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October 21

International relations

United States special envoy Steve Witkoff arrives in Saint Petersburg to talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin about potentially resolving the war in Ukraine.
Source: Reuters external link
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.
Source: BBC News external link

October 20

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
Source: Arizona Daily Star external link

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: Reuters 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

Armed conflicts and attacks

The death toll in the market drone attack in Abyei rises to 220.
Source: Sudans Post external link
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.
Source: Sudan Tribune external link
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.
Source: Sudan Tribune 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
French police arrest a 34-year old man for the arson attack on the Hôtel de Ville in Limoges.
Source: BBC external link
Pakistan arrests a man for selling fake stamps in the United States that resulted in a $126 million loss to the U.S. Postal Service.
Source: Dawn external link

Health and environment

Nigeria announces its first case of Ebola virus in the epidemic.
Source: The Guardian external link

October 19

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.
Source: Reuters external link
Three children are killed in an alleged Rapid Support Forces drone strike in Khartoum, Sudan.
Source: AP external link
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

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

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
Independent Australian MP Helen Haines is deliberately hit by a car outside her office in Wangaratta, Victoria, leaving her in a critical condition and without legs. Police arrest the car's driver, while Haines is airlifted to a hospital.
Source: The Guardian 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

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

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

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

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

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

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