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A magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck Japan’s central Ishikawa prefecture on January 1, 2024. At least 20 people have reportedly been killed so far, with nearly 100,000 residents in the area forced to evacuate.
South Korea’s opposition Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung was stabbed in the neck during a visit to the southern port city of Busan on January 2, 2024. Lee was attacked by an unidentified man while touring the site of a proposed airport, according to the Yonhap news agency, which said the stabbing left a 1-cent…
Hundreds of children have fallen victim to toxic cough syrup around the world over the past two years, according to investigations by national authorities and the World Health Organisation. While many have died, survivors and their families are forced every day to confront the devastating effects of the tainted medi…
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In 2023, Hong Kong witnessed significant changes that shaped its landscape and narrative, from the post-Covid reopening of the Hong Kong-mainland China border in January to the murder of socialite Abby Choi Tin-fung in February, and the ongoing national security trial of media mogul Jimmy Lai Chee-ying that began in…
Gypsy Rose Blanchard has been released from prison in the US after serving seven years for the murder of her mother
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Rescue teams have been working hard under freezing temperatures to help the injured and displaced on December 19, 2023, after a magnitude 6.2 quake struck China’s northwestern province of Gansu. The quake was the country's deadliest since 2014, when more than 600 people were killed in southwestern Yunnan province.
A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck Jishishan county in China’s northwestern province of Gansu province just before midnight on December 18, 2023. The epicentre was located near the border of Gansu and Qinghai, some 102km (63 miles) from Gansu’s provincial capital Lanzhou. Nearly a hundred people were killed, while mo…
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A Japanese court has found three former Japanese soldiers guilty of sexually assaulting a female colleague. The landmark verdict delivered December 12, 2023, also handed down suspended jail sentences for the defendants. The 24-year-old victim, Rina Gonoi, had gone public about her ordeal. She welcomed the court’s de…
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Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has been removed from the penal colony where he had been jailed since the middle of 2022, his spokeswoman said on December 11, 2023. The 47-year-old is serving more than 30 years in prison and was due to be transferred to a “special regime” colony, the harshest grade in R…
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An ongoing rescue operation has found at least 22 bodies of hikers killed by a volcanic eruption in Indonesia’s western Agam regency. Another person is missing and presumed dead. Indonesia’s Mount Marapi first erupted on December 3, 2023. New eruptions over the following days spewed more hot ash as high as 800 metre…
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The children hid. They dropped to the floor, crouching under desks and countertops, far from the windows. They lined up against the walls, avoiding the elementary school doors that separated them from a mass shooter about a decade older than them. Some held up the blunted scissors that they often used to cut shapes …
Prominent Hong Kong opposition activist Agnes Chow Ting does not plan to return to the city after moving to Canada to study despite a requirement that she report to police by the end of December 2023, as part of a national security case. Her announcement on social media prompted a warning from Beijing that no one wa…
Prominent Hong Kong opposition activist Agnes Chow Ting said she does not plan to return to the city after moving to Canada to study, despite being required to report to police by late December 2023, as part of a national security law investigation. Her plans prompted a warning by Beijing saying that no one is above…
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Indian authorities are working to free 40 workers who have been trapped in a collapsed tunnel in north India for five days. A 4.5km (3 mile) tunnel was being built in Uttarakhand state on a national highway when it collapsed in the early morning on November 12, 2023. Police have reportedly said they were ‘very optim…
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A car crashed into a barricade near the Israeli embassy in Japan’s capital city Tokyo on November 16, 2023. One police officer was injured, according to local media Fuji TV. A 50-year old man was reportedly arrested on the spot, while police officers have blocked the area. Israeli embassies around the world have bee…
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The former bodyguard of ex-prime minister Najib Razak has been freed in Australia after being detained there for nine years. Sirul Azhar Umar and another police officer were convicted of the murder of a Mongolian translator and sentenced to death in 2009. He subsequently fled the country and was arrested on an Inter…
Arjun recalls going to fetch water at a railway station when the train his parents were on suddenly departed. He never saw them again. More than 50,000 children went missing in India in 2020, according to the nation’s National Crime Records Bureau. Some were unexpectedly separated from their parents, others were aba…
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The Unification Church in Japan announced on November 7, 2022, that it will set aside 10 billion yen (US$67 million) to compensate former followers and their families who say they were harmed by church fundraising tactics. The Japanese government has asked a court to revoke the church's legal status, following quest…
Filipino journalist and popular radio broadcaster Juan Jumalon was shot by an unidentified assailant while broadcasting from his home on November 5, 2023. Jumalon is the fourth journalist to be killed in the Philippines since President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr took office in June 2022. In a statement, Marcos Jnr condemn…
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Two years into his 25-year sentence for attempted aggravated rape, Nathan Brown could tell the man sitting across from him — a jailhouse lawyer improbably named Lawyer Winfield — was not going to help him get out of prison. It was astounding to Brown that he was pinning his hopes on a fellow inmate who had an eighth…
Over a hundred people were killed and dozens injured in Nepal when a strong earthquake struck the western area of Jajarkot late Friday night, as houses in the area collapsed and buildings as far as New Delhi in neighbouring India shook.
Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of now-defunct crypto exchange platform FTX, was convicted on seven charges in one of the world’s biggest financial fraud cases. He was accused of mishandling company funds and siphoning away money out of greed. A total of US$8 billion went missing last year, following FTX’s collapse. …
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Israel carried out an air strike on the largest refugee camp in Gaza on October 31, 2023, killing dozens of Palestinians. The Israeli military said scores of militants were among the casualties, including a key Hamas commander. Aid flow to Gaza has slowed to a trickle since Israel began continuous air strikes on the…
