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Armed conflicts and attacks
At least 28 Palestinians are killed and 77 more are injured in a series of Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City and Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip after Israel accused Hamas of firing at Israeli troops. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
One person is killed in an Israeli airstrike attack against a vehicle in Bint Jbeil, Lebanon. Several students are also wounded on a bus passing in the area. (Al Jazeera)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Two Syrian soldiers are killed in a shootout with Syrian Democratic Forces militants in Raqqa. (Reuters)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Twenty-three Pakistani Taliban militants are killed in two army raids in Kurram District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP)
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Arts and culture
At the 76th National Book Awards, Rabih Alameddine wins the Fiction prize for his novel The True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother), while Omar El Akkad wins the Nonfiction prize for his book One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This about the Gaza war. (NPR)
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Health and environment
A suspected outbreak of tuberculosis kills ten inmates at a prison in Guayaquil, Ecuador. (Reuters)
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International relations
Iran releases a Marshall Islands-flagged tanker and its 21 crew after seizing it without explanation last Friday in the Strait of Hormuz. (AP)
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Law and crime
Lawrence Reed, alleged to have poured flammable liquid over a 26-year-old woman on a Chicago CTA Blue Line train and later set her on fire Monday evening, faces a federal terrorism charge. (NBC News) (Department of Justice)
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Politics and elections
Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada dismisses energy minister Svitlana Hrynchuk and justice minister German Galushchenko after an anti-corruption investigation into alleged misconduct at the state nuclear agency implicated them, among other officials. (Reuters)