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Reuters
October 22
Disasters and accidents
October 21
Science and technology
American video game publisher Electronic Arts, which was recently bought-out by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, announces the closing of its Canadian studio BioWare.
Source:
Kotaku
Node.js releases three security updates. These address 10 different vulnerabilities, including 4 high-severity ones, which affect how Node.js handles DNS resolution, TLS handshakes, and Brotli decoding.
Source:
Heise Online
Armed conflicts and attacks
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Shin Bet say that they have killed a Hamas Nukhba forces militant that took part in planning the killing of four IDF soldiers in September 2025.
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Ynetnews
The U.S. Department of State orders non-emergency employees at its embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to leave the country as Houthi attacks ramp up.
Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present)Yemeni civil war (2014–present)Houthi–Saudi conflictSaudi Arabia–United States relations
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Al Jazeera
Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele announces the start of a military operation to rescue four Air Force technicians. The technicians, attached to the international Gang Suppression Force, were taken hostage after gangs attacked their armored vehicle on 18 October.
Source:
Reuters
United States special envoy Steve Witkoff arrives in Saint Petersburg to talk with Russian president Vladimir Putin about potentially resolving the war with Ukraine. Putin states he would resume United States-mediated trilateral peace talks with Ukraine, on or after November 10.
Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present)Peace negotiations in the Russo-Ukrainian warUnited States and the Russo-Ukrainian war
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Reuters
American military veteran Stephen 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.
Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present)Peace negotiations in the Russo-Ukrainian warUnited States and the Russo-Ukrainian war
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BBC News
International relations
Indonesia, Pakistan, Qatar, and Turkey jointly sign the Badr Memorandum of Understanding, a major agreement to deepen their defence industry cooperation. The agreement aims to support joint military production projects and strengthen cooperation in technical training, research, and development.
Source:
Reuters
Law and crime
Taiwanese prosecutors indict five people for allegedly accepting money and planning to injure Huang Yihao, an anti-Chinese Communist Party comedian in New Taipei City.
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AP
A district judge in New Mexico, United States, orders Meta to pay $25 billion after a jury found it guilty of misleading Facebook users about privacy violations, marking its largest fine ever.
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Al Jazeera
The Italian Interior Minister has announced a crackdown on truck drivers and farmers who are protesting in southern Italy for about a month against high fuel prices, reporting that 1,339 individuals have been identified, 71 have been reported to the authorities, and 242 have been fined. The protestors are blocking highways and the transport of goods.
Source:
Ansa
Over 80 Americans, British citizens, and Israelis are detained by Israeli soldiers in the Israel-occupied West Bank, including U.S. House of Representatives candidate Brad Lander.
Source:
The Guardian
A Tunisian military court sentences politician and businesswoman Olfa Hamdi to four years in prison on state security charges linked to social media posts, including accusations of inciting military personnel to disobey orders.
Source:
Arab News
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
Sports
Forge FC defeats CF Montréal in a penalty shoot-out to become the first Canadian Premier League team to win a Canadian Championship.
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CBC
St. Louis City SC defeats Columbus Crew in a penalty shoot-out to win the U.S. Open Cup, earning the club its first trophy since beginning play in 2023.
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ESPN
Politics and elections
Thousands of students and teachers march through Athens, Thessaloniki, and Patras in Greece to protest against the rising cost of living, calling for affordable student housing and more state investment in education.
Source:
AP
Paul St-Pierre Plamondon is sworn in as the 34th premier of Quebec, Canada, following the Parti Québécois's victory in the general election.
Source:
The Globe and Mail
October 20
Health and environment
Nigeria announces its first case of Ebola virus in the epidemic. The victim is a woman who had recently visited Uganda.
Source:
The Guardian
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
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
Source:
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.
Source:
Reuters
A critical vulnerability in PHP allowing for remote code execution is discovered, causing many websites to temporarily go offline while a security update is pushed the following day.
Source:
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 subsequently block the certificates.
Source:
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.
Source:
Xinhua
A leak of glycidyl methacrylate from a chemical tank at the terminal in Toledo, Ohio, United States, forces nearly 1,000 residents to evacuate and prompts shelter-in-place orders for more than 50,000 people in Toledo.
Source:
EPA
Law and crime
Police arrest a 34-year-old man for the arson attack on the Hôtel de Ville in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France.
Source:
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.
Source:
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.
Source:
Dawn
Politics and elections
The Parliament of Romania appoints Luca Niculescu as the new Prime Minister, succeeding Ilie Bolojan who resigned amid a politicial crisis.
Source:
Reuters
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
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.
Source:
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.
Source:
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.
Source:
Sudan Tribune
October 19
Armed conflicts and attacks
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
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.
Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present)Yemeni civil war (2014–present)2026 Yemen offensives2026 Shabwah missile attack
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Reuters
A drone strike kills at least 73 people at a market in the disputed Abyei area between South Sudan and Sudan.
Source:
Reuters
Three children are killed in an alleged Rapid Support Forces drone strike in Khartoum, Sudan.
Source:
AP
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
Politics and elections
Albertan voters reject pursuing a future independence referendum, with more than three-quarters supporting the province remaining in Canada.
Source:
BBC News
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
Source:
Al Jazeera
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
Former Chihuahua attorney general César Jáuregui Moreno is arrested by federal agents on a treason warrant as he leaves a Chihuahua state court, which had declined to order his pretrial detention after state prosecutors arrested him two days earlier on related charges of unlawful exercise of public office. He is accused of allowing U.S. agents, reported to be Central Intelligence Agency officers, to take part in an anti-drug operation in April without federal approval.
Source:
El Universal
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.
Source:
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.
Source:
Reuters
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.
Source:
AFP via France 24