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Teen infected with hookworms could 'feel the worms moving in his body,' mom says A 17-year-old Memphis teen is still suffering from painful side effects more than a month after he contracted a parasitic worm infection while on a mission trip in Florida.

11 babies die after pregnant women given Viagra in Dutch study A Dutch trial with sildenafil, sold under the brand name Viagra, has been immediately halted after 11 babies of mothers using the medication died, one of the participating hospitals said on Tuesday.

Feds prosecuting fentanyl overdose deaths as homicides in crackdown on opioid dealers As fentanyl overdose deaths surge, federal prosecutors are treating more of those cases as homicides as a way to punish dealers with more severe prison sentences.

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A military jet fighter cashed in northern Vietnam on Thursday, killing two servicemen on board, a local official said. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2LPrODW

Washington's reluctance to declare an end to the Korean War until after North Korea abandons its nuclear arsenal may put it at odds not only with Pyongyang, but also with allies in South Korea. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2Abdg0h

A South Korean company that claimed to have found the wreck of a Russian warship holding $130 billion in gold said on Thursday it has not verified the existence of any gold, while a financial watchdog said it was probing possible unlawful stock trading. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2NIRWRA

Chinese police took away a woman who sprayed herself with gasoline on Thursday in what was suspected to be a self-immolation attempt outside the U.S. Embassy, the state-run Global Times reported, amid reports of an explosion. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2v54FWY

A Chinese police car appeared to have been damaged on Thursday in what state media reported may have been a self-immolation attempt outside the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, a Reuters witness said. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2LoDl0J

Soaring global prices of vanilla should have been good news for Jao Nasaina, a 58-year-old farmer of the luxury spice on the northeast tip of Madagascar. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2NEnGqM

Pakistani cricket icon-turned-politician Imran Khan inched closer to power on Thursday after a general election that has been marred by long delays in ballot counting and claims of rigging by opponents. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2v7CAy7

Top oil exporter Saudi Arabia said on Thursday it was "temporarily halting" all oil shipments through the strategic Red Sea shipping lane of Bab al-Mandeb after an attack on two big oil tankers by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi movement. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2Ac8dMW

Troops searched for survivors in the remote southern tip of Laos on Thursday, three days after the collapse of a hydropower dam sent a torrent of water across paddy fields and through villages, as rescuers rushed aid to thousands of homeless. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2uR2rvc

A huge fire broke out in a five-storey residential building in London's West Hampstead in the early hours of Thursday, forcing rescuers to evacuate dozens of people, and it took nearly four hours to douse the blaze, the London Fire Brigade said. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2OmoDWa

Japan executed six more members of the doomsday cult group Aum Shinrikyo on Thursday that perpetrated the deadly sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2AhIfYe

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is vying to secure a 100-year first this weekend by winning a seat from the opposition at a by-election and with it a possible pathway to victory at the next national election due by May 2019. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2JWMOqE