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Russian police search Novaya Gazeta's editor-in-chief, Sergei Sokolov

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After the search on Oct 15, Sokolov was taken to Russia's Investigative Committee and questioned as a witness in the case against journalist Oleg Roldugin. He was released a few hours later.

Deaths in US immigration detention have tripled under Trump, rights groups say

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People held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are dying at about three times the rate seen under Joe Biden, according to a June report by Human Rights Watch and Physicians for Human Rights.

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Former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson jailed for 15 years for child sex abuse

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A judge in Northern Ireland sentenced the 63-year-old on Thursday for 18 offences against two girls between 1985 and 2008. He has been in prison since his conviction in June.

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Australia held one of its own citizens in immigration detention for 945 days

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The Home Affairs department unlawfully detained a person known as Mx B for 945 days, about two and a half years, after misreading Australia's citizenship laws, a Commonwealth Ombudsman report says.

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Ukraine's parliament votes to tax small parcels bought abroad

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The Verkhovna Rada passed the bill with 252 votes on Oct 15. It adds value-added tax to goods bought on foreign online marketplaces, whatever their price.

Former Congolese president Joseph Kabila takes the lead of a new alliance with M23 rebels

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The Front for the Refoundation of the Nation was unveiled Monday in Goma, the rebel-held capital of North Kivu, and says it will oppose President Félix Tshisekedi, including by force. It replaces the Congo River Alliance and brings in several armed groups.

North Korea test-fires two types of submarine-launched cruise missiles

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North Korea's state news agency, KCNA, said the missiles were fired Wednesday into the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan, as a navy training exercise.

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Drone attack sets a tanker ablaze off Romania, leaving seven crew missing

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The chemical tanker Wine Trader reported blasts and a fire on Thursday morning, 24 km east of the Danube's mouth at Sulina. Seven of its 12 crew are missing, and helicopters and rescue boats are searching in very high waves.