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Six former senior executives of the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper have admitted conspiring with their ex-boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying in seeking international sanctions on Beijing and Hong Kong officials in breach of the city’s national security law. The High Court on November 22, 2022, recorded the first conviction…
A fire at a factory in the central Chinese city of Anyang has killed 36 people, left two others missing and sent another two to hospital, according to Chinese state media. Local authorities said “criminal suspects” have been taken into custody in connection with the November 21, 2022, blaze at Kaixinda Trading Co Ltd.
A 5.6-magnitude earthquake that struck Indonesia’s West Java province on November 21, 2022, is now known to have killed more than 160 people and injured hundreds more. The day after the quake, rescuers were scrambling to find and rescue survivors trapped under the rubble amid a series of aftershocks.
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A 22-year-old man opened fire inside a LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs on November 20th, 2022. At least five people were killed and 25 injured before the shooter was stopped by people inside the venue. Police have identified the gunman as Anderson Lee Aldrich, saying he is in custody and being treated for injuri…
Thai police fired rubber bullets and tear gas during clashes with about 300 protesters as the Apec summit began in Bangkok on November 18. Ten protesters were arrested. The crowd, consisting of young pro-democracy activists and rural farmers, rallied against Thailand’s controversial growth policy, Bio Circular Green…
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Iranian security forces opened fire on a busy subway station in the capital Tehran on November 15, 2022. Officers were seen on video beating women, reportedly because they were not wearing hair coverings required under the nation’s strict dress laws. The latest violence happened as protests over the death in police …
Global pressure on Russia over the war in Ukraine continued to grow as most world leaders gathered for the G20 summit in Indonesia agreed to a joint statement on November 16, 2022, condemning Moscow’s invasion and subsequent conflict that have killed thousands of people and roiled the global economy.
A missile that hit Poland and killed two people on November 15, 2022, was probably a stray fired by Ukraine’s air defence and not a Russian strike, Poland and Nato said on Wednesday. Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that Moscow, not Kyiv, was ultimately to blame for starting the war in the first place an…
The Canadian police have charged a Chinese researcher working at Hydro-Quebec with espionage for allegedly sending trade secrets to China. The November 14, 2022, arrest of Wang Yuesheng comes after Ottawa ordered three Chinese firms to quit lithium deals with Canadian mining firms amid investigations into reports of…
Russian forces fired nearly 100 missiles at targets across Ukraine, damaging energy infrastructure and plunging many areas into darkness in northern and central regions of the country. At least one person was reported killed in the capital Kyiv, where some of the projectiles landed on residential buildings during th…
Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu said on November 15, 2022, that police were investigating how the unofficial anthem of the city's anti-government protests was played instead of the Chinese national anthem at an overseas sporting event.
Turkish security forces have released footage of the moment they raided a house near Istanbul on November 14, 2022, and arrested a woman described as the main suspect in the November 13 bombing in the city that killed six people and injured dozens more.
Seven people in northeastern China have been arrested after clashes broke out between residents and authorities enforcing Covid-19 quarantine on November 7, 2022. The incident in Shandong province comes as infections across the country continue to rise.
Two people were killed in an accident involving a Tesla electric car in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong on November 5, 2022. Surveillance footage showed the Model Y vehicle pulling over to apparently park when it suddenly accelerated and took off. Other cameras captured footage of the car speeding along r…
At least six people were killed and dozens wounded when an explosion rocked a busy pedestrian street in central Istanbul on November 13, 2022. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the bomb attack on Istiklal Avenue "smells like terrorism". The following morning, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu told the offic…
Six people were killed after two World War II-era aircraft collided and crashed to the ground during an air show at Dallas in the southern US state of Texas on November 12, 2022. Footage from the scene shows the planes exploded into a ball of fire, sending plumes of black smoke billowing into the sky.
Hong Kong police have made their first arrests in connection with a July 28, 2022 accident when a giant video screen fell during a concert by popular boy band Mirror, critically injuring a dancer who was on stage. The Post learned that at least five people were targeted in a police operation that began at daybreak o…
Moscow on November 9, 2022, ordered troops to withdraw from the strategic southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, as America’s top general estimated that 100,000 soldiers have been “killed and wounded” on each side, since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Kherson was the only regional capital captured by Mo…
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The People's Defence Force in Myanmar has been battling the military that overthrew the elected civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi with home-made weapons. But to churn out rockets, mines and mortars, the group fighting the ruling junta undertakes risky trial-and-error operations. Several fighters have suffered …
The United Nations chief made a pitch for climate justice at the COP27 summit on November 7, 2022, as he called for wealthier nations to pay compensation to countries more vulnerable to climate change. Antonio Guterres made the remarks during his speech on the opening day of the world’s biggest climate conference he…
At least 19 people were killed when a plane operated by Tanzania’s Precision Air crash-landed into Lake Victoria on November 6, 2022. Flight PW494, carrying 43 people, reportedly encountered problems and bad weather on approach to the lakeside city of Bukoba. Local officials said that rescue efforts were under way.
Sri Lankan cricketer Danushka Gunathilaka was denied bail by a court in Australia on November 7, 2022, after being charged with sexual assault. Gunathilaka was in Sydney to play in the T20 World Cup. His defence lawyer Ananda Amaranath said the court refused his client’s bid for bail, and a further application to a …
South Korean investigators have raided police offices across Seoul as part of a probe into the emergency response before and during the deadly Halloween crowd crush on October 29, 2022. A woman who reportedly made the first emergency call, nearly four hours before the tragedy struck in the capital’s Itaewon entertai…
Repetitive manual labour for little pay, poor sanitary conditions, long periods of solitary confinement, penalties for an unbuttoned coat – such was life in the Russian penal colony as remembered by Maria Alyokhina, member of the banned Russian punk band Pussy Riot, who was sent there for two years for taking part i…
The grandmother of a four-year-old girl killed in a massacre at a Thai nursery on October 6, 2022, has travelled to the nation’s southern coast to scatter her ashes. Saowanee Donchot said she made the journey to fulfil the girl’s dreams of visiting a beach. Pattanan Mumklaing was among 24 children killed by an ex-po…
Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan was shot in the leg after at least one gunman opened fire on his convoy on November 3, 2022. Four other people were injured. Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party released the confession made by the suspected gunman, who was arrested at the scene. Before what his aides cal…
Iran’s police force said it will investigate a video posted on social media on November 2, 2022, showing officers beating and shooting an anti-government protester. Iran is now in its seventh week of protests, which was initially sparked by the death in custody of the Iranian woman Mahsa Amini. Worldwide demonstrati…
Dutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra has ordered the immediate closure of what Amsterdam says are illegal police offices set up by China in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, according to media reports on November 2, 2022. The move followed a report by a Spanish rights group accusing Beijing of operating illegal police stati…
Naseema Ben Shamdar lost seven members of her family who were killed as they made their way across a jam-packed suspension bridge that collapsed in India on October 30, 2022. They were among at least 135 people who died when cables holding up the span gave way, plunging pedestrians into the deep, wide waters of the …
Footage shows the moment when a 150-year-old pedestrian bridge suddenly collapsed in western India while hundreds of people gathered for a religious festival on October 30, 2022. At least 141 people were killed.
Rising K-pop singer and actor Lee Ji-han has been confirmed to be among at least 155 people killed in a crowd stampede in Seoul on October 29, 2022. Two days since the tragedy in the South Korean capital’s Itaewon nightlife district, the nation continues to grieve for those who died in the crush during a Halloween s…
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A 150-year-old pedestrian bridge in western India collapsed as nearly 500 people were celebrating a religious festival on and around it. At least 134 people were killed in the incident, which happened on October 30, 2022. The suspension bridge over the Machchhu river, which is around 200km (120 miles) west of Gujara…
At least 98 people have been reported killed in flash floods and landslides set off by Tropical Storm Nalgae in the Philippines on October 27, 2022. The southern province of Maguindanao was hit the hardest, accounting for more than half of the deaths, officials said. In the tribal village of Kusiong, residents who m…
Revellers who survived a deadly Halloween stampede in Seoul on October 29, 2022, described the moments leading up to the crush that killed at least 153 people. The tragedy unfolded after about 100,000 people surged into a narrow alley in Itaewon, a popular nightlife spot in the South Korean capital.
At least 151 people, mostly teenagers and young adults in their 20s, were killed in a crush when a huge crowd celebrating Halloween surged into an alley in a nightlife area of the South Korean capital Seoul on October 29, 2022. Warning, graphic content follows.
Bangkok police detained more than 200 tourists, most of them Chinese, in a drug bust at a karaoke bar on October 26, 2022. They were acting on a tipoff the venue was being used illegally for entertainment, with a karaoke bar for Chinese visitors, drug parties and illegal gambling, according to police.
Dutch police are investigating reports by a Spanish rights group that Chinese police centres are operating illegally in the Netherlands, using them as a base to intimidate critics of Beijing. But speaking to journalists on October 27, 2022, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning described the facilities as ov…
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A 41-year-old Spanish soccer fan who set off for Qatar on foot to watch the Spanish team at the 2022 World Cup has gone missing in Iran. Santiago Sanchez left Madrid in January, and was last heard from on October 1 after sending friends a photograph of himself at the Iranian border. The Spanish Foreign Ministry conf…
Masaaki Osaka has evaded police capture for 46 years after his role in the 1971 Shibuya riot incident. He was found and arrested in 2017, but in his first trial hearing on October 25, 2022, he pleaded not guilty. Osaka is accused of killing a 21-year-old officer during a rival gang clash on November 14, 1971.
A Mercedes-Benz driver was arrested on October 27, 2022, after she led Hong Kong police on a 12km (7.5 mile) high-speed chase before her vehicle hit two other cars, injuring herself and drivers of both vehicles.
Tensions boiled over in western Iran on October 26, 202, as thousands flocked to Mahsa Amini’s hometown of Saqez to mark 40 days since her death, a milestone that traditionally marks the end of the mourning period in Islam. Security forces reportedly opened fire as protesters put up roadblocks during the protests wh…
Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying was convicted of fraud on October 25, 2022, in connection with an office lease case. Lai was found guilty of concealing a private consultancy firm that was operating from the Apple Daily headquarters without the proper licences from April 1988 to May 2020. Next Digital’s fo…
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Two pilots were killed when a Russian fighter jet plummeted onto a house in the Siberian city of Irkutsk during a training flight on October 23, 2022. The incident came just days after another Sukhoi trainer aircraft crashed into a block of flats in the Russian town of Yeysk near Ukraine, killing at least 13 people.
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