- Narges Mohammadi, an Iranian women's rights advocate serving 12 years in jail, has won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize in a decision likely to anger Tehran. The award-making committee urged Iran to release Mohammadi.
- Syria held funerals for scores of people killed in a drone attack on a graduation ceremony at a military academy in the Homs region, one of the bloodiest strikes against the military in more than 12 years of civil war.
- Russia unleashed new air strikes on Ukraine, killing a 10-year-old boy and his grandmother in the city of Kharkiv, Ukrainian officials said. The U.N.'s High Commissioner for Human Rights deployed a field team to investigate yesterday's air strike on the village of Hroza that left at least 52 people dead.
- An anonymous bomb threat that prompted the Philippines to put all its commercial airports on heightened security alert is "most likely a hoax", the aviation police chief said.
- Dengue fever will become a major threat in the southern United States, southern Europe and new parts of Africa this decade, the WHO's chief scientist said.
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