Wednesday, October 19th, 2022 

Russian forces begin evacuating thousands of civilians from occupied areas of Kherson Oblast, according to the Russian-installed governor Volodymyr Saldo. Ukraine calls on residents to ignore the Russian orders to leave their towns and villages. (BBC News) 

Russian President Vladimir Putin introduces martial law, starting from Thursday midnight, in the recently annexed territories of Ukraine. Additionally, an “intermediate level of preparedness” is introduced in the federal subjects bordering Ukraine and in Crimea. (AP)  

Prime Minister of the Bahamas Philip Davis says he is ready to send troops to Haiti as part of a peacekeeping force if asked to do so by the Caribbean Community. (Reuters) 

Three staff members and five visitors are killed as two bombs explode inside Insein Prison in Yangon, Myanmar. Ten others are wounded. (Al Jazeera) 

Belarus says that it is unable to pay off its debt due to international sanctions imposed due to its role in the Russo-Ukrainian War. (Reuters) 

Inflation in the United Kingdom rises to 10.1%, the highest recorded since 1982, amid a cost of living crisis and sharp increases in food prices, acorrding to the Office for National Statistics. (The Guardian) 

Ninety-nine children have died this year in Indonesia due to acute kidney injury. The deaths are linked to paracetamol syrups used to treat fevers. (Reuters) 

A court in Phnom Penh, Cambodia sentences opposition figure Sam Rainsy to life in prison for “attempting to concede territory to a foreign entity”. The sentence was delivered in absentia because Rainsy has been exiled in France since 2015. (AFP via The Bangkok Post) 

Suella Braverman resigns as Home Secretary of the United Kingdom and is replaced by Grant Shapps. (The Guardian) 

Wendy Morton resigns as Chief Whip of the Conservative Party. (Bloomberg) 

Tuesday,  October 18th, 2022 

Ukraine accuses Russia of kidnapping two senior employees of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. (Agence France Presse via Barron’s) 

Three people are killed and critical infrastructure is destroyed by Russian missiles in Kyiv, causing fires, explosions, and power outages. Several other cities across Ukraine are also hit in targeted attacks against water supplies and energy facilities, with power outages being reported in 1,162 towns and villages. (Reuters)  

Iran agrees to provide Russia with medium-range missiles, surface-to-surface missiles and combat drones for the war in Ukraine. (The Guardian) 

Two people are killed and three others are injured when a hot air balloon carrying tourists crashes in Nevşehir, Turkey. (AP) 

The U. S. Department of Agriculture announces that more than 47 million chickens and turkeys have died this year of H5N1 bird flu or related culling in the United States, amid the deadliest outbreak of the disease in the country since 2015. (Reuters) 

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong confirms that Australia will no longer recognise West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel until peace negotiations are finalised. (The Guardian) 

The United Kingdom announces visa-free entry for ordinary citizens of Colombia, Guyana, and Peru. (El Espectador)  

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passes a resolution recognising Chechnya as “temporarily occupied” by Russia, as well as condemning war crimes committed by Russia during the First and Second Chechen Wars. (Reuters) 

A court in Moscow fines Amazon, Inc. four million rubles (US$65,000) for failing to delete content on drug use and for “propagandizing suicide”. (Reuters) 

Two people are killed and another person is injured in a stabbing in Ludwigshafen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The suspect, a 25-year-old Somali man, is shot and injured by police before being arrested. (AP) 

A nationwide strike begins in France with workers demanding higher salaries amid increasing inflation in the country. (Euronews) 

Monday,  October 17th, 2022 

Russian forces attack the Shevchenkivskyi District, Kyiv, and an energy facility in the city of Sumy with HESA Shahed 136 suicide drones, killing eight people. (BBC News)  

The European Union establishes EUMAM Ukraine, a special military mission that will provide training for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in EU member states. (Council of the EU/the European Council) 

After killing hundreds of civilians and forcing thousands to flee, the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara is reported to have captured the town of Ansongo in eastern Mali. (Reuters) 

Four Chadian United Nations peacekeepers are killed and two others are injured in a roadside bombing near Tessalit, Kidal Region. (Reuters) 

Ethiopian government forces capture the city of Shire from the Tigray Defense Forces. (Reuters via MSN) 

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres calls for “armed action” to establish a humanitarian corridor in Haiti, saying Haitians face a “nightmarish situation”, especially in the capital, Port-au-Prince. (Al Jazeera) 

Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka wins the 2022 Booker Prize for his novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. (CNN) 

A Sukhoi Su-34 crashes into an apartment building in Yeysk, Krasnodar Krai, Russia, killing at least 15 people and wounding 19 more. (The Moscow Times) 

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni places the capital city of Kampala under high Ebola response alert after two people who travelled from Mubende tested positive, with one of them later dying, amid an outbreak of the disease in the country. (Xinhua) 

The European Union sanctions Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Basij paramilitary military, and its morality police in response to the repression of the Mahsa Amini protests. (i24 News) 

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida orders an investigation into the ties between the Unification Church and members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party amid heavy scrutiny of the claims of Abe’s assassin. (Al Jazeera) 

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