Friday,  October 7th, 2022 

Two people are killed and six others are injured, three of them critically, in a mass stabbing on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, United States. (KTNV-TV) 

U.S. President Joe Biden announces that he will pardon anyone who was convicted on prior federal charges, or who was convicted in the District of Columbia, for marijuana possession. (CNBC) 

A United States Air Force airstrike and helicopter raid kill two senior Islamic State leaders in Qamishli, Syria, including the Islamic State’s deputy leader in Syria. CENTCOM says that no U.S. military personnel or civilians were killed or injured in the operation. (CNN) 

The military of Somalia kill 19 al-Shabaab members in a repelled attack amid ongoing operations against the jihadist terrorist organization. (allAfrica) 

Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski, the Russian human rights society Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organization The Center for Civil Liberties are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. (DW) 

Multiple people are injured and others trapped under rubble after an explosion at an Applegreen petrol station in the village of Creeslough, County Donegal, Ireland. (BBC News)

Citizens in Lesotho head to the polls to elect the 120 members of the National Assembly. (Reuters) 

An armed intruder damages several vehicles in the parking lot of the Iranian embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian criticizes the Danish police for not providing adequate protection for the embassy. (Tasnim) 

Belarus bans price increases as part of an effort to reduce inflation in the country. (The Moscow Times) 

Thursday, October 6th, 2022 

Russian forces shell residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia, killing at least three people, injuring twelve others and causing widespread fires. (Reuters) 

Iran’s IRIB broadcasts forced confessions from two French citizens accused of espionage. This broadcast comes in the context of the Mahsa Amini protests which began in September as well as the claim by the Iranian government that the protests are an attempt by France and other countries such as the United States and Israel to overthrow the current Iranian Islamic government. (The Washington Post) 

Eighteen people are killed, including the town’s mayor, and three others injured, in a mass shooting by the Los Tequileros drug gang at the town hall in San Miguel Totolapan, Guerrero, Mexico. (BBC) 

At least 36 people, including 24 children, are killed and 12 more injured by a dismissed policeman in a mass shooting, which started at a daycare centre in Na Klang district, Thailand. The perpetrator commits suicide. (AP) 

French author Annie Ernaux is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for “the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory”. (Reuters) 

The Irish Dancing Commission, Ireland’s governing body for Irish dancing, appoints a former judge to investigate claims of prominent dance schools and teachers fixing competitions. (The Guardian) 

At least 15 people are killed and 20 missing after a boat carrying migrants sinks off the east coast of the Greek island of Lesbos. Five others are rescued. (CNA) 

Sixteen people are killed, and 20 others injured when a bus overturns in Bara District, Nepal, apparently due to speeding. (Xinhua) 

The Nigerian military says it has secured the release of the last 23 passengers taken hostage in late March. (Reuters) 

The bridge connecting Pine Island in Lee County, Florida, reopens to the public after undergoing repairs from damage caused by Hurricane Ian. (Wink News) 

Hurricane Ian’s death toll rises to 130, with 125 fatalities in the United States and five in Cuba, making it the 24th deadliest hurricane in US history. (CNN) 

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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) 

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Saturday, October 1st, 2022 

After the defeat in Lyman, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, calls on the Russian government to introduce martial law and use low-yield nuclear weapons in Ukraine. (Moskovskij Komsomolets) 

Ukrainian troops liberate Lyman after weeks of fighting for the city and one day after the annexation of the Donetsk People’s Republic to Russia. (The Guardian) 

The Ministry of Defence of Russia says that it has withdrawn troops from the town of Lyman due to “a threat of encirclement”. (BBC News) 

A civilian convoy of seven cars attacked by Russian forces is discovered in Kupiansk Raion in Kharkiv Oblast with 24 people being killed, including a pregnant woman and 13 children, according to local governor Oleh Synyehubov. (Ukrainska Pravda) 

Protests enter a fifteenth day as large crowds and strikes are held at Iran’s universities. (Iran International) 

Iranians around the world hold rallies in more than 160 cities in solidarity with protesters. (Euronews) 

Canada formally ends all COVID-19 border measures, including vaccination requirements, pre-arrival testing, and quarantine, allowing all travellers to enter the country unrestricted without needing to submit public health information through the ArriveCAN government mobile app. (Global News) 

Latvians head to the polls to elect members of the Saeima. (The Business Standard) 

Venezuela releases seven Americans from its custody, including five Citgo executives, in exchange for two nephews of Venezuelan First Lady Cilia Flores who had previously been convicted of drug smuggling in the United States. (Politico) 

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