News Roundup 10/18/18

by | Oct 18, 2018

News Roundup 10/18/18

by | Oct 18, 2018

  • Recreational marijuana is now legal in Canada. [Link]
  • 17 students were killed by a gunman in Russia. [Link]
  • North and South Korea agree to reconnect roads and rail lines between the two countries. [Link]
  • The US will spend $390 million to clean up a site contaminated by Agent Orange in Vietnam. [Link]
  • The Turkish government searched the Saudi consulate where Khashoggi was last seen. The Turks did not find conclusive evidence of murder but said the consulate was recently repainted. [Link]
  • The Taliban claims responsibility for killing a candidate in an upcoming election. [Link]
  • Erdogan says more Turkish troops will be deployed to Northeast Syria. [Link]
  • 300 Syrian White Helmets who fled Syria for Jordan will no be resettled in Western countries. [Link]
  • The US claims all heavy weapons have been removed from the Idlib buffer zone. [Link]
  • The US claims to have killed 60 al-Shabaab militants in an airstrike. [Link]
  • The South Sudanese government forces are responsible for the vast majority of killings and rapes on children throughout the country’s civil war. [Link]

Kyle Anzalone

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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