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• Tensions between North Korea and South Korea are rising. North Korea accused South of being confrontational and said it is scrapping military and political agreements signed with Seoul. [1][2]
• The World Health Organization (WHO) said that over 60,000 citizens in Zimbabwe are infected by cholera. [3]

• Protests are going on in Iceland against capitalism and the government. [4]
• Chinese navy begins anti-piracy mission in Somalia. [5]
• Alexandros Grigoropoulos, a 15-year-old boy, is killed by police in Greece triggering riots. [6]
• The United Nations is concerned over "systematic and widespread" killings of civilians by Colombia's US-backed security forces. Navanethem Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said that the 'extrajudicial killings' by Colombian forces could categorize it as 'crime against humanity'.[7]
• According to the UN, camps sheltering 50,000 displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been torched.[8]
• Riot police resorts to tear gas and attacks the residents of Elliniko village near Ioannina, Greece who prevented the construction of an open-refuse dump.[9]
• At least 18 civilians including children ranging in age from six months to 15 are reportedly killed in Afghanistan in an air strike by NATO forces.[10]
• Riot police in the Morumbi district of Sao Paulo, Brazil have fired tear gas and rubber bullets at other police officers who are striking for better pay.[11]

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