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Nowhere else to go: Malaysia's eviction of ‘sea nomads’ casts light on precarious lives | South China Morning Post
The Bajau Laut is an indigenous seaborne community in Malaysia. They have lived off eastern Sabah for centuries in wooden homes built over water in the Tun Sakaran Marine Park. However, a security crackdown on cross-border crime since June 2024 has left hundreds of Bajau Laut homeless, after authorities burned down …
VOA60 Africa - Mozambique: Riot police fired tear gas to disperse protesters
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Liam Payne’s ‘suspicious’ death under investigation after drugs and alcohol found | South China Morning Post
The circumstances surrounding the death of ex-One Direction singer Liam Payne were suspicious, according to Argentine prosecutors on October 17, 2024. The Buenos Aires police said they found Payne’s hotel room “in complete disarray”, with broken objects and furniture. They found packs of clonazepam, a central nervou…
How Israel killed Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas chief believed to be October 7 mastermind | South China Morning Post
Hamas militant leader Yahya Sinwar was killed during a gun battle in southern Gaza on October 16, 2024, Israeli officials said. The troops who found him were initially unaware that they had caught the country’s No 1 enemy until Sinwar’s body was identified later. Sinwar was believed to be the mastermind of the attac…
VOA60 World - Israel says it killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza
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Former One Direction singer Liam Payne found dead after falling from hotel room in Argentina | South China Morning Post
Former One Direction singer Liam Payne, 31, was found dead after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires on October 16, 2024, local officials said. Buenos Aires police said in a statement that Payne fell from the third floor of the Casa Sur Hotel in the trendy Palermo neighbourhood of the Argentinian capital.
VOA60 World - At least 140 people killed in tanker explosion in Nigeria
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VOA60 America - Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters arrested outside New York Stock Exchange
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Canada and India expel each other’s diplomats in escalating dispute over an assassination | South China Morning Post
Canada and India each expelled six diplomats on October 14, 2024, in tit-for-tat moves as part of an escalating dispute over the assassination of a Sikh activist. Hardeep Singh Nijjar was killed in Canada in June 2023. A senior Canadian official said Ottawa was expelling six Indian diplomats, including the high comm…
VOA60 World - At least 27 killed in Israeli airstrike in central Gaza
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Massive blast in Karachi kills 2 Chinese nationals as separatist group claims responsibility | South China Morning Post
Two Chinese nationals were killed and at least one Chinese and seven Pakistanis were wounded in a blast outside Karachi’s airport on October 6, 2024. They were part of a convoy carrying a team of Chinese engineers and other workers assigned to work on a Chinese-funded power plant project in Pakistan. The Baloch Libe…
Super Typhoon Krathon slams southern Taiwan, killing 2 and causing heavy damage | South China Morning Post
Super Typhoon Krathon killed at least two people and left a trail of destruction in southern Taiwan on October 3, 2024. Heavy rain and winds pounded the major port city of Kaohsiung as power was cut for hundreds of thousands of homes across the island. On the same day as the storm was bearing down, an electrical fir…
Emboldened by US Supreme Court, California clears homeless from streets
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Israel’s killing of Hezbollah leader in Lebanon sparks worldwide protests | South China Morning Post
Thousands of protesters around the world took to the streets on September 29, 2024, calling for an end to Israeli military attacks in Gaza and Lebanon. The demonstrations came after Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli air strike that hit the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut. Isr…
New York City mayor charged with bribery, wire fraud
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Hong Kong court sentences 2 former Stand News editors to 21 months for sedition | South China Morning Post
Two former editors of the now-defunct Stand News in Hong Kong have been sentenced to 21 months in prison for conspiring to publish seditious articles, with one being given immediate release because he suffered from a rare disease. The District Court judge handed down the sentences on September 26, 2024, almost a mon…
VOA60 America - NYC Mayor Eric Adams charged with taking bribes, illegal campaign funds from foreign sources
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Chinese Foreign Minister expresses China’s support for Lebanon after deadly Israeli strikes | South China Morning Post
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has condemned the “indiscriminate attacks against civilians”, after a series of Israeli air strikes killed at least 500 people in Lebanon on September 23, 2024. Wang made the declaration during the United Nations General Assembly. On the same day, Wang also held talks with his Lebane…
Tens of thousands flee Lebanon after hundreds killed during Israeli air strikes | South China Morning Post
The Israeli military said it hit about 1,300 Hezbollah targets in southern and eastern Lebanon on September 23, 2024. The air strikes killed at least 492 people and injured thousands more, making it the deadliest day in decades in Lebanon. Israel has been warning civilians to leave sites where the militant group is …
VOA60 World- Lebanon said Israeli airstrikes Monday killed at least 180 people and injured 400 others
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Israel and Hezbollah trade fire as UN chief warns of potential for ‘another Gaza’ | South China Morning Post
Israel and the Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah exchanged fire over several days starting September 20, 2024. The escalation in hostilities was the most intense since Israel’s war with Hamas militants in Gaza began last year. The Israeli military said 150 rockets, missiles and other projectiles were fired at I…
VOA60 World - Lebanon: 37 killed, nearly 3000 wounded in hand-held devices blasts, authorities say
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Japanese company investigating after walkie-talkies carrying its logo explode in Lebanon | South China Morning Post
The Japanese radio equipment maker Icom said it is investigating after news reports said two-way radios bearing its logo exploded in Lebanon on September 18, 2024. The company said it phased out production of IC-V82 devices, the model identified in the reports, in 2014. At least 20 people were killed and nearly 450 …
Vietnam tycoon Truong My Lan, sentenced to death for embezzling US$12.5 billion, faces new trial | South China Morning Post
Condemned Vietnamese real estate tycoon Truong My Lan went on trial again on September 19, 2024, for additional fraud charges, state media reported. The chairwoman of real estate developer Van Thinh Phat Holdings Group was sentenced to death in April after being found guilty of masterminding what is believed to be V…
Japanese schoolboy in China dies after being stabbed on sensitive anniversary | South China Morning Post
A 10-year-old Japanese schoolboy has died the day after he was stabbed in China’s southern city of Shenzhen. The attack happened on September 18, 2024, as the boy was on his way to school. A 44-year-old man was arrested by police soon after the assault which happened on the anniversary of the Manchurian Incident. Ja…
VOA60 World - 9 killed in new explosions of electronic devices in Lebanon
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Hezbollah threatens revenge for pager explosions that killed at least 12, wounded 1000s
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Taiwan company denies making pagers that detonated in Lebanon, Hezbollah blames Israel | South China Morning Post
The Taiwanese company Gold Apollo has denied producing the pagers that detonated across Lebanon on September 17, 2024. Gold Apollo said Hungarian manufacturer BAC was licensed to use its brand when it made and sold the AR-924 model used in the attacks. At least nine people were killed and nearly 3,000 injured when t…
Deadly Super Typhoon Yagi kills over 220 in Myanmar as civil war continues | South China Morning Post
More than 220 people have been killed in Myanmar by the remnants of Super Typhoon Yagi, which had already killed hundreds on its deadly path in Southeast Asia. The storm made landfall in Myanmar on September 10, 2024, triggering flash floods and mudslides in the country already reeling from its lengthy civil war.
Suspect in apparent attempt to assassinate Trump charged in federal court
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VOA60 Africa - Nearly 300 inmates escape after floods bring down prison walls in northeast Nigeria
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Peru’s controversial former president Alberto Fujimori dies of cancer | South China Morning Post
Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori died of cancer on September 11, 2024, at the age of 86. A deeply divisive figure in Peru, Fujimori steered economic growth during the 1990s only to later end up jailed for 25 years for human rights abuses. In 2017, then-president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski pardoned Fujimori on h…
Students demand peace after deadly ethnic violence in India’s Manipur | South China Morning Post
Students in India's northeastern state of Manipur demanded an end to ethnic violence on September 11, 2024, after internet services were suspended for five days and an indefinite curfew imposed in some parts of the region. Ethnic strife has escalated between the majority Meitei and minority Kuki communities, with ov…
Philippine pastor arrested on sex trafficking charges after two-week stand-off | South China Morning Post
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VOA60 Africa - Dozens killed in fuel tanker collision in Nigeria
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Super Typhoon Yagi kills at least 4 after sweeping through southern China | South China Morning Post
Super Typhoon Yagi killed at least four people and injured 95 after sweeping through southern China’s Hainan.
Philippine officials in hot water over selfies with fugitive mayor Alice Guo | South China Morning Post
Fugitive former mayor Alice Guo has arrived in the Philippines, after her extradition from Indonesia on September 6, 2024. Guo faces a probe into her alleged ties to Chinese criminal syndicates involved in the online casino industry. The arrest of the one-time mayor of Bamban, Tarlac province is the latest chapter i…
Indian authorities hunt down wolves that killed 10 people including children | South China Morning Post
A series of wolf attacks in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh has left around 10 people dead and dozens more injured since July 2024. The pack of wolves seem to be targeting young children since only one of the victims killed was an adult. Panic has spread through more than 30 villages in and around the locati…
Kenyan police officer fights youth crime with soccer
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VOA60 Africa - Kenya school fire kills 17 students, police say
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VOA60 Africa - At least 81 killed in Nigeria in suspected Boko Haram attack, officials say
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Tropical storm Yagi wreaks havoc in the Philippines, kills at least 13 | South China Morning Post
At least 13 people have been killed in the Philippines amid flooding and landslides triggered by tropical storm Yagi after it hit the country starting September 1, 2024. In Antipolo, east of the capital Manila, the storm killed at least 7 people and rescuers are still searching for missing people. The storm, known i…
VOA60 Africa - DRC: At least 129 killed, 59 wounded during weekend prison break attempt
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Israel mourns hostages killed in Gaza as ceasefire deal remains out of reach | South China Morning Post
Israel has held a national funeral for Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin, one of the six hostages found dead in Gaza on September 1, 2024. Thousands of protesters gathered in Tel Aviv on the eve of the September 2 funeral. It was the second day of demonstrations criticising the government and calling for the rel…
California takes new homelessness approach after high court ruling
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South Korea’s Telegram problem: sexual ‘humiliation’ chats thrive on controversial platform | South China Morning Post
South Korean netizens have uncovered large networks of sexual “humiliation” chats, where male users have been sharing images of schoolmates, colleagues and relatives to thousands of strangers online. The scandal, propagated on private Telegram groups and channels, comes as the social media platform’s CEO Pavel Durov…
Typhoon Shanshan slams Japan, bringing heavy rain and taking several lives | South China Morning Post
Japan’s most powerful storm of the year so far has killed at least three people and left scores injured. Typhoon Shanshan packed gusts of around 252km/h (157mph), as it smashed into Japan’s main southern island of Kyushu early on August 29, 2024, before moving towards the main island of Honshu. Authorities warned of…