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A 52nd Mersenne prime is discovered by a participant of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, six years

after the last new Mersenne prime was discovered in 2018. The prime number is 41,024,320 digits in length, making it the largest known prime number.

The United States Justice Department sues the state of Virginia for removing voters from voter registration

less than 90 days before Election Day on November 5.

Local media outlets report that Ukrainian military recruitment officers raided shopping centers, bars,

restaurants, and a large concert venue across several Ukrainian cities including Kyiv, Dnipro, and Kharkiv to detain men not in compliance with conscription orders.

As a response to Germany tightening border controls and following a call for EU-wide solutions by its

Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk issues a request to the European Union to accept a provisional suspension of migrants' right to asylum in order to control irregular immigration from Belarus, which human

This year's Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Japanese atomic bomb survivors group Nihon Hidankyo for "its

efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again".

Nicaragua formally breaks off diplomatic relations with Israel, calling the Israeli government "fascist" and

France summons the Israeli ambassador to France over recent attacks against United Nations peacekeepers in

Lebanon, calling the attacks a violation of international law and asking Israel to explain itself.

At least 19 people were injured after two trains collided near Chennai in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

Aerospace company Boeing announces it will cut 17,000 jobs, 10% of its global workforce, and delay the

deliveries of its Boeing 777X planes due to effects of the ongoing machinists strike.

The Global Wildfire Information System states that 10,400 wildfires have been reported in Peru so far this

year, more than twice as many as were reported in 2020, and that the wildfires burned an area nearly 2.5 times larger than those in 2020.

King of Belgium Philippe and King of the Netherlands Willem-Alexander jointly open the Nieuwe Sluis canal

lock in Terneuzen, Netherlands, which is part of a series of locks connecting the Western Scheldt to the Port of Ghent.