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Thousands of people gather outside the House of Representatives in Jakarta, Indonesia, as well as in other

major cities across the country, to protest attempted changes to local elections law that would benefit the ruling coalition, in defiance of two recent Constitutional Court decisions.

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In response to the railway stoppage, Canadian labour minister Steven MacKinnon refers the two disputes to

Police fire tear gas and water cannons at protesters attempting to storm the House of Representatives,

prompting the Parliament to delay and eventually cancel the vote on the proposed changes.

Twenty-eight people are killed and 23 others are injured when a bus carrying Shia Pakistani pilgrims to the

Arba'in pilgrimage in Iraq crashes and overturns in Yazd province, Iran.

The Ukrainian military reports that it used United States-made weapons to destroy several pontoon bridges

constructed by Russia following its destruction of at least three bridges over the Seym river in Kursk Oblast.

Four people, including three children, are killed in a house fire in Bradford, England, United Kingdom.

Police say that the fire was started deliberately and that a suspect has been arrested under suspicion of murder.

The United States Department of Labor issues a significant estimate correction stating that the U.S.

economy added 818,000 fewer jobs between April 2023 and March 2024 than what was initially reported in July, the largest estimate revision since 2009.

Canada's two largest freight railroads Canadian Pacific Kansas City and Canadian National Railway announce a

complete shutdown of services due to a contract dispute, shutting out its Teamsters-represented union workers.

At least seventeen workers are killed and 41 others are injured, many from severe chemical burns, in an

explosion at a pharmaceutical facility in Anakapalli, Andhra Pradesh, India.

A Hungarian law restricting or removing state support and accommodations for Ukrainian refugees not from

regions directly affected by the Russian invasion comes into effect.

Three staff members are killed in a mass shooting at a school in Sanski Most, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The perpetrator, who also worked at the school, is seriously injured after shooting himself.

The Ukrainian parliament approves the Rome Statute treaty established by the International Criminal Court,

thereby allowing the country to become a state party once the government ratifies with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Four bodies are recovered from the superyacht Bayesian that sank two days ago, bringing the death toll to

five. The search for the last missing person is ongoing.

Mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin states that Ukraine launched one of its largest drone attacks on the Russian

capital, and claims that all drones were taken down without casualties or damage based on preliminary information.

The United States drafts a punitive sanctions list of sixty Venezuelan government officials from the

country's National Electoral Council, Supreme Court, and counterintelligence police agency for alleged electoral fraud.

With regards to the rapid growth of the artificial intelligence market, Bloomberg alleges that technology

companies are "concealing their actual carbon footprints" by invoking outdated emissions accounting rules.