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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…
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More than 20 young women in India are pursuing their dream of winning medals in wrestling, a male-dominated sport considered taboo for women in many parts of the country. They have been training at the Altius wrestling school, in the northern Indian state of Haryana. Founded by Usha Sharma, a police officer, and her…
A suspected gunman has reportedly taken hostages in Japan following a shooting at a nearby hospital. The incident happened on October 31, 2023, in the central Japanese city of Toda, just outside the capital Tokyo. The suspect is believed to be linked to an earlier shooting that left two people wounded at a nearby ho…
Explosions at a gathering of Jehovah’s Witnesses in India’s southern state of Kerala killed at least three people and wounded more than 50 others on October 29, 2023. A suspect has been arrested in connection with the case after handing himself over to police. The man claimed to be a former congregation member who d…
Another mass shooting has taken place in the US, this time in the northeastern state of Maine where a gunman opened fire in a public area killing least 18 people and wounding 13 others. Local authorities shut down the town of Lewiston on October 25, 2023, as they searched for the suspect and launched an investigatio…
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Japan’s top court ruled on October 25, 2023, that a legal clause requiring people to undergo sterilisation surgery if they want to legally change their gender was unconstitutional. The clause was one of five requirements transgender people need to meet in order to officially change their gender. But the top court de…
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Criminal groups in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro set fire to dozens of vehicles on October 24, 2023, including at least 35 buses and a train car. Local police say the arson was retaliation after a senior paramilitary leader was killed in a police operation. The crimes were concentrated in the city’s west, whe…
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The Japanese government has called for the release of one of its nationals arrested in Beijing. Tokyo confirmed on October 19, 2023, that the 50-year old Japanese was detained in March. Chinese authorities said the man was suspected of engaging in espionage, but neither China nor Japan has disclosed details of the c…
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China will defend “fairness and justice” and contribute to global development together with Russia, Chinese President Xi Jinping told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. The two leaders held talks on the sidelines of the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing on October 18, 2023. It was Putin’s first trip to the Chinese…
India’s Supreme Court has declined to legalise same-sex marriage in the country. The decision, which was handed down on October 17, 2023, recognised the right of LGBTQ couples to choose their partners, but declined to do so for same-sex unions, saying that it was a decision for India’s parliament. It was the country…
The rate of gun ownership among women in America is rising, highlighted by the growing popularity of women’s-only shooting ranges. One of them is the A Girl and A Gun club, which has over 70 chapters around the country. The trend comes amid recent social and political turmoil in the United States, prompting some wom…
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At least four people were killed and 80 hurt after an express train derailed in the Indian state of Bihar on October 11, 2023. The North-East Express train, which connects the capital Delhi and the northeastern state of Assam, derailed at the Raghunathpur railway station in Bihar's Buxar district. An investigation i…
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The party guests who arrived on the evening of June 23, 2022, at the Tudor-style mansion on the coast of Maine were a special group in a special place enjoying a special time. The attendees included some two dozen federal and state judges — a gathering that required U.S. marshals with earpieces to stand watch while …
Rescuers continue the search for survivors after a 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck northwestern Afghanistan on October 7, 2023. The Taliban administration said at least 2,400 people were killed and more were injured in the quakes, which were among the world’s deadliest this year.
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A Thai teen suspected of carrying out a mass shooting in a Bangkok shopping mall has reportedly been charged with murder. The attack, which happened on October 3, 2023, killed a Chinese national and another from Myanmar and left five others injured. The shooting came amid efforts to revive the country’s tourism indu…
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At least 21 people, including two children and foreign tourists, were killed on September 3, 2023, when a bus running on methane plunged off a bridge in Venice and caught fire. Local reports said that among the dead were Ukrainian, German and French citizens.
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A 14-year-old boy has been arrested in connection to a mass shooting at an upscale shopping mall in the Thai capital Bangkok on October 3, 2023. A Chinese woman was reportedly killed in the shooting, while several have been critically wounded.
On October 6, 2022, an ex-police officer opened fire on a nursery in the rural town of Uthai Sawan in northeastern Thailand. The attacker killed 24 children and 12 adults over a three-hour period before killing himself. A year after one of the deadliest massacres in modern Thai history, families of the victims of th…
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Prominent Thai activist and lawyer Arnon Nampa was sentenced to four years in prison on September 26, 2023, for what a court judge said were "royal insults". Nampa was convicted under Thailand’s tough lèse-majesté law over a 2020 speech he made in Bangkok at the height of street demonstrations by the youth-led pro-d…
The diplomatic crisis between India and Canada over the June 2023 murder of a Sikh separatist in the Canadian city of Vancouver has unleashed a wave of concern in India’s Punjab state, where the Sikh religion emerged in the 15th century. Sikhs fear a backlash from India’s Hindu-nationalist government, and worry that…
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Hundreds of protesters staged a rally in Derna one week after sweeping floods killed thousands of people in the port city in northeastern Libya. Protesters demanded that officials be held responsible for the deadly disaster that swept away towns after the collapse of nearby dams.
