Portal:Current events/October 2023

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Kurdish–Turkish conflict
  • 2023 Ankara bombing
    • A suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Interior Ministry in Ankara, Turkey, injuring two police officers. A second attacker is shot dead by police. (Al Jazeera)
• Mali War
  • Tuareg rebels take control of the town of Bamba, Gao Region, Mali, claiming over 80 soldiers have been killed. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• Fonda Milagros nightclub fire
  • At least 13 people are killed and four others are injured in a fire at a nightclub in Murcia, Spain. (BBC News)
• Ten people are killed and 60 more are injured after the Santa Cruz Church's [fr] roof collapses during a baptism ceremony in Ciudad Madero, Mexico. (Al Jazeera)
• Ten people are killed and 25 more are injured after a truck carrying mostly Cuban migrants overturned between Pijijiapan and Tonalá in Chiapas, Mexico. (AFP via CNA)
• North Dakota state senator Doug Larsen and his family are killed in a plane crash in Grand County, Utah, United States. (AP)
• A grizzly bear attacks and kills two people and their pet dog in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. The bear is later euthanised. (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• Charles Brown succeeds Mark Milley as chairman of the United States Armed Forces Joint Chiefs of Staff. (NBC News)
• California Governor Gavin Newsom appoints Laphonza Butler to fill the United States Senate seat vacated by the death of Dianne Feinstein. She will be California's first openly LGBT senator. (Politico)

Sports

• 2023 NRL season
  • In rugby league, the Penrith Panthers defeat the Brisbane Broncos 26–24 in the 2023 NRL Grand Final, their third consecutive win. (The Guardian Australia)
• 2023 Speedway Grand Prix
  • Bartosz Zmarzlik defends his motorcycle speedway world championship title, it was his fourth world Speedway World Championship won overall. (Eurosport)
• 2023 World Rally Championship
  • In rallying, Toyota Gazoo win their third consecutive World Rally Championship for Manufacturers title after Kalle Rovanperä and Jonne Halttunen win the Power Stage of the 2023 Rally Chile. (JCN via AsiaOne)
• The 44th Ryder Cup comes to an end with a victory of the European team. (BBC)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Insurgency in the Sahel
  • Jihadist insurgency in Niger
    • At least 29 soldiers are killed during an ambush by Islamic extremists in the Tahoua Region, Niger, involving suicide car bombs and bombings. Several attackers are killed in a counter-offensive. (BBC News)
• Kurdish–Turkish conflict
  • Turkey launches airstrikes against around 20 PKK targets in northern Iraq, in response to the PKK's bombing of Ankara, killing an unknown number of militants. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• Thirty-eight people are injured in a fire at a police facility in Ismailia, Egypt. (Al Jazeera)

International relations

• Haitian crisis
  • The United Nations Security Council approves a resolution establishing a Kenyan-led security force with a mandate of one year to combat gang violence in Haiti. (The New York Times)
• Ukraine–European Union relations
  • For the first time in the history of the European Union, representatives of all EU states, most of them foreign ministers, meet informally outside the EU. They meet with the Ukrainian government in Kyiv and assure it of their further support. (Euronews)
• Three Filipino fishermen are killed and eleven others survive after their vessel collides with an unidentified foreign merchant ship near the Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea. (CNN)

Politics and elections

• Indigenous peoples in Brazil
  • The government of Brazil begins expelling non-indigenous residents off of the Apyterewa and Trincheira/Bacajá indigenous territories in Pará state. (AP)

Science and technology

• The European Space Agency reports that the James Webb Space Telescope has detected "Jupiter-sized objects", unconnected to any stars, which appear to be moving in pairs in the Orion constellation. Around 40 of the objects, known as Jupiter Mass Binary Objects, have been detected so far. (BBC News)
• Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman are awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for developing technology that resulted in mRNA vaccines for COVID-19. (BBC News)

Sports

• 2023–24 AFC Champions League
  • Al-Ittihad refuses to play a match with Sepahan due to the placement of busts of Qasem Soleimani at the side of the football pitch. (Arab News)

Business and economy

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov announces the construction of Ukraine's first underground school to protect students from missile strikes. (Tagesschau)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Venice bus crash
  • At least 21 people are killed and 15 others are injured when a bus crashes and falls from an overpass in Mestre, Veneto, Italy. (La Repubblica)
• At least 18 people are killed and 25 more injured by an oil refinery explosion in Emohua, Rivers State, Nigeria. (Al Jazeera)
• One person is killed and 17 others are injured in a magnitude 5.7 earthquake in Dipayal Silgadhi, Nepal. (Shilapatra) (Reuters via Geo News)

Law and crime

• Rwandan genocide
  • Former Rwandan army major Pierre-Claver Karangwa is arrested in the Netherlands for his role in the 1994 genocide in Mugina, Rwanda, where thousands of people were killed. (Reuters)
• Siam Paragon shooting
  • Two people are killed and six others are injured in a mass shooting at the Siam Paragon shopping mall in Bangkok, Thailand. The 14-year-old suspect is arrested. (Al Jazeera)

Politics and elections

• 2023 Manitoba general election
  • The New Democratic Party of Manitoba wins a majority of the seats in the Legislative Assembly; the party's leader Wab Kinew is set to become Canada's first provincial premier of First Nations descent. (The Globe and Mail)
• Removal of Kevin McCarthy
  • Following a budget dispute within the Republican Party, Kevin McCarthy becomes the first Speaker of the United States House of Representatives to be ousted. (The New York Times)

Science and technology

• Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L'Huillier are awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter. (The Guardian)

Business and economy

• Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announces the cancellation of Phase 2 of the United Kingdom's high-speed rail project High Speed 2. (BBC News)
• Over 75,000 workers from Kaiser Permanente, an integrated managed care consortium in the United States, go on strike. (The New York Times)
• The gap between Italy and Germany's 10 year bond yields increases by 200.2 basis points. Italy comes under intensifying pressure to sell off the public assets. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Sikkim flash floods
  • At least 14 people are killed and 100 others are missing after a cloudburst causes severe flooding in Sikkim, India. (CNN)
  • The Lhonak Lake bursts its banks, causing major flooding and impacting 22,000 people. It its the worst such disaster in the region in over 50 years. (Reuters)
  • Large parts of the Teesta Dam have been washed away, with multiple large bridges also being destroyed. (NOS)

Health and environment

• In his exhortation Laudate Deum, Pope Francis speaks out against climate change denial and in favor of fighting the climate crisis. (Vatican)

International relations

• The United States and Russia test their emergency population warning systems. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Protests against the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Russian journalist Marina Ovsyannikova is sentenced to eight and a half years in prison in absentia for interrupting a news broadcast with anti-war slogans. (Reuters)
  • Around 11 anti-war protesters involved with Code Pink are arrested outside the office of U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders after calling for the Biden administration to bring an end to the war. (The Hill)

Science and technology

• Moungi Bawendi, Louis E. Brus, and Alexey Ekimov are awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on quantum dots. (BBC News)
• Lars Schaade is appointed as the new President of the Robert Koch Institute. (Bundesministerium für Gesundheit)

Sports

• Spain–Portugal–Morocco 2030 FIFA World Cup bid
  • In association football, FIFA awards the 2030 FIFA World Cup to Spain, Portugal, and Morocco, making it the first FIFA World Cup tournament to be hosted in North Africa. The opening ceremony will take place in Montevideo, Uruguay, to mark the 100th anniversary of the competition. (Bloomberg) (FIFA)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Hroza missile attack
      • Ukraine says that Russia has attacked a store and cafe in Hroza, Kharkiv Oblast, with a ballistic missile, killing at least 51 civilians. (AP)
    • Russia says that a child has been killed and three others are injured while trying to dismantle cluster munitions fired from Ukrainian forces, in the occupied city of Horlivka. (Al Jazeera)
  • Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
    • The United States transfers 1.1 million rounds of Iranian ammunition to Ukraine after the U.S. Navy seized them from a shipment enroute to Yemen in December. (BBC News)
    • German Chancellor Olaf Scholz pledges a second Patriot air defense system to Ukraine. (Spiegel)
  • Russia announces the successful test of the Burevestnik, a nuclear-powered and nuclear-capable cruise missile with a potential range of thousands of miles. (Reuters)
• Syrian civil war
  • 2023 Homs drone strike
    • At least 112 troops and civilians are killed and 120 others are injured in a drone attack on a Syrian military graduation ceremony in Homs, Syria. (Al Jazeera) (SOHR)
  • 2023 Turkish drone shootdown
    • A Turkish Air Force Bayraktar drone is shot down by an international coalition F-16 Fighting Falcon in Al-Hasakah, Syria, after reportedly operating too close to U.S. forces in the vicinity. (SOHR) (The Independent)
  • October 2023 Northern Syria clashes
    • Turkey launches a series of airstrikes targeting the Syrian Democratic Forces in northeastern Syria, killing at least two people and injuring three others. (i24 News)
  • At least six people are killed and 38 others are injured during a series of airstrikes by the Syrian Air Force on Idlib. (Al Jazeera)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Four Palestinians are killed in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank, three by Israeli soldiers, and one by an Israeli settler. (Al Jazeera)

Arts and culture

• Jon Fosse is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his innovative plays, prose and style, which has come to be known as Fosse minimalism. (CNN)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Pacific typhoon season
  • Typhoon Koinu makes landfall in Hengchun, Pingtung County, Taiwan as a category 4 typhoon, with winds of over 342 kilometers in Orchid Island, becoming the strongest on record. (DW) (The Guardian)

International relations

• Abkhazia–Russia relations
  • Russia and Abkhazia sign an agreement to establish a permanent naval base for the Russian Navy on the Black Sea coast of Ochamchira District, Abkhazia. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Italian authorities impound the Open Arms vessel used by Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms to rescue migrants in the Mediterranean Sea. (Reuters)
• The Dutch platform supply vessel VOS Pace rescues 79 migrants in the Atlantic Ocean, nine of whom mutiny. The mutineers are later arrested in Fuerteventura, Canary Islands. (NOS)
• An investigation into electronic surveillance by European Investigative Collaborations reveals inefficiencies in European Union regulations governing the sale of enabling software. (Spiegel)

Politics and elections

• Immigration policy of the Joe Biden administration
  • The Biden administration announces that it will waive 26 federal laws in Starr County, Texas, in order to allow construction of the border wall in an attempt to help prevent illegal entry into the country. (AP)
• The EU Parliament votes 279–173, with 33 abstentions, in favor of the appointment of Wopke Hoekstra as the new EU Commissioner. (Zeit) (Tagesschau)
• Kenyan foreign minister Alfred Mutua is replaced by Musalia Mudavadi following controversy over the country's involvement in the crisis in Haiti. (BBC News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian civil war
  • Turkish involvement in the Syrian civil war
    • October 2023 Northern Syria clashes
      • Two Turkish soldiers are killed when the Syrian Army fires on their positions with artillery in northern Syria. (SOHR)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • A 19-year-old Palestinian man is shot and killed by Israeli settlers attacking the city of Huwara, Palestine. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• Oaxaca migrant bus crash
  • Seventeen people are killed and fifteen others are injured after a bus carrying migrants from Venezuela crashes in Oaxaca, Mexico. (Reuters)
• Floods and mudslides triggered by heavy rain occur in Sri Lanka, with five people killed and five others injured when a tree falls on a bus in Colombo. Another person is killed by a falling rock in Galle District. (AP)
• Six people are killed and 38 others are injured in a fire at a six-storey residential building in Mumbai, India. (AP)
• A Piper PA-34 Seneca training plane crashes in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada, killing all three on board. (Vancouver Sun)

Law and crime

• Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her support of feminism and human rights. (BBC News) (The Guardian)

Politics and elections

• Charlot Salwai is elected as Prime Minister of Vanuatu following a no-confidence vote against Sato Kilman. (AFP via Barron's)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • 2023 Israel–Hamas war
    • Battle of Re'im
      • Hamas briefly seizes control of the IDF's 143rd "Gaza" Division headquarters in Re'im, Eshkol Regional Council, before Israeli troops retake it. Several Israeli soldiers are captured and taken to the Gaza Strip. (The Times of Israel)
    • Battle of Sderot
      • At least twenty Israeli police officers are killed by Hamas inside the police headquarters of Sderot after the building is seized. (Jewish Press)
    • Kfar Aza massacre
      • An unknown number of Israeli civilians, including at least 40 children, are confirmed to have been killed in the Kfar Aza kibbutz. (The Times of Israel)
    • Stand-off in Be'eri and Ofakim
      • Be'eri massacre
        • At least 100 people are killed in the kibbutz of Be'eri, Southern District, during the stand-off with Hamas. (Times of Israel)
      • Hamas forces enter the Southern Israeli towns of Be'eri and Ofakim with heavy fighting underway. (Haaretz)
    • Palestinian militant groups led by Hamas launch over 3,500 rockets towards Israel and invade its Southern District by land, sea and air. (AP) (Reuters) (Memri)
    • Hamas commander Mohammed Deif announces the start of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. Israel declares a state of war in response and asks Palestinians to leave the Gaza Strip. (AP)
    • At least 400 Palestinians are killed and over 1,600 are injured in the Gaza Strip by airstrikes launched by the Israeli Air Force. At least 700 Israelis are killed and hundreds more are injured by missile attacks and shootings. Yonatan Steinberg, commander of the 933rd "Nahal" Brigade, is killed during clashes with Hamas in Kerem Shalom. (Al Jazeera) (The Times of Israel) (The Atlas News)
    • Israeli major general Nimrod Aloni, commander of the Depth Corps, is captured by Hamas. Hundreds of Israeli civilians are also taken to Gaza. Hamas spokesman Abu Obaida says they are being held in "safe places and resistance tunnels". (The Independent) (The Telegraph)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Herat earthquakes
  • At least 2,445 people are killed and 9,240 others are injured when two magnitude 6.3 earthquakes strike Herat Province, Afghanistan. (ABC News) (Reuters)
• 2023 Sikkim flash floods
  • The death toll from the severe flooding caused by a cloudburst in Sikkim, India, increases to 47 people. (CBS News)
• Thirteen people are killed and seven others are injured in an explosion at a firecracker warehouse in Attibele, Karnataka, India. (The Hindu)

Law and crime

• 2023 Malagasy presidential election
  • Presidential candidate Marc Ravalomanana is injured by police during a demonstration prior to the election. (Reuters)
• Ecuadorian security crisis
  • A seventh individual, linked to the August assassination of Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, dies in a prison in Quito, following the deaths of six others during riots at a prison in Guayaquil. (AFP via RTL)
• Venezuelan presidential crisis
  • Venezuela issues an arrest warrant through Interpol for Juan Guaidó, who is currently in-exile in the United States, citing crimes of treason, usurpation of functions and money laundering. (DW)

Politics and elections

• The Chinese Communist Party expels Chinese Football Association first vice president Du Zhaocai for corruption. (AFP via Barron's)

Science and technology

• Peopling of the Americas
  • Research into the White Sands fossil footprints in New Mexico reveals that human settlement in North America may have originated earlier than previously assumed. (NPR)

Sports

• 2023 Formula One World Championship
  • In auto racing, Red Bull driver Max Verstappen wins his third World Drivers' Championship after his teammate Sergio Pérez fails to complete the sprint race of the 2023 Qatar Grand Prix. (ABS-CBN News)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • 2023 Israel–Hamas war
    • Battle of Sderot
      • Hamas forces and the IDF clash for a second day in Sderot. (VOA)
    • International reactions to the 2023 Israel–Hamas war
      • Pro-Israel and pro-Palestine rallies occur in several American cities, including Atlanta, Chicago and New York. (AP)
    • October 2023 Hezbollah strike
      • Hezbollah forces in southern Lebanon open fire on Israeli positions in Shebaa Farms with artillery and guided rockets. Israel responds with airstrikes on Hezbollah artillery positions. (Al Jazeera)
    • Re'im music festival massacre
      • More than 260 bodies are found in Re'im, Southern Israel, after Hamas attacked a trance music festival. Foreign nationals are among those killed in the massacre. (BBC News)
    • Israel's Security Cabinet says that it has approved a military operation against Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip. (Times of Israel)
    • The death toll in the Gaza Strip increases to 370 with more than 2,200 injured. The death toll in Israel increases to more than 750 with over 2,000 injured. Hamas says they hold 130 Israeli captives. (i24 News) (AFP via Barron's)
    • Israeli ambassador to the United States Michael Herzog says that Americans have been taken hostage by Hamas in Gaza. (Politico)

Disasters and accidents

• Aftermath of the 2023 Hawaii wildfires
  • The western area of Maui, Hawaii, U.S., located north of Kaanapali, reopens for tourism two months after wildfires damaged the area. (CNN)
• At least 27 people are killed and 50 more injured during landslides caused by heavy rains in Yaoundé, Cameroon. (Africa News)

Law and crime

• 2023 Alexandria shooting
  • An Egyptian policeman kills two Israeli tourists and an Egyptian tour guide and injures a third Israeli in Alexandria, Egypt. The gunman is later arrested. (AP)
• Ecuadorian security crisis
  • The Ecuadorian government extends the country's state of emergency by a month. (AFP via The Manila Times)

Politics and elections

• 2023 Argentine general election
  • The second part of the presidential debates is held. (Mercopress)
• 2023 Luxembourg general election
  • Luxembourg goes to the polls to elect the Chamber of Deputies. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2023 Chicago Marathon
  • Kelvin Kiptum sets a new marathon world record at the Chicago Marathon, becoming the first runner to break 2 hours and 1 minute. (World Athletics) (NPR)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • 2023 Israel–Hamas war
    • Al-Shati refugee camp airstrike
      • Israel launches airstrikes on the Al-Shati refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, resulting in civilian casualties. (CNN)
    • International reactions to the 2023 Israel–Hamas war
      • Pro-Palestine and pro-Israel protests are held in London, United Kingdom, with pro-Palestinian protesters also gathering at the Israeli Embassy. (The National News) (AA)
      • The United Nations Security Council meets in an emergency session but fails to achieve unanimity for a joint statement. (Al Jazeera)
    • Jabalia camp market airstrike
      • Israel launches airstrikes on a market in the Jabalia Camp in the Gaza Strip, killing more than 60 civilians and injuring 120 others. (The New York Times)
    • October 2023 Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip
      • Israel announces a total blockade of the Gaza Strip, encompassing supplies of food, water, electricity, and gas. (Al Jazeera)
    • Israeli air attacks and shelling targeting houses and apartment buildings displace over 123,000 people in Gaza, according to the UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs. (Xinhua)
    • At least 22 members of a Palestinian family, including seven children, are killed in an Israeli air strike in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip. Six members of the family remain trapped under the rubble of the destroyed house. (Al Jazeera)
    • The death toll from the Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip increases to 687 people, with more than 3,800 injured. The death toll in Israel increases to 900 with more than 2,500 injured. (Al Jazeera) (Times of Israel)
    • Four Hezbollah members are killed during an airstrike by Israel in Ayta ash Shab, Lebanon, while two others are killed during a shootout at the border with Israel. (Dawn)
    • In Beita, Nablus, a Palestinian is shot by Israeli soldiers. Earlier, one Palestinian was killed by Israeli forces in Hebron, West Bank, one in Jericho, and two in Ramallah. (Al Jazeera)
    • In Duma, Nablus, a Palestinian is shot by Israeli soldiers, while Israeli settlers torch cars and attack farmers. (Al Jazeera)
    • In Einabus, West Bank, two Palestinians are shot by Israeli soldiers. Twelve people are evacuated for tear gas inhalation, with Israeli forces attempting to stop the evacuation by emergency services. (Al Jazeera)
    • Thailand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirms that 18 Thais, mostly migrant workers, have been killed, while several others have been taken hostage by the militant group. (BBC News)
• Myanmar civil war
  • The Tatmadaw launches an artillery attack on an IDP camp near Laiza, Kachin State, killing at least 29 people and injuring 56 others. (BBC News)

Business and economy

• Claudia Goldin is awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her research into female income and employment. (CNN)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Pacific hurricane season
  • Tropical Storm Max makes landfall in Guerrero, Mexico. Tropical storm warnings are issued for the states of Guerrero and Michoacán. (AP)
• 2023 Sikkim flash floods
  • The death toll from the floods in Sikkim, India, increases to 74. (NOS)

Law and crime

• Haitian crisis
  • A court in Kenya temporarily blocks the government from deploying police personnel to Haiti until 24 October. (The Guardian)
• A car crashes into the Chinese consulate in San Francisco, California, United States, and its driver is shot dead by police. (Reuters)
• Peruvian police liberate 44 individuals, mostly Malaysians, from a Taiwanese organized crime group's extortion scheme in La Molina, Lima. Concurrently, six Taiwanese and two Peruvians are arrested, and the victims, who were deceived with job offers and trafficked via Amsterdam, Netherlands, will be extradited to Malaysia following an investigative process. (AFP via The Straits Times)

Politics and elections

• 2023 Guatemalan general election
  • Dozens of road blockades are reported throughout the country, mainly in Guatemala City, organized by community organizations demanding the resignation of Attorney General María Consuelo Porras. (Prensa Libre)
• 2024 United States presidential election
  • Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 2024 presidential campaign
    • Robert F. Kennedy Jr. withdraws from seeking the Democratic nomination and announces an independent bid for the United States presidency. (CNBC)
  • Will Hurd suspends his campaign for the Republican nomination. (CNBC)
• Aftermath of the 2023 Gabonese coup d'état
  • Gabonese leader Brice Oligui Nguema appoints a new parliament with 98 members, including opposition leaders and pro-Bongo politicians. (France 24)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• 2023 Nigerien crisis
  • France begins withdrawing its forces from Niger after the ruling military government ordered them to leave. (France 24)
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • 2023 Israel–Hamas war
    • Killing of journalists in Gaza
      • At least six Palestinian journalists have been killed in Israel's ongoing shelling of the Gaza Strip. Funerals for two of them are held at a hospital in Gaza City. (Al Jazeera)
    • October 2023 Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip
      • Israeli airstrikes hit near the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt, after an Israeli official advised Palestinians to leave the Gaza Strip through the border crossing. (Al Jazeera)
      • The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights condemns Israel's decision to order a blockade on Gaza, including a ban on food and water, saying that the action is in violation of international law. (The Times of Israel)
      • The World Health Organization calls for a humanitarian corridor into Gaza, after thirteen health facilities are damaged by Israeli attacks. (AFP via Barron's)
      • The United Nations Agency for Palestine (UNRWA) says that 187,518 people, which is nearly a tenth of Gaza's population, have fled their homes. Nearly 137,500 internally displaced people are sheltering in 83 UNRWA schools, with bread being provided by the World Food Programme. Four schools and eight healthcare facilities in Gaza also sustained damage and the territory is experiencing a severe shortage of drinking water due to the ongoing Israeli blockade. (Al Arabiya) (Al Jazeera)
    • The death toll in the Gaza Strip increases to 950 people, with more than 4,000 injured. At least 18 people are killed and 100 others are injured in the West Bank. The death toll in Israel surpasses 1,000. (Al Arabiya) (The Telegraph) (Daily Sabah)
    • Israeli airstrikes on Gaza damage residential buildings and large tower blocks, as well as schools and UN buildings, killing civilians. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights condemns these actions, saying that they are in violation of international law. (Reuters)
    • Israeli airstrikes destroy a Palestinian Telecommunications Company building in Gaza City, causing widespread communications and internet outages. (Anadolu Agency)
    • An Israeli soldier and two Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants are killed in clashes on the border with Lebanon. (BBC News)
    • An Israeli airstrike kills Jawad Abu Shammala and Zakaria Abu Maamar, two senior officials of Hamas' political office. (AFP via Al Arabiya)
• Finland reports that damage to the Balticconnector submarine pipeline connecting Finland and Estonia is being investigated as either an act of sabotage or accidental damage after officials ruled out a simple malfunction. (The Telegraph)

Law and crime

• Ten additional charges are filed against U.S. Rep. George Santos including identity theft, credit card fraud, and submitting false campaign reports. (Politico)

Natural disasters

• Hurricane Lidia makes landfall in the Mexican state of Jalisco as a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale, killing one person. (NOAA) (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2023 Liberian general election
  • Liberians elect their president. (Reuters)

Sports

• In association football, UEFA announces that the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland will host UEFA Euro 2028, while Italy and Turkey will host UEFA Euro 2032. (Reuters)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • 2023 Israel–Hamas war
    • October 2023 Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip
      • The Palestine Liberation Organization says that Israel refused a request to bring food and medical supplies into the Gaza Strip. (Reuters) (Times of Israel)
      • Gaza's only power plant stops producing power due to a lack of fuel, thereby threatening to further impact over-capacity medical facilities. Authorities begin rationing and directing power to emergency services. (CNN)
      • The UN Palestine Agency says that Israeli airstrikes have killed eleven of its staff in Gaza, with four Palestine Red Crescent Society paramedics and one Magen David Adom ambulance driver also being killed in clashes. The agency also says that it has less than two weeks' supply of food and water available to assist the more than 180,000 people who have sought refuge in their schools in Gaza. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
    • Dozens of Israeli Air Force warplanes carry out more than 200 airstrikes overnight on the Al-Furqan neighborhood in Gaza City. The Rimal and al-Karama neighbourhoods are also targeted by airstrikes, with eight 12-storey buildings destroyed. At least 30 people are killed and hundreds more are injured. (First Post) (Al Jazeera) (ABC News) (Tasnim) (Times of Israel)
    • Israeli airstrikes destroy more than 22,600 residential units and 10 health facilities and also damage 48 schools as Hamas continues to fire rockets from civilian areas in violation of international law. At least 260 children have been killed by Israeli attacks on Gaza. (CBC News) (Al Jazeera)
    • At least 16 Palestinians are killed in an Israeli air raid on the southern city of Khan Younis and at least three Palestinians are killed and nine others are injured by Israeli soldiers in the Qusra south of Nablus in the West Bank. (The National News) (Reuters)
    • At least 1,055 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air attacks and 5,184 others have been injured, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. At least 1,300 people in Israel have been killed and 2,800 others have been injured, according to the Israeli military. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023 Herat earthquakes
  • A magnitude 6.3 aftershock strikes near the Afghan city of Herat, killing at least one person and injuring 65 others just four days after two earthquakes of the same magnitude struck the same area, killing thousands of people. (Radio Azadi)
• Flights are suspended at Luton Airport in Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom, after a fire occurs in a multistorey car park at the airport. (BBC News)

International relations

• The Dominican Republic partially reopens its border with Haiti for some commercial activity after closing the border last month. (AP)

Law and crime

• International reactions to the 2023 Israel–Hamas war
  • Police in Vienna, Austria, announce that they have banned a pro-Palestinian protest over mentions of "from the river to the sea" in invitations and the characterization of the protest as a call for violence. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• 2023 Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli war cabinet‎
    • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition leader Benny Gantz agree to form an emergency government during the war. (BBC News)
• October 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election
  • Republicans in the U.S. House nominate Steve Scalise to replace Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker. (Reuters)
• 2023 Slovak parliamentary election
  • Smer leader Robert Fico agrees to form a coalition government with the left-wing Hlas and ultranationalist Slovak National Party, paving the way for Fico to become Prime Minister of Slovakia for a fourth time. (Euronews)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • 2023 Israel–Hamas war
    • October 2023 Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip
      • Israeli Energy Minister Israel Katz says the blockade of Gaza will not end until all Israeli hostages are released by Hamas. (BBC News)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Battle of Avdiivka
    • Ukraine says that Russia has begun an assault on the city of Avdiivka, in Donetsk Oblast, supported by tanks and armored vehicles. (The New York Times)

Health and medicine

• 2023 Zimbabwe cholera outbreak
  • Zimbabwe bans gatherings of more than 50 people amid a cholera outbreak in the country. (The Guardian)

Law and crime

• Sylvia Bongo Ondimba, the former first lady of Gabon, is jailed by the ruling military junta. (France 24)