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Iwao Hakamata, who spent more than five decades on death row, was acquitted by a Japanese court on September 12, 2024. Hakamata, now 88, was sentenced to death in 1968 for the murder of a family, a case that has long drawn global attention due to claims of forced confessions and fabricated evidence. Hakamata's release comes after a marathon legal battle and significant new evidence that cast doubt on his guilt.

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Super Typhoon Yagi has wreaked havoc across northern Vietnam, leaving a trail of destruction that has claimed the lives of at least 127 people, with 54 others still missing, officials reported. The storm, which hit on Saturday, brought with it heavy rainfall, landslides, and flooding, affecting millions and plunging large parts of the region into chaos.

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Sri Lanka's parliament has been dissolved by their newly elected president, Mr Anura Kumara Dissanayake. He dissolved the 225-member parliament in which his left-leaning National People's Power (NPP) alliance had just three seats. He dissolved to make way for a snap general election.

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In Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich district, a wave of wolf attacks has left villagers living in fear. Since mid-April, these attacks have claimed the lives of nine children and one adult, with 34 others injured. The most recent victim was four-year-old Sandhya, who was taken by wolves during a power outage, only to be found the next day in sugarcane fields 500 meters from her home.

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Alica Guo, a former Philippine mayor, has been arrested in Indonesia after being on the run for weeks after being accused of spying for China.

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Despite a court order to end the nationwide strike, Junior doctors in Kolkata are defying the court order to continue protests against the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at a state-run hospital in the city.

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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has halted the implementation of long term sentences after he pardoned 57 Bangladeshis who were sentenced to long prison terms for staging protests in the Gulf state against their own government.