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Breaking incident updates WORLDWIDE. Stay tuned.

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Vietnam road tragedy: 3 dead Two cars collided, and the drivers stopped in the middle of the road to see what had happened. Meanwhile, other vehicles were speeding from behind… and couldn’t brake in time.
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The Call Every Parent Dreads: 10-Year-Old Oregon Girl Found Alive After 13 Hours Tied in a Closet It started in the dead of night in Canby, Oregon. A man entered an apartment at the Orchards complex, attacked a 12-year-old girl with a hammer and then took her 10-year-old sister, Violet Hay. The mother called 911. What followed was every family’s worst nightmare
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BREAKING: Police Outside Poland’s Top Court as Judges Clash Over Control — President Turns Plane Around Mid-Flight Friday evening in Warsaw brought a tense standoff outside the Constitutional Tribunal. Police units moved onto the grounds of the building on Aleja Szucha after Judge Anna Korwin-Piotrowska reported potential threats to the safety of judges and staff, plus the risk of public disorder.
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Poland’s top court in chaos: Police on the grounds at night, president’s plane turns around mid-flight. Polish police entered the grounds of the Constitutional Tribunal in Warsaw on Friday evening amid protests, after reports of objects being thrown at officers and a request from a tribunal judge warning of risks to safety and public order. Three people who jumped the fence were detained. Police said they did not enter the building itself.
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NOW: FBI hits Minnesota with 17 search warrants in a single day — four arrested in healthcare fraud sweep. FBI Director Kash Patel said Friday that FBI Minneapolis and its partners executed 17 search warrants across the state on Thursday and arrested four people as part of ongoing healthcare fraud investigations.
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WATCH: India’s sky just turned blood-red — and people can’t stop comparing it to the Upside Down. Videos from Kirandul in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district show the sky glowing a deep, eerie red as the remnants of Cyclone Arnab moved inland.
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Young men on a German train refuse tickets calling the request racist. A group of youths on a Deutsche Bahn train interacting casually with someone checking tickets. They appear unbothered, using their phones and lounging, while the poster claims they refuse to pay and label anyone enforcing the rules as racist or Islamophobic.
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About half of the $6.3 billion stolen from Binance is now frozen, and withdrawals should be back in roughly 45 hours. In its latest update on October 30, Binance said investigators have frozen around $3 billion of the stolen assets so far, working with partners including Tether and Circle. More freezes are still being pursued
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Binance just got hit with what could be the biggest heist in history $6.3 billion gone. The world’s largest crypto exchange says a security breach on Thursday drained roughly $6.3 billion in digital assets, making it by far the biggest crypto theft ever recorded — and, according to some analysts, possibly the largest theft of any kind.
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ALERT: Water is cascading down the ancient steps of Aleppo’s Citadel as severe storms hammer Syria Flash floods triggered by heavy rains have displaced hundreds of families and wrecked roads and bridges across several provinces. Rescue teams have evacuated around 375 families from flooded camps, mainly in Raqqa, while infrastructure damage has been reported in Aleppo, Raqqa, Deir ez-Zor, and elsewhere.
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SPAIN: People in Toledo are still trying to process the “inexplicable” train crash that killed 69 just outside their province. The day after two high-speed trains collided near Urda in Castilla-La Mancha, people in Toledo and the surrounding area are reflecting on what happened. The crash, which happened Wednesday morning when a Renfe AVE slammed into the back of a stopped Iryo train, has left at least 69 dead and many more injured.
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WATCH: Mayon just erupted Philippines’ Mayon Volcano had a moderately explosive eruption this morning that lasted about six minutes and sent a thick ash plume 3 kilometers above the crater. The mountain rumbling before the cloud rose, and in nearby Guinobatan residents are already out walking around in masks as ash starts falling.
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BREAKING: Polish police and other services checked nearly 250 Romanian mushroom pickers in the Low Beskid forests. Authorities moved into the woods after organized groups of Romanian foragers started working the forests in the Low Beskid region. The groups were moving through the trees in lines, sorting and packing mushrooms into crates on site, then loading them up to take abroad.
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A passenger on another AVE filmed how close their train got to the wreckage near Urda — it only stopped because of a red signal 450 meters away. Someone traveling on an AVE on the Seville–Madrid line posted video showing their train coming to a halt after spotting a red signal, just 450 meters from where the two high-speed trains crashed yesterday. The footage makes it clear how easily the disaster could have involved a third train.
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Passengers filmed the inside of the trains right after the crash near Urda — carriages tilted, people in shock, and the death toll now at 68. Recordings made by people on board show what it looked like in the minutes after a Renfe AVE slammed into the back of a stopped Iryo train yesterday morning near Urda, in Toledo province. One clip shows a carriage listing, seats and bags thrown everywhere, passengers trying to figure out what just happened while looking out at the wreckage outside
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A guy at a California Wendy’s forgot he wasn’t in a YouTube comment section — and five minutes later chairs and a knife were flying. What started as one customer mouthing off to staff at a Northridge Wendy’s on Tuesday morning quickly turned into a full brawl. Video shows a man in a baseball cap getting in the face of another diner who was just trying to eat breakfast with a woman. The seated guy stood up, pulled a knife from behind his back, and the two started threatening each other.
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ENGLAND: They lived with a bricked-up door behind their kitchen cupboard for nine years. Today they finally knocked it open. A couple in England had been staring at a sealed doorway hidden behind a kitchen cabinet ever since they moved into their house. After nearly a decade of wondering what was on the other side, they decided to open the wall.
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They emptied the Ebola ward that started the outbreak — then the doctors and nurses started dancing. Footage from the Doctors Without Borders centre in Mongbwalu shows the staff singing and celebrating after the last confirmed patient recovered and walked out. Mongbwalu is where this outbreak began, so clearing the beds there hit different for the people who’ve been inside it every day.
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SPAIN NOW: Search continues for victims under wreckage as Spain train crash death toll reaches at least 68 Search and recovery operations continued into Thursday for victims who may still be trapped beneath the mangled carriages of the Renfe and Iryo high-speed trains that collided near Urda in Toledo province on Wednesday, an accident that has claimed at least 68 lives.
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WATCH: Debris after train collision near Los Yébenes and Urda in Toledo province, Spain xitter.gq/VidaAgusto/status/2115…
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Paris police advise shopkeepers to hire private guards amid looting fears as streets barricade ahead of protests More images of unrets from the streets in France.
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