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- An attack occurs at a Sufi shrine near Sargodha, Pakistan, killing more than 20 people. Authorities arrest a main suspect and several others. (BBC)
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- A freight train derails in Hunedoara County, Romania, killing both crew members on board. (The New York Times)
- In Świebodzice, Poland, an old tenement house collapses killing at least six people, including two children, and injuring six. The exploration teams are looking for 4 missing people. (Gazeta.pl)
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- Another body has been found after flooding in eastern Queensland, raising the death toll to twelve. (ABC News)
- At least 20 people are killed when a boat carrying wedding guests collides with a river barge in western Myanmar. (AFP via News24)
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- The Supreme Court of the United States refuses to vacate a stay of execution issued by the Arkansas Supreme Court. Arkansas's highest court has also put on hold the execution of another inmate, Bruce Ward. The state had planned to execute eight inmates in eleven days. That schedule, as well as the use of the drug midazolam, sparked a broad range of legal challenges and humanitarian concerns about the executions. Today's planned execution of Don W. Davis would have been the state's first since 2005. (CNN) (The New York Times)
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- Steve Stephens, the suspected "Facebook killer" accused of killing 74-year-old Robert Godwin, kills himself after a brief pursuit with the Pennsylvania State Police. (CNN)
- French Interior Minister Matthias Fekl announces that police have foiled an "imminent and violent" attack in Marseille, arresting two suspects and confiscating weapons and bomb material. (The Guardian)
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- Three people die in a shooting spree in downtown Fresno, California. The suspected gunman, who was already wanted for another murder four days earlier, and who expressed hatred of whites and the government, is arrested. (Los Angeles Times)
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- Arkansas executes Ledell Lee, the first inmate executed in the state since 2005. (Fox News)
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- Australia adds stricter requirements to its citizenship application process, including harder tests on English language skills and the requirement that a migrant be able to demonstrate "Australian values". (BBC)
- The Supreme Court of Russia labels Jehovah's Witnesses as "extremists", effectively banning the religion. (The Independent)
- The Government of India revokes the Public Health Foundation of India's registration, allegedly for foreign-funded lobbying practices. (Times of India)
- A ten-year-old boy from Florida with autism is arrested at school, and spends the night in a juvenile facility. Unknown to the family, the boy had an outstanding warrant for his arrest after kicking and scratching one of his educators. The Autism Society of America is looking into legal options. (The Washington Post)
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- ISIL supporter, Terrence J. McNeil, of Akron, Ohio, pleads guilty to five counts of soliciting to commit criminal violence and communicating interstate threats in calls to kill U.S. military personnel. He is scheduled to be sentenced in August and faces up to 20 years in prison.(The Washington Post)
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- In Paraguay, around 50 armed men, allegedly belonging to the Brazil-based Primeiro Comando da Capital criminal gang, storm a security vault and police headquarters in Ciudad del Este, escaping with around $6 million in a daring cross-border raid. (The Guardian)
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- A Filipino lawyer files a complaint of "mass murder and crimes against humanity" against Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte and eleven other officials at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. (The New York Times)
- The accused include PNP chief Ronald dela Rosa, Justice secretary Vitaliano Aguirre, Edilberto Leonardo, Royina Garma, House speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, former Interior secretary Ismael Sueno, Sonny Buenaventura, Solicitor General Jose Calida, Dante Gierran, Senator Richard J. Gordon, and Senator Alan Peter Cayetano. (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
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- The United States ended a six-year Central-African hunt for Joseph Kony. (AFP via Pulse.ng)
- Police in Anchorage, Alaska, confirm that James Dale Ritchie, killed by an Anchorage police officer whom Ritchie had tried to kill in the fall of 2016, was a serial killer who had used the same gun to kill 5 people, apparently at random. Two of the murders were double homicides, with some of the deaths occurring along Anchorage's expansive Tony Knowles Coastal Trail. (U.S. News & World Report) (Alaska Public Radio Network)
- David Hittner, U.S. District Court Judge for the Southern District of Texas, rules ExxonMobil Corporation should pay a $19.95 million penalty for pollution from its Baytown, Texas, refining and chemical plant complex for 16,386 days of violations and 10 million pounds (4.5 Gg) of pollutants that were released in violation of operating permits between 2005 and 2013. (Reuters)
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- Results, published in The Lancet medical journal, of the WOMAN (World Maternal Antifibrinolytic) international study that began in 2010, finds use of a cheap and widely available drug, tranexamic acid (Lysteda in the U.S. and Australia), could save the lives of thousands of women who die in childbirth from excessive bleeding. The medication is already in use for blood loss from major trauma, surgery, tooth removal, nose bleeds, and heavy menstruation. (The New York Times) (The Guardian) (The Lancet)
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- Australia: Roger Rogerson and Glen McNamara
- Cambodia: Sam Rainsy
- China: Wan Qingliang, Ling Jihua, Zhoi Bin, Guo Boxiong
- Netherlands: Geert Wilders
- Philippines: Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Nur Misuari, Joel Villanueva
- Romania: Gheorghe Ștefan, Gabriel Sandu, Dorin Cocoş, Dumitru Nicolae
- Spain: Lionel Messi
- United Kingdom: Chris Denning, Ched Evans, Thomas Mair
- United States: Pedro Hernandez, Bob McDonnell, Paul Anthony Ciancia
- China: Bai Enpei, Pan Yiyang, Yang Weize
- Germany: Beate Zschäpe
- Indonesia: Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, Mary Jane Veloso
- Kazakhstan: Mukhtar Ablyazov
- Pakistan: Waseem Azeem, Mufti Abdul Qawi
- Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr., Leila de Lima, Leni Robredo, Rodrigo Duterte, Jovito Palparan
- Romania: Dan Șova, Elena Udrea, Radu Mazăre, Gheorghe Nichita, Marian Vanghelie
- Russia: Alexei Navalny
- South Korea: Park Geun-hye and Choi Soon-sil
- Spain: Gürtel case, Spanish Royal House, Bárcenas affair
- United Kingdom: Rolf Harris, Barry Bennell
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