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Armed conflicts and attacks
Hamas releases a video allegedly showing Israeli hostage Maxim Hirkin, who was abducted during the Nova music festival massacre in 2023, alive. (Reuters) (Haaretz)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Twenty people are killed when a South Sudan Air Force Boeing 727 carrying drones for the Rapid Support Forces is destroyed in an airstrike by the Sudanese Armed Forces at Nyala Airport in Nyala, Sudan. (Sudans Post) (Aviation Safety Network)
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Law and crime
Brazilian social security minister Carlos Lupi resigns after police announce a corruption scandal which alleges he defrauded pensioners of $1.1 billion. Federal police say that the National Social Security Institute made unauthorised deductions from payments made to millions of pensioners over the past decade. (BBC)
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Law and crime
A woman is killed in Thessaloniki, Greece, after a bomb she was carrying explodes in her hands, also damaging several nearby storefronts and vehicles. The bomb was possibly intended to be placed outside a nearby bank. (AP News)
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Politics and elections
The Australian Labor Party under current Prime Minister Anthony Albanese increases its majority in the House of Representatives, winning a second term. (ABC News Australia).
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Politics and elections
Liberal Leader Peter Dutton loses his seat of Dickson, becoming the first Leader of the Opposition to lose their seat in Australian electoral history. (ABC News Australia)
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Politics and elections
Over 20,000 Hefazat-e-Islam protesters rally in Dhaka, Bangladesh, to denounce proposed legislation that would provide equal rights for Muslim women such as inheritance law, a ban on polygamy, and recognition of sex workers as laborers, which they allege oppose Sharia law. (AP) (DW)
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Sports
In thoroughbred racing, Sovereignty ridden by Junior Alvarado wins the 151st Kentucky Derby in a upset over Journalism ridden by Umberto Rispoli. (Courier Journal)