#BREAKING 23 dead after boat sinks in Bangladesh: police
#UPDATE At least 23 people were killed and several dozen more were missing on Sunday after a boat capsized in a river in Bangladesh, police said.
#UPDATE "We have recovered 23 bodies. Firefighters and divers are searching for more bodies," local police official Shafiqul Islam told AFP. The boat was packed with up to 50 Hindu pilgrims, police said.
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#UPDATE "Firefighters and divers are searching for more bodies," local police official Shafiqul Islam told AFP, confirming that 24 deaths had been confirmed so far, most of them women and children.
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#BREAKING Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline hit by two leaks in Baltic Sea: authorities
#BREAKING Denmark puts energy sector on alert after Nord Stream leaks: ministry
#UPDATE Two leaks have been identified on the Nord Stream 1 Russia-Europe gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea, hours after a similar leak was found on its twin Nord Stream 2 pipeline, Scandinavian authorities say, adding that while the pipeline is not in operation it contains gas
#BREAKING Hurricane Ian strengthens to Category 3 storm: NHC
#UPDATE Hurricane Ian has strengthened into a major Category 3 storm, the US National Hurricane Center says.
"Ian becomes a major hurricane," NHC says as the storm's winds blast at 115 miles (185 kilometers) per hour. It is expected to "soon" make landfall over western Cuba
Hurricane Ian has strengthened into a Category 3 storm, the United States National Hurricane Center says, as Cuba and Florida -- both in the storm's likely path -- ramp up preparations to deal with high winds and potential flooding
VIDEO: Members of the public lay flowers to honour assassinated former prime minister Shinzo Abe, as thousands of Japanese and foreign dignitaries gather in Tokyo on Tuesday at a rare state funeral that has sparked controversy and protest
Thousands of Japanese have offered flowers and prayers in honour of assassinated former prime minister Shinzo Abe ahead of a controversial state funeral attended by hundreds of foreign dignitaries
NASA will on Monday attempt a feat humanity has never before accomplished: deliberately smacking a spacecraft into an asteroid to slightly deflect its orbit, in a key test of our ability to stop cosmic objects from devastating life on Earth u.afp.com/ioqR#DARTMission
#BREAKING NASA spaceship strikes asteroid in landmark test of planetary defense: livestream
#UPDATE NASA's DART spaceship on Monday struck the moonlet asteroid Dimorphos, in a historic test of humanity's ability to prevent a cosmic object devastating life on Earth.
#BREAKING US asks UN rights council to debate China rights abuses in Xinjiang region
#UPDATE The United States on Monday called on the UN Human Rights Council to organise a debate on rights violations in China's #Xinjiang region, following a report warning of possible crimes against humanity u.afp.com/ioNi
A damning UN report warning of possible crimes against humanity in China's Xinjiang region, and concerns over an intensifying crackdown inside Russia as its war rages in Ukraine, have led to massive pressure on the West and its allies to act.