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Jamaica shaken by strong quake
JAMAICAN OBSERVER
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Up to mid-afternoon on Monday, there were no reports of loss of life or significant damage to buildings and infrastructure resulting from a magnitude 5.6 earthquake that shook Jamaica.
Biden facing tough questions over Israel’s strikes on civilians
CNN
WASHINGTON DC, USA - US President Joe Biden and his top national security officials are increasingly confronting questions about Israel’s commitment to minimizing civilian deaths and how scenes from Gaza could affect his domestic political standing.
Deadly Israeli airstrike hits Gaza’s largest refugee camp
CNN
JERUSALEM, Isreal - An Israeli strike targeting a Hamas commander in the densely populated Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza has left catastrophic damage and killed a large number of people, according to eyewitnesses and medics in the enclave.
Musk warns AI could lead to human extinction
BBC NEWS
Elon Musk has warned that artificial intelligence (AI), if programmed by people in the "environmental movement", may lead to the extinction of humanity.
£10m Cocaine haul discovered underwater near coast of Kent, UK
SKY NEWS
KENT, United Kingdon - A haul of cocaine worth £10m has been seized after divers found it underwater off the coast of Kent. The drugs, which weighed 137kg (302lb), were discovered by the Border Force National Deep Rummage Team in four large North Face holdalls at Sheerness Port on 14 October.
Hurricane Otis kills at least 27 in Mexico
USA Today
A day after disastrous Hurricane Otis made landfall on Mexico's southern coast as a Category 5 storm, authorities have released the first causality toll. Thursday morning, officials reported 27 confirmed deaths and at least four people still missing, as well as tens of thousands of residents left without power or clean water in Acapulco.
Manhunt launched after 16 killed in US mass shooting
AFP
LEWISTON, Maine, USA - Police in the US state of Maine waged a sprawling manhunt Thursday for a gunman who killed at least 16 people at a bowling alley and a bar in the deadliest mass shooting this year in America.
1,000 cats rescued en route to China meat slaughter house
CNN
Hong Kong, China - Police in China have rescued some 1,000 cats from a truck en route to a slaughterhouse, state-affiliated media has reported, busting part of an illicit trade that fraudulently sells feline meat as pork or mutton and sparking fresh food safety concerns.
Bird flu detected in Antarctic for the first time
CNN
LONDON, UK - The first cases of bird flu have been detected in seabirds in the Antarctic, according to the British Antarctic Survey, raising fears the disease will spread rapidly through dense colonies of birds and mammals.
Amazon drought stalls shipping as boats run aground
REUTERS
MANAUS, Brazil – A barge carrying three trucks and 2,000 empty cooking gas cylinders lies stranded on the vast sand banks of a diminished Rio Negro river after running aground last month, highlighting the plight of river transport in the Amazon region hit by severe drought.
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