A M 7.4 earthquake strikes Manay, Davao Oriental, Philippines, killing eight people and wounding over 400.
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Philippine Daily Inquirer 
October 10
Disasters and accidents
The United States Pacific Tsunami Warning Center raises a tsunami alert for the Philippines, Indonesia, and Palau for more than two hours. Local authorities record "minor tsunamis" in Talaud Islands, North Sulawesi, Indonesia, and an inch-long wave in Tandag, Surigao del Sur, Philippines.
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BBC News
Multiple people are killed, multiple others are injured and at least 19 people are reported missing after an explosion at a manufacturing plant in Hickman County, Tennessee, United States.
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WBIR-TV
Armed conflicts and attacks
A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas comes into effect hours after the approval of the ceasefire agreement by the Israeli war cabinet. The Israel Defense Forces complete their withdrawal to the agreed-upon lines within the Gaza Strip.
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AP
The United Nations human rights chief says three days of attacks in and near a displaced persons camp in Al-Fashir, North Darfur, Sudan, has killed at least 53 civilians.
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The Canadian Press
All 30 Pakistani Taliban terrorists involved in the Orakzai District attack on Tuesday that killed 30 people, including 11 security personnel, are killed in a retribution operation in Jamal Maya, Orakzai District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
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Dawn
At least 11 Pakistan Armed Forces soldiers are killed in an attack on a military post by the Pakistani Taliban in Tirah, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
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News18
Law and crime
One person is killed and 22 others are injured during a Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan protest in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
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Dawn
Health and environment
Senegal's health authorities confirm 17 deaths in a major outbreak of Rift Valley fever that started on September 21.
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Africanews
Politics and elections
Venezuelan activist María Corina Machado is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her promotion of democratic rights in Venezuela.
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Nobel Peace Prize
Following a vote of 124–0, the Peruvian Congress removes President Dina Boluarte from power after she fails to appear for a required defense in Congress regarding her government's inability to lower crime.
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AP
Congress president José Jerí is sworn in as the interim president following Boluarte's removal from power.
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DW
French President Emmanuel Macron reappoints Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister, four days after Lecornu handed in his resignation.
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France 24
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Reuters
International relations
Indian foreign minister S Jaishankar announces the country will reopen its embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, after it was shut down four years ago during the fall of Kabul.
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DW
US secretary of defense Pete Hegseth announces that he has signed an agreement with Qatar to build a new Qatar Emiri Air Force (QEAF) facility at the Mountain Home Air Force Base in Elmore County, Idaho, that will host QEAF F-15QA fighter jets and pilots.
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CBS News
October 9
International relations
The attorney general of Trinidad and Tobago says that the United States has granted permission yesterday to the country to negotiate a gas deal with Venezuela without facing U.S. sanctions related to its relationship with Venezuela.
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AP
Law and crime
The United States Department of Justice indicts Attorney General of New York Letitia James on a criminal bank fraud charge by in Alexandria, Virginia, United States.
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Reuters
Politics and elections
The Ecuadorian Army deploys at least 5,000 personnel to Quito to "prevent vandalism" amid ongoing protests against President Daniel Noboa over the rise of price of diesel fuel due to end of subsidies.
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AP
Business and economy
US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent announces that the United States has purchased Argentine pesos and has finalized a currency swap framework, adding that the US is prepared to provide assistance to Argentina's economy, after ending four days of meetings with Argentine economy minister Luis Caputo.
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AP
The United States Treasury Department issues sanctions against Naftna Industrija Srbije, the primary petroleum producer and supplier in Serbia, which is majority-owned by Russian state company Gazprom.
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AP
Disasters and accidents
One person is killed in Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, and hundreds of people are evacuated as Typhoon Halong makes landfall in the Izu Islands.
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Kyodo News
Russian president Vladimir Putin says that Russian air defense shot down Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 in December 2024, in his first admission of responsibility for the accident.
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CNN
Armed conflicts and attacks
Four people are killed and 40 others are trapped under rubble in an Israeli strike on a building in Sabra, Gaza City, Palestine, as the ceasefire agreement proposed by US president Donald Trump awaits approval by the Israeli cabinet.
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The Times of Israel
Twenty-nine people are killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip.
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Wafa
The Israeli cabinet formally approves the ceasefire agreement, with the Israeli military given 24 hours to withdraw their troops to the agreed-upon line within Gaza. The hostage and prisoner releases are expected to begin in the coming days.
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AP
US officials announce that 200 troops will be sent to Israel to run a civil-military coordination center established by U.S. Central Command to support and monitor the ceasefire deal, joined by members of the armed forces of Egypt, Qatar, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates.
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AP
The Pakistan Air Force carries out two airstrikes in Kabul, Afghanistan, targeting Pakistani Taliban leaders.
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Amu.tv
Seven Pakistani Taliban members and a major are killed in a raid and ensuing shootout in Daraban, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The Inter-Services Public Relations further reports that the security forces recovered a cache of weapons and ammunition, along with stating that the killed terrorists were actively involved in multiple attacks.
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Daily Pioneer
Three tribal leaders from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, are abducted and killed by Pakistani Taliban militants.
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Press Trust of India
Arts and culture
Hungarian novelist and screenwriter László Krasznahorkai wins this year's Nobel Prize in Literature "for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art".
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CNN
Sports
In tennis, Monégasque player Valentin Vacherot defeats Holger Rune at the Shanghai Masters to become the lowest-ranked player on the ATP rankings to reach a Masters 1000 semi-final in 26 years, and the first Monégasque in history to do so.
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ATP
October 8
Disasters and accidents
The World Health Organization intervenes as the death toll from toxic cough syrup in Madhya Pradesh, India, rises to at least 20.
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The Independent
Six people are killed and eight others are critically injured in a fire at a firecracker factory in East Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh, India.
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India Today
Science and technology
Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar Yaghi are jointly awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on metal–organic frameworks.
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BBC News
Armed conflicts and attacks
United States president Donald Trump announces that Israel and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire and the first phase of his peace plan to end the Gaza war. .
A family is injured, including a 4-year-old girl critically, and dozens of civilian infrastructure facilities are damaged in a drone strike on a house in Sumy, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine.
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RBC-Ukraine
A Ukrainian missile strike kills three people and injures nine others in Maslova Pristan, Belgorod Oblast, Russia. A search and rescue operation is underway for others believed to be trapped under rubble.
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BBC News
Eleven soldiers and 19 Pakistani Taliban fighters are killed in an ambush on a military convoy and subsequent shootout in Orakzai District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
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Al Jazeera
Law and crime
Hundreds of Texas Military Forces troops arrive at a United States Army Reserve military base near Chicago, Illinois, ahead of a deployment to the city.
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Sky News
Derrick Groves, the last remaining prisoner from a group of ten who escaped the Orleans Parish Prison in May in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, is captured in Atlanta following a standoff with police at a house.
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NBC News
Singapore executes Pannir Selvam Pranthaman, a Malaysian man convicted of drug offenses, bringing this year's number of executions in the country to 12.
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AP
A 29-year-old man is arrested for allegedly starting the Palisades Fire that killed 12 people and destroyed more than 6,000 homes in Los Angeles County, Southern California, United States, earlier this year.
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BBC News
Sabag Montiel is sentenced to ten years for attempting to assassinate the former president of Argentina and then-vicepresident Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. His girlfriend, Brenda Uliarte, is sentenced to eight years for being an accomplice.
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El País
Four people are killed, including the perpetrator, in a shooting spree at three locations across southwest Houston and Sugar Land, Texas, United States.
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KHOU
At least six people are injured, including four musicians, in a mass shooting at an Agua Marina concert in Lima, Peru. No arrests have been made.
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Lokmat Times
October 7
Law and crime
Six civilians are killed and two others are injured in a mass shooting when Mexican Army soldiers open fire on a vehicle that tried to ram them on the highway connecting Ciudad Mante and Tampico in Tamaulipas, Mexico. Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum vowed an investigation.
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MSN
Iris Stalzer, the mayor-elect of Herdecke, Germany, is left in a critical condition after a stabbing allegedly committed by several men. A later police statement declares that it was presumed the stabbing had a family connection and that there are "no indications of a politically motivated act".
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AP
A restaurant in Strømmen, Akershus, Norway, receives damage after hand grenades were thrown into it. The Norwegian Police suspects gang activity with links to the Swedish–Kurdish criminal gang Foxtrot, arresting two teenagers shortly after the incident.
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VG
Residents of Bonaire, a Dutch special municipality in the Caribbean, file a class action lawsuit backed by Greenpeace against the Netherlands accusing them of failure to act in protecting the island's residents against climate change, as they are legally Dutch citizens.
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Euractiv
The Supreme Court of Argentina approves the extradition of businessman Fred Machado to the United States, where he faces federal charges on drug trafficking and money laundering.
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AP
The Supreme Electoral Court of Costa Rica requests the National Assembly to strip president Rodrigo Chaves Robles of immunity so that he can be prosecuted for corruption charges.
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AP
Five people are arrested after an alleged assassination attempt on Ecuadorian president Daniel Noboa.
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CNN
International relations
The Holy See Press Office announces that Pope Leo XIV will visit İznik, Turkey, the location of the ancient city Nicaea, and Lebanon in November and December as his first papal visits abroad.
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Anadolu Agency
Disasters and accidents
The death toll from the collapse of a last week in East Java, Java, Indonesia, rises to 67 as search and rescue operations end.
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The Guardian
At least 16 people are killed after a bus is hit by a landslide in Himachal Pradesh, India.
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NDTV
Over ten people are injured when a ferris wheel collapses at a fair in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.
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BNO News
Business and economy
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AP
Armed conflicts and attacks
The Syrian government announces an immediate ceasefire with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces following clashes last night that killed at least four people and injured at least eight others.
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AP
United States Central Command announces that US forces conducted a strike in Syria on October 2, killing Muhammad ‘Abd-al-Wahhab al-Ahmad, a senior Jama'at Ansar al-Islam attack planner.
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The Hill
Houthi rebels detain nine United Nations workers in Yemen as part of a long-term crackdown on UN presence in the country, bringing the total number of detained UN personnel to 53.
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AP
The Philippine Department of Migrant Workers confirms the death of a critically injured Filipino crew member of MV which was attacked by the Houthis in the Gulf of Aden on September 29. The Netherlands-based operator of the vessel has reported that another injured Filipino is still being treated in Djibouti.
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The Times of Israel
Science and technology
John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John M. Martinis are jointly awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantization in an electric circuit.
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Euronews
Politics and elections
Jeffrey Bostic is elected President of Barbados by the Parliament. He succeeds Sandra Mason and becomes the second President after Barbados becoming a republic.
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Barbados Today