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- Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
- Five foreign militants are killed in a gunfight with police in Kupwara district, Jammu and Kashmir, India. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- More than 80 people are injured in a multi-vehicle accident involving three school buses in Hongcheon County, Gangwon Province, South Korea. (Reuters)
- A magnitude 5.8 earthquake strikes Niort, Deux-Sèvres, France, injuring one person. (RTBF)
- The village of Brienz/Brinzauls in Switzerland is narrowly missed by an overnight {{convert|2|e6m3|e6ft3|abbr=unit}} rockslide. The village of 128 residents had been evacuated in May after scientists predicted the imminent rockslide. (BBC)
Law and crime
- Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
- The gunman in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting is found guilty on 63 charges. (ABC News)
- Japan raises the age of consent from 13 to 16 and criminalises voyeurism. (AFP via The Guardian)
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