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Armed conflicts and attacks
Congolese troops and allied Wazalendo militia fighters re-enter Uvira, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, after it had been held for about a month by the Rwanda-backed March 23 Movement. (Reuters)
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Armed conflicts and attacks
A woman is killed and 11 others are injured in a glide bomb attack in Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. (DPA International)
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Business and economy
Serbia announces that the Russian majority owners of its state oil company Naftna Industrija Srbije have agreed to sell their stake to Hungary's MOL as Serbia seeks to increase its own shareholding to about 35%. (AFP via France 24)
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Disasters and accidents
Much of the city of Penco is destroyed as wildfires continue to spread across Chile with the death toll rising to nineteen. (AFP via Barron's) (BBC News)
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Disasters and accidents
Two people are killed, four others are injured and several houses collapse in a .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Mw 5.6 earthquake in Barishal, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. (Dawn) (ReliefWeb)
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Health and environment
Reflecting a broader demographic decline across East Asia, the birth rate in China fell to 5.6 per 1,000 people last year, the lowest since records began in 1949, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit, as similar downward trends persist in Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan. (CNBC) (BBC News)
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International relations
NORAD announces that it will deploy American and Canadian aircraft to Pituffik Space Base in Greenland for long-planned activities, describing the deployment as routine and coordinated with the Denmark with diplomatic clearances and with the Government of Greenland informed of the planned operations. (AA) (Task & Purpose)
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International relations
Kiribati and New Zealand sign a partnership agreement on economic opportunity, foreign policy, health, and security, marking their first bilateral agreement since a diplomatic crisis began in 2025. (Reuters)
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Law and crime
A ninth policeman succumbs to his injuries from prison riots and attacks on police officers in Guatemala. A dozen officers were also injured in the attacks, and a state of emergency has been declared. (AFP via France 24)
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Law and crime
Togo announces the arrest of Burkina Faso's former transitional president Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba in Lomé last week and expels him after Burkinabè officials accuse him of plotting attempted coups and targeted assassinations against the ruling junta. (AFP via The Peninsula)
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Law and crime
Four alleged drug traffickers are fatally shot in an overnight shootout with border guards while crossing the Afghanistan–Tajikistan border into Tajikistan. (The Independent)
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Science and technology
The Sun releases the largest solar particle event towards Earth since the 2003 Halloween solar storms. (CNN)