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Four Salvadoran soldiers are missing after a gang attack in Haiti

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Gangs attacked the soldiers' armoured vehicle with explosives on Oct 18 in Croix-des-Bouquets, near Port-au-Prince, and the four men escaped the burning vehicle.

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France riots: Macron keeps his interior minister and admits failures

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Interior Minister Laurent Nunez offered to resign and said: “On Saturday, in some major cities, you couldn’t look shopkeepers in the eye after hundreds of shops had been looted and tell them we hadn’t lost control.”

Սէրուժ Ուրիշեան (Serouj Ourishian) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

UN biodiversity conference opens in Armenia with no 2030 target on track

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A UN report finds none of the 23 targets agreed in Montreal in 2022 is on track, as countries move "far too slowly," said Astrid Schomaker, who heads the UN biodiversity convention.

Earhart search: the suspected wreckage on a Pacific atoll is likely trees

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The so-called Taraia Object on Nikumaroro, Kiribati, "was likely a collection of large trees deposited along the peninsula's sandspit."

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Bomb threat forces a Tel Aviv to Vienna flight to land in Bulgaria

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Austrian Airlines flight OS82 was over Romania on Sunday when the crew received a bomb threat and turned back to land in Sofia, Bulgaria's transport ministry said.

Search for Amelia Earhart's plane resumes after storms

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A team is searching Nikumaroro, an uninhabited atoll in Kiribati, for the Taraia Object, a shape in its lagoon seen in aerial images.

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Taiwan drives away 16 Chinese vessels it accuses of maritime harassment

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Taiwan's coastguard said on Oct 18 that 16 Chinese coastguard, research and fishing vessels ran coordinated operations around its main island and Pratas, a disputed island to the southwest.

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Albania's protests reach a sixth day as Rama refuses to resign

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Hundreds of protesters chanted “Rama, resign” outside the Ministry of Education in Tirana on Oct 18, and police answered with rubber bullets, water cannon and tear gas.