Hard Numbers: Turkey retaliates for terror bombing, Boeing workers reject deal, Biden to issue historic apology, Brand new prime number, Los Angeles DA recommends resentencing for Menendez brothers

October 24, 2024

A general view of the entrance of the headquarters of Turkey's aviation company TUSAS, where three people were killed and five others wounded in an attack, near Kahramankazan, a town of Turkish capital Ankara, October 23, 2024.

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32: Turkish warplanes destroyed 32 sites associated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party — which Ankara and Washington label a terrorist group — in Iraq and Syria on Thursday in retaliation for Wednesday’s attack on a Turkish defense plant that killed five. No group has claimed responsibility for the assault on the plant.

35: Boeing’s unionized workers rejected an offer from the aerospace giant that included a 35% pay rise over four years, with 64% of union members voting against the deal. The union says 10 years of sacrifices need to be compensated, and that it hopes to resume negotiations promptly.

1,000: On Friday, President Joe Biden will for the first time formally apologize for the US government’s role in forcing Native American children into boarding schools, where students were harshly abused, resulting in the death of at least 1,000. Beyond the atrocious physical, sexual, and psychological trauma, the schools were intended to snuff out the intangible aspects of Indigenous cultures transmitted from generation to generation. It is unclear whether any action will follow the apology.

2136,279,841 − 1: Programmer Luke Durant made history this month by discovering the largest prime number yet known on his home computer as part of a project called the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search. But we can’t print it in full here, as it has 41,024,320 digits. For context, the longest novel ever published, Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time,” has just 9,609,000 characters (including spaces) and runs to over 3,000 pages.

35: Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón is recommending a resentencing for Erik and Lyle Menendez, brothers who’ve been behind bars for almost 35 years for murdering their parents. “I believe that they have paid their debt to society,” Gascón said Thursday. His office will recommend that the brothers, originally sentenced to life in prison without parole, receive a sentence of 50 years to life with the possibility of parole. Under California law, this would make the Menendez brothers immediately eligible for parole.

The biodiversity-shaped piece in the climate crisis puzzle: How to solve it

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The clock is ticking on efforts to help halt and reverse biodiversity loss, but there’s still time to help support the animals, plants, and ecosystems that are all necessary for a healthy planet. In order to protect biodiversity — every living organism and ecosystem from microbes to mangroves — citizens, companies, and countries all need to do their part. That’s why the Mastercard-led Priceless Planet Coalition is on a mission to restore 100 million trees and regenerate biodiversity-rich forests. Read more about the Coalition's approach and progress.

Hot topics at the IMF-World Bank meetings

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Delegates at the IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings have been giving rosy outlooks to the press while the cameras are rolling, but GZERO Senior Writer Matthew Kendrick heard a different story in private settings. He told Tony Maciulis that the global outlook depends heavily on US policy continuity — which is highly unlikely under a second Trump administration — and successful efforts in China to revive its own floundering economy.

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North Korean troops move into Russia’s border area with Ukraine

Russia's President Vladimir Putin and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un attend a farewell ceremony before Putin's departure at an airport in Pyongyang, North Korea June 19, 2024.

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Kyiv says that roughly 12,000 North Korean troops are in Russia, a far greater number than reported by the US, though it remains unclear precisely how many have entered what Ukraine referred to as the “combat zone.”

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