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Indonesian Navy declares crew of 53 dead after submarine sinks in Bali Strait

On Saturday, the Indonesian navy announced its submarine KRI Nanggala 402, which had lost contact early morning local time on Wednesday, had sunk and cracked off in the Bali Strait during a training exercise. The navy also declared the submarine's crew of 53 dead, and said the wreckage was found. Pictures were taken of the parts of the submarine such as the rear vertical rudder, anchors, outer pressure body, and embossed dive rudder.

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Wikinews discusses DRM and DMCA with Richard Stallman after GitHub re-enables public access to youtube-dl

On November 16, code-sharing and hosting service GitHub re-enabled the public access to youtube-dl repository, a software which can download videos from the internet via the command-line. Wikinews spoke with Free Software Foundation's founder Richard Stallman to discuss harms of DRM and DMCA.

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Arizona bans abortion for genetic abnormalities

On Tuesday, the Governor of the US state of Arizona Doug Ducey signed into law a bill banning abortion if sought solely because of a foetus' genetic abnormality.

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Wynnum defeat Maroochydore in round 4 of Australia's Sunshine Coast Rugby Union 2021 season

On Saturday, Wynnum (Bugs) defeated Maroochydore 29 points to 10 in round four of Australia's Sunshine Coast Rugby Union.

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US President Biden recognises Armenian killing as 'genocide'

On Saturday, the US president Joe Biden recognised the killing and deportation of ethnic Armenians by the Ottoman Empire, the predecessor to modern day Turkey during World War One as a 'genocide', becoming the first US president to do so.

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