People walk amidst the rubble of the Russian Su-25 fighter jet scattered on  
 the ground, in Eastern Idlib, Syria, on Feb 3, 2018. PHOTO: EPA-EFE
ISTANBUL (WASHINGTON POST) - Syria's former al-Qaeda affiliate claimed responsibility Saturday (Feb 3) for the downing of a Russian warplane in northern Syria, apparently using a surface-to-air missile.

The pilot was killed after he ejected and exchanged gunfire with militants on the ground, the Russian Defence Ministry and a monitoring group said.

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, a powerful rebel alliance that publicly split from al-Qaeda last year (2017), said it had used a man-portable anti- aircraft system to shoot down the Su-25 fighter jet as it flew low over the opposition-held town of Saraqeb.
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Fentanyl Adds Deadly Kick to Opioid Woes in Britain



A mural commemorating the fishing industry in Kingston upon Hull, England. Since the collapse of the fishing industry in the 1970s, the city has some of the highest unemployment and addiction rates in the country. Phil Hatcher-Moore for The New York Times




























KINGSTON UPON HULL, England — There was something different in the batches of heroin that circulated through this English port city over the summer, but most addicts had no idea what it was until their friends and fellow addicts, 16 in all, had died of overdoses.
Those who tried the drug described a “warm,” “euphoric” high, followed by a sudden knockout effect, one that has killed dozens of Britons over the past year and left hundreds hospitalized.

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