Template:In the news
- At least three hundred people are killed by mudslides in and around Freetown, Sierra Leone.
- In golf, Justin Thomas wins the PGA Championship.
- A suicide bombing in Quetta, Pakistan, kills fifteen people and injures forty others.
- In eSports, The International Dota 2 tournament concludes with Team Liquid defeating Newbee.
- In the United States, a car (pictured) is driven into a crowd of counter-protesters at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing one and injuring nineteen others.
- More than seventy children die at a hospital in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India, allegedly due to lack of oxygen supply to the wards.
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