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2. #TRAVEL: Dr Tony Holohan said Nphet is working with government on how to enable the traffic light travel system by 8 November.

3. #VIENNA: Five people, including one attacker, have died and 17 others are wounded after a shooting in the heart of Vienna hours before a coronavirus lockdown started.

4. #MIRACLE: Rescuers in the Turkish coastal city of Izmir have pulled a young girl out alive from the rubble of a collapsed building four days after a strong earthquake hit Turkey and Greece.

5. #RIP: Actor and comedian John Sessions has died at the age of 67.

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