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Today in the World Countries

EVENTS
Ed Sheeran was ordered to stand trial in the US over claims he copied his hit song 'Thinking Out Loud' from Marvin Gaye's 'Let's Get It On'. A judge denied Sheeran's bid to dismiss the case, saying a jury should decide on the similarities between the songs. The claim was originally lodged in 2018, by investment banker David Pullman and a company called Structured Asset Sales, which had acquired a portion of the estate of 'Let's Get It On' co-writer Ed Townsend. Seeking $100m (£90m) in damages, they alleged that Sheeran and his co-writer Amy Wadge "copied and exploited, without authorisation or credit"..
Hurricane Ian makes another landfall, just south of Georgetown, South Carolina.
In defiance of international law Vladimir Putin announces Russia's illegal annexation of four Ukrainian provinces, Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia. Despite Russia occupying only part of each region..
DEATHS
François Remetter, French soccer goalkeeper (26 caps; RC Strasbourg, FC Metz, FC Sochaux), who died at 94.

EVENTS
Former UK policeman Wayne Couzens given rare life-sentence for raping and killing Sarah Everard, judge saying his crime as bad as a terrorist atrocity.
Land, including world's oldest living rainforest, Daintree National Park (180 million yrs old) returned to the Eastern Kuku Yalanji people in Far North Queensland, Australia.
Canada observes its first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, honoring victims and survivors of residential schools for indigenous children.
BIRTHS
Emersyn Raylee Day, Family Member, born in United States.
DEATHS
José Pérez Francés, Spanish road racing cyclist (Tour de France 1963 overall 3rd), who died at 84.

EVENTS
California becomes the 1st US state to pass a law allowing for reparations for black residents and descendants of slaves.
Spanish government orders a COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in Madrid and surrounding areas after a rapid rise in cases.
BIRTHS
Papa Bear Petty, Family Member, born in United States.
DEATHS
Quino [Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón], Argentine cartoonist (Mafalda), who died at 88.

EVENTS
315 billion-tonne iceberg named D28 calves from Amery ice shelf, Antarctica.
DEATHS
Ben Pon, Race Car Driver.
Jessye Norman, American opera singer (sang at two presidential inaugurations), who died at 74.

EVENTS
New York Yankees suffer a 10-2 drubbing at the Boston Red Sox but accumulate a MLB record 267 home runs for the season; surpass Seattle Mariners previous mark of 264 in 1997.
Chinese-French painter Zao Wou-Ki's work "Juin-Octobre 1985" sells for $65 million in Hong Kong, in one of the most expensive art auctions ever in Asia.
Ryder Cup Golf, Le Golf National: Europe regains Cup with 17½–10½ win over the US; Italian Francesco Molinari wins all 5 matches; Sergio Garcia becomes biggest point scorer in event history with 25½.
DEATHS
Geoffrey Hayes, British TV presenter and actor (Rainbow, Z-Cars), who died at 76.
Kim Larsen, Rock Singer.

EVENTS
Indonesian man survives a fight with giant python 7.8m long in Batang Gansal.
DEATHS
Elizabeth Baur, American actress (Fran-Ironside, Teresa-Lancer), who died at 69.
Alam Thomas "Tom" Paley, American folk musician (New Lost City Ramblers), who died at 89.
Monty Hall, Canadian-American TV game show host (Let's Make a Deal), who died at 96.
Monty Hall, Game Show Host.

EVENTS
A schoolboy from Philadelphia who skipped class to meet his musical hero handed his teacher an absence note with a difference.The typewritten note was signed by Bruce Springsteen. Fifth-grader Michael Fenerty met the star at a "meet-and-greet" in the Free Library of Philadelphia when Springsteen was in town signing copies of his new autobiography, Born to Run..
DEATHS
Oscar Brand, Canadian-born American folk vocalist (Draw Me a Laugh), who died at 96.

EVENTS
A case of Ebola Virus reaches Dallas, Texas.
DEATHS
Jerrie Mock, Pilot.
Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist & Nobel Laureate, who died from a heart attack at 87.
Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist (1995 Nobel Prize for Physics for discovery of the tau lepton particle), who died from a heart attack at 87.