Category:Current events

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• At least 25 people are killed after a train derails on the Moscow–Saint Petersburg Railway near to Bologoye in Russia.
• Flash floods on the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia during the Hajj pilgrimage leave 83 people dead and more than 350 others missing.
• Wolfgang Schneiderhan (pictured), the Chief of Staff of the German Bundeswehr, and Franz Josef Jung, the Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, resign over allegations that they withheld information in the aftermath of the Kunduz airstrike.
• Citizens of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines reject a new constitution which would have replaced the monarchy with a president as Head of State.
• The Murphy Report, the result of an investigation into sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin, is published.
• The investment company Dubai World, owned by the Dubai government, asks creditors for a six-month moratorium on its US$59-billion debt.
• More than 300,000 animals are ritually slaughtered in Gadhimai festival in southern Nepal amid controversy, in the world's largest animal sacrifice.