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October 20

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.
Source: Reuters external link
South Korea withdraws additional embassy staff from Ukraine following a dispute over two captured North Korean soldiers who were transferred to South Korea.
Source: AFP via RFI external link
United Kingdom says it will deploy RAF Typhoons to help Saudis defend against Houthi attacks.
Source: BBC external link

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.
Source: Reuters external link

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.
Source: Xinhua external link
Twelve people are killed and 30 others are injured after a bus crashes into a truck near Cairo, Egypt.
Source: Xinhua external link

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.
Source: Reuters external link

Law and crime

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.
Source: AFP via France 24 external link

October 19

International relations

Source: The Brussels Times external link
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.
Source: AFP via France 24 external link

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.
Source: Al Jazeera external link
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.
Source: Reuters external link
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.
Source: Reuters external link
A driver deliberately strikes with car independent Australian MP Helen Haines outside her office in Wangaratta, Victoria, leaving her in critical condition and without a leg. Police arrest the driver, while Haines is airlifted to a hospital.
Source: Reuters external link
A teacher and a student are injured in a stabbing attack at a school in Bistrița, Romania. The 13-year-old suspect is arrested.
Source: Reuters external link

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.
Source: AP external link
Fourteen miners are killed and seven more injured when an open pit gold mine collapses in Nariño Department, Colombia.
Source: AP external link

Politics and elections

Albertans vote on ten referendums, including one to decide if Alberta should seek separation from Canada.
Source: Reuters external link
Albertan voters reject pursuing a future independence referendum, with more than three-quarters supporting the province remaining in Canada.
Source: BBC News external link

Armed conflicts and attacks

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.
Source: Reuters external link
A drone strike kills at least 73 people at a market in the disputed Abyei area between South Sudan and Sudan.
Source: Reuters external link
Three children are killed in an alleged Rapid Support Forces drone strike in Khartoum, Sudan.
Source: AP external link

October 18

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.
Source: The Indian Express external link
At least eight people are killed and eight others are injured after a mortar shell explosion in Zawiya, Libya.
Source: Xinhua external link
A light aircraft crashes into a dry riverbed in Kondariotissa, Pieria, Greece. Two people are killed.
Source: Xinhua external link

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 .
Source: Türkiye external link
The Iranian parliament appoints Mehrdad Akhlaghi as Minister of Defence, replacing acting minister Majid Ebn-e-Reza.
Source: Reuters external link

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.
Source: The Hindu external link
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.
Source: AFP external link

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.
Source: Middle East Eye external link
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.
Source: Reuters external link

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.
Source: The Independent external link

October 17

Law and crime

Over 500,000 people take part in protests across France, according to the national trade union confederation, while clashes and riots erupt in large cities.
Source: FranceInfo external link
Protesters force their way into Marseille's town hall and vandalize the interior before being dispersed.
Source: CNews external link
In Lille, protesters storm the city hall and damage the premises prior to being removed by security forces.
Source: Ouest-France external link
Dozens of shops are looted across major French cities amid widespread rioting and civil unrest.
Source: BFMTV external link
The Hôtel de Ville in Limoges were partially destroyed by fire.
Source: Le Parisien external link
Yellow vests activists hold mass demonstrations across France against rising fuel prices and join the student protests.
Source: Al Jazeera external link
A court in New Delhi, India, orders the release of Cockroach Janta Party founder and activist Abhijeet Dipke on a peace bond, one day after police detained him while he was heading to a protest against the Election Commission of India.
Source: AFP via France 24 external link

Disasters and accidents

At least 17 people are killed and 25 others are injured in a crowd crush at a pandal in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Source: Sky News external link
An explosion and wildfire occurs at the CFB Wainwright, a Canadian Armed Forces base in Alberta. Four people are killed and dozens more injured.
Source: CTV News external link
Ten tourists are killed and nine others sustain injuries after a resort catches fire in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
Source: AA external link
Eight people are killed and eight others are injured after a minibus carrying 23 passengers plunges into a drain along the Delhi–Mumbai Expressway near Kota, Rajasthan, India.
Source: The Times of India external link
A Piper Tomahawk II aircraft crashes near Drymen, Stirling, Scotland, killing the two people on board.
Source: BBC News external link

Armed conflicts and attacks

Egyptian president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi states that Egypt will take all necessary steps to protect and defend Saudi Arabia should the latter so desire.
Source: Arab News external link
Masked Israeli settlers attack a group of European diplomats, including the Belgian consul general, French and Polish diplomats, and Catholic representatives visiting Taybeh in the occupied West Bank, Palestine.
Source: AP external link

Politics and elections

In Czechia, opposition parties win 22 of the contested 27 seats in the Senate. The lead party of prime minister Andrej Babiš's government, ANO 2011, comes in third place. The election is the first time in the country's history where governing parties did not win a single seat in a senatorial election.
Source: AP external link
The fourth round of No Kings protests are held across the United States against president Donald Trump and his administration and to encourage early voting ahead of the upcoming midterm elections.
Source: USA Today external link

Health and environment

Kenya confirms four additional cases of Bundibugyo ebolavirus, including three health workers who treated Kenya's first patient and one of his relatives, raising the national total to seven. All four are already in quarantine.
Source: AFP via France 24 external link

Sports

In ice hockey, the Florida Panthers become the first team in the National Hockey League to record a natural hat trick in three consecutive games.
Source: The Athletic external link