namazi is back in an Iranian prison today after being temporarily released by authorities in Tehran earlier this month.  Waving Iran flag above skyline of Tehran at sunset.  (istock) “His furlough, which started on October 1, was renewable and had already been renewed once on October 8,” a statement released by Namazi’s pro bono counsel Jared Genser explained. “Late …

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