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Superbug’s spread to Vietnam threatens malaria control
“Super-Bug”
- a strain of bacteria that has become resistant to antibiotic drugs.
In combative UN debut, Trump comes out swinging against Iran, North Korea
US President Donald Trump addresses the 72nd Annual UN General Assembly in New York on September 19, 2017. (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)
US president blasts ‘murderous’ Tehran’s support for terror groups in the Middle East, condemns ‘Rocket man’ Kim Jong Un and his treatment of Jewish-American Otto Warmbier
Official: 4 US tourists attacked with acid in Marseille
Train station of Marseille-Saint-Charles (Bouches-du-Rhône, France). Wikimedia public domain
Conservative speaks at UC Berkeley amid heavy security
Police officers gather behind a barricade before a speaking engagement by Ben Shapiro on the campus of the University of California Berkeley in Berkeley, Calif., Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017. Several streets around the University of California, Berkeley, were closed off Thursday with concrete and plastic barriers ahead of an evening appearance by the conservative commentator – the latest polarizing event to raise concerns of violence on the famously liberal campus. (AP Photo/Josh Edelson)
North Korea fires unidentified missile over Japan
In this July 28, 2017, file photo distributed by the North Korean government on Saturday, July 29, 2017, shows what was said to be the launch of a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile at an undisclosed location in North Korea. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)
Pyongyang continues weapons testing in defiance of international sanctions over its banned missile and nuclear programs
22 injured as blast rocks London Underground in terror attack
Armed British police officers stand on duty outside Parsons Green underground tube station in west London on September 15, 2017. (AFP/Daniel Leal-Olivas)
Eyewitnesses report chaotic scenes at Parsons Green station after explosion on train, apparently by improvised device; none of injuries serious or life-threatening
South Korea simulates attack on North’s nuke site after test
In this photo provided by South Korea Defense Ministry, South Korea’s Hyunmoo II ballistic missile is fired during an exercise at an undisclosed location in South Korea, Monday, Sept. 4, 2017. In South Korea, the nation’s military said it conducted a live-fire exercise simulating an attack on North Korea’s nuclear test site to “strongly warn” Pyongyang over the latest nuclear test. Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the drill involved F-15 fighter jets and the country’s land-based “Hyunmoo” ballistic missiles. The released live weapons “accurately struck” a target in the sea off the country’s eastern coast, the JCS said. (South Korea Defense Ministry via AP)
