October 21
Business and economy
The North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) of the United Kingdom approves production from the Jackdaw gas field after energy secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh authorized the NSTA to grant consent, allowing operator Adura to begin supplying gas by late October.
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UPI 
International relations
United States special envoy Steve Witkoff arrives in Saint Petersburg to talk with Russian president Vladimir Putin about potentially resolving the war with Ukraine.
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Reuters
American military veteran Stephen James Hubbard, who was arrested by Russian authorities in 2022 during the Battle of Izium, is released from custody during the meeting between Putin and Witkoff.
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BBC News
October 20
Armed conflicts and attacks
The death toll in the market drone attack in Abyei on the border of South Sudan and Sudan yesterday rises to 220.
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Sudans Post
The Sudanese Army says that they have repelled an attack by the Rapid Support Forces and Sudan People's Liberation Movement–North (SPLM–N) on the Blue Nile state.
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Sudan Tribune
The Rapid Support Forces launches a drone strike on a power plant in Tendelti in Sudan's White Nile State, knocking out the main transition line connecting North Kordofan.
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Sudan Tribune
Law and crime
Police arrest a 34-year old man for the arson attack on the Hôtel de Ville in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France.
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BBC
A United States federal judge sentences a Guatemalan national to 30 years in prison for helping organize a 2022 migrant-smuggling operation in San Antonio, Texas, that left 53 migrants dead and 11 injured.
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AFP via France 24
Pakistan arrests a man for selling fake Postage stamps in the United States that resulted in a $126 million loss to the U.S. Postal Service.
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Dawn
International relations
Libya's eastern-based House of Representatives approves a 2019 maritime boundary agreement with Turkey and repeals two 2020 decisions that rejected the accord.
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Reuters
South Korea withdraws additional embassy staff from Ukraine following a dispute over two captured North Korean soldiers who were transferred to South Korea.
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AFP via RFI
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Reuters
Health and environment
Nigeria announces its first case of Ebola virus in the epidemic.
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The Guardian
Politics and elections
Malaysia's Registrar of Societies deregisters the opposition coalition Perikatan Nasional, citing internal disputes and breaches of the constitution, preventing its component parties from contesting forthcoming elections under a common coalition banner.
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Reuters
Science and technology
JAXA launches the Martian Moons eXploration spacecraft from the Tanegashima Space Center toward Phobos aboard an H3 rocket, aiming to collect at least 10 grams of surface material from the Martian moon and return the samples to Earth in 2031.
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Reuters
A critical vulnerability in PHP allowing for remote code execution is discovered, causing many websites to temporary go offline while a security update is pushed the following day.
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NBC News
Indian certificate authority eMudhra has its private keys compromised, revealing that some of them were extremely insecure single digit numerals. Major web browser developers Mozilla, Google, and Apple subequently block the certificates.
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The Register
Disasters and accidents
At least 14 people are killed and 20 others are injured after a bus and a truck collide head-on in Natore District, Bangladesh.
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Xinhua
October 19
Law and crime
A judge in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, issues a no-bail bond arrest warrant for former Cuban president Raúl Castro after Florida attorney general James Uthmeier charged Castro with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder by directing spies to infiltrate Brothers to the Rescue and ordering the attack on their planes in 1996.
Cuba–United States relations1996 shootdown of Brothers to the Rescue aircraftUnited States embargo against Cuba
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Al Jazeera
Israel Police arrest 10 people in the occupied West Bank over attacks on American photojournalist Heidi Levine and the mayor of Aulnoye-Aymeries, France, who were travelling with European diplomats, and seize vehicles and other evidence during raids.
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Reuters
A Kenyan court convicts Good News International Ministries leader Paul Nthenge Mackenzie of murdering 190 children and an adult whose deaths were linked to starvation in Shakahola Forest.
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Reuters
Independent Australian MP Helen Haines is deliberately hit by a car outside her office in Wangaratta, Victoria. Police arrest the car's driver, while Haines is airlifted to a hospital. Haines later had both her legs amputated.
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Reuters
A teacher and a student are injured in a stabbing attack at a school in Bistrița, Romania. The 13-year-old suspect is arrested.
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Reuters
Politics and elections
Albertans vote on ten referendums, including one to decide if Alberta should seek separation from Canada.
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Reuters
Albertan voters reject pursuing a future independence referendum, with more than three-quarters supporting the province remaining in Canada.
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BBC News
International relations
The World Food Programme cuts monthly food aid for about 500,000 people in the Gaza Strip because of funding shortages, reducing the number of recipients from 1.6 million to 1.1 million.
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AFP via France 24
Disasters and accidents
Twelve migrants, including an infant, are killed when two separate speedboats capsize off the coast of the Lesbos and Samos islands in Greece.
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AP
Armed conflicts and attacks
A drone strike kills at least 73 people at a market in the disputed Abyei area between South Sudan and Sudan.
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Reuters
Three children are killed in an alleged Rapid Support Forces drone strike in Khartoum, Sudan.
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AP
A missile attack by the Houthis kills 58 soldiers and injure over 200 at a training center in Shabwah Governorate, Yemen. There are 14 missing.
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Reuters
October 18
Politics and elections
Protests continue for the second week in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, over water shortages and widespread contamination. A study in June found that at least 93% of households' water systems contained no residual chlorine, but had elevated levels of lead, mercury, nitrates, and .
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Türkiye
The Iranian parliament appoints Mehrdad Akhlaghi as Minister of Defence, replacing acting minister Majid Ebn-e-Reza.
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Reuters
Health and environment
Equatorial Guinea announces that it will expand its program combating malaria to the mainland and Annobón. The program has already heavily reduced malaria cases on Bioko Island.
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The Independent
Disasters and accidents
A truck loses control and runs over devotees outside a temple in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India, killing at least 13 and injuring nearly 40 others.
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The Indian Express
A light aircraft crashes into a dry riverbed in Kondariotissa, Pieria, Greece. Two people are killed.
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Xinhua
International relations
The Taiwanese coast guard drives away 16 Chinese coast guard, research, and fishing vessels operating near Taiwan and the Pratas Island, including some that entered restricted waters.
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The Hindu
Vietnam signs a free trade agreement with the European Free Trade Association (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland) that reduces or eliminates tariffs on industrial, agricultural, and fish products and covers services, intellectual property, and sustainable development.
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AFP
Armed conflicts and attacks
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps reports that an oil tanker has caught on fire and exploded in the southern part of the Strait of Hormuz after striking a naval mine.
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Middle East Eye
Armed gang members ambush Salvadoran Air Force personnel serving with Haiti's Gang Suppression Force in Port-au-Prince, using gunfire and explosives. Four Salvadoran service members remain missing after escaping their burning armored vehicle.
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Reuters