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Huge manhunt under way after Adolfo Macías of Los Choneros disappears from cell and guards taken hostage amid prison riots
Ecuador has declared a state of emergency after one of the country’s most dangerous criminals vanished from his cell and prison guards were overpowered and taken hostage amid riots at prisons across the country.
Eight people were in induced comas after the Hardmission event at Flemington on Satuday
The suspected MDMA overdoses at a Melbourne music festival that left eight young people in medically induced comas over the weekend has sparked renewed calls for nationwide pill-testing programs.
Animals have been popping up on golf courses and surfing contests in Dunedin as they reestablish a foothold on the South Island
Charlotte Graham-McLay in Wellington
A growing population of sea lions in the New Zealand city of Dunedin is provoking “overlapping chaos” as their breeding season coincides with residents enjoying peak summer weather.… Read the rest
At least 14 polling stations in Bangladesh have been set on fire, including one on the outskirts of the capital, Dhaka.
The wave of attacks came a day before voting began in the country’s election.
On Friday, a busy commuter train was allegedly set on fire, killing four passengers.
UN humanitarians repeated dire concerns for civilians caught up in the war in Gaza on Tuesday, amid reports of continued Israeli bombardment of the southern towns of Deir al Balah, Khan Younis and Rafah, direct clashes on the ground and the firing of rockets overnight by Palestinian armed groups into Israel.