At least two people are killed and 200 are injured at protests against unemployment and government corruption in
Iraq. Protestors also try to enter the fortified
Green Zone in
Baghdad.
(Reuters)
Mali's government says jihadist militant attacks on
military (FAMA) posts in
Mondoro and Boulkessi, in the central
Mopti Region, killed 41 troops and left 60 others missing, possibly captured, while also inflicting heavy equipment losses.
(Reuters)(Deutsche Welle)(Bloomberg)
An 18-year-old protestor is shot in the chest by police and taken to hospital for surgery during clashes between pro-democracy protesters and the police in
Hong Kong on
National Day of the People's Republic of China. Video footage shows the police officer shooting the protester as the protester tries to hit his arm with a metal pipe. This is the first reported injury from a live round.
(BBC News)
The
Nanfang'ao Bridge, the only steel single-arch bridge in
Taiwan, collapses on fishing boats in
Su'ao. Ten people are injured and six are believed to have been trapped.
(Reuters)
Dutch farmers stage a protest in
The Hague against proposals to halve livestock numbers in a bid to cut
nitrogen emissions. Motoring group ANWB claims tractors on highways caused a total of 1,136km (700 miles) of
traffic jams during morning rush hour, with tractors on one highway swerving back and forth to prevent traffic passing.
(BBC News)
North Korea says it will resume working-level nuclear talks with the
United States, reviving a denuclearization process that has remained stalled since a February summit in
Vietnam ended without a deal.
(The Wall Street Journal)
A jury finds Amber Guyger, a former
Dallas police officer, guilty of murder. Guyger was indicted last year after fatally shooting her unarmed neighbor,
Botham Jean, in his own apartment, which she claims to have mistaken for her own.
(The Sacramento Bee)
Aida Merlano, a former
Congresswoman who is serving a fifteen-year sentence for buying votes and for firearms offences, escapes from prison in
Bogotá,
Colombia.
(The Independent)
The New York Times reports that
U.S. PresidentDonald Trump suggested shooting migrants in the legs in order to slow them down after they crossed the
Mexico–United States border during a meeting in March. He also reportedly suggested digging a moat to fortify a
border wall and filling it with "snakes or alligators", and wanted the wall "electrified, with spikes on top that could pierce human flesh".
(Business Insider)
A U.S. federal judge in
California blocks a state law requiring presidential candidates to disclose income
tax returns before their names can appear on the state's
primary ballot. The ruling is considered a win for
PresidentDonald Trump, who has resisted releasing his tax returns.
(CNN)
U.S. Secretary of StateMike Pompeo accuses
HouseDemocrats of attempting to "intimidate" and "bully" five
State Department officials whom key congressional committees have asked to interview as part of an
impeachment inquiry into
PresidentDonald Trump. The House Democrats in turn issue a warning to Pompeo to stop "intimidating" witnesses, telling Pompeo that it "is illegal and will constitute evidence of obstruction of the impeachment inquiry" into President Trump.
(ABC News),
(CNN)
At least five people are killed in a second day of spontaneous
protests against unemployment, government corruption and lack of basic services in
Iraq. Police say they have "lost control" of the city of
Nassiriya after exchanging gunfire with protesters.
Curfews are imposed on the Iraqi cities of
Baghdad, Nassiriya,
Amarah and
Hillah.
(AP)(Reuters)
Business and economy
The
World Trade Organization authorizes the
United States to impose about US$7.5 billion in tariffs on goods from the
European Union every year. The WTO started the probe in 2005 after the United States complained that European subsidies to
Airbus damage
Boeing airplane sales.
(NPR)
The United States announces a tariff of 10% on European-made Airbus planes and 25% on a range of goods, set to take effect on 18 October.
(Reuters)
American retailer
Bed Bath & Beyond announces it will close 60 stores by the end of the year due to declining profits.
(USA Today)
A
foreign exchange trader,
Rohan Ramchandani, has filed a lawsuit against
Citigroup. Ramchandani won acquittal last year after criminal charges of market manipulation. He claims that the charges were instigated by his former employer in order to mitigate the regulatory consequences for its own misbehavior.
(Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
Following yesterday's collapse of
Nanfang'ao Bridge in
Su'ao, Taiwan, onto fishing boats,
rescuers recover four bodies. Three are identified as foreign fishermen, with a fourth corpse unidentified. Two people remain missing.
(Deutsche Welle)
The Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA), a law giving the Singaporean government more powers to stop the spread of designated falsehoods and
fake news, goes into effect. Rights groups like
Human Rights Watch and journalists worry the law could be used to stifle dissent and free expression.
(NPR)
A man stabs five people at the central police headquarters in the
French capital of
Paris, killing three officers and an administrative worker. The attacker, who was shot dead by other officers, was an admin worker at the station.
(BBC News)
The
Iraqi military says "unidentified snipers" have shot four people dead on the streets of
Baghdad amid protests, including two police officers, with dozens of others wounded by sniper fire.
Reuters reporters witness at least one protester being shot in the head by a sniper, killing him.
(Reuters)(BBC News)
Two police officers are killed and another is wounded after a
Dominican suspect opens fire on them at a police station in
Trieste,
Italy.
(La Repubblica)
A woman in
Florida is arrested and charged with
explosives offences after a police raid on her home finds 24
pipe bombs and bomb-making material and several other weapons. She admits constructing the devices to harm people. Police were notified of the problem by the 27-year-old's parents.
(CNN)
A parent is sentenced to five months in prison, a fine of
$100,000 and 500 hours of
community service for his involvement in the college admissions scandal.
(CNN)
Police in
South Korea receive confessions from convicted murderer Lee Chun-jae to the serial rapes and murders, which occurred between 1986 and 1991 and left at least nine dead. He denies a tenth murder, now believed to be perpetrated by a copycat. The investigations inspired the movie Memories of Murder and saw 21,000 people investigated. Lee, who is serving life for the 1994 rape and murder of his sister in law, cannot be prosecuted because the
statute of limitations has expired. He had been linked to three victims earlier this month by
DNA.
(CNN)
Microsoft says a network of hackers linked to the
Iraniangovernment has attempted to access the email accounts of people associated with a
2020 presidential election campaign, as well as prominent Iranian expatriates in the United States. Microsoft has not named the specific campaign which was targeted by Iran.
(NBC News)
A major incident has been declared in
Devon,
England, after a double-decker bus overturned near the town of
Totnes while operating a busy passenger service between the
English Riviera coast and the city of
Plymouth.
(BBC News)
More than fifty people, including the bus driver, have been injured; eight people have serious injuries. Local hospitals have been overwhelmed with patients attending from the bus crash and forced to close to non-emergency care.
(ITV)
In
Lower Manhattan,
New York City, four
homeless men are beaten to death and a fifth severely injured while sleeping. A 24-year-old man, also believed homeless, is in custody.
(CNN)
After acquitting five Muslim men of murder,
Thai judge
Kanakorn Pianchana gives a speech complaining of corrupt pressure upon the judiciary, including in this case, to convict without sufficient evidence. He then shoots himself in the chest in court in
Yala, but survives. Criticism from judges of the Thai legal system is rare, but rights groups claim Muslims often face trumped-up charges in the region, which is Muslim-majority and suffers from insurgency.
(BBC News)
An
Austrian man kills five people in the town of
Kitzbühel,
Tyrol: his ex-girlfriend, her brother and parents, as well as her new boyfriend. He gives himself up at the police station.
(Reuters)
Politics and elections
The
Jordaniangovernment announces it has struck a deal with the teachers' union to end a month-long strike that affected at least 1.5 million students. The strike was instigated over pay in light of new
austerity measures.
(Reuters)
Pizza Express, a
UK-based chain with 470 restaurants, including 150 overseas, reportedly hires
financial advisors ahead of talks with its
creditors. The business is
£1.1 billion in debt and has made a loss for two consecutive years. It employs around 14,000 people.
(BBC News)
In
Lower Manhattan,
New York City, a 24-year-old
homeless man is charged with
murdering four other homeless men and attempting to murder a fifth in random attacks. Authorities identify one of the deceased as an 83-year-old man, but release no further details about the victims.
(The Independent)
Two protestors who were arrested in
Rostov-on-Don in 2017 while holding signs seeking resignations from the
Russian government, and have been in custody since, are sentenced to over six years each in high-security prisons. They were charged with planning violent mass disturbances, and said that they confessed during torture.
(The Times)
The first people are charged with breaking the ban on wearing face masks in
Hong Kong. The
government of Hong Kong says the prohibition of face masks is needed to end months of violent protests.
(The Guardian)
A judge rules against U.S. President
Donald Trump, ordering him to release eight years of state tax returns to New York officials. The defense makes an immediate appeal to the
Second Circuit Court of Appeals, and is granted a temporary stay "pending expedited review."
(BBC News)
Astronomers announce the discovery of 20 new
moons around Saturn, adding to the 62 previously known. The new moons comprise 17 retrograde moons in the
Norse group and three prograde moons, two of which belong to the
Inuit group.
(Phys.org)
A bomb explodes in a classroom at
Ghazni University in
Afghanistan, wounding at least nineteen students. The same university was targeted last month with a bomb attached to a university
minibus. That bomb killed one person and injured five others.
(Gulf News)
Two
sappers die and four more are wounded trying to defuse
World War II shells in Poland. The last such casualties occurred in 1982.
(Xinhua)(TVN24)
Thirteen men are arrested in the
United Kingdom for drug smuggling. The authorities believe that over several years, the suspects imported approximately 50 tonnes of illegal drugs from the
Netherlands, valued at several tens of millions of
pounds. The
National Crime Agency called it “the biggest ever [drug] conspiracy that we've seen in the UK”.
(BBC News)
Two people are killed and two others are injured in attacks by a man wearing military camouflage near a
synagogue and at a
kebab shop in
Halle,
Saxony-Anhalt,
Germany. Shots are also reported in nearby
Landsberg. A suspect, 27-year-old Stephan Billiet, is arrested. The attack had been livestreamed on
Twitch for 35 minutes citing anti-Semitic and racist motivations.
(BBC News)(DW)(The Guardian)
Women at the SDF-controlled
Al-Hawl refugee camp, which holds around 74,000 refugees, mostly the wives and children of
ISIL fighters, riot and burn their tents according to a Kurdish security official.
(Kurdistan24)
The
OECD releases a set of proposals, for the 134 countries which accepted the principle, to discuss and negotiate a change in
international taxation of the big digital and consumer goods companies' global profits.
(Reuters)
An
ISIL radical
stabs multiple people, including Indonesia's security minister
Wiranto. Two suspects were later arrested.
(BBC News)
Arts and culture
The
Swedish Academy awards the 2018
Nobel Prize in Literature to
Olga Tokarczuk, "for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life", and the 2019 prize to
Peter Handke, "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience". The 2018 prize is awarded only now because last year it was postponed due to a
scandal.
(The Guardian)
Michael Drejka, a 47-year-old white
Florida man who shot and killed
Markeis McGlockton, an unarmed 28-year-old
African American man, in a parking space dispute, is sentenced to 20 years in prison. Drejka had cited Florida's
stand-your-ground law in his defense and was not initially charged until the case was handed over to
State Attorney Bernie McCabe, who charged Drejka with one count of manslaughter.
(ABC News)
A murder case from
Anchorage, Alaska makes national news, after it is revealed that the killer recorded the killing in both video and still photographs on an
SD card, which was later found by a local woman on a street and turned over to police. Local police arrested Brian Steven Smith and charged him with the murder, after identifying him from the content of the memory card.
(The New York Times)(Yahoo News)(KTUU-TV)
Romanian Prime MinisterViorica Dăncilă and her government is ousted after the approval of a vote of no-confidence. She will hold the office acting until new Prime Minister is elected.
(BBC News)
A source for
CNN confirms that a note posted anonymously on
Pastebin.com is by
Apple CEO
Tim Cook. In the note, Cook defends Apple's decision today to bin the
HKmap.liveiOS app because, he says, its use endangers "law enforcement and residents in Hong Kong."
(CNN)
China and the
United States announced a tentative agreement for the "first phase" of a trade deal, with China agreeing to buy up to
$50 billion in American farm products with the United States agreeing to suspend new tariffs scheduled for October 15.
(Wall Street Journal)
Uganda announces the plan to pass a
bill within weeks which potentially broadens the criminalisation of same-sex relations to include the
death penalty.
(The Independent)(Fox News)
Argentine Foreign Minister
Jorge Faurie announces, the day after Argentina severs diplomatic ties with the government of
Nicolás Maduro, that visas granted to the diplomats appointed by Maduro have been revoked and they will be expelled from Argentina; the country now recognizes only
Juan Guaidó appointees.
(Clarín)
Fourteen people are killed and ten are injured by
Turkish airstrikes targeting a convoy in the Syrian town of Ras al Ain. Five are identified as civilians.
(Reuters)
Forty-eight people are confirmed dead, about 100 others are injured and 17 are missing after
Typhoon Hagibis makes landfall in
Japan.
(Sky News)
The 90-metre cargo ship
MVRhodanus, with a crew of seven, runs aground in the
Mouths of Bonifacio nature reserve in the
Strait of Bonifacio off
Corsica. French maritime police say the vessel did not respond to calls for around an hour before grounding, and that fuel was not thought to be leaking.
(France 24)
Voters in Poland go to the polls to elect a new government. The incumbent right-wing
Law and Justice is expected to slightly increase its plurality.
(Reuters)
A stone statue is discovered in the walls of a church in England. Officials believe the statue had been hidden inside those walls for about 400 years since the
Restoration period.
(MSN)(Daily Mail)
The
Supreme Court of Spain sentences the twelve Catalan independence leaders between 9 and 13 years in prison and disqualification from holding public office for sedition and misuse of public funds. While it proves the existence of violent outbreaks, it judges they are not sufficient to convict for rebellion.
(BBC News)(The New York Times)
Aaron Dean, the
Fort Worth, Texas police officer who shot a woman to death in her bedroom during what was intended to be a welfare check, resigns his position, and later that day is arrested and formally charged with murder in the case.
(Fox News)
Wells Fargo, the fourth-largest bank in the United States, misses its third quarter profit estimates due to interest rate declines and the shrinkage of its
mortgage lending business.
(Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
The number of people confirmed killed in central and eastern
Japan by
Typhoon Hagibis rises to 66, with 15 people still missing and more than 200 injured.
(Reuters)
A seven-storey apartment block collapses in
Fortaleza,
Brazil. One person is confirmed dead with seven more rescued; a further ten people are believed to be trapped in the wreckage.
(BBC News)
An irregular gas company explodes and kills four people in
Boa Vista,
Brazil.
(MBS)
At least one person is killed and 70 people hospitalized as more than 100
wildfires break out across
Lebanon for the second day. The
Chouf and
Matn regions are especially hit hard. The
Lebanese Civil Defense labels it the worst firestorm in decades.
(Al Jazeera)
A court in
France sentences five women to prison terms for their roles in the failed bombing. A
Syrian man, thought to have been killed in
Iraq in 2017, is sentenced to
lifein absentia.
(BBC News)
After a second day of mobilizations in Catalonia after the sentence of the independence leaders with cutroads and railways cuts, violent clashes take place in
Tarragona,
Barcelona,
Girona,
Sabadell and
Lleida.
(RTVE)
The
Government of Spain issues a statement acknowledging that there is "widespread and coordinated violence in Catalonia" and that its objective is "to guarantee security and coexistence [...] following its commitment of firmness, proportionality and unity".
(la Sexta)
Migrant rescue ship
MVOcean Viking is granted permission to dock by
Italy and heads to
Taranto, carrying 176 migrants rescued at sea off the
Libyan coast on Sunday.
(Reuters)
General Motors and the
United Auto Workers announce that they have reached a tentative deal to end a month-long
strike that cost the company
US$2 billion. It will be sent to union members tomorrow for final approval. If approved, workers will receive a pay raise and
temporary workers will be granted a more simplified path to
full-time employment.
(Reuters)
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake strikes the province of
Cotabato,
Philippines, at 19:37 local time (11:37 UTC), killing at least 5 people and injuring 53 others.
(GMA News)
The nine
pro-Catalonia independence politicians jailed earlier this week issue a joint plea for an end to violent protests across the region. Meanwhile, the
Spanish government says it will meet protestors with a "firm, proportional and united" response.
(The Guardian)
The number of people confirmed killed in central and eastern
Japan by
Typhoon Hagibis rises to 77, while nine other people are still missing.
(NHK World)
Police in
Anchorage, Alaska charge Brian Steven Smith, who was arrested on October 8 for the murder of Kathleen Jo Henry, with a second murder, that of Veronica Abouchuk. Smith reportedly confessed to killing Abouchuk and told authorities where her body could be found.
(KTLA Los Angeles)
The fourth night of violence in the streets of
Catalonia in protest of the sentence of the Catalan independence leaders leaves 33 arrested and 80 injures. In
Tarragona, the main door of the city hall is burnt.
(El País)(La Vanguardia)
The Catalan president
Quim Torra, in a special plenary session at the
Parliament of Catalonia, announces that he will convene a third independence referendum and a Constitution throughout the legislature.
(El Periódico)
Science and technology
NASA announces that the
InSight Mars lander's heat probe had successfully dug 3 centimetres (1.2 in) into the ground after becoming stuck 35 centimetres (14 in) in the ground in February 2019, confirming that the probe had not hit a rock and instead simply didn't have enough friction in the soil to dig much deeper. The vehicle landed near the Martian equator in November 2018.
(Space.com)
According to a later statement,
Mexican PresidentAndrés Manuel López Obrador and government authorities ordered officers to let Guzmán López go free to avoid a "bloodbath" and "preserve the lives of our officers and bring calm back to the city".
(Clarín)
Eight people are confirmed killed in the failed raid. More than twenty others were injured.
(AP News)
Washington State authorities find a crane collapse earlier this year in
Seattle was caused when workers removed securing pins too early during the crane's dismantling. Four people were killed in the accident. Three firms are issued fines.
(NBC News)
Catalonia goes to a
general strike in protest of the prison sentence of the Catalan independentists leaders. Thousands of demonstrators arrive walking to
Barcelona from the whole region.
(The Guardian)
The government withdraws the controversial tax plan. Despite this, protests continue, with participants swelling to tens of thousands and them now calling for the downfall of the government.
Prime MinisterSaad Hariri gives his government 72 hours to resolve the country's worsening economic crisis.
(Al Jazeera)
After a week of fare-dodging protests in the
Santiago Metro, thousands of protestors clash with police in different places across
Santiago,
Chile. Subway service is suspended in the entire city. Protests started after a price hike in the most expensive subway system in
Latin America.
(The Guardian)
A dam on the Seiba river in
Krasnoyarsk,
Siberia, collapses, flooding a nearby gold mine and cabins used to house miners. At least 15 people have been killed, with 13 more missing and 14 hospitalised.
(BBC News)
The
British Parliament votes 322 to 306 to pass the so-called "
Letwin amendment" to the
Withdrawal Agreement Bill, which states it will not approve any withdrawal agreement unless all relevant formal legislation is passed. In effect any subsequent vote on a deal is not considered final, and
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson will be forced to ask for an extension.
(Reuters)(CNN)
Four ministers resign from the
current cabinet, stating that the government is incapable of addressing any of the issues under current circumstances. Conversely,
Hassan Nasrallah of
Hezbollah announces that his group will continue to support the government, saying, "All of us have to shoulder the responsibility of the current situation that we arrived at."
(Al Jazeera)
The government of
Bangladesh announces it will begin moving thousands of
Rohingya refugees from crowded camps to the flood-prone island of
Thengar Char, starting early November. The government hopes to relocate 100,000 refugees by the end of the operation, which has been criticised by rights groups as an "inevitable" humanitarian crisis.
(Al Jazeera)(Reuters)
The Foreign Minister of New Zealand
Winston Peters accuses the
United Kingdom of "walking out" on Pacific aid to small island nations. The accusation surprised British officials.
(Radio New Zealand)
Authorities in
Slovakia charge four people with murdering investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée. The killings sparked widespread anti-corruption protests and forced the resignation of
Prime MinisterRobert Fico.
(The Guardian)(Reuters)
The Liberal Party win a pluralty of seats, and will remain in government, albeit as a
minority and having lost the popular vote to the Conservative Party. The
Bloc Québécois resurge from a 10-seat rump at dissolution to take third place and regain
official party status.
(CBC News)(CTV News)(CNBC)
The
Lebanese government passes a series of economic measures, such as slashing government wages and extending financial aid to poor families, in an attempt to placate protestors.
(BBC News)
The
National Transportation Safety Board of the
United States concludes its investigation into the accident, which killed six and injured ten. It states design errors were the immediate cause, exacerbated by failures to take appropriate remedial action when cracks were discovered.
(USA Today)
A convention centre
catches fire in Auckland while still under construction, causing significant disruption in the
CBD.
(Stuff)
UKHome SecretaryPriti Patel announces the
inquests into the deaths of the victims will be converted into a
public inquiry at the request of the coroner. This enables the hearing of evidence in secret by members of the intelligence community, which would otherwise not be available as the coroner had previously granted
public interest immunity to the witnesses on the grounds of possible assistance to future terrorists were the evidence to be heard. Inquests cannot hear secret evidence.
(The Telegraph)
Indonesian investigators meet with families of the deceased ahead of the release of their final report, scheduled for Friday. They state the crash was caused by design flaws with software on the aircraft, and inaccurate assessments by
Boeing as to how pilots would respond to them.
(Al Jazeera)
Ukraine releases the final report into the disaster, which was prepared by
South Sudan. The report concludes mistakes by both crew and maintenance, as well as poor weather, combined to cause the crash.
(The Aviation Herald)
The
Trump administration lifts the sanctions it placed on
Turkey, in response to the latter's ceasefire. While
U.S. PresidentDonald Trump states the ceasefire is permanent, he threatens to reinstate the sanctions if "something happens that we are not happy with".
(Reuters)
Japan and South Korea hold a high-level bilateral meeting for the first time since the trade dispute, with Japanese Prime Minister
Shinzō Abe meeting with his counterpart
Lee Nak-yeon.
(The Japan Times)
At the
Old Bailey a
UK jury convicts a British man who traveled to fight against the
Islamic State of a terror offence for visiting a training camp used by the
PKK. He is the first UK man found guilty of such a crime, and is remanded in custody to await his November 7 sentencing hearing.
(BBC News)
Politics and elections
The remains of former Spanish dictator
Francisco Franco are exhumed from
Valle de los Caídos and are moved to a private mausoleum with his wife
Carmen Polo, 44 years after his death. Some pro-Franco protestors gather outside the national mausoleum.
(CNN)
As protests enter its eighth day,
PresidentMichel Aoun in a televised address states he is willing to meet with protestors and offers support for various reforms, such as increasing transparency for banks and lifting
immunity for government officials. He however states that changes “can only happen through state institutions" in response to calls to bring down the government.
(Al Jazeera)
Brandon Taubman, the assistant general manager for the
Houston Astros, is fired from his position for making "inappropriate comments" toward female journalists.
(Forbes)
Ethiopianpolice report on Friday that the death toll from violent protests in
Oromia Region was 67, including five officers. The protests started on Wednesday when protestors accused
Prime MinisterAbiy Ahmed of acting dictatorial, but they quickly degenerated into ethnic clashes.
(The Guardian)
Arts and culture
Hundreds of
tourists flock to
Uluru in
Australia's
Northern Territory to climb it for the last time before
the park's ban on climbing goes into effect. The ban is being implemented to respect the wishes of the indigenous
Aṉangu people, who find Uluru sacred.
(Reuters)
Indonesian investigators conclude their probe of the disaster with the release of a 353-page final report. The report states the crash was caused by a combination of flawed software design by
Boeing, a failure of
Lion Air to ground the jet over issues it had previously experienced, and inappropriate pilot responses to the developing emergency.
(BBC News)
A car collides with pedestrians and other vehicles after running two red lights while accelerating in central
Shanghai. At least five are killed and nine more injured.
(South China Morning Post)
Liu Xiaoming,
Chinese ambassador to the
United Kingdom, announces he has sent a team to
Essex to verify the identities of the 39 bodies found in a lorry this week, who are thought by UK authorities to be Chinese nationals.
Post-mortems are due to begin today. The
Northern Irish driver remains in police custody, suspected of murder.
(BBC News)
It is suspected that six of the victims are
Vietnamese nationals. The family of one of them, a 19-year-old woman, made public her last text message to her parents which she sent while dying.
(BBC News)
Turkish police arrest nine people on terrorism charges in
Adana, including one foreign national. The men are suspected of
Islamic State membership, recruiting for the group, and planning terrorist attacks.
(Anadolu Agency)
Official results announce that incumbent Bolivian president
Evo Morales has achieved a great enough margin to win re-election, though the legitimacy of the electoral process has been questioned by protestors and international observers.
(BBC News)
Hezbollah's
Hassan Nasrallah calls on his supporters to leave the protests, warning
the government's resignation will lead to "chaos" and "civil war". It comes the day after Hezbollah supporters violently clashed with protestors in central
Beirut.
(Al Jazeera)
Leicester City F.C. equals the 24-year record for the biggest ever
Premier League win and the biggest ever victory by an away side in an English football top-flight game after beating
Southampton F.C. 9–0 at
St Mary's Stadium. It was also Southampton's worst ever defeat in all competitions in their history.
(BBC Sport)
Fifteen more people are killed in clashes between security forces and protestors in
Iraq, raising the overall death toll to 222 since protests began this month.
(Al Jazeera)(Reuters)
Sea-Eye, a charity which performs migrant rescue operations in the
Mediterranean Sea, claims the
Libyancoastguard circled their ship MV Alan Kurdi and fired warning shots into the air, with weapons pointed at crew and the migrants they were rescuing.
(Deutsche Welle)
Disasters and accidents
Flooding in
Japan kills nine people in
Chiba and one more in
Fukushima, with a further person missing in the latter.
(Gulf News)
The driver of the lorry in which 39 bodies were found is charged with 39 counts of
manslaughter, as well as
immigration offences,
money laundering, and
people trafficking. Three other people remain in police custody suspected of manslaughter and people trafficking after 39 bodies were found in a lorry earlier this week.
(BBC News)
Further evacuations are ordered, with 180,000 people now affected. Power companies are scheduled to cut supplies for a million people today, doubling the size of what is already the biggest blackout in
California history in a bid to prevent further fires igniting from damaged electric cables.
(BBC News)
The government of
North Korea says that it is "running out of patience with the U.S." due to "unilateral hostile disarmament demands" and warns that the cordial relationship between
Kim Jong-un and
Donald Trump would not prevent the talks from derailing.
(ABC News)
Since convening on 6 October, the synod of Catholic bishops from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Venezuela, and Suriname gather with
Pope Francis in Rome. According to the bishops, "a deep personal, social and structural conversion" is needed in response to the "unprecedented" environmental and social crisis in the
Amazon.
(Catholic News Service)
Several universities and schools shut down as many students join the protests across
Iraq. Thousands continue to participate in spite of the violent crackdowns from the previous days.
(Al Jazeera)
WhatsApp sues
Israeli cyber intelligence firm
NSO Group for allegedly spying on 1,400 users on four continents. Among those affected were diplomats, journalists, and government officials. If moved forward, it could set a major legal precedent for
cybersecurity.
(Reuters)
At least 42 people were killed during a landslide caused by torrential rainfall in the city of
Bafoussam,
Cameroon. Twenty-six of the victims are children.
(Al Jazeera)
Jordan recalls its ambassador to Israel when the latter refuses to release two Jordanian citizens whom
Foreign Affairs MinisterAyman Safadi says have been held illegally for months without charges. They were arrested in August for crossing into the
West Bank to attend a family wedding.
(Reuters)
The
fatal accident inquiry into the crash concludes with the issuing of a report by Sheriff Principal Craig Turnbull. Turnbull criticises the helicopter's pilot, prompting concerns by some victims over excessive blame being placed upon
pilot error. The aircraft crashed into a bar after running out of fuel.
(BBC News)
A court in
Australia sentences Maasarwe's confessed killer, Codey Herrmann, to 36 years in prison with
parole eligibility after 30 for
rape and
murder. The case prompted widespread debate about
violence against women in Australia.
(BBC News)
A
mass shooting at a
Halloweenparty at a residence in
Long Beach, California, by at least one gunman, who is believed to have targeted the party but to have fired at random, kills three and injures at least nine, with some having significant injuries.
(MSN)
A court in
Yangon convicts five members of satirical
thangyat troupe Peacock Generation over an April performance in which they lampoon the nation's military. They each are jailed for one year.
(BBC News)
The
Washington Nationals beat the
Houston Astros 6–2 in Game 7 to win the World Series. It is the franchise's first World Series championship and the first World Series victory for an MLB team based in the district since the
Washington Senators (now known as the
Minnesota Twins) won in
1924. This World Series is also notable as the first in which all games were won by the
visiting team.
(USA Today)
Ana Botín, the chairwoman of Spain's
Santander bank, which has suffered a major stock price fall since reporting its disappointing third quarter earnings, buys €3.61 million worth of shares as a display of confidence.
(Reuters)
Researchers discover a shipwreck at a depth of 20,400 feet (6,200 m) under the
Philippine Sea. The shipwreck is believed to be the remains of
USS Johnston, a
World War II-era destroyer.
(MSN)