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October 5

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: Al Jazeera external link
A Yemeni government offensive pushes the Houthis from the Bab al-Mandab Strait.
Source: Reuters 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 US Department of Defense confirms the bombers have returned to bases in the United States.
Source: BBC News external link

Law and crime

Source: AFP via France 24 external link

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, which is set to meet for amendments to the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, 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
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

Science and technology

American Karl Deisseroth of Stanford University, and Germans 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

Disasters and accidents

A Nigerian Air Force ATR 42-500 aircraft carrying 32 people crashes in Ondo State, Nigeria.
Source: Reuters external link
The death toll increases to over 30 people, with dozens still missing, of the two ships that collided yesterday on the Congo River near Lukolela, Congo.
Source: AP 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

October 3

Science and technology

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

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

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