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Canadian fertility doctor Barwin uses own sperm to impregnate women

Daily Dispatch April 8, 2018

A Canadian fertility doctor, Norman Barwin may face a class action lawsuit in which he is accused of using his own sperm to inseminate 11 of his clients without their knowledge or consent. In a statement, Nelligan O’Brien Payne LLP, the law firm behind the case, said that DNA investigation

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Woman dies after doctors accidentally ’embalmed’ her alive

Daily Dispatch April 8, 2018

A woman died after being ’embalmed alive’ due to a medical blunder in a Russian hospital, her mother claims. Ekaterina Fedyaeva’s mother accused medics of putting her daughter on a formalin drip, which includes formaldehyde, instead of saline. Formaldehyde is used for embalming dead bodies. The 27-year-old had been in hospital in Ulyanovsk for routine […]

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Trump blames Obama, Russia, Iran for Syrian chemical attack

Daily Dispatch April 8, 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump has blamed former President Barack Obama for the continued crisis in Syria and the Middle East. This is even as he has blasted Russia and Iran for backing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad whom he refers to as an “Animal”. In a series of tweets on his twitter handle @RealDonaldTrump, he said […]

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Pope Francis condemns the use of chemical weapons in Syria

Daily Dispatch April 8, 2018

Pope Francis on Sunday condemned the use of chemical weapons in Syria after a suspected attack in an opposition holdout in Eastern Ghouta killed 70 people. “Terrible news comes to us from Syria with dozens of victims, many of them women and children … so many people are struck by the effects of the chemical […]

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2000 more soldiers join U.S.-backed operation in Africa

Daily Dispatch April 8, 2018

Nearly 2,000 U.S., European and African counterterrorism forces would conduct an annual exercise, the U.S. State Department said in a statement on Friday. The annual exercise that is known as Flintlock, would take place in multiple locations in Africa by April 8. “Approximately 1,900 service members from 20 African and Western partner nations will participate […]

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Fire in Trump’s tower kills one, injures four

Daily Dispatch April 8, 2018

The blaze that erupted on the 50th floor of Trump Tower in New York late on Saturday is reported to have killed an elderly man and injured four fire fighters The New York Police Department said 67-year-old Todd Brassner was found “unconscious and unresponsive” when officers arrived at the scene. Brassner — a Trump Tower […]