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Las Vegas massacre: GoFundMe page raises over $2M, volunteers wait for hours to donate blood

Daily Dispatch October 3, 2017

The residents of Las Vegas have banded together to help the victims of Sunday’s mass shooting, lining up for hours to donate blood, as people around the world collectively donated over $2 million to help with relief efforts. Lines started forming at the crack of dawn at blood banks operated by

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16 dead as suicide bombings hit Damascus police station

Daily Dispatch October 2, 2017

A double suicide bomb attack hit a police station in Syria’s capital Damascus on Monday, state media said, with a monitor saying at least 16 people were killed. Damascus has been largely insulated from the worst of the violence during the country’s brutal six-year war, but several bomb attacks have shaken the city. Syria’s interior […]

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Barcelona board members resign

Daily Dispatch October 2, 2017

Barcelona president, Josep Maria Bartomeu, on Monday confirmed that two of the club’s board members have resigned, in the wake of his decision to play their La Liga fixture against Las Palmas behind closed doors. The game went on despite a violent crackdown by police of an independence referendum for Catalonia on Sunday. “Today the […]

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Death toll rises to 17 in Cameroon as anglophones declare ‘independence’

Daily Dispatch October 2, 2017

At least 17 people were killed over the weekend in clashes linked to a symbolic declaration of independence by Cameroon’s anglophone minority, concurring sources said on Monday. Amnesty International said “at least” 17 people were killed by security forces in the country’s two English-speaking regions, a figure that concurred with a toll given by official […]

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Update: 50 dead, 400 wounded in Las Vegas shooting

Daily Dispatch October 2, 2017

In the latest update on Sunday night Las Vegas concert shooting, more than  50 people have been confirmed killed and over 400 also injured, in what has been classified as  the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history. Police said the white gunman, a 64-year-old local resident named as Stephen Paddock, had been killed after a […]

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Rosbash, Hall, Young share Nobel Medicine Prize

Daily Dispatch October 2, 2017

The 2017 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young. It was for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm”. The announcement was made in Stockholm   today and is the first of the prizes to be made known by the Nobel Prize […]