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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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The massive dome of the Islamic Centre Grand Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia caught fire and collapsed on October 19, 2022. The following day, emergency crews were still on the scene trying to extinguish the flames as police investigated what caused the incident.
During Nepal’s decade-long Maoist insurgency from 1996 to 2006, many young girls were subjected to sexual violence by officials while under arrest. Despite the abuses they endured, transitional governments showed indifference to survivors’ stories after the war. Now, these victims have decided to come forward and de…
Hundreds of students clashed with police in Kelaniya, a suburb of the Sri Lankan capital Colombo, on October 18, 2022. They were demanding the release of two leaders arrested on charges of terrorism, for allegedly inciting the mass protests that toppled former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s government in July.
A preliminary investigation of damages to the two Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea found that the leaks were caused by “powerful explosions”, Copenhagen police said on October 18, 2022. Swedish and Danish authorities have been investigating four ruptures in the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, which had sup…
Indonesia will demolish and rebuild a football stadium where a stampede killed more than 130 people, President Joko Widodo said on October 18, 2022. The president, popularly known as Jokowi, was speaking to reporters at the state palace after meeting Gianni Infantino, head of world football governing body Fifa.
Ukrainian forces say they shot down at least 37 ‘kamikaze’ drones during Russia’s deadly strikes in Kyiv on October 17, 2022, that killed at least 19 people. New footage shows officers raining gunfire on drones from streets during the air raids.
A Russian military jet on a training flight crashed into a residential building in the port town of Yeysk near Ukraine, after its engine reportedly caught fire on October 17, 2022. At least 13 people were believed killed and 19 injured after the apparent accident set the apartment complex ablaze.
A Russian Su-34 bomber crashed into a residential building in the port town of Yeysk on October 17, 2022. One of its engines caught fire during take-off. Officials were quoted as saying at least two people were killed and 15 were injured. The pilots ejected safely, according to Russian news agencies.
Spanish police said on October 14, 2022, that it had dismantled a criminal group believed to be Europe’s largest money launderer behind international drug trafficking gangs from more than 20 countries. In total, police seized nearly 3 million euros (US$2.9 million), including 11 luxury vehicles, cryptocurrency accou…
Rights groups have voiced fears for inmates after a deadly fire at the notorious Evin prison in the Iranian capital of Tehran on October 15, 2022. At least four prisoners have been confirmed dead and 61 others injured in the blaze at the facility that is infamous for holding people arrested on security charges.
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India’s top court has delivered a split verdict on a petition appealing a lower court’s refusal to force authorities to withdraw a ban on schoolgirls wearing hijab in classrooms. In a ruling on October 13, 2022, a Supreme Court panel remained divided on the controversial restriction imposed in the southern state of …
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Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha chaired a gun-control meeting on October 12, 2022, and vowed to tighten related laws. This came after the country’s worst mass murder involving a former police officer who killed 36 people, including 24 children, on October 6 in northern Thailand. The Thai leader said gun owners…
A new video has emerged reportedly showing 16-year-old Iranian Nika Shakarami burning her headscarf in Tehran during protests on September 20, 2022, before she disappeared and was later found dead. The teen’s family identified her in the footage, and her mother says she does not believe authorities who say Shakarami…
On October 11, 2022, Thai monks arranged a mass funeral and cremation ceremony at a Buddhist temple in Na Klang for 19 of the victims killed in a nursery school massacre. A former police officer murdered 36 people, including 24 children, on October 6 in one of the worst mass killings by a lone wolf attacker in Thail…
Kyiv residents sweep up glass shards after Russian missile strikes rocked the Ukrainian capital on October 10, 2022. Russia fired 83 missiles on Kyiv and other cities, including Lviv, Ternopil and Dnipro, of which 43 were shot down, the Ukrainian defence minister said. At least 10 people were killed and 60 wounded, …
A jade necklace said to be worth about HK$22 million (US$2.8 million) was stolen in a brazen robbery at a jewellery store in Hong Kong’s busy Tsim Sha Tsui shopping district on October 10, 2022. Officers were called to the ground-floor Emperor Watch and Jewellery shop on Canton Road near the junction of Peking Road,…
Paveenut Supolwong was the only toddler to have survived a rare mass shooting unscathed at a day care centre in northern Thailand on October 6, 2022. Nicknamed Ammy, the three-year-old slept through the carnage under a blanket when former policeman Panya Khamrap killed 24 other children at the nursery.
The Iranian government has published footage to support its claim that Mahsa Amini died from a pre-existing illness while in custody, and was not beaten to death as alleged by her family. Surveillance footage aired October 7, 2022, purportedly shows the 22-year-old collapsing at a morality classroom after she was ar…
Ukrainian police have released footage of a building in the country’s eastern Kharkiv region where it claims Russian soldiers tortured prisoners. Videos and photos showing the rundown facility were released on October 3, 2022, at a time Kyiv has been claiming it has found evidence of war excesses in towns it recentl…
Workers at a childcare centre in northern Thailand have recalled the horror they witnessed as a man with a gun and a knife killed at least 37 people on October 6, 2022. In one of the country’s deadliest mass killings, a former police officer reportedly went on a stabbing and shooting rampage before returning home to…
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Dozens of people, mostly children, were killed on October 6, 2022, in a mass shooting carried out by an ex-policeman at a childcare centre in northeastern Thailand, police said. The attacker later killed his wife and child before taking his own life. The death toll at 7.30pm local time stood at 36, making it the wor…
A family outing turned into a nightmare for Andi Hariyanto, who had brought his family to watch their favourite football club at the Kanjuruhan Stadium in the Indonesian province of East Java on October 1, 2022. He lost his wife and two daughters in the football stampede that killed at least 131 people, after police…
Indonesian President Joko Widodo said locked doors appear to have contributed to the deadly stampede at the stadium in East Java that killed at least 131 people on October 1, 2022. He made the remarks after inspecting the site of the tragedy at the Kanjuruhan football stadium in Malang, and ordered safety audits of …
At least 25 people died after a bus carrying a wedding party of more than 45 fell into a 500-metre-deep gorge in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, police said on October 5, 2022. About 20 passengers were rescued in an overnight operation and at least 2 are in critical condition.
A video circulating on social media shows schoolgirls without hijab chasing a man thought to be an education official out of their campus at Gohardasht near Iranian capital Tehran, reportedly on October 3, 2022. Officials have been visiting schools lately to meet girls following widespread protests over the custodia…
The family of Indonesian football stampede victim Iwan Junaedi remembers the father of three as an avid Arema FC fan, who would skip school to watch the team play. Junaedi was among at least 125 people killed on October 1, 2022, when Indonesian police fired tear gas to disperse football fans at the Kanjuruhan Stadiu…
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Beatles fans have hailed the release of never-before-seen footage showing the Fab Four on tour in Japan. The silent black-and-white footage of the British band's only visit to the country in 1966 was recorded by police as a security measure. It shows the musicians descending from a plane in matching kimonos and perf…
Beatles fans have hailed the release of never-before-seen footage showing the Fab Four on tour in Japan. The silent black-and-white footage of the British band's only visit to the country in 1966 was recorded by police as a security measure. It shows the musicians descending from a plane in matching kimonos and perf…
Hundreds of mourners and protesters gathered at a square in the Indonesian capital Jakarta on October 2, 2022, a day after at least 125 people were killed and more than 300 were injured during a stampede at a football match in Kanjuruhan stadium. Near the venue in East Java, demonstrators demanded justice after one …
At least 129 people were killed and nearly 200 were injured during a riot and stampede at a football stadium in Indonesia on October 1, 2022. Fans angry about th outcome of a match had invaded the pitch and police responded with tear gas triggering the deadly crash at Kanjuruhan stadium in the eastern city of Malang…
A suicide bomb blast killed at least 19 people and injured 27 in an education centre in west Kabul on September 30, 2022. The mostly female students were preparing for exams when the attack took place. The Kaaj Higher Educational Centre is located in the Dasht-e-Barchi area, where the Hazara ethnic minority communit…
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A Chinese man was killed in a gun attack at a dental clinic in downtown Karachi in southern Pakistan leaving his employers, an elderly Chinese couple, injured on September 28, 2022. Police said the gunman who was posing as a patient opened fire at the Chinese nationals, before fleeing.
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A search team has retrieved the remains of renowned US ski mountaineer Hilaree Nelson, who went missing on Nepal’s Mount Manaslu after reportedly slipping into a crevasse while skiing down the world’s eighth-tallest peak. The accident happened on September 26, 2022, amid heavy snowfall that triggered an avalanche in…
The strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines so far this year has killed at least six people and triggered concerns about inflation after it heavily damaged rice crops. Typhoon Noru battered Luzon, the country’s most populous island, for more than a day after the storm made landfall on September 25, 2022.
A gunman, described as being in his early 30s and wearing a T-shirt with a swastika painted on it, reportedly entered his former school in central Russia and opened fire on pupils and teachers on September 26, 2022, killing at least 15 people including 11 children. Another 24 people were injured in the attack before…
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