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October 6

Science and technology

Belgian physicist Francis Halzen from the University of Wisconsin–Madison is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin".
Source: CNN external link

Business and economy

The merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery into Skydance takes effect.
Source: CNN external link

Armed conflicts and attacks

The Houthis launches missiles against the airports of Najran and Jizan, in Saudi Arabia, causing material damages and wounding three people.
Source: Al Jazeera external link

Law and crime

The faculty of Cornell University are reportedly preparing a no-confidence vote against the university's administration, including its president, Michael Kotlikoff, over its handling of rape allegations from 2024.
Source: CNN external link
August Hanning, former head of Germany's Federal Intelligence Service, is arrested at his home in Nordwalde after being charged by the country's Federal Public Prosecutor General with treason, espionage, and trading state secrets. A former aide of Hanning's is also arrested for aiding and abetting attempted treason and treasonous espionage.
Source: AP external link
Riots break out in Liège, Belgium, following a day of student protests, resulting in damaged shops and destroyed bus shelters in the city center.
Source: Le Soir external link

Health and environment

Kenya confirms its first imported case of the Bundibugyo strain of the Ebolavirus in Nairobi in a deceased male who traveled from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Source: Reuters external link
Nairobi Hospital steps up its infection-control measures, tracing, and staff monitoring following Kenya's first imported case of Ebola.
Source: The Star Kenya external link

October 5

Politics and elections

In Kosovo, the acting presidency of Albulena Haxhiu becomes due to her having continuously served in the position for more than six months since assuming office on 4 April, violating the third paragraph of Article 90 in the constitution. The Kuvendi has two days left until the presidential election deadline by the Constitutional Court expires.
Source: RKS external link
Voters in Quebec, Canada, elect members to the National Assembly.
Source: The Guardian external link
The Parti Québécois is elected into a minority government while the ruling Coalition Avenir Québec face an electoral wipeout.
Source: CBC external link
Romanian president Nicușor Dan designates diplomat Luca Niculescu to form a government. Niculescu's choice is the fourth attempt by Dan to appoint a Prime Minister to succeed Ilie Bolojan, who lost a no-confidence vote last May.
Source: Reuters external link
Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez calls a snap general election for 29 November after Parliament voted down two emergency housing decrees that would have restricted evictions, frozen rents, and blocked vulture-fund property buys.
Source: Reuters external link
Source: Gulf News external link
Source: The Laotian Times external link
Source: Anadolu Agency external link

Law and crime

Source: AFP via France 24 external link
Protesters clash with police in Pristina, Kosovo, after parliament fails to advance legislation limiting the Kosovo Specialist Chambers' powers. One police officer and 11 civilians are injured.
Source: AP external link

Disasters and accidents

A Nigerian Air Force ATR 42-500 aircraft carrying 32 people crashes in Ondo State, Nigeria.
Source: Reuters external link
The toll from yesterday's collision between two ships in the Congo River near Lukolela, Democratic Republic of the Congo, increases to 30 people killed and dozens missing.
Source: AP external link

International relations

The United States Air Force withdraws all of its B-1 Lancer strategic bombers from RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, England. The U.S. Department of Defense confirms the bombers have returned to bases in the United States.
Source: BBC News external link

Armed conflicts

The Presidential Leadership Council launches a large-scale military operation against Houthis in Yemen, with the aim to capture all Houthi-controlled territories.
Source: TRT World external link
Turkey and Pakistan agree to deploy troops under the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement to help Saudi and Yemeni forces remove the Houthi regime from power in Sanaa.
Source: Al Jazeera external link
A Yemeni government offensive pushes the Houthis back from the Bab al-Mandab Strait.
Source: Reuters external link

Business and economy

Brazil's benchmark Ibovespa index rises nearly 9% to almost 210,000 points after the first round of the presidential election, surpassing 200,000 points for the first time.
Source: AFP via France 24 external link
Russian president Vladimir Putin approves the restructuring of UniCredit Bank Russia and the subsequent sale of most of the business to a United Arab Emirates-based private investor, while UniCredit retains its payments operations.
Source: Reuters external link

Science and technology

American scientist Karl Deisseroth of Stanford University, and German biophysicists Peter Hegemann of Humboldt University and Georg Nagel of the University of Würzburg are jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for "their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics".
Source: Reuters external link

October 4

Sports

It is reported that Saudi Arabia has cancelled plans for the proposed NEOM Stadium in The Line, Neom, for the upcoming 2034 FIFA World Cup in the country.
Source: Reuters external link

Health and environment

A lab worker in Russia's Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute in Shelekhov, Irkutsk Oblast, Siberia, dies from a pneumonic plague caused by , with nearly 200 workers in quarantine.
Source: Kyiv Independent external link

International relations

Nicaragua announces its immediate withdrawal from the Central American Parliament after the Organization of American States approved a resolution on Friday calling for Nicaragua to release political prisoners and restore civil liberties.
Source: Reuters external link

Disasters and accidents

The United States Coast Guard suspends the search for the Latitude Air Ambulance Gulfstream G100 aircraft that went missing yesterday with six passengers on board after finding a debris field in the ocean south of Nantucket, Massachussetts. All six passengers, including four Canadian pilots and crew and two Bermudian passengers, are presumed dead.
Source: Winnipeg City News external link

Politics and elections

Bosnians vote to elect the three members of the presidency and 42 members of the House of Representatives. Concurrent elections are also held in the Federation to elect 98 seats of the regional legislature and in Republika Srpska to elect the entity's president and the 83 seats of the respective legislature.
Source: AFP external link
Brazilians head to the polls to elect their president, vice president, 513 members of Chamber of Deputies and 54 members in the Federal Senate. Incumbent president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is running for the fourth non-consecutive term, where his main opponent is Rio de Janeiro senator Flávio Bolsonaro, the son of former president Jair Bolsonaro.
Source: The Guardian external link
Flávio Bolsonaro wins the first round and will face Lula da Silva in a runoff on 25 October.
Source: AP external link

Armed conflicts and attacks

Ethiopian forces capture Mekelle, the capital of the Tigray Region, after the withdrawal of the Tigray People's Liberation Front.
Source: Al Jazeera external link
A drone strikes a displacement camp in Sheraro, Tigray Region, killing at least eight people, including a child, and seriously injuring six others.
Source: AFP via France 24 external link
The World Food Programme reports an airstrike on a United Nations truck in South Kordofan, Sudan, that killed the driver.
Source: Al Jazeera external link
Four people are killed in an American airstrike against an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea.
Source: AP external link
The Houthis take control of Al-Turbah, Yemen, after government troops withdrew earlier in the day. This is the first time the Houthis have held Al-Turbah since the war began.
Source: AP external link

Law and crime

Two people are killed and at least 35 are injured in a mass shooting during a homecoming block party in Vienna, Georgia, United States.
Source: The Guardian external link
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation arrests a 34-year-old Chinese American woman at Los Angeles International Airport in California for allegedly acting as an unregistered Chinese agent and surveilling Taiwanese president Lai Ching-te's son and family in the United States.
Source: The Daily Telegraph external link
Two people are killed and another is injured in a mass shooting at a hunting party in Halden, Norway. The perpetrator is arrested.
Source: AP external link
An American Marine stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, is arrested by Okinawa prefectural police in connection with the alleged robbery and murder of a local woman in Naha. Japanese foreign minister Toshimitsu Motegi summons U.S. ambassador to Japan George Edward Glass regarding the incident.
Source: NPR external link
Three students are arrested for the murder of a 16-year-old classmate in Yong Peng, Johor, Malaysia.
Source: The Straits Times external link

October 3

Armed conflicts and attacks

Iraq's Oil Tankers Company says that they have transported 2 million barrels of oil from the country through a very large crude carrier in the Strait of Hormuz.
Source: Reuters external link
Five people are killed and several more are injured in an Israeli airstrike against a residential building in Gaza City in the Gaza Strip, in violation of the ongoing ceasefire. Three other Palestinians are also killed in more airstrikes.
Source: Al Jazeera external link
The Israel Defense Forces says that they have targeted Hamas leader Ali al-Amoudi in a airstrike, and acknowledge that the results of the strike are under review.
Source: The Times of Israel external link
Unknown gunmen open fire against a vehicle in Ras al-Maara, Syria, killing three people and wounding seven more.
Source: Hawar News Agency external link
Source: Los Angeles Times external link
Source: Kyiv Independent external link

Politics and elections

Latvians vote to elect 100 seats of the Saeima amid an uptick of airspace incursions and hybrid warfare during the Russo-Ukrainian war. Preliminary results indicate that the centrist United List, led by incumbent prime minister Andris Kulbergs, won the most seats.
Source: Reuters external link

Science and technology

Scientists identify a new lizard species, , in Arequipa, Peru.
Source: Gulf News external link

Arts and culture

The remains of Samuil, the former Bulgarian tsar during the First Bulgarian Empire who died in 1014, return to Bulgaria following decades of negotiation with Greece.
Source: Orthodox Times external link

Disasters and accidents

Five workers are killed and ten more are rescued after the collapse of a gold mine in Chah Ab District, Takhar Province, Afghanistan.
Source: AP external link
Ten people are injured, including some critically, in a motor vehicle hooning accident in Newcastle, Australia, during a Newcastle Knights procession before the NRL Grand Final. The driver is arrested at the scene.
Source: Nine News external link
A Latitude Air Ambulance Gulfstream G100, flying from St. David's Island, Bermuda, to Boston, United States, goes missing over the Atlantic Ocean with six people on board, including four Canadian crew and two Bermudian passengers.
Source: News 18 external link