Template:In the news
- Following allegations of sexual misconduct, American Archbishop Theodore McCarrick becomes the first cleric to resign from the College of Cardinals since 1927.
- Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf wins a plurality in the Pakistani general election that was marred by violence
- In the Syrian Civil War, at least 302 people are killed in a series of attacks in and around As-Suwayda, Syria, while an army offensive captures all southern opposition-held regions.
- Scientists announce the discovery of a 20-kilometre-wide (12 mi) sub-surface lake of water (location pictured) on Mars.
- A heat wave in Japan leaves 80 people dead, with more than 22,000 others requiring hospitalization.
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