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A blistering and deadly heat wave, which the Italian Meteorological Society has named Cerberus after the three-headed monster that features in Dante’s ‘Inferno’ as a guard to the gates of hell, is sweeping across parts of southern Europe.“The earth has a high fever and Italy is feeling it firsthand,” Luca Mercalli, head of the Italian Meteorological Society, told CNN on in July 2023.

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At least 30 children died in the UK from invasive ‘strep A’ from 19 September to 30 December 2022.

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WHO stands for World Health Organization.

Founded: April 7, 1948

Headquarters : Geneva

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Iran says it launched a barrage of missiles at Israel in response to the assassinations of senior Hezbollah, Hamas and Iranian officials, sending Israelis rushing to bomb shelters and raising fears of all-out war in the region.

Alarms sounded across Israel and explosions could be heard in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv during the attack on 1 October 2024.

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Germany's finance minister Thomas Schaefer committed suicide on March 29, 2020. 

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Initially 6 thousand pilgrims were allowed to perform Umrah.

Riadh is the capital of Saudi Arabia.

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At least 174 people were killed and around 180 injured at a soccer match in Indonesia after panicked fans were trampled and crushed trying to flee during a riot on 2 October 2022.

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Slowly, strongly and for very long seconds the earth shook in Haiti on 14 August, 2021 around 8:30 am,

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In December 2024, more than 170 people killed due to plane crash in South Korea. 

This incident happened on 29 December 2024 in Muan city of South Korea. 

The accident happened due to Jeju Air's plane slipping on the runway, due to which it crashed. 

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The organisers of Anti-discriminatory Student Movement announced to launch a countrywide non-cooperation movement from 4 Aug 2024

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned over violent students-led protests

Resignation date: 5 August 2024

Since July 2024, Bangladesh has been engulfed by protests and violence as hundreds of thousands of students took to the streets against reserved quotas in government jobs.

The ‘Students Against Discrimination’ group led the demonstrations.

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