News Roundup 10/18/17

by | Oct 18, 2017

  • Five lies Hillary Clinton told about Wikileaks and Julian Assange, debunked. [Link]
  • The two airport security officers who removed Dr. David Dao from a United Airlines flight have been fired. [Link]
  • Spain’s high court rules the Catalan independence vote was illegal. [Link]
  • The spokesperson for Catalonia said Catalonia does not plan to end its push for independence. [Link]
  • In July, the UN shelved a report on the rapid weight loss of 80,000 Rohingya children at the request of the Myanmar government. [Link]
  • Philippines President Duarte declares victory over the Islamic State militants in Marawi. [Link]
  • The man behind the terror attack in Somalia that killed at least 300 people may have been motivated by an operation involving US soldiers that resulted in ten Somali civilians being killed. [Link]
  • US drone strikes killed 31 people in Pakistan. The US has not identified the victims but labeled them all as terrorists. The Pakistani Taliban say 18 members of their organization were killed in the attack. [Link]
  • On Tuesday, 74 people were killed by the Taliban across Afghanistan. [Link]
  • Moon of Alabama explains how internal Kurdish politics played in role in the Kurdish withdraw from Kirkuk. [Link]
  • The Yemen cholera outbreak is now the worst in history. [Link]
  • The US claims to have carried out drone strikes against the Islamic State in Yemen. If the claim is true, it would be the first drone strikes carried out against IS in Yemen. Yemenis on the ground say the strikes targeted al-Qaeda fighters who were fighting against the Houthi. [Link]

About Kyle Anzalone

Kyle Anzalone is news editor of the Libertarian Institute, opinion editor of Antiwar.com and co-host of Conflicts of Interest with Will Porter and Connor Freeman.

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