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October 15, 2024 (Tuesday)

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Armed conflicts and attacks

One police officer is killed and four others are injured in a mass shooting on Highway 4 near Ashdod, Israel.

(The Times of Israel)

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Health and environment

The World Food Programme says that millions are facing a food crisis in countries of southern Africa.

(Reuters)

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International relations

North Korea announces that they have destroyed portions of an unused road that linked it with South Korea.

(AP)

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Philippine president Bongbong Marcos confirms that 143 Filipinos in the United Arab Emirates have been pardoned by the Emirati government, after a phone call between Marcos and Emirati president Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed.

(Philippine News Agency)

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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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Law and crime

The Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is designated as a terrorist group by the government of Canada and sanctioned by the government of the United States, due to alleged ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

(CTV News)

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October 14, 2024 (Monday)

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Armed conflicts and attacks

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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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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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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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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Russian forces claim that they took the village of Levadne in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine.

(Voice of America)

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Business and economy

This year's Nobel Prize in economics is awarded to Turkish-American economist Daron Acemoğlu, 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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Disasters and accidents

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)

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One person is killed and 23 others are injured when an NJ Transit commuter rail train collides with a tree that had fallen onto the tracks in Mansfield Township, New Jersey, United States.

(CTV News)

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Law and crime

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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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)

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Mexican National Guard finds the decapitated bodies of five men on a road in Ojuelos de Jalisco, Jalisco, Mexico.

(Al Jazeera)

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Science and technology

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)

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October 15, 2024 (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Health and environment

International relations

Law and crime

October 14, 2024 (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

Business and economy

Disasters and accidents

Law and crime

Science and technology