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Tuesday, at around 8:30 a.m. New York Time (1230 UTC) a mass shooting took place on a train between the 25th Street Station and the 36th Street Station on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, New York, United States. At least sixteen people were injured in the incident, out of which ten had gunshot wounds and the remaining six were otherwise injured. According to the latest press briefing by the New York Police Department (NYPD) at the scene, no deaths were reported in the incident. Additional people

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Thursday, Ukraine reported, and the IAEA confirmed Russian forces had withdrawn from the disused Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster in 1986. State-owned enterprise Energoatom, which operates Ukraine's nuclear facilities, said Russian soldiers were radiated whilst digging trenches in the Red Forest of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. The IAEA said retreating Russian forces moved towards Belarus, but did not confirm radiation exposure. Russia seized control of Chernobyl in the initial stages of its invas

Reports yesterday indicated Ukraine has recaptured territory including Irpin, a suburb of capital city Kyiv, from Russian invading forces ahead of scheduled peace talks in Istanbul, Turkey later today. Mayor of Irpin Alexandar Markushin said: "We have good news today — Irpin has been liberated", but told residents who had fled it was too soon to return as fighting was ongoing. Trostianets in the north-east near the border with Russia, was also reported to be back under Ukrainian control, according to a senior United States defense official wh

One of the flight data recorders from the downed China Eastern Airlines flight 5735 has been found, aviation officials announced Wednesday. MU5735 crashed Monday in Guangxi, China, while carrying 123 passengers and nine crew members. Mao Yanfeng of the Civil Aviation Authority of China said it yet to be determined if the damaged device is the flight data recorder or the cockpit voice recorder. Authorities are still searching for the second recorder. There is no information on the data's integrity. The aircraft, a Boeing 737-800, had a clean

Yesterday, the Council of Europe voted to formally expel Russia after 26 years of membership, having been suspended since February 25, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine that began the day before. Russia had already announced its intention to withdraw from the Council on Tuesday. The Council of Europe is an international organization promoting human rights and democracy. In a joint statement by the 46 remaining Council members, the organization said: "We expressed on several occasions our firm condemnation of the Russian Federation’s a

On Wednesday, the Entomological Society of America renamed the caterpillar formerly known as "gypsy moth" to "spongy moth" in English as part of its Better Common Names Project. Its scientific name remains Lymantria dispar. The society announced they were removing the common name last July, but did not choose a new name until last week, when the Society voted unanimously for "spongy moth." Romani scholar Magda Matache of Harvard University's Roma Program reported: "Gypsy is considered a racial slur by many Romani people. It carries a very p

Yesterday, Russian forces attacked Ukraine's capital Kyiv with missiles resulting in blasts damaging residential areas. Russia continued its three-pronged invasion of Ukraine and has already reached the Obolon district of Kyiv. For the second day, sirens sounded over Kyiv and residents took shelter in underground metro stations. The mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko informed citizens, "saboteurs" had arrived and were fighting in the city's outskirts. Moscow claimed, it had captured and taken over control of Antonov International Airport, also kn

The Commissioner of the London, United Kingdom Metropolitan Police (Met) Dame Cressida Dick resigned Thursday after losing the approval of London mayor Sadiq Khan. Dick's resignation took place just hours after she assured BBC Radio London she had "absolutely no intention" of leaving the post. However, in her stepping-down speech she concluded Khan "no longer has sufficient confidence in my leadership to continue", adding the mayor had left her "no choice but to step aside". Khan placed Dick "on notice" from February 2 to reform the police se

A team led by Dale Ferran disputed the idea that prekindergarten benefits children in the long term in a paper recently given advanced publication in Developmental Psychology. The team followed 2990 low-income children from Tennessee, United States, who applied to attend the state's free public preschools. The study was a natural experiment, as entry is decided through a lottery, rather than merit-based system. Scientists then recorded the students' academic and personal achievements as they left preschool for kindergarten through sixth grade

On December 16, Typhoon Rai, locally known as Typhoon Odette created havoc in the Philippines. More than 300 thousand people were evacuated from the southeastern islands of Philippines. After making landfall, the storm ripped off roofs and toppled concrete power poles while knocking out communications and electricity. Today, the Government of Philippines said that more than 75 people have died. The island of Siargao, where the typhoon made landfall was "totally devastated", the governor said. The typhoon was categorized as a Category 5-equival

In Australia, a 33-year-old Sale man was charged on Tuesday by Victoria Police's Missing Persons Squad with the murder of Dalibor Pantic. Pantic lived in the Gippsland town of Lakes Entrance before disappearing in April 2019. The individual was taken into custody earlier this week on Tuesday. He appeared in front of the Sale Magistrates' Court in a filing hearing, and did not apply for bail and was remanded. He is scheduled to return to court on March 8 of next year for a committal mention. Pantic was last seen at a Perry Bridge farm on April