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This morning’s 3-by-3 travels across a victim-led lawsuit against 3 Hamas-supporting countries, an Indian laborer’s death in Italy, a newborn rhino in Chile, and more. Let’s fly!

Politics

• 121 Indians killed in stampede at religious event

At least 121 in Uttar Pradesh, India were killed after 250,000 people gathered in a makeshift tent for a Hindu guru known as Bhole Baba, surrounded by insufficient exits, significant overcrowding, and sweltering heat. Only approved to host 80,000 attendees, the religious event derailed when the crowd thronged toward the stage to touch the guru and then stampeded to the exits amid reported feelings of suffocation and panic — causing many (mostly women) to slip on the muddy ground and be crushed. Disaster management experts and members of parliament are condemning the lack of preparation and crowd control measures given India’s history of deadly crowd surges at religious gatherings, such as a 2013 stampede that killed 115 in central state Madhya Pradesh and a 2011 incident that killed 100 in southern state Kerala.

• Victims sue Iran, Syria, and North Korea for Hamas support

Victims of Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel have filed a lawsuit in a New York federal court seeking $4 billion in damages from the governments of Iran, Syria, and North Korea, with over 125 plaintiffs accusing the countries of equipping Hamas with “material support and resources” (i.e., finances, weapons, and know-how) for its devastating assault. Largely filed by relatives of Israelis who were killed and represented by the Anti-Defamation League, the lawsuit would likely earn its requested compensation from the U.S. Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Fund if successful — a Congressional fund that pays American victims of terrorism with money from seized assets and fines against those connected to U.S.-deemed state sponsors of terrorism, knowing that such nations rarely abide by U.S. court rulings themselves. Though the lawsuit does not provide evidence that the 3 countries knew about Hamas’s attack in advance, it references government reports to demonstrate their support and cites the 1976 Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act to hold these foreign governments accountable.

• U.S. deports 116 Chinese citizens in large charter flight

For the first time in 5 years, the U.S. government has chartered a large flight to send 116 Chinese citizens back home after finding no legal basis for them to remain in the country. The U.S. and China resumed cooperation on migration issues earlier this year and are now collaborating on more removal flights at a time when domestic sentiments toward Chinese immigration have worsened — with former President Trump repeatedly suggesting that “military-age” Chinese men are forming a migrant “army” but Asian advocacy groups holding that these individuals are seeking asylum from poverty and repression. U.S. border officials arrested over 37,000 Chinese nationals at the southern border in 2023 (1o times the corresponding number in 2022), as many received visa-free entry to Ecuador before beginning a 3,000-mile trek through jungles, deserts, and cities to San Diego County.

Business

• Dead Indian worker sparks protests against Italian farming

An Italian farm owner has been arrested for choosing not to call an ambulance after a nylon-wrapping machine tore off an undocumented worker’s arm, ignoring his wife’s pleas and allowing him to bleed out. Victim Satnam Singh was a 31-year-old Indian farm laborer and one of a large migrant community in central Italy that works within the “caporalato” system — a system in which gangs hire migrant labor without proper contracts or residence permits and subject them to little pay and inhumane conditions. Italy’s President and Prime Minister condemned the incident as cruel and exploitative, while the local Indian community and worker unions have organized in large numbers to protest the injustice they continue to experience.

• Commerce Department invests $504 million in tech hubs

The Biden administration and the Commerce Department’s Economic Development Administration have announced $504 million in implementation grants that will develop quantum computing, lithium batteries, computer chips, and other technologies across 14 states. This investment builds on President Biden’s Tech Hubs Program and its designation of 31 upcoming hubs, aiming to increase tech growth and capabilities across the country and diversity from the existing centers of San Francisco, Seattle, and Boston. Secretary Gina Raimondo expressed her commitment to increased funding and the importance of engaging talented entrepreneurs and companies in less common places if America is to lead the 21st century’s global economy.

• Brazil restricts Meta from using its data for AI training

Brazil’s national data protection authority has rejected Meta’s updated privacy policy which allows users’ public posts on Facebook and Instagram (pictures, captions, etc.) to train its artificial intelligence models — citing the country’s concern for the “fundamental rights of the affected data subjects.” As one of Meta’s biggest markets with 102 million Facebook users, Brazil joins European countries that have blocked the use of content within their borders for Meta’s AI training, whereas such training is underway in the U.S. amid no national online privacy laws. Though Meta is encouraging Brazil to reconsider and calling this policy a “step backward for innovation,” the decision follows a Human Rights Watch report last month which showed Brazilian children’s photos had unknowingly been used to create AI-image generator tools — including ones that generate nude imagery.

Culture

• U.S. men’s soccer team exits Copa América prematurely

Despite widespread certainty that the U.S. men’s soccer team would advance to the knockout stage of Copa América, the team was eliminated after a 1-0 loss to Uruguay that peaked at 4.87 million viewers — following an unexpected 2-1 loss to Panama. Given this early failure, the U.S. Soccer Federation is questioning coach Gregg Berhalter’s ability to lead the team at the upcoming 2026 World Cup and reportedly considering high-profile replacements such as Jürgen Klopp and Thierry Henry. Today’s team has the most accomplished players in American soccer history with success at top clubs in England, Spain, and Germany, yet its record since last September under Berhalter is only 7 wins, six losses, and one tie.

• Newborn white rhino in Chile helps an endangered species

A southern white rhino was recently born in Santiago, Chile’s Buin Zoo, marking a big conservationist achievement after a year of only 8 other southern white rhino births. With just over 10,000 southern white rhinos left in the world (most of them in zoos) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature designating the species as “nearly endangered,” this newborn follows several unsuccessful reproduction attempts across Latin American zoos. Despite conservation efforts over the last few decades that rescued the species from near extinction, hunters continue to target rhinos at alarming rates for their horns — an estimated 1,000 are killed each year, while only 17 are born.

• Young Thug’s criminal trial encounters further delays

Grammy-winning rapper Young Thug, whose legal name is Jeffrey Williams, has encountered another setback in his long-running trial — a request for the presiding judge to be replaced due to improper procedure. Fulton County Superior Court Chief Judge Ural Glanville allegedly held a meeting with the prosecution team where a witness was pressured into testifying, all without Williams’s defense attorneys present. For a contentious trial in which jury selection alone took 10 months, this development further delays a verdict on Williams’s charges of gang, drug, gun, and racketeering crimes.

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