An Israeli airstrike killed Aziz Salha, famous for his role in 2000 Ramallah lynching.
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Jerusalem Post 
October 3
Armed conflicts and attacks
Law and Crime
Former Singapore Transport Minister S Iswaran, who pleaded guilty to four charges of obtaining valuable items as a public servant and one charge of obstruction of justice last week, is sentenced to a twelve-month jail term scheduled to begin on October 7.
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Straits Times
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October 2
Disasters and accidents
Unexploded ordnance from World War II detonates under a taxiway at Miyazaki Airport in Miyazaki, Japan, causing more than 80 flights to be cancelled.
Source:
The Guardian
More than 100 people, mostly women and children, are missing after a wooden boat carrying 300 people sinks in the Niger River near Mokwa, Niger State, Nigeria. At least 150 people are rescued and 16 bodies are recovered.
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Al Jazeera
International relations
Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Israel Katz bans UN Secretary-General António Guterres from entering Israel and declares him for not "unequivocally" condemning yesterday's Iranian missile attack.
Source:
DW
Sports
Two NASCAR teams, including one owned by former basketball player Michael Jordan, file an antitrust lawsuit against NASCAR, alleging "anticompetitive and exclusionary practices".
Source:
The Athletic
Armed conflicts and attacks
Hamas military wing Al-Qassam Brigades claims responsibility for yesterday's mass shooting and stabbing attack in Jaffa, Israel, that killed seven people and injured 17 others.
Source:
Al Jazeera
Humanitarian aid groups tell Reuters that Israel introduced new customs regulations and restrictions on humanitarian aid deliveries into the Gaza Strip in mid-August, which are significantly delaying the delivery of food and essential supplies via the Jordan route.
Source:
Reuters
The Gaza Health Ministry reports that at least 51 people were killed in coordinated Israeli strikes in southern Gaza.
Source:
AP
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AP
At least ten people are injured when a Russian guided bomb hits an apartment building in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
Source:
Reuters
The United Nations International Organization for Migration reports that over 700,000 Haitians are internally displaced in the country due to gang violence, with more than half being children.
Source:
Al Jazeera
Four Iraqi soldiers are killed and three others are injured in an ambush by Islamic State militants near Kirkuk, Iraq.
Source:
Reuters
Law and crime
The Mexican Armed Forces announces its soldiers opened fire on a truck carrying migrants and killed six people near Huixtla, Chiapas, Mexico.
Source:
Al Jazeera
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announces an investigation into a plastic factory after 11 workers have died or went missing from flooding by Hurricane Helene.
Source:
ABC News
October 1
Law and crime
Three people are killed and fifteen others are injured in a mass stabbing at a supermarket in Songjiang district, Shanghai, China. Police arrest a 37-year-old man at the scene, adding that the man had come to Shanghai in order to "vent his anger due to a personal economic dispute".
Source:
BBC News
Politics and elections
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AP
Claudia Sheinbaum is inaugurated as the 66th president of Mexico, becoming the first female Mexican president.
Source:
USA Today
The U.S. Vice President debate is held between Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and U.S. Senator JD Vance.
Source:
CBS News
Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, celebrates his 100th birthday, becoming the first centenarian former U.S. president.
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BBC News
Former Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is installed as the 14th Secretary General of NATO, succeeding Jens Stoltenberg.
Source:
DW
Russian forces capture the town of Vuhledar in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, after Ukrainian forces retreat from the town.
Source:
The Daily Telegraph
Seven people are killed and 12 others are injured in Russian strikes in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.
Source:
Reuters
Iran launches a wave of ballistic missile attacks against Israel in retaliation for the 2024 Hezbollah headquarters strike, killing a Palestinian civilian and injuring two others. The U.S. State Department had previously warned of an imminent Iranian attack, saying that such an attack would carry "severe consequences for Iran".
Source:
CNN
United States Navy destroyers USS and USS successfully shoot down several Iranian missiles heading towards Israel.
Source:
UK Defence Journal
The Syrian military intercepts several drones or missiles over Damascus. Several of them explode in the Mezzeh neighborhood, killing three people and injuring nine others.
Source:
Reuters
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Jerusalem Post
A rocket explosion is reported in Tel Aviv, Israel, with the debris severely injuring a man. Separately, a drone is intercepted by Israeli forces over the Mediterranean Sea.
Source:
Al Jazeera
Israel launches an airstrike in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp in Sidon, Lebanon, in order to target Munir al-Maqdah, an official of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades.
Source:
Al Jazeera
Two Palestinian gunmen open fire on pedestrians in Jaffa, Israel, killing at least seven people and injuring at least 17 others. The gunmen are subsequently shot and killed by armed civilians and police.
Source:
Times of Israel
Disasters and accidents
The death toll from Hurricane Helene surpasses 160 people, with most of the deaths occurring in North Carolina, making it the second-deadliest hurricane to strike the contiguous United States in the past fifty years, behind only Hurricane Katrina.
Source:
CNN
An Integrated Food Security Phase Classification report declares famine conditions in Haiti, with nearly 48% of Haitians suffering from Stage 4 "crisis" levels of food insecurity and nearly 6,000 in starvation.
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AP
A bus crashes and catches fire in Lam Luk Ka District, Pathum Thani Province, Thailand, killing 23 people.
Source:
BBC News
Rwanda reports eight deaths from Marburg virus.
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US News
At least 45 people are killed and dozens are missing after two boats carrying migrants capsizes off the coast of Djibouti.
Source:
Al Jazeera
Business and economy
Over 45,000 dockworkers of the International Longshoremen's Association operating at thirty-six United States ports, primarily along the East Coast and the Gulf Coast, begin a labor strike, following the failure of the ports to reach a deal for worker compensation and a ban on automation.
Source:
AP
September 30
International relations
Tuvalu's climate minister denounces the Australian Labor government's decision to expand three coal mines as an existential threat to the nation, due to the role of the mines in causing rising sea levels that have forced mass displacement across Tuvalu's low-lying islands.
Source:
The Guardian
Disasters and accidents
The death toll from the floods and landslides in Nepal increases to 204 people, with 30 others missing. This is the highest recorded monsoon rainfall in Nepal in the past two decades.
Source:
The Guardian
Two people are killed in wildfires in Peloponnese, Greece, as several villages are evacuated due to the fires.
Source:
ITV News
Twelve people are killed, 29 others are rescued, and ten others are missing after a boat capsizes off the coast of Djerba, Tunisia.
Source:
Al Jazeera
Law and crime
Lithuania announces that it has referred Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, the Belarusian government, military officers, and other security officials to the International Criminal Court at The Hague, accusing them of committing crimes against humanity and causing people to flee the country.
Source:
AP
Armed conflicts and attacks
Source:
Al Jazeera
Five children belonging to the Imam al-Mahdi Scouts are killed in an Israeli airstrike in Charkiyeh in southern Lebanon.
Source:
Anadolu Agency
Three militants of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine are killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Kola District of Beirut, Lebanon. Separately, Hamas's commander in Lebanon, Fatah Sharif, is killed alongside his family in Tyre.
Source:
Al Jazeera
Source:
The Times of Israel
Israel informs the U.S. State Department that it will launch an imminent ground invasion of southern Lebanon in order to clear out Hezbollah infrastructure near Israeli border communities.
Source:
The Washington Post
Lebanese troops withdraw from the Israeli border ahead of an Israeli ground offensive.
Source:
Reuters
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reports that at least 100,000 people have crossed from Lebanon into Syria in order to flee from Israeli strikes.
Source:
Al Jazeera
Business and economy
The last coal-fired power station in the United Kingdom shuts down in Ratcliffe-on-Soar, Nottinghamshire, England, ending the 142-year history of coal-fired electricity in the UK.
Source:
The Guardian