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Birmingham (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Protesters holding a Greenpeace banner, which reads “Who voted for this?”, disrupt UK Prime Minister Liz Truss’s address to the Conservative Party conference.

Londres (AFP) – Images of a picket line outside Kings Cross station as drivers at 12 train operators walk out. Tens of thousands of workers across various sectors have gone on strike across Britain since the summer as decades-high inflation erodes earnings.

Geneva (AFP) – Sixty-three confirmed and probable cases have been reported in the Ebola outbreak in Uganda, including 29 deaths, says WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. SOUNDBITE

Stockholm (AFP) – The Nobel Chemistry Prize is awarded to a trio of chemists for laying the foundation for a more functional form of chemistry. Americans Carolyn Bertozzi and Barry Sharpless, together with Denmark’s Morten Meldal are honoured for “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry”. The award marks the second Nobel for 81-year-old Sharpless, who won the chemistry Nobel in 2001. SOUNDBITE

Santiago de Compostela (Spain) (AFP) – Nine years after a high-speed train crash that killed 80 and injured over 140, a major trial opens to determine responsibility in Spain’s worst rail disaster in nearly eight decades. IMAGES

Strasbourg (AFP) – Abir Al-Sahlani, a Swedish member of the European Parliament, cuts her hair during a speech in Strasbourg to show solidarity with protesters in Iran.

Ly son (Vietnam) (AFP) – Vietnamese fisherman Nguyen Van Loc has been attacked by Chinese coast guard vessels so many times, he has lost count. One summer day in 2020, while sailing through the Paracel Islands — resource-rich waters in the South China Sea claimed by both Hanoi and Beijing — his boat was rammed by a Chinese ship repeatedly until it capsized. Thirteen of his crewmen were left clinging to a fishing basket in the water, desperately awaiting help.

Malang (Indonesia) (AFP) – Indonesian President Joko Widodo arrives at hospital where the victims of the deadly stampede at a football stadium in the city of Malang are being treated. He greets the relatives of the victims before entering the hospital.

Noida (India) (AFP) – India has the world’s highest rate of women aviators but when trailblazing pilot Zoya Agarwal said she dreamed of conquering the skies, her mother cried and told her to find a husband instead. The 40-year-old has enjoyed an illustrious career since gaining her wings in 2004, including her inauguration last year, with an all-female crew, of the longest non-stop Indian commercial flight.

Infanta (Philippines) (AFP) – Filipino fishermen are prevented from accessing a reef that is permanently guarded by Chinese maritime guards, as the country claims sovereignty over this natural shelter for sailors, which is exceptionally abundant in fish and on which an entire industry is based.

Malang (Indonesia) (AFP) – Arema FC fans and local communities light up candles and hold a mass prayer outside Kanjuruhan stadium in the Indonesian city Malang, where scores of people died in one of the deadliest disasters in football history.

Walnut Creek (United States) (AFP) – American physicist John Clauser has won the 2022 Nobel Prize for a groundbreaking experiment vindicating quantum mechanics — a fundamental theory governing the subatomic world that is today the foundation for an emerging class of ultra-powerful computers. “It’s a vindication of work that I had started more than 50 years ago, and at that time everybody told me I was wasting my time,” Clauser says.