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SEOUL: At least 149 people were killed in a crush when a huge crowd celebrating Halloween surged into an alley in a nightlife area of the South Korean capital Seoul on Saturday (Oct 29) night, emergency officials said. A further 150 people were injured in the melee in Seoul’s Itaewon district, Choi Sung-beom, head of the Yongsan Fire Station, said in a briefing at the scene. Many of the injured were in serious condition and receiving emergency treatment, the officials said. It was the first Halloween event in Seoul in three years after the country lifted COVID-19 restrictions and social…

SEOUL: At least 59 people died and 150 were injured in a stampede in Seoul as a huge crowd poured into a central district of the South Korean capital for Halloween festivities late on Saturday (Oct 29), the Yonhap news agency reported. The incident took place at about 10:20pm (1320 GMT). Officials say it was believed that people were crushed to death after a large crowd began pushing forward in a narrow alley near Hamilton Hotel, a major party spot in Seoul. The death toll could rise as emergency workers were continuing to transport the injured to hospitals across Seoul, said…

Wizard and warlocks are wild about Harry Houdini. But the one day of the year his legion of fans most wan’t to pay tribute to the greatest magician ever — Halloween, the date of his death — they can’t. That’s because his Queens resting place —Machpelah Cemetery in Glendale — isn’t open for business that day for fear of real-life goblins. The legendary illusionist and escape artist was 52 when he died in 1926. For many years members of the American Society of Magicians gathered on Oct. 31 at his grave to break a magic wand over Houdini’s memorial, according…

Generally, the demise of an NFL quarterback comes most quickly, not from throwing too many interceptions, but for throwing teammates under the bus. There’s an unwritten rule in the NFL that QBs should assume more accountability than anyone else on the team — even if it’s not their fault. Quarterbacks who blame others become extinct rather rapidly, which is making the Aaron Rodgers situation in Green Bay fascinating to watch — because Rodgers is currently leading the NFL in the blame game. If you’ve grown tired of Rodgers’ weekly rants on “The Pat McAfee Show,’’ raise your hand. The day…

Editor’s Note: Frida Ghitis, (@fridaghitis) a former CNN producer and correspondent, is a world affairs columnist. She is a weekly opinion contributor to CNN, a contributing columnist to The Washington Post and a columnist for World Politics Review. The views expressed in this commentary are her own. View more opinion on CNN. CNN  —  On the 40th day after Mahsa Amini died while in the custody of the Iranian regime’s intrusive morality police, protests sparked by her death grew even more widespread, more defiant, more determined. They also added to the moral imperative for the rest of the world to…

Kyrie Irving #11 of the Brooklyn Nets handles the ball against the Milwaukee Bucks in Game Two of the Second Round of the 2021 NBA Playoffs at Barclays Center on June 07, 2021 in New York City.Steven Ryan | Getty ImagesAfter Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving promoted an antisemitic film and book on social media Thursday, his team and team-owner Joe Tsai issued statements Friday condemning his actions.”I’m disappointed that Kyrie appears to support a film based on a book full of anti-semitic disinformation,” Tsai wrote on Twitter. “I want to sit down and make sure he understands this is hurtful to…

MANILA: Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr on Saturday (Oct 29) ordered urgent aid distribution in a southern province where landslides have been triggered by Tropical Storm Nalgae, which has killed 45 people across the country so far. Heavy rains and strong winds pounded the capital, Manila, and surrounding areas for most of Saturday as Nalgae forced tens of thousands of people to leave their homes and disrupted peak holiday travel in much of the nation. Nalgae is the second deadliest cyclone to hit the Philippines this year, with the disasters agency reporting 45 deaths, mostly in hard-hit Maguindanao province. Another…

The James Webb Space Telescope has released a spooky new photo of the iconic Pillars of Creation. In a Thursday release, NASA wrote that the eerie image was taken by the $10 billion-dollar observatory’s Mid-Infrared Instrument, also known as MIRI. The pillars of gas and Interstellar dust enshroud the thousands of stars that exist in the region. Stars typically do not emit much mid-infrared light and many newly-formed stars are no longer surrounded by enough dust to be detected in mid-infrared light.WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE OFFERS RARE LOOK INTO EARLY UNIVERSEMid-infrared light excels at examining gas and dust in detail.  Dust, however, is a major…

A holiday treat. Chord Overstreet gushed about his Falling for Christmas costar Lindsay Lohan and teased that her comeback performance will be worth the wait. “It’s a really fun, feel good holiday comedy and Lindsay’s fantastic in it,” the Glee alum, 33, exclusively told Us Weekly on Thursday, October 27, while discussing his latest single “Sleepwalking In The Rain.” Overstreet added that working with the Mean Girls star, 36, and getting to watch what she does “so well up close” was a “really fun” experience. In the Netflix romantic comedy, which premieres on November 10, Lohan plays a spoiled heiress…

Exclusive: Once she won tens of thousands over a week, Christine Tolaini then gambled the lot to lose £70,000 in just four hours. She said she ‘hit rock bottom’ and the crushing incident prompted her to get help A hairdresser could not break her desperate betting habit even when she lost almost two years’ salary in a ­single afternoon playing ­ online slot machines. Now Christine Tolaini, 39, has come back from the brink and is determined to use her own experience help other female gambling addicts. A disturbing new survey reveals that struggling women are turning to betting more…