Day: October 15, 2023

Iran’s Foreign Minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian met with the political leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, in Doha, according to Iranian and Qatari media outlets^. The meeting came amid the ongoing war between Hamas and Israel, which has killed more than 2,400 people in Gaza.

 The leaders discussed the latest developments in Palestine and the region and expressed their support for the Palestinian people’s resistance and rights^. They also agreed to continue their cooperation and coordination to end the Israeli aggression and siege on Gaza and to provide humanitarian aid to the besieged enclave^.

 This was the first official meeting between Iranian officials and Haniyeh after the Al-Aqsa storm operation, which was launched by Hamas on October 7 in response to Israel’s raids on the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem^. 

 Iran already warned that the ground invasion of Gaza would further escalate the situation between Palestine and Israel.

Rite Aid listed estimated assets and liabilities in the range of $1 billion to $10 billion in a court filing with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based Rite Aid operates more than 2,000 retail stores across 17 states in the U.S., although it is much smaller than its rivals such as Walgreens Boots Alliance and CVS Health.

Along with other pharmacy chains, it has been named a defendant in lawsuits that alleged they helped fuel the opioid crisis in the United States.

The U.S. Department of Justice in March sued Rite Aid, accusing the pharmacy chain of missing “red flags” as it illegally filled hundreds of thousands of prescriptions for controlled substances, including opioids.

More than 900,000 people have died of drug overdoses in the U.S. since 1999, with opioids playing an outsized role, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.