News in Brief - Fri, Oct, 09, 2015 - 22:30 GMT

(FILES) This January 2, 2015 file photo shows a US made Reaper drone part of Operation Barkhane

1. Yemen’s Ansarullah fighters and their allied army forces have targeted a US made spy drone over the northern province of Sa'ada.

2. The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has described resistance as the only way to liberate Palestinians in the face of Israeli atrocities and violations.

3. Israeli forces have killed at least six, and wounded more than two dozen Palestinian protesters in the east of the besieged Gaza Strip.

4. Russian warplanes have killed some 300 militants in Syria during their latest raids. Russian fighter jets have been pounding terrorist positions in Syria for two weeks now.

5. Saudi Arabia is reportedly increasing its supply of lethal weaponry to foreign-backed militant groups in Syria.

6. Sweden's Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has estimated that some 150-thousand refugees will arrive in the country this year.

7. In the US state of Texas, at least one person has been killed during a campus shooting at Texas Southern University in the city of Houston.

8. The International Organization for Migration announces that the rate of refugee arrivals in Greece has surged to seven-thousand a day over the past week.


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