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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. (Reuters)

Thursday, October 22^nd, 2026

A M_w 7.0 earthquake strikes Tibet, with an epicenter in the city of Nagqu. (Reuters)

Wednesday, October 21st 2026

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. (Reuters) (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. (AP) (BBC News)

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. (The Guardian)

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. (Ynetnews)

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. (Al Jazeera)

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. (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. (Reuters)

South Africa cuts fuel levies by R3.00 (US$0.18) per litre of diesel and R1.50 ($0.09) per litre of petrol from November 4 to December 1 after fuel prices reach record highs. (AFP)

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. (UPI)

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. (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. (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. (Ansa)

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. (AFP via Arab News)

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. (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. (The Globe and Mail)

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. (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. (Heise Online)

Forge FC defeats CF Montréal in a penalty shoot-out to become the first Canadian Premier League team to win a Canadian Championship. (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. (ESPN)

Tuesday, October 20^th, 2026

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. (Reuters)

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. (Reuters)

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. (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. (The Register)

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. (AFP via France 24) (Reuters)

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. (AFP via France 24)

Police arrest a 34-year-old man for the arson attack on the Hôtel de Ville in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France. (BBC)

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. (BBC News) (Dawn)

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. (Al Jazeera)

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. (AFP via France 24)

The death toll in the market drone attack in Abyei on the border of South Sudan and Sudan yesterday rises to 220. (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. (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. (Sudan Tribune)

The Parliament of Romania appoints Luca Niculescu as the new Prime Minister, succeeding Ilie Bolojan who resigned amid a politicial crisis. (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. (Reuters)

A drone strike kills at least 73 people at a market in the disputed Abyei area between South Sudan and Sudan. (Reuters)

Monday, October 19th, 2026

United Kingdom says it will deploy RAF Typhoons to help Saudis defend against Houthi attacks. (BBC News) (Reuters)

Libya’s eastern-based House of Representatives approves a 2019 maritime boundary agreement with Turkey and repeals two 2020 decisions that rejected the accord. (Reuters)

At least 14 people are killed and 20 others are injured after a bus and a truck collide head-on in Natore District, Bangladesh. (Xinhua)

Twelve people are killed and 30 others are injured after a bus crashes into a truck near Cairo, Egypt. (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. (Associated Press) (EPA)

Nigeria announces its first case of Ebola virus in the epidemic. (The Guardian)

South Korea withdraws additional embassy staff from Ukraine following a dispute over two captured North Korean soldiers who were transferred to South Korea. (AFP via RFI)

Twelve migrants, including an infant, are killed when two separate speedboats capsize off the coast of the Lesbos and Samos islands in Greece. (AP)

Fourteen miners are killed and seven more injured when an open pit gold mine collapses in Nariño Department, Colombia. (AP)

Andorra and San Marino sign the respective association agreements with the European Union. (San Marino RTV) (RTVA)

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. (Al Jazeera)

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. (The Guardian)

A teacher and a student are injured in a stabbing attack at a school in Bistrița, Romania. The 13-year-old suspect is arrested. (Reuters)

Albertans vote on ten referendums, including one to decide if Alberta should seek separation from Canada. (Reuters)

Albertan voters reject pursuing a future independence referendum, with more than three-quarters supporting the province remaining in Canada. (BBC News)

Sunday, October 18^th, 2026

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. (Middle East Eye)

The Iranian parliament appoints Mehrdad Akhlaghi as Minister of Defence, replacing acting minister Majid Ebn-e-Reza. (Reuters)

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. (AFP via The Hindu)

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. (AFP)

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. (AFP via Dawn)

At least eight people are killed and eight others are injured after a mortar shell explosion in Zawiya, Libya. (Xinhua)

Equatorial Guinea announces that it will expand its program against malaria to the mainland and Annobón. The program has already heavily reduced malaria cases on Bioko Island. (The Independent)

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Formula 1 announces a new grand prix in Kigali, Rwanda, to run for at least 10 years starting in the early 2030s with a new track. This would be the first F1 grand prix in Africa since South Africa in 1993. (AP)

One person is killed and four others are injured after an accident on the Goliath roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia in Mableton, Georgia, United States. (BNO News)

The Clark County District Court in Nevada, United States, sentences former Crips gang leader Duane “Keffe D” Davis to a minimum of 40 years in prison for orchestrating the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas. (DW)

Wednesday, October 14th, 2026

A power station in the Dniprovskyi District, Kyiv, Ukraine is hit in a Russian ballistic missile attack, leaving more than 1,000 residential buildings without heating. (BBC)

Singapore records its highest air pollution level of 2026 as one-hour PM_2.5 concentrations reach about 288 micrograms per cubic metre amid haze from Indonesian wildfires. (AFP)

Timor-Leste suspends in-person classes nationwide from October 15 to 17 after worsening air quality from wildfire smoke and pollutant particles transported across Southeast Asia. (AFP)

A court in New Delhi, India, remands Cockroach Janta Party spokespeople Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka in custody for five days after police detained them for entering the restricted Jantar Mantar protest site. (AFP via RFI)

The Ukrainian citizen accused of Nord Stream pipelines sabotage in 2022 faces trial at the Hanseatisches Oberlandesgericht in Hamburg, Germany, raising again the questions about Ukraine’s possible role in the attack. (DW)

Turkish opposition-leaning and independent news channel Halk TV goes offline as it is raided by police and new administrators are appointed by the government. (BBC)

Tuesday, October 13^th, 2026

Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, United States, suspends all fraternity parties and social events for the remainder of the 2026–27 academic year following allegations that seven Chi Phi members drugged and gang-raped a student in 2024. (BBC News)

Philippine prosecutors in the impeachment trial of vice president Sara Duterte drop three of the four impeachment charges in an attempt to speed up the trial. The Senate, sitting as an impeachment court, approves the move. (AP)

The Hungarian National Assembly passes an amendment repealing most provisions of the anti-LGBTQ child protection law that was previously passed during former prime minister Viktor Orbán‘s tenure in 2021. (DW)

The Royal Saudi Air Force strikes a fuel depot near Sanaa, Yemen. The Houthis launch missiles upon multiple Saudi Arabian cities, including Riyadh and Dammam, in response. (BBC News)

An administrative building belonging to Saudi Aramco in Dhahran, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia, is partially consumed by a fire after a Houthi missile is intercepted over the city by Saudi forces. (Al Jazeera)

Hezbollah spokesperson Ali Damoush announces they will pay up to US$14,000 in aid to families whose homes in Lebanon were destroyed or made uninhabitable during its war with Israel. Families in Beirut and its suburbs will receive $14,000, while the rest of Lebanon will receive $12,000. (AP)

Two merchant ships are hit by unknown drones off Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast, with one sinking. Eleven crew members are missing and 20 in total are rescued. Bulgarian prime minister Rumen Radev has blamed Russia and summoned its ambassador. It is the second such attack in six days. (Reuters)

Six deaths are confirmed in Florida, United States, from Hurricane Isaias. (Fox Weather)

At least seven people are killed and over 40 others are injured in a train derailment near Multan, Punjab, Pakistan. (AA) (AFP via The Straits Times)

The World Health Organization reports a surge in cholera cases in Yemen over the past three weeks. (AFP via Arab News)

Indonesian authorities release 20 protected green sea turtles back into the oceans off Bali after they were seized from an empty boat abandoned by wildlife smugglers last week. (AP)

Philippine prosecutors in the impeachment trial of vice president Sara Duterte drop three of the fou

inimum of 40 years in prison for orchestrating the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas. (DW)

Four people are killed and three more injured in a mass shooting at a memorial service in Katlehong, Gauteng, South Africa. (AP)

Eight people are injured in a mass stabbing at a supermarket in Incheon, South Korea. A suspect is arrested. (BBC News) (CNA)

Students in Tirana, Albania, throw bricks at the Ministry of Education building, prompting riot police to respond. (Reuters)

The Netherlands denies visas to Russian artistic gymnasts Anna Kalmykova, Viktoria Listunova, and Angelina Melnikova for the world championships in Rotterdam, while four other Russian gymnasts receive permission to enter the country. (AP)

Monday, October 12^th, 2026

Generative AI chatbot Character.ai files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, citing costs and litigations including those linked to teen suicides. (CBS News)

One person is killed and four others are injured after an accident on the Goliath roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia in Mableton, Georgia, United States. (BNO News)

The Houthis claim to have attacked King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with a ballistic missile for a third consecutive day. (Reuters)

Delta Air Lines postpones direct flights from Atlanta’s Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport to Riyadh following attacks by the Houthis on the country. (The Hill)

Former Congolese president Joseph Kabila announces the formation of a rebel political-military coalition named Front for the Refoundation of the Nation, which includes the March 23 Movement, Twirwaneho and the Congo River Alliance. The group, led by Kabila, says it aimed to coordinate “resistance forces” to topple the Government of President Félix Tshisekedi. (BBC)

r impeachment charges in an attempt to speed up the trial. The Senate, sitting as an impeachment court, approves the move. (AP)

The Clark County District Court in Nevada, United States, sentences former Crips gang leader Duane “Keffe D” Davis to a m

American economists Robert Ernest Hall and Michael Dean Woodford are jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on “microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation“. (CNN)

American visual images company Getty Images announces that it will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. (Reuters)

Two deaths are reported after hurricanes Rachel and Simon made landfall on Mexico’s coast, with Guerrero governor Evelyn Salgado and Baja California governor Marina del Pilar Ávila confirming their deaths. (Al Jazeera)

A fire destroys the historic Marché des Enfants-Rouges food market in Paris, France. (France 24)

The Council of the European Union approves the 22nd package of sanctions against Russia, targeting 1,569 individuals and entities of the country’s military and industrial complex. (EU Council)

A 14-year-old student opens fire at a middle school in Aubagne, France, injuring two staff members, before being detained. (France 24)

Pakistan‘s federal government detains hundreds of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) members, including former Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister Sohail Afridi and other provincial officials, after suspending the PTI-led provincial administration and imposing emergency rule. (AFP via RFI)

A cyber attack without attribution against French supermarkets results in losses worth millions of euros. (BBC News)

Ülle Madise, who was elected by the Riigikogu in September, takes office as President of Estonia, succeeding Alar Karis. (Estonian World)

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Sunday, October 11th , 2026

An executive magistrate’s court in New Delhi, India, orders the release of Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke and two other leaders, requiring them to avoid breaches of the peace for one year after their detention. (AFP via France 24)

Houthis launch an attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh and King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, causing a fire, one dead and injuring multiple people. (Sky News) (Al Jazeera)

An Indian national injured in yesterday’s attack on King Khalid International Airport dies from his injuries, raising the death toll to 13. (Reuters)

The Royal Saudi Air Force launches an airstrike in Sanaa, Yemen, killing a child and wounding seven other people. (Al Jazeera)

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations reports that a tanker transiting in the Strait of Hormuz has been hit by an unknown projectile. (Middle East Eye)

A drone strikes the tanker MT Petro Dolphin near Sohar, Oman, leaving two Indian sailors missing and prompting the rescue of nine others. Omani authorities conduct search-and-rescue operations for the missing crew members. (AFP via Arab News)

Airstrikes are launched at the Egypt–Sudan border targeting an artisanal gold mine in a mountainous area, killing at least 72 people. (Sky News)

Three civilians and two police officer are killed in a mass shooting in Jacona, Michoacán, Mexico, while six other people are wounded. Separately, three gunmen are killed in a shootout with police in Zamora.(Organización Editorial Mexicana)

Four FARC dissidents are killed and 12 rifles seized after an airstrike by the National Army of Colombia against a guerrilla camp in Norte de Santander Department, Colombia.(El Tiempo)

A drone strike kills a soldier in the locality of Altamira, La Vega, Cauca, Colombia.(Publimetro)

Ten people are reported missing and at least 35 houses and six bridges are swept away in a major flash flood in Gorkha District, Gandaki Province, Nepal. The exact number of casualties is unknown. (ANI via Gulf News)

At least 139 people are killed, 84 more missing, and over 80 are rescued when a boat carrying migrants shipwrecks off the coast of Djibouti. (AFP via France 24)

Eleven people are killed and 27 others are injured when a tour bus collides with a truck at a toll road of Otoyol 5 in Akhisar, Manisa Province, Turkey. (Türkiye Today)

One person is killed and around 19 others are injured, including four critically, when a passenger bus plunges down a slope and crashes into a residential complex in Valparaíso, Chile. (Teletrece in Spanish)

The Kenyan health ministry reports that no Ebola cases have been reported since one patient died from the disease on October 5, with 293 tests conducted. (Reuters)

The Indonesian forestry ministry and International Animal Rescue release eight orangutans rescued from wildfires into a protected wildforest in West Kalimantan after fires destroyed habitat near plantations. (AFP)

Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari declares a state of emergency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and suspends its provincial government amid disputes over the province’s response to Islamist militancy. (AFP via RFI)

Raphaël Glucksmann is elected as a candidate in the 2027 presidential election during the Socialist Party primary, receiving more than 66% of the votes in the first round. (AFP via RFI)

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