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- 2023 Italy bus crash
- At least 21 people are killed and 18 others are injured when a bus crashes and falls from an overpass in Mestre, Italy. (La Repubblica)
- One person is killed and 17 others are injured in a magnitude 5.7 earthquake in Dipayal Silgadhi, Nepal. (Shilapatra) (Reuters via Geo News)
Law and crime
- Rwandan genocide
- Former Rwandan army major Pierre-Claver Karangwa is arrested in the Netherlands for his role in the genocide in Mugina, Rwanda, where, in April 1994, thousands of people were killed. (Reuters)
- Siam Paragon shooting
- Two people are killed and six others are injured in a mass shooting at the Siam Paragon shopping mall in Bangkok, Thailand. The 14-year-old suspect has been arrested. (Al Jazeera)
- A teenage girl is put into a coma after being forcefully pushed out of a subway car on the Tehran Metro by morality police. (Al Arabiya) (The Guardian)
Politics and elections
- Removal of Kevin McCarthy
- The United States House of Representatives votes 216–210 to vacate the role of Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, thereby making Kevin McCarthy the first Speaker in history to be removed from the role during a legislative term. (The New York Times)
Science and technology
- Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L'Huillier are awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter". (The Guardian)
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