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The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has reported that a third person has died due to measles in the United States, as the country grapples with its largest measles outbreak in decades.

A court in Syria has sentenced to death two supporters of the ousted Bashar al-Assad regime for inciting an uprising last year, and handed hefty sentences to members of the current government’s security forces for the killing of hundreds of civilians from the Alawite religious minority.

Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth’s announcement of the execution by firing squad of Fort Hood gunman Nidal Malik Hasan continues to fuel controversy. Former US Army Major Hasan, convicted of killing 13 people and wounding another 32, is expected to be put to death in a live-streamed execution, most likely on 3 December.

Russian authorities have insisted a lab researcher who died in Siberia last week did not have the plague while quarantining nearly 200 of her contacts, confining more than 60 colleagues inside their institute and restricting access to multiple hospitals, all without explanation.

This Sunday, 4 October, marks the 800th anniversary of the death of Saint Francis of Assisi, Italy’s patron saint. From this year, and for the first time since 1977, 4 October once again becomes a national holiday.

Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike was taken to hospital on Thursday after authorities “failed” to carry out her execution, her lawyers said, with witnesses reporting the convicted murderer was breathing despite two injections intended to kill her.

A fifth, unvaccinated person has died of measles in Pennsylvania, the state’s health department announced Wednesday.