Template:In the news
- At least 62 people are killed and more than 70 others injured in a fuel tanker truck explosion in Morogoro, Tanzania.
- A suicide bombing near a police station in Kabul, Afghanistan, kills 14 people and injures 145 others.
- American novelist Toni Morrison (pictured) dies at the age of 88.
- India revokes the special status of Jammu and Kashmir and establishes Ladakh as a separate union territory.
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