The New Yalu River Bridge connecting Dandong, China, and Sinuiju, North Korea, opens following a 12-year delay.
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NK News 
October 15
Business and economy
Health and environment
The United Kingdom declares a severe drought in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, East Sussex, and West Sussex after prolonged low rainfall left more than 80% of England in drought and major reservoirs below 20% capacity.
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AFP
Disasters and accidents
A roof collapses at a school in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, killing 33 students and a teacher and injuring 19 more people.
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BBC News
Seven people are missing after a San Marino-flagged tanker catches fire off the coast of Romania amid recent drone attacks on merchant shipping in the Black Sea. Search and rescue operations are underway to locate the missing crew members.
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Politico
Law and crime
U.S. president Donald Trump announces that the Department of Defense will not livestream the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan, the perpetrator of the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, scheduled for December 3.
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AP
Northern Irish politician and former Democratic Unionist Party leader Jeffrey Donaldson is sentenced to 15 years in prison for child sexual abuse and rape. The offences occurred between 1985 and 2008.
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BBC News
October 14
Disasters and accidents
Science and technology
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CNN
Armed conflicts and attacks
The Houthis claim to have shot down a Royal Saudi Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft over Saada Governorate, Yemen. Saudi authorities did not comment on the claim.
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AFP via AA
The Saudi Civil Defense reports that debris from intercepted Houthi cruise missiles injured four people, including a child, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and damaged 15 homes.
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AFP via CNA
Two cargo ships, the Singapore-flagged container ship and the Antigua and Barbuda-flagged dry bulk carrier , sink after both are attacked by projectiles near the Strait of Hormuz while trying to navigate through what Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps called an "illegal and dangerous route." At least one crew member is killed in the attacks.
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Reuters
A Russian ballistic missile attack strikes a power station in the Dniprovskyi District, Kyiv, Ukraine, leaving more than 1,000 residential buildings without heating.
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BBC News
The Sudanese Armed Forces announces that they have re-captured the Bir Kelekel area of West Darfur, Sudan, from Rapid Support Forces, according to West Darfur state governor Bahr al-Din Adam Karama.
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AA
Rioters attack government buildings, banks, businesses and other sites as anti-government protests erupt in Tirana, Albania. At least 23 police officers and six others are injured during the unrest, while 35 people are detained. President Bajram Begaj condemns the violence and appeals for calm across the nation.
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AP
International relations
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Reuters
Health and environment
Singapore records its highest air pollution level of 2026 as one-hour PM concentrations reach about 288 micrograms per cubic metre amid haze from Indonesian wildfires.
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AFP
Timor-Leste suspends in-person classes nationwide from October 15 to 17 due to worsening air quality from wildfire smoke and pollutant particles across Southeast Asia.
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AFP
Law and crime
The Ukrainian citizen accused of sabotaging the Nord Stream pipelines in 2022 faces trial at the Higher Regional Court in Hamburg, Germany,
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UPI
A court in New Delhi, India, remands Cockroach Janta Party spokespeople Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka in custody for five days after police detained them for entering the restricted Jantar Mantar protest site.
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AFP via RFI
Turkish opposition-leaning and independent news channel Halk TV goes offline as it is raided by police and new administrators are appointed by the government.
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BBC News
President Claudia Sheinbaum signs a decree banning violent content on social media to protect minors under the age of 18.
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Expansión
Politics and elections
Over 300,000 public sector workers in Ireland, including teachers, health workers, and other civil servants, start a general strike, the first in the country since 2009, to protest against a deadlock in pay negotiations.
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Reuters
October 13
Sports
The Netherlands denies visas to Russian artistic gymnasts Anna Kalmykova, Viktoria Listunova, and Angelina Melnikova for the world championships in Rotterdam, while four other Russian gymnasts receive permission to enter the country.
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AP
In auto racing, Formula 1 announces a new grand prix in Kigali, Rwanda, to run for at least 10 years starting in the early 2030s with a new track. This would be the first F1 grand prix in Africa since South Africa in 1993.
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AP
Disasters and accidents
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The Guardian
At least seven people are killed and over 40 others are injured in a train derailment near Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.
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The Straits Times
Health and environment
The World Health Organization reports a surge in cholera cases in Yemen over the past three weeks. The country previously had a 6-year-long outbreak due to the ongoing humanitarian crisis.
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Arab News
Indonesian authorities release 20 protected green sea turtles back into the oceans off Bali after they were seized from an empty boat abandoned by wildlife smugglers last week.
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AP
Armed conflicts and attacks
The Royal Saudi Air Force strikes a fuel depot near Sanaa, Yemen. The Houthis launch missiles upon multiple Saudi Arabian cities, including Riyadh and Dammam, in response.
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CNN
An administrative building belonging to Saudi Aramco in Dhahran, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia, is partially consumed by a fire after a Houthi missile is intercepted over the city by Saudi forces.
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Reuters
Hezbollah spokesperson Ali Damoush announces that the group will pay up to US$14,000 in aid to families whose homes in Lebanon were destroyed or rendered uninhabitable during its war with Israel. Families in Beirut and its suburbs will receive $14,000, while those elsewhere in the country will receive $12,000.
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AP
Two merchant ships are hit by unknown drones off Bulgaria's Black Sea coast, with one sinking. Eleven crew members are missing and 20 in total are rescued. Bulgarian prime minister Rumen Radev has blamed Russia and summoned its ambassador. It is the second such attack in six days.
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Reuters
Law and crime
Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, United States, suspends all fraternity parties and social events for the remainder of the 2026–27 academic year following allegations that seven Chi Phi members drugged and gang-raped a student in 2024.
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BBC News
Philippine prosecutors in the impeachment trial of vice president Sara Duterte drop three of the four impeachment charges in an attempt to speed up the trial. The Senate, sitting as an impeachment court, approves the move.
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AP
The Hungarian National Assembly passes an amendment repealing most provisions of the anti-LGBTQ child protection law that was previously passed during former prime minister Viktor Orbán's tenure in 2021.
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DW
The Clark County District Court in Nevada, United States, sentences former Crips gang leader Duane "Keffe D" Davis to a minimum of 40 years in prison for orchestrating the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas.
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DW
The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation announces the arrests of two men in Ohio and Pennsylvania over an alleged North Korean remote-work scheme and the seizures of about 187 computers and related devices from more than 40 suspected laptop farms in Texas.
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Malay Mail
A Chinese court sentences three triad members to death for crimes linked to scam centers in Kokang, Myanmar, including fraud, drug trafficking, illegal gambling, prostitution, and the murders of two Chinese citizens.
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AFP via CBS News
Four people are killed and three more injured in a mass shooting at a memorial service in Katlehong, Gauteng, South Africa.
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AP
Three Indian nationals are killed and five others are injured in a suspected arson attack in Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany. A 41-year-old resident is arrested.
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tagesschau
Eight people are injured in a mass stabbing at a supermarket in Incheon, South Korea. A suspect is arrested.
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CNA
Students in Tirana, Albania, throw bricks at the Ministry of Education building, prompting riot police to respond.
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Reuters
October 12
Science and technology
Generative AI chatbot company Character.ai files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, citing costs and litigations including those linked to teen suicides.
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CBS News
Armed conflicts and attacks
The Houthis claim to have attacked King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with a ballistic missile for a third consecutive day.
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Reuters
Delta Air Lines postpones direct flights from Atlanta's Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport to Riyadh following attacks by the Houthis on the country.
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The Hill
Former Congolese president Joseph Kabila announces the formation of a rebel political-military coalition named Front for the Refoundation of the Nation, which includes the March 23 Movement, Twirwaneho and the Congo River Alliance. The group, led by Kabila, says it aimed to coordinate "resistance forces" to topple the Government of President Félix Tshisekedi.
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BBC
Law and crime
A 14-year-old student opens fire at a middle school in Aubagne, France, injuring two staff members, before being detained.
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France 24
Pakistan's federal government detains hundreds of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) members, including former Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister Sohail Afridi and other provincial officials, after suspending the PTI-led provincial administration and imposing emergency rule.
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AFP via RFI
A cyber attack without attribution against French supermarkets results in losses worth millions of euros.
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BBC News
Politics and elections
Ülle Madise, who was elected by the Riigikogu in September, takes office as President of Estonia, succeeding Alar Karis.
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Estonian World
Business and economy
American economists Robert Ernest Hall and Michael Dean Woodford are jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on "microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation".
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CNN
American visual images company Getty Images announces that it will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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Reuters
Disasters and accidents
Two deaths are reported after hurricanes Rachel and Simon made landfall on Mexico's coast, with Guerrero governor Evelyn Salgado and Baja California governor Marina del Pilar Ávila confirming their deaths.
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Al Jazeera
One person is killed and four others are injured after an accident on the Goliath roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia in Mableton, Georgia, United States.
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BNO News
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France 24
International relations
The Council of the European Union approves the 22nd package of sanctions against Russia, targeting 1,569 individuals and entities of the country's military and industrial complex.
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EU Council