Society & Science

Safety·from Oct 10·upd. yesterday
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Poland checks schools after third youth stabbing attack in four days, 117 detained

Police reported 117 detentions and more than 64,000 inspected facilities by early Sunday. The checks followed a Warsaw college stabbing on Saturday and two attacks on schools in Mazovia, one of which killed Daria, a 37-year-old woman who worked as the school caretaker.

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Safety·from Oct 9·upd. yesterday
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Panama declares state of emergency after magnitude 7.7 quake and over 100 aftershocks

Panama's government declared a national state of emergency on Saturday, with up to USD 100 million for repairs, after a 7.7 quake and a 6.6 quake on Friday damaged all 10 provinces and left 27 people injured.

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Safety·from Oct 9·upd. 2d ago
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Hurricane Isaias makes landfall in Florida, leaving at least four dead and nearly 700,000 without power

The storm came ashore near Destin, Florida, late on Friday and weakened to a post-tropical cyclone before moving north into Alabama. Flooding and tornado threats extend into Georgia and the Carolinas, and Gulf of Mexico oil and gas output remains largely shut in.

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Safety·from Oct 9·upd. 2d ago
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Christa Pike, who survived lethal injection in Tennessee, discharged from hospital and returned to prison

Pike left hospital on Saturday, ten days after two pentobarbital doses failed to kill her in Tennessee. Her lawyers said she is continuing to receive medical care at the women's prison where she has been held for 30 years.

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Climate·from Oct 9·upd. 23h ago
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Hurricane Simon strengthens to Category 4 as it nears Mexico's west coast

Landfall or a close pass along west-central Mexico was forecast for Sunday, with the Puerto Vallarta and Manzanillo airports shut and shopkeepers in Puerto Vallarta sandbagging their doors. Mexico's Navy had already evacuated around 100 people from coastal settlements.

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Safety·from Oct 10·upd. 2d ago
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Gunman kills eight, including two children, then himself in Erie, Pennsylvania

Police said nine people died, including the suspect, after a Friday shooting at a home in Erie, Pennsylvania. Officers arrived after all nine deaths had already occurred.

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Health & Education·from Oct 10·upd. yesterday
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France's high school protests: 6,877 arrested, 3,000 substitute teachers promised

Education Minister Edouard Geffray announced the substitute teachers in a television interview on Thursday evening, as police custody figures and inquiries into police force put the protests under growing scrutiny.

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Safety·from Oct 6·upd. 2d ago

Pentagon to livestream Fort Hood shooter's firing squad execution on Dec. 3

The Dec. 3 firing-squad execution of Nidal Malik Hasan would be livestreamed, which death penalty experts said would be the first known broadcast of a lawful execution. Critics include the UN and Republican senator Thom Tillis.

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Safety·from Oct 10·upd. 2d ago
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Ireland proposes 8% cut to EU's 2028-2034 budget, Germany says no basis for deal

Ireland's EU presidency wants €141 billion cut from the Commission's proposed 2028-2034 budget, a plan Germany and other net payers say falls short. Leaders take up the proposal in Brussels on 15 and 16 October.

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Safety·from Oct 6·upd. 2d ago
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Judge seals Jane Doe complaint against Cornell amid doxxing and US protests

Judge Phaedra F. Perry Bond has sealed the Jane Doe complaint against Cornell University while a man who shares a name with one of the defendants was doxxed. Protests in more than 40 US states followed on 8 October.

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Safety·from Oct 10·upd. yesterday
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Man dies after entering tiger enclosure at Yorkshire Wildlife Park near Doncaster

South Yorkshire Police said a man was pronounced dead at the scene after an Amur tiger attacked him in its enclosure on Saturday afternoon. The park was evacuated and will stay closed on Sunday.

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Safety·from Oct 9·upd. 2d ago
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Tornado and waterspouts hit western Sicily, damaging a Marsala school and displacing 11 families

Petrosino has asked for a national state of emergency after a tornado and two sea waterspouts struck Marsala and nearby towns in Trapani province on Friday 9 October. Damage counts were still under way on Saturday.

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