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1. At least 16 people, including the mayor of Nabatieh, Lebanon, are killed in an Israeli Air Force airstrike on a municipal building in Nabatieh, with Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati condemning the attack.
(BBC News)
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2. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that North Korea has now become directly involved in the war in Ukraine, with a senior Ukrainian intelligence official saying that around 3,000 North Korean troops are currently in Russia and are training for deployment to Russian-occupied territories.
(Politico)
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3. United States President Joe Biden announces a new $425 million military aid package for Ukraine, containing long-range weaponry.
(The Kyiv Independent)
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4. At least 147 people are killed and dozens of others are injured when a gasoline tanker overturns and explodes in Majiya, Jigawa State, Nigeria.
(Al Jazeera)
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5. Five Russian climbers who had been missing for ten days on Mount Dhaulagiri in Nepal are found dead.
(AP)
Disasters and accidents
| October 16, 2024
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6. The Supreme Court of Brazil orders the extradition of Brazilian nationals accused of participating in the 2023 attack on government buildings in Brasília who are currently residing in Argentina.
(Reuters)
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7. It is reported that at least 10 flights operated by Indian airlines have received bomb threat hoaxes over the past 48 hours, causing the flights to be delayed or diverted.
(BBC News)
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8. Attorney General of Spain Álvaro García Ortiz is charged by the Supreme Court for revealing secrets about a tax fraud case involving the boyfriend of the president of the Community of Madrid Isabel Díaz Ayuso. However, García Ortiz announces that he will not resign.
(RTVE)
Law and crime
| October 16, 2024
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9. Governor of Kharkiv Oblast Oleh Syniehubov orders the mandatory evacuation of all civilians from Kupiansk and Borova in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine.
(Reuters)
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10. A police officer is killed and four others are injured in a mass shooting on Highway 4 near Ashdod, Israel. The gunman is killed by a passing armed civilian.
(Al Jazeera, The Times of Israel)
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11. Models Alex Consani and Valentina Sampaio become the first transgender women to walk the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.
(Hindustan Times)
Arts and culture
| October 15, 2024
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12. The United States Department of Transportation fines the German airline Lufthansa $4 million for its mistreatment of Orthodox Jewish passengers during a flight from New York to Hungary through Germany in 2022.
(AP)
Business and economy
| October 15, 2024
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13. Google signs an agreement with Kairos Power to use small nuclear reactors to generate the energy to power its artificial intelligence (AI) data centers.
(BBC News)
Business and economy
| October 15, 2024
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14. A car driving in the wrong direction collides with another car on the M6 motorway in Cumbria, England, killing five people, including two children and seriously injuring another.
(BBC News, Sky News)
Disasters and accidents
| October 15, 2024
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15. The World Food Programme says that millions of people in southern African countries are facing a food crisis, with more than 21 million children currently malnourished.
(Reuters)
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16. The Biden administration sends a letter to the Israeli government, urging it to take action to improve the humanitarian crisis in Gaza within 30 days.
(CNN)
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17. The European Union sanctions fourteen Iranian individuals and firms, including Iran Air and several high-ranking members of the Quds Force, for allegedly transferring missiles and drones to Moscow in order to help Russia in its invasion of Ukraine.
(Al Jazeera)
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18. North Korea announces that they have destroyed portions of an unused road that linked North Korea with South Korea.
(AP)
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19. Following a phone call with Emirati president Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, Philippine president Bongbong Marcos confirms that 143 Filipinos in the United Arab Emirates have been pardoned by the Emirati government.
(Philippine News Agency)
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20. The Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is designated as a terrorist group by the Canadian government and is sanctioned by the U.S. government, due to the group's alleged ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
(CTV News)
Law and crime
| October 15, 2024
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21. At least 21 people are killed and eight others are injured when an Israeli airstrike hits an apartment building in the village of Aitou in northern Lebanon.
(CTV News)
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22. The Israel Defense Forces say that they killed Muhammad Kamel Naim, the head of the anti-tank missile array of Hezbollah's elite Redwan Force, in an airstrike in Nabatieh, Lebanon.
(Times of Israel)
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23. At least four people are killed and dozens of others are severely injured when an Israeli airstrike hits a tent camp at a hospital in Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip, causing the tents to catch fire.
(Al Jazeera)
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24. At least ten people are killed by Israeli artillery fire at a food distribution centre in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.
(BBC News)
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25. Russian forces claim that they took the village of Levadne in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine.
(Voice of America)
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26. This year's Nobel Prize in economics is awarded to Turkish-American economist Daron Acemoglu, British-American economist Simon Johnson, and British economist James A. Robinson for their studies "of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity".
(The New York Times, Nobel Prize)
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27. Twelve people are killed and 33 others are injured when a bus carrying students from Galala University overturns in Al Galala, Suez Governorate, Egypt.
(AP)
Disasters and accidents
| October 14, 2024
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28. One person is killed and 23 others are injured when an NJ Transit River Line train collides with a tree that had fallen onto the tracks in Mansfield Township, New Jersey, United States.
(CTV News)
Disasters and accidents
| October 14, 2024
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29. Over 200 pro-Palestinian demonstrators against American involvement in Israeli attacks on civilians in the Gaza Strip, many from Jewish Voice for Peace, are arrested outside of the New York Stock Exchange for attempting to block it.
(Reuters)
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30. The Papua New Guinea Defence Force shoot six people, killing one, during an operation against illegal mining near Porgera Gold Mine in Enga Province, Papua New Guinea.
(BenarNews)
Law and crime
| October 14, 2024
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31. Mexican National Guard finds the decapitated bodies of five men on a road in Ojuelos de Jalisco, Jalisco, Mexico.
(Al Jazeera)
Law and crime
| October 14, 2024
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32. SpaceX launches NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United States, to study Jupiter's moon Europa, with the spacecraft expected to arrive in April 2030.
(BBC News)
Science and technology
| October 14, 2024
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33. Two Israel Defense Forces Merkava tanks forcibly enter a UNIFIL base in Ramyah, Bint Jbeil District, Lebanon. The tanks fire rounds at the base, injuring fifteen United Nations peacekeepers.
(BBC News)
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34. Israeli airstrikes destroy an Ottoman-era market in Nabatieh, Lebanon, killing at least one person and injuring four others.
(AP)
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35. Four Israeli soldiers are killed and 61 others are injured in a Hezbollah drone strike on Binyamina-Giv'at Ada, Israel.
(Times of Israel)
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36. United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin authorizes the deployment of a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense missile defense system to Israel to help boost the country's air defences.
(Al Jazeera, Reuters)
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37. An Israeli attack on a school used to shelter displaced Palestinians kills at least 22 people, including fifteen children, in the Nuseirat refugee camp in northern Gaza.
(BBC News)
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38. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy states that North Korean troops have been deployed to Ukraine to fight alongside the Russian military.
(Reuters)
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39. At least 23 people are killed and 40 others are injured in a Sudanese Armed Forces airstrike on a marketplace in an area of Khartoum, Sudan, currently controlled by the Rapid Support Forces.
(DW)
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40. Two people are killed and 20 others are injured in a train collision in Minya Governorate, Egypt.
(Al Ahram)
Disasters and accidents
| October 13, 2024
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41. Lithuanians vote in the first round of elections to elect the 141 members of the Seimas.
(AP)
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42. Sam Hou Fai is elected as the new Chief Executive of Macau by the Election Committee, succeeding Ho Iat Seng.
(Reuters)
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43. SpaceX completes its fifth test flight of the Starship spacecraft, successfully catching the rocket booster with the arms of the launch tower at Starbase in Texas, United States, and with the spacecraft landing in the Indian Ocean.
(Space.com, CNBC)
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44. Kenyan runner Ruth Chepng'etich runs 2:09:56 to break the world record for women's marathon by 1 minute and 57 seconds at the Chicago Marathon.
(AP)
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45. Israel's military orders the residents of 23 villages in southern Lebanon to evacuate to areas north of the Awali River.
(Reuters)
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46. The UNIFIL headquarters in Naqoura, Lebanon, is hit by an Israeli airstrike.
(CTV News, BBC News)
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47. A family of eight is killed in an Israeli airstrike on a home at the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza Strip.
(Morning Star)
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48. Local media outlets report that Ukrainian military recruitment officers raided shopping centers, bars, restaurants, and a large concert venue across several Ukrainian cities including Kyiv, Dnipro, and Kharkiv to detain men not in compliance with conscription orders.
(AP)
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49. The National Army of Colombia re-enters the corregimiento of El Plateado in Argelia, Cauca Department, Colombia, in an attempt to clear the corregimiento of FARC dissidents.
(El Tiempo)
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50. At least eleven people are killed and eight others are injured in tribal clashes in Kurram District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
(AP)
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51. A speedboat explodes at a port in Taliabu Island Regency, North Maluku, Indonesia, killing six people, including , a candidate for Governor of North Maluku in the upcoming election, and Regional House of Representatives member Ester Tantri.
(Benny Laos, CNN Indonesia, CNBC Indonesia)
Disasters and accidents
| October 12, 2024
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52. Four people are killed and five others are injured in a gas tank explosion and fire at a gas station in Grozny, Russia.
(Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
| October 12, 2024
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53. A man is arrested outside former president Donald Trump's rally in Coachella, California, United States, with loaded firearms, a fake license plate, and several passports, in what is believed to have been an assassination attempt on Trump, according to the Riverside County sheriff.
(Reuters)
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54. The United States Justice Department sues the state of Virginia for removing voters from voter registration less than 90 days before Election Day on November 5.
(Al Jazeera)
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55. As a response to Germany tightening border controls and following a call for EU-wide solutions by its Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk issues a request to the European Union to accept a provisional suspension of migrants' right to asylum in order to control irregular immigration from Belarus, which human rights activists condemn as unconstitutional.
(Reuters, Euronews)
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56. The military administrator of the city of Toretsk in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, reports that more than half of the city has been taken by Russian Armed Forces, with the Armed Forces of Ukraine fighting back at eight different locations.
(Reuters)
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57. Two United Nations peacekeepers are injured when Israeli forces fire at a watchtower at their headquarters in southern Lebanon.
(Euronews)
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58. The Lebanese Armed Forces reports that two of its soldiers were killed in an Israeli strike on one of its positions in southern Lebanon.
(Al Arabiya)
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59. A drone launched from Lebanon damages a building and causes a power outage in Herzliya, Israel.
(Crisis 24, MTV Lebanon)
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60. Israel destroys an Iranian Red Crescent Society field hospital on the Lebanon–Syria border.
(Xinhua)
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61. At least 20 Palestinians are killed and dozens of others are injured by Israeli airstrikes on the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza.
(Reuters)
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62. This year's Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Japanese atomic bomb survivors group Nihon Hidankyo for "its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again".
(The Washington Post, Nobel Prize)
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63. Aerospace company Boeing announces it will cut 17,000 jobs, 10% of its global workforce, and delay the deliveries of its Boeing 777X planes due to effects of the ongoing machinists strike.
(Reuters)
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64. King of Belgium Philippe and King of the Netherlands Willem-Alexander jointly open the Nieuwe Sluis canal lock in Terneuzen, Netherlands, which is part of a series of locks connecting the Western Scheldt to the Port of Ghent.
(NOS)
Business and economy
| October 11, 2024
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65. The Global Wildfire Information System states that 10,400 wildfires have been reported in Peru so far this year, more than twice as many as were reported in 2020, and that the wildfires burned an area nearly 2.5 times larger than those in 2020.
(Reuters)
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66. At least 19 people were injured after two trains collided near Chennai in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
(India Today)
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67. Nicaragua formally breaks off diplomatic relations with Israel, calling the Israeli government "fascist" and "genocidal".
(Reuters)
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68. France summons the Israeli ambassador to France over recent attacks against United Nations peacekeepers in Lebanon, calling the attacks a violation of international law and asking Israel to explain itself.
(Le Monde)