World News: 24 October 2022

Brazil politician throws grenades at police in Rio de Janeiro state
Roberto Jefferson, an ally of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, told supporters in a video on Sunday morning he would not surrender, but was in custody by the evening.
Roberto Jefferson was under house arrest for threats against Supreme Court justices. A judge had ordered for him to be returned to prison for violating the terms of his arrest. Two officers were wounded by grenade shrapnel in the hours-long stand-off.

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Prominent Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif shot dead in Kenya
Arshad Sharif, 50, was shot in the head Sunday night after his driver allegedly breached a roadblock that had been set up by police to check on motor vehicles on the highway between Magadi town and the capital, Nairobi, a prominent Kenyan newspaper reported.
The slain journalist, with two million Twitter followers, fled Pakistan in August, citing death threats and multiple court cases launched against him and several other journalists on controversial sedition charges. Sharif hosted a popular political talk show “Power Play” for years on one of Pakistan’s leading television channels, the ARY news, before leaving the country.

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Australia flood crisis enters third week as heavy rains lash east
Thousands of homes and farms over a wide swathe of New South Wales and Victoria, Australia’s two most populous states, have been inundated and five people in the country have lost their lives as the year’s fourth flooding crisis in the east enters its third week.
About 200 flood warnings remained in place in both states as of Monday morning, with 132 of those in New South Wales.

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Exam 'anti-cheating' hats go viral in Philippines
Students at one college in Legazpi City were asked to wear bizarre apparel designed to prevent them peeking at at their classmates’ papers.
Many responded by creating homemade contraptions out of cardboard, egg boxes and other recycled things. One lad even made his own goggles using paper tubes. Others donned hats, helmets or Halloween masks.

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Salman Rushdie has lost sight in one eye after attack, says agent
Rushdie, who had received several death threats after the publication of his The Satanic Verses, was attacked just as he was about to give a lecture at Chautauqua Institution in New York state on August 12.
The novelist was rushed to the hospital after sustaining severe injuries in the attack, including nerve damage in his arm, wounds to his liver, and the likely loss of an eye, his agent said at the time.

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Hurricane Roslyn batters Mexico's Pacific coast
A powerful hurricane has made landfall in western Mexico, threatening to cause extensive damage in coastal areas.
Roslyn, a category 3 hurricane, came ashore in Nayarit state, with maximum winds of 195km/h (120mph).
It is expected to weaken over land, but officials have warned of destructive waves, landslides and flooding.

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