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KameraOneWorker accidentally causes molten zinc explosion in factory in China
A container of molten zinc exploded and almost burned several factory workers at a galvanizing plant in China on September 28. Reports say a worker was handed a bucket containing a volatile mixture that exploded after he put it into the furnace. He is seen angrily arguing with the co-worker who gave him the bucket afterwards. Luckily, no one was injured.
- Yahoo News Singapore
100 people evacuated after Buangkok condo fire; Singapore traffic to Johor ‘back to normal’: Singapore live news
Yahoo Singapore is featuring a curated selection of some of the biggest, most important, and fascinating news that's making waves online.
- The Independent
Airline passengers claim they were kicked off plane by male flight attendant for wearing crop tops
Spirit Airlines passengers claim a male flight attendant kicked them off the plane because they wouldn’t ‘cover-up’
- Yahoo News Singapore
Iswaran gets single-man cell because of 'higher safety and security risk'; 2 shophouses partially collapse at Syed Alwi Road, 6 injured: Singapore live news
Yahoo Singapore is featuring a curated selection of some of the biggest, most important, and fascinating news that's making waves online.
- The Telegraph
Mexican mayor ‘decapitated by drug gangs’ six days into job
The mayor of a Mexican city plagued by gang violence has been murdered less than a week after taking office.
- Bloomberg
Ong Beng Seng: The billionaire charged in Singapore’s political gift scandal
Singapore’s most serious ministerial wrongdoing probe since the 1980s has led to charges levied against billionaire Ong Beng Seng, who is best known for bringing Formula One racing to the city.
- AFP News
Fleeing Israeli bombs, Lebanon's displaced met with suspicion
Israel's bombardment of Hezbollah's south Beirut stronghold has forced tens of thousands to flee to the capital, but many in divided Lebanon view the newcomers with suspicion, worried they might also become targets.Tensions are also high outside Beirut, where Israeli strikes have hit displaced people beyond Hezbollah's stronghold, including in the Druze village of Baadaran.
- France 24
🔴 Live: Hezbollah is ‘an organisation without a head’, Israel’s defence minister says
Two new Israeli strikes struck Beirut's southern suburbs on Monday evening, Lebanese state media said, after Israel's military issued a warning to inhabitants of the area. More than 3,000 people attended an alternative memorial organised on Monday evening by relatives of victims and hostages in a Tel Aviv park to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attacks, with emotional testimonies from survivors and performances by singers. Around 374,000 people have fled from Lebanon
- BuzzFeed
21 Chilling Moments Where People Got The "Gut Feeling" That Something Was Wrong — And They Were Totally Right
"Something was just making my intuition GO OFF loudly in the back of my mind...I'm so glad I trusted my gut."
- People
Diddy Is 'Capable of a Lot,' Says Source: 'He's So Powerful. Everyone Was Afraid to Cross Him' (Exclusive)
A source tells PEOPLE many still fear Sean "Diddy" Combs, who's currently in federal custody amid sex trafficking charges and multiple civil suits
- The Telegraph
‘Not one girl could be shown to her parents’: The horrors of Oct 7 – as told by the survivors
Three weeks ago, I travelled to Israel to try and work out what October 7 had meant as the first anniversary approached. The massacres committed by Hamas on that black Sabbath were among the foulest of the modern era and saw the worst loss of life for the Jewish people since the Holocaust. Not much time elapsed, though, before the bloodcurdling crimes were sidelined as international attention switched, rather too eagerly, to Israel’s war in Gaza. Thousands of Palestinians were tragically killed
- The Independent
Pregnant woman shot dead while running from an argument outside a Wawa store
Evelena Williams, 30, allegedly shot and killed the pregnant woman, 32-year-old Latoya Davis
- The Guardian
Tokyo cracks down on ‘kasuhara’ amid rise in customers abusing staff
A wave of abusive consumers has prompted authorities to introduce the country’s first ordinance to protect service industry employees
- BBC
Mexican mayor murdered days after starting job
Alejandro Arcos is the second politician to be killed in a week in the city of Chilpachingo.
- Associated Press
Saudi Arabia executes Filipino convicted of murder despite Philippine presidential appeal
Saudi Arabia has put to death a Filipino citizen convicted of murder despite years of efforts by the Philippines to prevent the execution, including a presidential appeal, officials said Monday. Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and other officials did not provide details, including the identity of the Filipino and the nature of the case, citing a family request for privacy. A Philippine official with knowledge of the case, however, said the Filipino was arrested by Saudi Arabian authorities in 2020 after being accused of the killing.
- The Independent
Custodian followed home and shot ‘execution-style’ after argument over gym etiquette
Maarji Afridi, 21, is accused of following Rolando Viray Yanga, 60, home from the gym on Sunday and shooting him ‘execution style’
- The Independent
A man was shot near a homeless encampment. Police then found a suitcase with a missing woman’s body stuffed inside
Shannon Marie Caslin Reeder, 37, was last seen alive in November 2023
- France 24
‘We’re all children of God’: At Istanbul church, Muslims and Christians share sacred space
An ancient Greek Orthodox church in Istanbul regularly opens its doors to people of all faiths, who line up together and cheerfully share sweets – according to Muslim tradition – as they wait to make a wish and drink water from a spring under its foundation that is blessed by a priest. In a city where churches have often fallen into disuse or been converted into mosques, the shared sacred space is an eloquent testimony to the city's multicultural past under the Ottoman Empire. The queue outside
- The Guardian
Rescued elephants drown as heavy flooding hits Thai tourist hub Chiang Mai
Northern Thailand has been hit by severe floods over recent weeks, with Typhoon Yagi worsening the seasonal monsoon rains
- AFP News
Pastor wanted by US for sex trafficking to run for Philippine senate
A detained Philippine pastor who is also wanted in the United States for sex trafficking children registered Tuesday to run in next year's senate elections.Quiboloy was charged by the United States in 2021 with sex trafficking of girls and women to work as personal assistants, who were allegedly required to have sex with him during what they said was their "night duty".