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Destroyed a huge fleet of oil tankers in Syria it was described as the largest air strike of its kind to date $168.00 vehicles were hits with the Defense Department claiming this will mean 2000000 dollars in lost revenue for the militants Meanwhile the un general assembly has passed a resolution demanding an immediate halt to all hostilities in Syria humanitarian aid access throughout the country and an end to all sieges including in Aleppo the u.s. Ambassador to the u.n. Samantha Power said it was a vote to stand up to Russia and the government of Bashar al Assad this is a vote to defend the bedrock principles of how States should act even in war this is a vote to demand food medicine and safety urgently for a population in eastern Aleppo who have known Russia has strongly rejected a report which says more than 1000 of the country's athletes benefited from a state sponsored doping program the World Anti-Doping Agency says it involves many medalists from London 2012 Barack Obama has directed u.s. Intelligence to review the spate of election season cyber attacks blamed on Russian hackers a White House spokesman described the investigation as a deep dive into a range of malicious cyber activity since 2008 is to be written up by the time the Us president leaves office next month White House spokesman Eric Schultz with the president asked for is a review to look at malicious cyber activity timed to our presidential election cycle and so it will be broader than just looking at the past election the foreign secretary says he's profoundly concerned about the suffering of the people of Yemen after almost 2 years of civil war Boris Johnson was speaking in Bahrain a day after being rebuked by Downing Street for accusing Saudi Arabia of a gaging in a proxy war in the region course and start concerns about security in. The To.