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  1. 01

    NIGERIA

    Crash.

    President Bola Tinubu has declared three days of national mourning after a military aircraft reportedly crashed, killing 32 passengers and crew. Authorities have launched an investigation. (Punch)

  2. 02

    UNITED STATES

    Firing squad?

    Following presidential approval, the US is now preparing its first military firing squad execution since WWII. The inmate is Nidal Hasan, the US Army major and physician who shot dead 13 unarmed US soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009. (NBC)

  3. 03

    CANADA

    Referendum, rebooted.

    The pro-independence Parti Québécois has finished Monday’s Quebec provincial election in first place, returning the separatists to power for the first time in over a decade. (Le Monde)

  4. 04

    AUSTRALIA

    Unfriendly skies.

    Australian counter-terrorism police have confirmed they’re now investigating amid word the Omani co-pilot who tried to hijack last week’s FlyDubai flight to Israel actually studied in Melbourne, attended a hardline mosque, and might’ve even had a local intelligence file on him. (DW)

  5. 05

    TAIWAN

    Crossing the line.

    The presidential office in Taipei has condemned what it’s calling a “typical case of transnational repression” after the FBI arrested California real-estate agent Heather Zhang at LAX, about to depart for Shanghai. The US indictment accuses her of travelling to Seattle — at Beijing’s direction — to follow and surveil the US-based son of Taiwan’s president. (Taipei Times)

  6. 06

    SRI LANKA

    Death row diplomacy.

    Colombo has sent an urgent delegation to Saudi Arabia seeking clemency for a 24-year-old migrant worker now facing the death penalty for blasphemy over something he wrote on Facebook. (BBC)

  7. 07

    FINLAND

    Vladimir poopin’.

    Finnish authorities are investigating mysterious break-ins at the homes of around 20 lawmakers, with nothing stolen, but the occasional unflushed “deposit” left in the toilet. (The Telegraph)

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