2022-01-08: News Headlines

Marzieh Rahmani (2022-01-08). ISIL suicide bomber killed by Iraqi security forces. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 08 (MNA) — Iraqi security forces have managed to neutralize a terrorist operation, killing a suicide bomber who was planning to carry out a terrorist operation in northern Baghdad…

Morteza Ahmadi Al Hashem (2022-01-08). Baghdad takes over 50 ISIL terrorists from Damascus. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jan. 08 (MNA) — Iraqi security officials on Saturday took over 50 Iraqi citizens who were accused of being members of ISIS terrorist group, from Syria on Saturday.

sputniknews (2022-01-07). Ex-US Envoy Believes American Troops Won't Leave Iraq Anytime Soon Despite Ending 'Combat Mission'. sputniknews.com Last month the US declared an end to its "combat mission" in Iraq, but has yet to announce plans to carry out the will of the country's parliament and withdraw its troops in full. In fact, Washington has not removed any of its remaining 2,500 troops from the country since ending the mission.

Staff (2022-01-07). New symptom of Omicron in young children revealed. rt.com US doctors are warning parents that under-fives are developing a "barking" cough | American scientists have identified a new symptom of the Omicron variant in children under five; a "barking" cough that may sound frightening when parents hear it. | According to Dr. Buddy Creech, a pediatric infectious diseases expert at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, some Covid patients in the youngest age group develop "croup-like" coughs which can be identified by a "barking" sound. | That happens, Creech told NBC news, because "little kids' airways are so narrow that it takes far less inflammation to…

Mirinda Crissman (2022-01-07). We need prison abolition, not reform — a WW commentary. workers.org Nearly 2.3 million people, who are incarcerated every day in prisons, jails and detention centers in the United States, face possible death sentences while locked up during a deadly respiratory pandemic. Despite facing inhumane and unsanitary conditions, they have shown great solidarity with one another and resistance to their brutal . . . |

Mirinda Crissman (2022-01-07). We need prison abolition, not reform — a WW commentary. workers.org Nearly 2.3 million people, who are incarcerated every day in prisons, jails and detention centers in the United States, face possible death sentences while locked up during a deadly respiratory pandemic. Despite facing inhumane and unsanitary conditions, they have shown great solidarity with one another and resistance to their brutal . . . |

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