Friday,  October 28th, 2022 

A man searching for United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi breaks into her residence in San Francisco and attacks her husband Paul Pelosi, resulting in his hospitalization. (AP) 

Authorities in the German state of Hesse announce that they will investigate claims by the NGO Safeguard Defenders that China operates an illegal police station in Frankfurt. (Reuters) 

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands announces an investigation regarding the activities of China‘s two allegedly illegal police stations in the country. (CNN) 

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announces that the United States will provide another $275 million in additional military aid to Ukraine. (Reuters) 

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu announces the end of the mobilization campaign as 300,000 reservists are reached. (ABC News Australia) 

Rally of Progressive National Democrats leader and former presidential candidate Eric Jean Baptiste is assassinated outside his residence in Port-au-Prince. (CNN) 

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol denies that his country is sending weapons to Ukraine after Russian President Vladimir Putin made a reference to South Korea during a conference yesterday. (Al Jazeera) 

Sam Matekane is sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Lesotho. (AP) 

Thursday, October 27th, 2022 

Entrepreneur Elon Musk acquires Twitter, Inc. in a $44bn deal. Musk fires Twitter’s chief executive officer Parag Agrawal, chief financial officer Ned Segal, and the head of legal policy Vijaya Gadde upon taking over. (Financial Times) 

The Israeli cabinet unanimously votes in favor of approving a US-brokered maritime deal with Lebanon, with Prime Minister Yair Lapid hailing the deal as an “enemy state’s formal recognition”. (Times of Israel) 

Russian forces strike Kyiv’s energy system facilities and launch BM-30 Smerch missiles on Zaporizhzhia as Ukraine repels attacks in the Donbas. (RFE/RL) 

The State Duma unanimously gives preliminary approval to a bill strengthening a law against “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations“. The bill will expand the ban on “propaganda” to all ages, and will outlaw media and online resources, including films, books, and theater productions. (ABC News) 

Polish authorities demolish four communist-era monuments to the Red Army in the respective towns of Głubczyce, Byczyna, Bobolice, and Staszów, citing a 2016 law that prohibits promotion of totalitarian regimes. (BBC News) 

One person is killed and five others, including Spanish footballer Pablo Marí, are injured during a mass stabbing at a Carrefour supermarket in Assago, Lombardy, Italy. The perpetrator, a man with mental health problems, who used a knife from a shelf, is arrested at the scene. (BBC News) 

Israel carries out airstrikes near Damascus, Syria, killing four pro-Iranian fighters. (Al Arabiya) 

Canada sends a delegation to Haiti to assess the security situation and to “consult with stakeholders on options to support Haitian people in resolving the humanitarian and security crises”, amid ongoing international talks on sending a peacekeeping force to the country. (Al Jazeera) 

A firefighting aircraft of the Italian Protezione Civile crashes on Mount Etna in Sicily while fighting a forest fire, killing the two pilots on board. (Emergency-live.com) 

Eight people, all members of one family, are found dead in and around a house in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, United States. The incident is being investigated as a possible murder-suicide. (AP) 

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Wednesday, October 26th, 2022 

Audi confirms that they will compete in Formula One races beginning in the 2026 season, after they agreed to partner with Swiss-based Sauber, who have been involved in the sport since 1993 and currently compete under the name of Alfa Romeo with Ferrari engines. (Reuters via The Guardian) 

The United States Armed Forces successfully conducts a test of its Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon off the coast of Virginia ahead of the missile’s expected deployment in 2023. (Reuters) 

A Russian missile strike on Dnipro kills two people, including a pregnant woman. (The Guardian) 

Mercedes-Benz withdraws from Russia due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and plans to sell shares in its subsidiaries to a local investor. (BBC News) 

At least 15 people are killed and 40 others are injured in a mass shooting by three gunmen at a Shah Cheragh Shia mosque in Shiraz, Fars province, Iran. Two of the attackers have been caught and the other remains at large. The Islamic State claims responsibility for the attack. (Al Jazeera) 

Inflation in Australia reaches a 32-year record high amid increasing energy prices and higher interest rates. (The Guardian) 

The Polish Senate approves a resolution formally recognizing the Russian government under Vladimir Putin as a “terrorist regime”. (Ukrinform) 

Lawmakers in Germany draft a plan to legalize the recreational use of small amounts of cannabis, pending formal approval by the Bundestag in 2024. (AFP via MSN News) 

Tuesday,  October 25th, 2022 

The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirms the apparent existence of two illegal Chinese police stations in the Netherlands, one in Rotterdam and one in Amsterdam, that have been in operation since 2018. (NU.nl) 

Gunmen kill two Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officers, including a colonel, in Zahedan, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. (Al Arabiya) 

More than 30 people are killed and 15 others are reported missing after tribal clashes on Kiriwina Island in Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea. (The Guardian) 

Two people are killed and another is critically injured in a shooting in Ilford, East London. A manhunt for the suspect is underway, according to the Metropolitan Police. (Sky News) 

A United States Air Force airstrike kills two al-Shabaab terrorists in Buloburde, Somalia. The United States Africa Command says that the neutralized terrorists were attacking Somali National Army forces. (VOA) 

A young woman attempts to shoot either the Presidential Security Force of Indonesia or the President of Indonesia Joko Widodo at the Istana Negara in Central Jakarta, before being arrested. (DetikNews) 

Israeli soldiers raid a Lions’ Den headquarter in Nablus, in the West Bank, killing three militants, including one of the group’s founders. Two Palestinian civilians are also killed in nearby areas. Protests later occur in the town of Nabi Salih, resulting in a Palestinian man being killed by Israeli soldiers. (BBC News)

Adidas and Def Jam Recordings terminate their respective Yeezy and GOOD Music partnerships with rapper Kanye West following multiple remarks that West made, which were perceived as anti-semitic. (Complex) 

Ford announces that the Fiesta model, first introduced in 1976 and now in its 7th generation, will be discontinued, with production ending in mid-2023. (BBC News) 

Finnish seismologists at the University of Helsinki say that they have detected five explosions in Russian territorial waters of the Baltic Sea, with the largest explosion causing a 1.8 magnitude earthquake last week. The cause of the blasts is currently unknown. (Reuters) 

Rishi Sunak becomes the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after meeting with Charles III. He is the first British Asian and Hindu to hold the office. (Times of Israel) 

Monday,  October 24th, 2022 

The French government survives three motions of no confidence tabled by the left-wing and right-wing opposition. (TF1) 

Two people are killed and eight others are injured during a mass shooting at the Central Visual and Performing Arts High School in St. Louis, Missouri. The perpetrator is killed by police. (The Guardian) 

Thirteen people are killed, several others are injured, and an unknown number of people are reported missing after a passenger ship catches fire off the coast of East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. 263 passengers have been rescued. (Xinhua) 

Ethan Crumbley pleads guilty to four counts of murder, seven counts of attempted murder, 12 counts of use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, and one count of terrorism. (WJBK-TV) 

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Monday,  October 24th, 2022 

Xi Jinping is re-elected as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party by the Central Committee, beginning a third term as the paramount leader of China. (Al Jazeera) 

Rishi Sunak is elected as the Leader of the Conservative Party and is set to be the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom—the first prime minister of Indian origin and the first non-white leader of the United Kingdom—after Penny Mordaunt withdraws her bid.(STV News) 

The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran‘s Nuclear Power Production and Development company’s emails are leaked after the email server was hacked. (Tasnim) 

At least 50 people are killed and 100 more injured as the military launches airstrikes at a concert in Kachin State celebrating the 62nd anniversary of the founding of the separatist Kachin Independence Army. (BBC) 

In a landmark finding affecting collision sports, the United States National Institutes of Health have formally acknowledged a causal link between repeated blows to the head and the neurodegenerative disease CTE. (The Guardian) 

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Sunday, October 23rd, 2022 

Xi Jinping is re-elected as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party by the Central Committee, beginning a third term as the paramount leader of China. (Al Jazeera) 

Thousands of people, including teachers and students, protest across Hungary against the government of Viktor Orbán, demanding higher salaries and the right to strike amid a high level of inflation in the country. (Straits Times) 

Tamer al-Kilani, a founding member of the Lions’ Den militant group, is killed by a bomb planted on a motorcycle in Nablus, West Bank. (Al Jazeera) 

Nine people are killed and 47 others injured by an al-Shabaab suicide car bombing and shooting attack at the Tawakal Hotel in Kismayo, Jubaland, Somalia. The three gunmen are killed during a gunfight with security forces. (Reuters) 

Osvaldo Villalba, a leader of the Marxist–Leninist Paraguayan People’s Army rebel group, is killed alongside two other militants during a gunfight with soldiers in Amambay, Paraguay. (BBC) 

The death toll from the clashes over a land dispute between the Hausa and the Berta ethnic groups in Blue Nile, Sudan, increases to 220. It is one of the deadliest incident of ethnic violence in the country during the last years. (Al Jazeera) 

Pro-Bolsonaro Brazilian politician Roberto Jefferson wounds two federal policemen with rifles and grenades, who besieged his house in an attempt to arrest him for violating terms of his house arrest. (The Guardian) 

A Sukhoi Su-30 crashes into a residential building in Irkutsk, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. Both pilots are killed. No casualties on the ground are reported, but the crash causes a power outage that affects more than 150 houses. (Reuters) 

A Korean Air Airbus A330-300 overruns the runway of Mactan–Cebu International Airport after making two landing attempts during poor weather. No injuries are reported among the 173 occupants on board, but the fuselage sustained heavy damage and the airport was shut down. An investigation is already underway. (Reuters) 

A fire, caused by strong winds, occurs on the slopes of Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro. (The Guardian) 

One person is injured after a tornado hits Bihucourt, Pas-de-Calais, France. (Reuters) 

The United Nations accuses Australia of breaching its human rights obligations after the state governments of New South Wales and Queensland refuse to allow UN inspectors into detention facilities. (The Guardian) 

Arshad Sharif, a prominent Pakistani journalist, is shot dead in Kajiado county, Kenya. (BBC News) 

ECOWAS confirms that Guinea’s ruling junta has agreed to restore civilian rule in two years. (France 24) 

Red Bull Racing win their 5th F1 Constructors’ Championship after winning the United States Grand Prix. (Formula1.com) 

SC Magdeburg win the IHF Men’s Super Globe handball championship after beating FC Barcelona 41–39 in the final. (ZDF) (Sport.de) 

The Football Association of Wales announces that they will investigate yesterday’s derby between two Welsh North-west 3rd division phoenix clubs, Rhyl and Bangor, which ended in a fight that involved players from both teams. (BBC Sport) 

Saturday, October 22nd, 2022 

The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party closes in Beijing, China. The party’s new 205-member Central Committee, elected by delegates at the end of the week-long congress, did not include outgoing Premier Li Keqiang or former Guangdong party secretary Wang Yang, who had been seen as a potential replacement as premier. The Сongress has been described as strengthening the power of Xi Jinping, who is likely to be re-elected as General Secretary tomorrow. (Reuters) 

Power outages are reported across Ukraine and citizens are advised to store water as Russian airstrikes across the country continue to damage critical infrastructure and energy facilities. (Reuters) 

The Taliban kill six ISKP members during a raid in Kabul. (Reuters) 

Costa Rican security minister Jorge Torres says that a search is underway for a plane carrying five German citizens, which disappeared near the city of Limón. Among the passengers on board is Rainer Schaller, CEO of McFit. (DW) (Reuters) 

Brothers of Italy leader Giorgia Meloni is sworn in as Prime Minister of Italy, becoming the first woman to hold the position. (The Washington Post) 

More than 80,000 people take part in a rally in Berlin, Germany, to show their solidarity with protesters in Iran. (France 24) 

Thousands of protesters march in London to protest the alleged economic effects of Brexit and to demand that the United Kingdom rejoin the EU. (The Guardian) 

Mexico reports its first case of the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus in a wild, non-poultry bird in Metepec, State of Mexico. (Reuters) 

The last five members of an Iranian cargo plane with Venezuelan crew arrive in Caracas after four months in Argentine custody, where a court seized the plane on suspicions of terrorism at the request of a US court. (Reuters) 

The Election Commission of Pakistan bans former prime minister Imran Khan from seeking an elected office in the government for five years, citing Khan’s deceit in declaring some of the gifts that he received from foreign dignitaries during his premiership. (France 24) 

David Eby is acclaimed as the leader of the British Columbia New Democratic Party and becomes the next Premier of British Columbia following the disqualification of his sole opponent, climate activist Anjali Appadurai. (Reuters) 

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