Ukraine said it has recaptured more territory than Russia has seized this year, even as the US restricts military support and Russia escalates attacks on civilians and energy infrastructure. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported that cluster munitions hit Kyiv on October 22, and that more than 170 strikes on energy facilities have occurred since a US-brokered energy ceasefire on October 11. A trilateral meeting among the US, Russia and Ukraine is tentatively scheduled for November 10 in Abu Dhabi.
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A wave of homemade synthetic drugs is reshaping the US opioid crisis, with fentanyl now routinely mixed with animal tranquillisers that render the standard overdose reversal drug naloxone ineffective, and stimulant users increasingly dying after unknowingly consuming fentanyl-laced crack, according to a BBC investigation and data from a CDC drug sampling programme.