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STOCKHOLM (AP) — This year’s Nobel Prize in economic sciences has been awarded to the former chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Ben S. Bernanke, and two U.S.-based economists, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig, “for research on banks and financial crises.”

The prize was announced Monday by the Nobel panel at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.

The committee said their work had shown in their research “why avoiding bank collapses is vital.”

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia unleashed a lethal barrage of strikes against multiple Ukrainian cities Monday, smashing civilian targets including downtown Kyiv where at least eight people were killed amid burnt-out cars and shattered buildings that brought back into focus the grim reality of war after months of easing tensions in the capital.

10 October 2022; MEMO: On Saturday, Russia appointed Sergei Surovikin as the new commander of the war in Ukraine, he has been described by the British Ministry of Defence as "brutal and corrupt."

Surovikin ordered that soldiers shoot protesters in Moscow in the nineties. He has also been accused of leading an offensive on Syria six years ago as part of the Russian backed intervention on the side of Bashar Al-Assad's government.

MOSCOW, October 9. /TASS/: A decision by countries participating in the OPEC+ agreement on lower oil output is not "a victory of Russia" but "a victory of common sense," Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a live broadcast of the Moscow. Kremlin. Putin" program on the Rossiya-1 TV channel on Sunday.

"I am not inclined to say that this is a sort of our victory. No. This is a victory of common sense," the Kremlin spokesman said, replying to a question from journalist Pavel Zarubin.

MOSCOW, October 9. /TASS/: Russia is ready to participate in solving global food problems and to help the poorest countries in particular, President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday in the video address on the occasion of the Agriculture and Processing Industry Workers’ Day.

MOSCOW, October 9. /TASS/: Confirmed novel coronavirus cases in Russia grew by 18,819 in the past day compared to 20,571 a day before, the federal anti-coronavirus crisis center reported on Sunday.

Russia registered less than 20,000 new daily COVID-19 cases for the first time since August 9. Overall, Russia recorded 21,203,332 novel coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic in the country, the latest figures suggest.

MOSCOW, October 9. /TASS/: Passenger and freight train traffic across the Crimean Bridge proceeds on schedule, Russia’s Transport Ministry reported on Sunday.

"Currently, the railway traffic of long-distance passenger and freight trains across the Crimean Bridge proceeds under the statutory schedule," the statement says.

Suburban train traffic across the Crimean Bridge will be restored at 7 p.m. on Sunday, the ministry said.

MOSCOW, October 9. /TASS/: Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold an operational meeting with the permanent members of the Security Council on Monday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told TASS.

"Tomorrow the President is scheduled to hold a meeting with the permanent members of the Security Council," he said.

Peskov did not specify whether the situation with the Crimean bridge would be discussed at the meeting. "We'll let you know following the results [of the meeting]," he said.

GENEVA, Oct 9 (NNN-TELESUR) — Twenty-seven countries reported cholera outbreaks throughout 2022, the World Health Organisation reported “not only seeing more outbreaks but more deadly outbreaks.”

At a press conference in Geneva, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus pointed to poverty, conflict, and climate change as the factors fueling the current cholera outbreak in the world.

According to the Director General, “the average number of fatalities so far this year is almost three times that of the last five years.” 

BERLIN, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Germany will ensure the European Union freezes the assets of those responsible for a violent crackdown on anti-government protests in Iran and bans their entry to the bloc, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock told a German Sunday newspaper.

Germany, France, Denmark, Spain, Italy and the Czech Republic have submitted 16 proposals for new EU sanctions against Iran for its clampdown on protests ignited by the death in policy custody of a young woman, a German foreign ministry source said last week.