BEIRUT -- Lebanon on Thursday received more than 900,000 doses of the cholera vaccine from the World Health Organization (WHO) and International Coordination Group (ICG), the United Nations Information Center in Beirut said in a statement.
The vaccines, funded by the UN Central Emergency Response Fund and the WHO-affiliate Contingency Fund for Emergencies, will be used in the second phase of Lebanon's cholera vaccination campaign. (Lebanon-Cholera Vaccines)
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TEHRAN -- Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has seized more than 300,000 liters of smuggled fuel in a tanker ship in the Gulf, state TV reported Thursday.
The IRGC's operation aims to detect and fight against organized smuggling, Mojtaba Qahremani, head of the Justice Department of Iran's southern province of Hormozgan, was quoted as saying. (Iran-Fuel-Smuggling)
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ANKARA -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that he has suggested to Russian President Vladimir Putin for a trilateral meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and trilateral steps on security issues.
"As of now, we want to take a step as Syria-Türkiye-Russia trio," Erdogan told reporters during his flight back from Turkmenistan when asked about Türkiye's security concerns in northern Syria. (Türkiye-Syria-Russia)
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BEIRUT -- A UN peacekeeper was killed and three others injured on Wednesday night just outside the peacekeepers' area of operations in south Lebanon, the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) announced Thursday.
Details of the incident in Al-Aqbieh are "sparse and conflicting," but an investigation has been launched in coordination with the Lebanese Armed Forces to "determine what exactly happened," UNIFIL said in a statement. (Lebanon-UN Peacekeeper-Killing)
