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• New Zealand Navy ship HMNZS Manawanui capsizes one nautical mile from shore
• World AIDS Day 2024 is marked around the world
• International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Deif over alleged war crimes in Israel-Hamas war
• Princess Yuriko of Mikasa, Japan's oldest royal family member, dies at 101
• Trump wins 2024 U.S. Presidential Election, securing 312 electoral votes and all swing states
• Smithsonian National Zoo euthanizes elderly Asian elephant
• Kemi Badenoch becomes new leader of UK's Conservative Party
• Lancet release yearly Countdown report raising alarm of increase in heat caused deaths
• Russian court fines Google more money than the world's entire GDP
• Indian and Spanish leaders inaugurate India's first private military aircraft facility
• Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh dies, aged 84
• Qantas Australian airline employees strike for better wages
• New Zealand defeats South Africa to win 2024 women's T20 cricket world cup
• Bruce Lehrmann judge said to have no links to published book of judgement
• Former leader of the Scottish National Party, Alex Salmond dies at 69

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Shooting reported on campus at Northern Illinois University

Seven dead in campus shooting at Northern Illinois University

Seven dead in campus shooting at Northern Illinois University

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• International community marks the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
• Number of Zimbabwe cholera deaths nears 500
• Obama's transition website 'frees the content'
• Thai PM barred from politics, three parties dissolved

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• Uranium smugglers arrested in Slovakia and Hungary
• Russians vote in parliamentary election
• Ozzy Osbourne's personal possessions fetch $800,000 for charity
• World AIDS Day events held around the globe

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• China loosens press restrictions
• England in a good position after day two of Adelaide test match
• CNet Reporter James Kim, family missing
• Stephen Hawking believes going to other planets is necessary for human survival

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• Arias leads opinion polls in Costa Rica
• Search continues for missing plane of George F. Baker III off coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts
• Best's body arrives in Northern Ireland
• Court finds random bag searches in NYC subway constitutional

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• Kerik nominated as U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security
• Federally-funded abstinence programs fraught with problems: Report
• Arrested Marxist leader Apablaza charged in Chile

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• 200 in New Delhi, India drink cow urine to fight off COVID-19
• Millions don't turn up to 'storm' US airbase for extraterrestrial evidence
• Arrests made in theft of gold toilet in England

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Politics and conflicts

• Trump wins 2024 U.S. Presidential Election, securing 312 electoral votes and all swing states
• Thousands of pagers explode in Lebanon killing twelve people and injuring thousands
• Around 8,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh

Economy and business

• Data breach and DDOS attacks bring down Wayback Machine
• England: Staffordshire town celebrates LGBTQ pride despite funding issues
• Cargo ship collides with Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland

Science and technology

• Data breach and DDOS attacks bring down Wayback Machine
• Thousands of pagers explode in Lebanon killing twelve people and injuring thousands
• SpaceX will return stranded astronauts in February 2025, NASA announces

Culture and entertainment

• England: Staffordshire town celebrates LGBTQ pride despite funding issues
• The Ancient Pyramids of the World, a new photo exhibition by Viktor Pinchuk took place in Crimea
• Exhibition featuring ethnic music from around the world opens in Crimea

Education

• Four killed in Apalachee High School shooting in Georgia, United States
• Attack at Texas elementary school kills at least 19, including 18 children
• Scientists announce decoy-proof Ebola antibodies

Sports

• New Zealand defeats South Africa to win 2024 women's T20 cricket world cup
• Prosecutors charge man with attempted assassination of former US President Donald Trump
• India wins T20 men's cricket world cup against South Africa

Environment

• Lancet release yearly Countdown report raising alarm of increase in heat caused deaths
• Industry leaders see energy supply as the next hurdle for AI
• Environmental protesters arrested at Massachusetts airport

Obituaries

• Princess Yuriko of Mikasa, Japan's oldest royal family member, dies at 101
• Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh dies, aged 84
• Former U.S. First Lady Rosalynn Carter dies at 96

Disasters and accidents

• New Zealand Navy ship HMNZS Manawanui capsizes one nautical mile from shore
• Thousands of pagers explode in Lebanon killing twelve people and injuring thousands
• NASA says object that hit Florida home is from International Space Station

Crime and law

• Data breach and DDOS attacks bring down Wayback Machine
• Prosecutors charge man with attempted assassination of former US President Donald Trump
• Four killed in Apalachee High School shooting in Georgia, United States

Health

• New American Psychological Association guidelines: Parents should advise teenagers on social media use, impose restrictions
• New study analyzes the varying levels of protection offered by COVID-19 vaccines
• Reports: US judge Matthew Kacsmaryk redacted name of corporation he owned stock in on disclosure forms

Weather

• Rio Negro tributary of the Amazon River experiences lowest water level on record
• Severe weather affects portions of Texas
• England: Parts of Birmingham area flood; music festival evacuates

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Africa

• India wins T20 men's cricket world cup against South Africa
• Holyday of wandering mzungu, presentation of the book by Russian adventurer took place in the Crimean capital
• Russian travel writer Viktor Pinchuk presents book Third African trip in Bakhchysarai, Crimea

Asia

• Thousands of pagers explode in Lebanon killing twelve people and injuring thousands
• India wins T20 men's cricket world cup against South Africa
• Lawrence Wong to become Prime Minister of Singapore on May 15

Central America

• Russian photographer Viktor Pinchuk presents exhibition The Architectural Art of the Vanished Civilizations of Mesoamerica
• Latin American expedition of Viktor Pinchuk: meeting with the traveler took place in Yalta
• Investigation of Deutsche Bank headquarters spills into second day

Europe

• Former leader of the Scottish National Party, Alex Salmond dies at 69
• Thousands of pagers explode in Lebanon killing twelve people and injuring thousands
• England: Staffordshire town celebrates LGBTQ pride despite funding issues

Middle East

• International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Deif over alleged war crimes in Israel-Hamas war
• Thousands of pagers explode in Lebanon killing twelve people and injuring thousands
• Israel Defense Forces rescue four hostages in Gaza

North America

• Smithsonian National Zoo euthanizes elderly Asian elephant
• Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh dies, aged 84
• Data breach and DDOS attacks bring down Wayback Machine

Oceania

• Bruce Lehrmann judge said to have no links to published book of judgement
• Australia: Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith loses war crimes defamation case against media outlets
• 'I'm tired, extremely tired': Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan announces resignation

South America

• Ecuadorian police break into the Mexican embassy in Quito
• Latin American expedition of Viktor Pinchuk: meeting with the traveler took place in Yalta
• Paris judge acquits Airbus, Air France of involuntary manslaughter in 2009 crash that killed 228

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