Wednesday, October 5th, 2022 

Ukrainian troops recapture the strategic village of Dudchany on the west bank of the Dnieper following the withdrawal of Russian forces. (Al Jazeera) 

Russian President Vladimir Putin signs a law formally annexing the Donetsk People’s Republic, Luhansk People’s Republic, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia into the Russian Federation. (Reuters) 

More than 50 people are killed in an Ethiopian Air Force airstrike on a school in La’ilay Adiyabo, Tigray Region, Ethiopia. (Reuters) 

Unemployment hits a historic low in Slovenia, its lowest since the country’s independence in 1991, despite a slowed economic growth. (Xinhua) 

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake strikes Khowy, West Azerbaijan, Iran, leaving 580 people injured. (Reuters) 

Twenty-five people are killed and over a dozen are injured when a bus falls from a mountainous road into a gorge in Uttarakhand, India. (CNA) 

Lawyers for Maasai herders, who say the Tanzanian government is trying to violently evict them from their ancestral land to make way for a luxury game reserve, have lodged an appeal against a court ruling that dismissed their case. (The Guardian) 

The chief justice of the Supreme Court of Ukraine fires Bohdan Lvov, his deputy, for having dual citizenship – Russian and Ukrainian. (Dzerkalo Tyzhnia) 

The prime minister of Denmark Mette Frederiksen calls a general election scheduled for 1 November 2022, thus avoiding a vote of no confidence. (The Guardian) 

The Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, fires his son, Lt. Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, as the commander of national infantry forces, after the latter made a series of tweets expressing an irridentist claim to Nairobi, capital of neighbouring Kenya. (Associated Press) 

Americans Carolyn R. Bertozzi and Karl Barry Sharpless, and Dane Morten P. Meldal are jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for “the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry”. (Reuters) 

A Chess.com investigation finds that Hans Niemann probably cheated in more than 100 chess games. (The Guardian) 

The IOC state that they were not consulted over Saudi Arabian plans for $500bn desert Asian Winter Games and was in clear conflict with policy of using existing arenas. (The Guardian) 

Tuesday,  October 4th, 2022 

The Government of Colombia and the National Liberation Army (ELN) announce the resumption of peace talks in Caracas, Venezuela. (Reuters) 

Ukraine’s 35th Marine Brigade recaptures the village of Davydiv Brid in Beryslav Raion, Kherson Oblast, as it continues its ground offensive. The Ukrainian Interior Ministry says that around 3,500 citizens have been freed from Russian occupation in recent days. (BBC News) 

The European Union adds the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands to its tax haven blacklist, while Bermuda is removed from the list and Anguilla is named a “non-cooperative jurisdiction”. (Caribbean News) 

Two people are killed and 10 others injured after a plane crashes in Gao, Gao Region, Mali. (Reuters) 

Ten people are killed and 11 others are reported missing after an avalanche in Draupadi ka Danda, Uttarakhand, India. (AP) 

The Slovenian National Assembly legalises same-sex marriage and adoption for same-sex couples. (Barron’s) 

Rwanda is added to Google Street View. (Virtual Streets) 

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Tuesday,  October 4th, 2022 

The Federation Council of Russia unanimously approves the annexation of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia. It now goes for final signing into effect by President Vladimir Putin. (Reuters) 

Bangladesh suffers a severe power grid failure, leaving 80 percent of the country without electricity, according to the Bangladesh Power Development Board. (NDTV) 

French Alain Aspect, American John Clauser and Austrian Anton Zeilinger are awarded jointly this year’s Nobel in Physics for “experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”. (CNN) 

Twenty people are killed and 36 others are injured by two al-Shabaab suicide bombers at the local government headquarters in Beledweyne. The health minister of Hirshabelle and Hiran’s deputy governor for finance and security are among the dead. (AP)  

North Korea launches a suspected ballistic missile towards Japan with the Japanese government warning residents in Hokkaido and Aomori prefectures to immediately seek shelter. It later landed in the Pacific. The launch comes after a series of balloon launches and placard protests from South Korea and various military exercises involving the US. (BBC News) 

Ten people are injured when a homemade explosive device explodes in Butembo, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters) 

Fifteen people are killed and 21 others injured by a prison riot in Latacunga, Cotopaxi Province, Ecuador. (Reuters) 

The Cabinet of Kenya votes to overturn a law prohibiting the open cultivation of genetically modified crops, and William Ruto officially authorizes the use of genetically modified maize. (AP News) 

Monday,  October 3rd, 2022 

Ukrainian forces advance more than 20km (12 miles) along the Dnieper towards Dudchany, Kherson Oblast, in what is being called a “major breakthrough”. (Reuters) 

The Russian Defence Ministry sacks Colonel general Alexander Zhuravlyov in response to a series of military defeats in Ukraine. He is replaced as commander of the Western Military District by Major general Roman Berdnikov. (Reuters) 

American wiki hosting service Fandom purchases numerous entertainment and review sites, such as TV Guide, Metacritic, and GameSpot, for US$50 million in cash. (Variety) 

The death toll from Hurricane Ian rises to 90 and The Guardian reports that 10,000 people remain unaccounted for. (The Guardian) 

Hurricane Orlene makes landfall in western Mexico as a Category 1 hurricane. (Reuters) 

Swedish geneticist Svante Pääbo is awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for “his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”. (The Washington Post) 

The End