Hard Numbers: Indians go up, Serbia school shooting, South Korean “Comfort Women” speak out, Wuhan whistleblower released

People waiting at customs clearance area at Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi, India.
People waiting at customs clearance area at Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi, India.
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456,082: India’s domestic air travel industry has set a record, with 456,082 people taking flights in a single day. The milestone reflects rising incomes in Asia’s third-largest economy.

9: A Serbian seventh-grader went on a shooting rampage at a school in Belgrade, killing at least eight students and a security guard. It's the worst mass shooting there in a decade. Though such events aren't common in Serbia, many weapons left over from the Balkan wars circulate throughout the country.

6: For decades, the South Korean government collaborated with kidnappers and pimps to set up brothels for American troops stationed in the country. Six Korean women who were sexually exploited as part of that spoke out about their experiences in a harrowing new interview with The New York Times.

3: A Chinese citizen journalist who documented the initial COVID outbreak in Wuhan, China, has been released from prison after being locked up for three years. Fang Bin disappeared after sharing videos of the epicenter of the outbreak. However, another COVID whistleblower, Zhang Zhan, remains locked up.

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