VOA60: October 8, 2024

Israel continues airstrikes in Lebanon. The military says it killed a top Hezbollah commander in a strike in Beirut.
In Tunisia, election officials say President Kais Saied is elected with about 91 percent of the vote. About 29 percent of voters took part.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo expands its mpox vaccination campaign. Health workers were vaccinated in North and South Kivu provinces.
And in Sweden, officials award American John Hopfield and British-Canadian Geoffrey Hinton the Nobel Prize in Physics for important developments in artificial intelligence.
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