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Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Around 105 Hezbollah rockets hit the northern Israeli city of Haifa in the heaviest barrage fired at the city since the start of the war. (The Telegraph)
  • The Israel Defense Forces say that they killed Suhail Hussein Husseini, the head of Hezbollah's logistical headquarters and a member of the Jihad Council. (Times Of Israel)

Science and technology

• Nobel Prize in Physics
  • John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton are awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physics "for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks". (The Guardian)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Crimea attacks
    • An oil terminal in Feodosia, the largest oil facility in Russian-occupied Crimea, catches fire following an overnight drone attack by Ukrainian forces. Russian state media reports that a state of emergency has been declared in Feodosia due to a "human-made disaster". (Ukrainska Pravda)
  • Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • One person is killed and six others, including two children, are injured in Russian shelling that hit several apartment buildings in Sloviansk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Reuters)
  • Southern Ukraine campaign
    • Russian missiles strike two cargo ships in the Port of Odesa, including a Palau-flagged ship carrying grain, killing a port worker and injuring five crew members. (Reuters)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis launch rockets and missiles towards Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Tiberias, Israel, on the anniversary of the Hamas-led attack on Israel. Twelve people are reportedly injured. (The Times of Israel) (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane Milton
    • Hurricane Milton intensifies into a Category 5 hurricane with a minimum central pressure of 897 millibars. (National Hurricane Center)
    • Pasco, Hillsborough, and Pinellas counties in Florida, United States, close schools and order evacuations of residential healthcare facilities in advance of Hurricane Milton's arrival. (Tampa Bay Times)
• Ten people are killed and an unknown number of others are missing when a mine collapses in Central Province, Zambia. (AP)

Health and environment

• The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control reports more than 350 deaths from cholera in Nigeria this year, which is more than twice as many than in the same period last year. (DW)

International relations

• Philippines–South Korea relations
  • During a state visit by South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol to the Philippines, the Philippines and South Korea agree to upgrade their relations to a strategic partnership. (ABC News)

Politics and elections

• Israel–Hamas war protests
  • 2024 Israeli protests
    • Israelis, including hostage families, protest outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's official residence in Jerusalem. (NBC News) (ABC News)
  • Thousands of pro-Palestinian protests are held worldwide to mark the first anniversary of the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip. (Reuters)
• 2024 Georgian parliamentary election
  • The Parliament of Georgia initiates a motion to impeach pro-Western President Salome Zourabichvili over accusations of unauthorized overseas visits, ahead of the parliamentary election on October 26. (Reuters)
• 2024 Tunisian presidential election
  • Incumbent Tunisian President Kais Saied wins a second term with 90.7% of the vote in the presidential election. The Independent High Authority for Elections reports a voter turnout of 28.8%, the lowest since the 2011 Tunisian revolution. (Al Jazeera)
• Human rights in Pakistan
  • The Pakistani government bans the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement, a social movement for Pashtun human rights, calling the movement a "proscribed organization". (Al Jazeera)

Science and technology

• Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  • American biologists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun are awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation". (CNN)
• The European Space Agency spacecraft Hera is successfully launched on a Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket by SpaceX from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, United States. The spacecraft will study the asteroid 65803 Didymos and evaluate the impact of the earlier Double Asteroid Redirection Test. (Space News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • 2024 Beersheba bus station shooting
    • A police officer is killed and thirteen other people are injured in Beersheba, Israel, in an incident described as a terrorist attack. The perpetrator is shot dead by security forces. (The Jerusalem Post)
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • At least 26 people are killed in Israeli airstrikes allegedly targeting Hamas militants that hit a mosque and a school housing displaced Palestinians in Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip. (BBC News)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
    • Hezbollah claims that its attacks on Israeli soldiers trying to infiltrate Blida, Lebanon, forced the soldiers to retreat. (AFP via Barron's)
    • The Israeli military establishes a forward operating base near a United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon, putting peacekeepers at risk. UNIFIL has refused the Israeli military's request to move its positions. (Al Jazeera)
  • A rocket fired from Lebanon strikes a restaurant in Haifa, Israel, injuring at least six people. (The Jerusalem Post)
• Insurgency in Sindh
  • At least two people, both Chinese nationals, are killed and ten others are injured when an oil tanker truck exploded near Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan. The separatist group Balochistan Liberation Army claims responsibility for the explosion, stating they targeted a convoy of Chinese workers of the Port Qasim Electric Power Company. (Crisis24) (Reuters)

Science and technology

• Europa Clipper
  • Due to Hurricane Milton, NASA cancels the launch of the Europa Clipper scheduled for October 10. (CBS News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • Russian forces claim that they captured the village of Bazhane Druhe in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (The Economic Times)
    • Ukrainian forces say that they have shot down a Russian aircraft near Kostiantynivka. The aircraft crashed into a house, causing it to catch fire. No casualties are reported. The aircraft is later reported to be a S-70 Okhotnik-B and was reportedly shot down by a Russian Su-57 jet to prevent its capture by Ukraine. (Defence Blog) (Forbes) (AP)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • September 2024 Lebanon strikes
    • Hamas says that an Israeli strike killed Saeed Atallah, a leader in the Al-Qassam Brigades, along with three family members in a Palestinian refugee camp in Tripoli, Lebanon. (Reuters)
• Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
  • Indian police claim that 31 Naxalite rebels were killed in a shootout with Indian soldiers in the Abujhmad forest in Chhattisgarh, India. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• English Channel migrant crossings
  • Four people, including a child, are killed in two separate incidents while attempting to cross the English Channel in boats. (BBC News)
• Royal New Zealand Navy vessel HMNZS Manawanui runs aground off the coast of Samoa before catching fire and later capsizing. All 75 crew members are evacuated onto lifeboats and rescued. It is the first loss of a New Zealand naval ship at sea since World War II. (BBC News)

Sports

• 2024 NCAA Division I FBS football season
  • 2024 Alabama vs. Vanderbilt football game
    • The unranked Vanderbilt Commodores upset the undefeated, AP No. 1 ranked Alabama Crimson Tide 40–35, marking the first time Vanderbilt won against a top-five ranked team in its program's history. (CNN)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Israel–Hamas war
    • Hamas' armed wing Al-Qassam Brigades confirms the death of commander Zahi Yaser Oufi in an Israeli strike in Tulkarm in the West Bank yesterday. (Reuters)
• Red Sea crisis
  • 2024 missile strikes in Yemen
    • The United States launches airstrikes against Houthi locations in Yemen, including in the capital Sanaa, and the port city of Al Hudaydah. (Al Jazeera)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Pokrovsk offensive
    • The head of military administration of Pokrovsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, Serhiy Dobriak reports that Russian forces are now about 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) from the city, and have destroyed or damaged 80% of the city's critical infrastructure. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• The European Union votes 10–5 with 12 abstentions to institute tariffs of up to 45% on electric vehicles manufactured in China. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 European floods
  • 2024 Bosnia and Herzegovina floods
    • Sixteen people are killed in floods and landslides in Jablanica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. (Al Jazeera)
• 2023–2024 South American drought
  • Extreme drought in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil causes the river banks of the city of Manaus to fall to their lowest levels since 1902, severely impacting trade in the region. (Reuters)

International relations

• Georgia–European Union relations, Accession of Georgia to the European Union
  • The European Union threatens sanctions and a suspension of relations with Georgia if Georgia becomes a "one-party state" with no political opposition following the next parliamentary elections on October 26. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Parole for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans
  • The United States Department of Homeland Security reports that the Biden administration will not renew the legal status of 530,000 migrants who entered the U.S. as part of a provisional humanitarian program beginning in 2022. (Reuters)
• Pork barrel scam
  • The Sandiganbayan court in the Philippines acquits Chief Presidential Legal Counsel and former Senate president Juan Ponce Enrile, his former aide Gigi Reyes, and Janet Napoles of plunder in connection with the alleged misuse of Ponce Enrile's Priority Development Assistance Fund during his senatorial term. (AFP via CNA) (Rappler)
• Women's rights in Afghanistan
  • The European Court of Justice rules that all Afghan women are eligible for asylum in the European Union. (The Guardian)
• At least two people are killed and three others are injured, including one critically, in a suspected arson at a 100-year-old three-story building in the Old Montreal neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (CBC News) (CFCF-TV)
• A woman from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is arrested and charged with murder following a stabbing spree that killed three people in Toronto, Niagara Falls and Hamilton between Tuesday and Thursday. (CFTO-TV)

Politics and elections

• 2024 French political crisis, French anti-Barnier government protests
  • October 2024 French vote of no confidence
    • The left-wing New Popular Front coalition files a motion of no confidence against the new right-wing Barnier government amid ongoing political protests in France. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli incursions in the West Bank during the Israel–Hamas war
    • 2024 Tulkarm Camp airstrike
      • An Israeli Air Force jet launches an airstrike on a refugee camp in Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank, killing at least 20 people. (Al Jazeera)
  • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
    • An Israeli airstrike in central Gaza kills Aziz Salha, known for his role in the 2000 Ramallah lynching. (Jerusalem Post)
    • The Israel Defense Forces announces that they killed Rawhi Mushtaha, head of the Hamas government in Gaza, along with Sameh al-Siraj and Sami Oudeh, who were responsible for security in Hamas, in an airstrike three months ago in northern Gaza. (BBC News)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
    • Israel launches multiple strikes using bunker buster bombs on Beirut, Lebanon, targeting Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine. (Al Arabiya)
    • Nine medics are killed in an Israeli airstrike against an Islamic Health Authority office in Beirut, Lebanon, bringing the death toll of medics killed in Lebanon in the past two weeks to 97. (Al Jazeera) (Al Jazeera 2)
    • The Lebanese Armed Forces open fire on Israeli troops near Bint Jbeil, Nabatieh Governorate, Lebanon, for the first time since the invasion began, after two Lebanese Army soldiers were killed earlier today in separate Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon. (The Times) (Al Arabiya)
    • A Hellenic Air Force plane evacuates Greek and Cypriot nationals from Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport in Lebanon. (Ekathimerini)
  • Spillover of the Israel–Hamas war
    • The Islamic Resistance in Iraq launch a kamikaze drone attack on a military base in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, killing two IDF soldiers and injuring 24 others. (Times of Israel)
• Haitian crisis
  • Armed gunmen from the Gran Grif gang commit a mass shooting with automatic rifles and a series of arson attacks in the town of Pont-Sondé, Haiti, killing at least 70 people and seriously injuring 16 others, with a local government prosecutor describing the incident as a massacre. (CTV News)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Effects of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina
    • One thousand U.S. soldiers are deployed to western North Carolina to aid the North Carolina National Guard in humanitarian operations and to help find hundreds of missing people. (NBC News)
  • United States Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas reports that the Federal Emergency Management Agency lacks the funding to provide necessary support for the remainder of the 2024 hurricane season. (Axios)
• 2024 famine in Haiti
  • Save the Children reports that 17% of all children in Haiti are currently suffering from emergency food insecurity primarily caused by national gang wars. (Reuters)
• Nine people are killed in a fire at a hospital in Pingtung County, Taiwan. (AP)
• Seven people are killed and 19 others are injured when a bus falls into a ravine in Balochistan, Pakistan. (Dawn)
• At least 78 people are killed when a boat capsizes in Lake Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Al Jazeera)
• An engine surge causes a fire in a Ryanair Boeing 737-800 while taxiing at Brindisi Airport in southern Italy, prompting the evacuation of the 184 passengers and crew on board. (CTV News) (ASN)

Health and environment

• 2023–2024 mpox epidemic
  • Ghana reports its first case of mpox this year. (Reuters)
• Rwanda Marburg virus disease outbreak
  • Officials in Rwanda report that the death toll from the Marburg virus outbreak in the country has increased to 11 people. (AP)

International relations

• Chagos Archipelago sovereignty dispute
  • The United Kingdom and Mauritius jointly announce that a deal has been made to resolve the dispute over the Chagos Archipelago, with sovereignty of the British Indian Ocean Territory being handed over to Mauritius in exchange for the United Kingdom and the United States retaining control of the military base on Diego Garcia for the next 99 years. (BBC News) (Reuters)

Law and crime

• LGBT rights in Georgia
  • Georgian LGBT propaganda law
    • The Georgian Parliament Speaker signs into law a wide-ranging bill that bans gender transitioning and gender-affirming care, same-sex marriage and adoption, and depictions of LGBTQ+ people in media after the President refused to sign it, which chief European Union diplomat Josep Borrell states could prevent the nation's accession to the EU. (Politico)
• Prosecution of S. Iswaran
  • Former Singapore Transport Minister S. Iswaran, who pleaded guilty to four charges of obtaining valuable items as a public servant and one charge of obstruction of justice last week, is sentenced to one year in jail. (CNA) (Straits Times)
• Fawzia Amin Sido, Yazidi woman, who had been kidnapped at age 11 by the Islamic State in 2014 in Iraq and sold and trafficked to Gaza, is freed from captivity in Gaza following a secret operation involving the United States and Israel. The woman's captor is believed to have previously been killed in an Israeli airstrike. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • 2024 Jaffa shooting
    • Hamas military wing Al-Qassam Brigades claims responsibility for yesterday's mass shooting and stabbing attack in Jaffa, Israel, that killed seven people and injured 17 others. (Al Jazeera)
  • Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, Gaza Strip famine
    • Humanitarian aid groups tell Reuters that Israel introduced new customs regulations and restrictions on humanitarian aid deliveries into the Gaza Strip in mid-August, which are significantly delaying the delivery of food and essential supplies via the Jordan route. (Reuters)
  • Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip
    • The Gaza Health Ministry reports that at least 51 people, including seven women and twelve children, are killed in coordinated Israeli strikes in southern Gaza. (AP) (Guardian)
    • An Israeli airstrike on a school housing displaced people kills 30 Palestinians in Gaza. (Reuters)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
    • Eight Israeli soldiers are killed in ambushes by Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon. (AP)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Kharkiv strikes
    • At least ten people are injured when a Russian guided bomb hits an apartment building in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Reuters)
• Haitian crisis
  • The United Nations International Organization for Migration reports that over 700,000 Haitians are internally displaced in the country due to gang violence, with more than half being children. (Al Jazeera)
• Islamic State insurgency in Iraq
  • Four Iraqi soldiers are killed and three others are injured in an ambush by Islamic State militants near Kirkuk, Iraq. (Iraqi News Agency) (Reuters)
• Terrorism in Denmark, Attacks against Israeli embassies and diplomats
  • Danish police arrest three Swedes in connection with two explosions that occurred near the Israeli embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• An unexploded ordnance from World War II detonates under a taxiway at Miyazaki Airport in Miyazaki, Japan, causing more than 80 flights to be cancelled. (NHK) (The Guardian)
• More than 100 people, mostly women and children, are missing after a wooden boat carrying 300 people sinks in the Niger River near Mokwa, Niger State, Nigeria. At least 150 people are rescued and 16 bodies are recovered. (DW) (Al Jazeera)

International relations

• Israel and the United Nations
  • Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Israel Katz bans UN Secretary-General António Guterres from entering Israel and declares him persona non grata for not "unequivocally" condemning yesterday's Iranian missile attack. (Reuters) (DW)

Law and crime

• Two men and a pregnant woman are shot and killed by unidentified assailants in a barbershop in Lisbon, Portugal. The three suspects fled the scene on foot. (Reuters)
• The Mexican Armed Forces announces its soldiers opened fire on a truck after "hearing detonations" while pursuing it near Huixtla, Chiapas, Mexico. The vehicle was carrying migrants, six out of thirty-one of whom are killed. (Al Jazeera) (AP)
• The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announces an investigation into a plastic factory after six workers have died or went missing from flooding by Hurricane Helene. (ABC News)

Sports

• Two NASCAR teams, 23XI Racing owned by former basketball player Michael Jordan, and Front Row Motorsports, file an antitrust lawsuit against NASCAR, alleging "anticompetitive and exclusionary practices". (The Athletic)