News of the day from across the globe, Oct. 19

After months of painstaking autopsies, Italian authorities in Sicily on Tuesday put the death toll in the April 2015 refugee shipwreck at between 750 and 800 people, confirming survivors’ initial estimates.

The mayor of Sebeta just outside Ethiopia’s capital of Addis Ababa says 1,000 people have been arrested this month after violence that led to the burning of factories and vehicles.

Businesses have been a target over suspected government links, hurting Ethiopia’s reputation as one of Africa’s best-performing economies.

The fire at Sum Hospital, in the city of Bhubaneswar, may have been started by a short-circuit in its dialysis service, said Sharad Kumar Sahoo, a city police inspector.

In 2011, 94 people died in a fire at a private hospital in Kolkata, and six senior hospital officials were charged with culpable homicide.

Human rights groups have said Hamas’ justice system is unfair and relies on torture.

Two environmental groups sued the Norwegian government on Tuesday for allegedly violating the Paris Agreement on climate change and the Norwegian Constitution by allowing oil drilling in the Barents Sea.

The lawsuit filed by Nature and Youth and Greenpeace Nordic against Norway’s Ministry of Petroleum and Energy asks the Oslo district court to invalidate the latest round of production licenses in the Barents Sea, which is on the edge of the Arctic Ocean.