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Please lift my parents up in prayer for their healing; my dad had a dangerous duodenal ulcer bleed, which was fixed but also had a slight heart attack for which he underwent a heart catheterization yesterday. He also has terrible pain despite a cervical bone spur removal and fusion almost a year ago. My mother has damage from past multiple lung infections and has lost a tremendous amount of weight, recently from stress and long-term from insomnia. They are the most loving, meek and precious souls a child could have, and serve the Lord as mighty as Moses and true...

The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has declared that he is withdrawing the majority of Russian troops from Syria, saying the intervention had largely achieved its objective. The news, relayed to the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, personally, followed a meeting in the Kremlin with Putin’s defence and foreign ministers. He said the pullout, reducing an intervention that began at the end of September, is due to start from Tuesday.