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United States secretary of defense Pete Hegseth announces the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan, the perpetrator of the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, will be publicly broadcasted. (AFP via RFI) (CNN)
US secretary of defense Pete Hegseth announces an agreement with Qatar to build a new Qatar Emiri Air Force facility at the Mountain Home Air Force Base in Elmore County, Idaho, that will host QEAF F-15QA fighter jets and pilots. (TIME) (CBS News)
US officials announce that 200 troops will be sent to Israel to run a civil-military coordination center established by U.S. Central Command to support and monitor the ceasefire deal, joined by members of the armed forces of Egypt, Qatar, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates. (AP)
A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas comes into effect hours after the approval of the ceasefire agreement by the Israeli war cabinet. The Israel Defense Forces complete their withdrawal to the agreed-upon lines within Gaza. (AP)
Russian president Vladimir Putin says that Russian air defense shot down Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 in December 2024, in his first admission of responsibility for the accident. (CNN)
The United States Department of Justice indicts Attorney General of New York Letitia James on a criminal bank fraud charge by in Alexandria, Virginia, United States. (CNN)
Formula 1 announces a new grand prix in Kigali, Rwanda, to run for at least 10 years starting in the early 2030s with a new track. This would be the first F1 grand prix in Africa since South Africa in 1993. (AP)
One person is killed and four others are injured after an accident on the Goliath roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia in Mableton, Georgia, United States. (BNO News)
The Clark County District Court in Nevada, United States, sentences former Crips gang leader Duane “Keffe D” Davis to a minimum of 40 years in prison for orchestrating the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas. (DW)
Wednesday, October 14th, 2026
A power station in the Dniprovskyi District, Kyiv, Ukraine is hit in a Russian ballistic missile attack, leaving more than 1,000 residential buildings without heating. (BBC)
Singapore records its highest air pollution level of 2026 as one-hour PM2.5 concentrations reach about 288 micrograms per cubic metre amid haze from Indonesian wildfires. (AFP)
Timor-Leste suspends in-person classes nationwide from October 15 to 17 after worsening air quality from wildfire smoke and pollutant particles transported across Southeast Asia. (AFP)
A court in New Delhi, India, remands Cockroach Janta Party spokespeople Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka in custody for five days after police detained them for entering the restricted Jantar Mantar protest site. (AFP via RFI)
The Ukrainian citizen accused of Nord Stream pipelines sabotage in 2022 faces trial at the Hanseatisches Oberlandesgericht in Hamburg, Germany, raising again the questions about Ukraine’s possible role in the attack. (DW)
Turkish opposition-leaning and independent news channel Halk TV goes offline as it is raided by police and new administrators are appointed by the government. (BBC)
Tuesday, October 13th, 2026
Formula 1 announces a new grand prix in Kigali, Rwanda, to run for at least 10 years starting in the early 2030s with a new track. This would be the first F1 grand prix in Africa since South Africa in 1993. (AP)
The Clark County District Court in Nevada, United States, sentences former Crips gang leader Duane “Keffe D” Davis to a minimum of 40 years in prison for orchestrating the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas. (AFP via France 24) (DW)
Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, United States, suspends all fraternity parties and social events for the remainder of the 2026–27 academic year following allegations that seven Chi Phi members drugged and gang-raped a student in 2024. (BBC News)
Philippine prosecutors in the impeachment trial of vice president Sara Duterte drop three of the four impeachment charges in an attempt to speed up the trial. The Senate, sitting as an impeachment court, approves the move. (AP)
The Hungarian National Assembly passes an amendment repealing most provisions of the anti-LGBTQ child protection law that was previously passed during former prime minister Viktor Orbán‘s tenure in 2021. (DW)
The Royal Saudi Air Force strikes a fuel depot near Sanaa, Yemen. The Houthis launch missiles upon multiple Saudi Arabian cities, including Riyadh and Dammam, in response. (BBC News)
An administrative building belonging to Saudi Aramco in Dhahran, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia, is partially consumed by a fire after a Houthi missile is intercepted over the city by Saudi forces. (Al Jazeera)
Hezbollah spokesperson Ali Damoush announces they will pay up to US$14,000 in aid to families whose homes in Lebanon were destroyed or made uninhabitable during its war with Israel. Families in Beirut and its suburbs will receive $14,000, while the rest of Lebanon will receive $12,000. (AP)
Two merchant ships are hit by unknown drones off Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast, with one sinking. Eleven crew members are missing and 20 in total are rescued. Bulgarian prime minister Rumen Radev has blamed Russia and summoned its ambassador. It is the second such attack in six days. (Reuters)
Six deaths are confirmed in Florida, United States, from Hurricane Isaias. (Fox Weather)
At least seven people are killed and over 40 others are injured in a train derailment near Multan, Punjab, Pakistan. (AA) (AFP via The Straits Times)
The World Health Organization reports a surge in cholera cases in Yemen over the past three weeks. (AFP via Arab News)
Indonesian authorities release 20 protected green sea turtles back into the oceans off Bali after they were seized from an empty boat abandoned by wildlife smugglers last week. (AP)
Philippine prosecutors in the impeachment trial of vice president Sara Duterte drop three of the fou
inimum of 40 years in prison for orchestrating the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas. (DW)
Four people are killed and three more injured in a mass shooting at a memorial service in Katlehong, Gauteng, South Africa. (AP)
Eight people are injured in a mass stabbing at a supermarket in Incheon, South Korea. A suspect is arrested. (BBC News) (CNA)
Students in Tirana, Albania, throw bricks at the Ministry of Education building, prompting riot police to respond. (Reuters)
The Netherlands denies visas to Russian artistic gymnasts Anna Kalmykova, Viktoria Listunova, and Angelina Melnikova for the world championships in Rotterdam, while four other Russian gymnasts receive permission to enter the country. (AP)
Monday, October 12th, 2026
Generative AI chatbot Character.ai files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, citing costs and litigations including those linked to teen suicides. (CBS News)
American visual images company Getty Images announces that it will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. (Reuters)
One person is killed and four others are injured after an accident on the Goliath roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia in Mableton, Georgia, United States. (BNO News)
The Houthis claim to have attacked King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with a ballistic missile for a third consecutive day. (Reuters)
Delta Air Lines postpones direct flights from Atlanta’s Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport to Riyadh following attacks by the Houthis on the country. (The Hill)
Former Congolese president Joseph Kabila announces the formation of a rebel political-military coalition named Front for the Refoundation of the Nation, which includes the March 23 Movement, Twirwaneho and the Congo River Alliance. The group, led by Kabila, says it aimed to coordinate “resistance forces” to topple the Government of President Félix Tshisekedi. (BBC)
r impeachment charges in an attempt to speed up the trial. The Senate, sitting as an impeachment court, approves the move. (AP)
The Hungarian National Assembly passes an amendment repealing most provisions of the anti-LGBTQ child protection law that was previously passed during former prime minister Viktor Orbán’s tenure in 2021. (DW)
The Clark County District Court in Nevada, United States, sentences former Crips gang leader Duane “Keffe D” Davis to a m
American economists Robert Ernest Hall and Michael Dean Woodford are jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on “microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation“. (CNN)
Two deaths are reported after hurricanes Rachel and Simon made landfall on Mexico’s coast, with Guerrero governor Evelyn Salgado and Baja California governor Marina del Pilar Ávila confirming their deaths. (Al Jazeera)
A fire destroys the historic Marché des Enfants-Rouges food market in Paris, France. (France 24)
The Council of the European Union approves the 22nd package of sanctions against Russia, targeting 1,569 individuals and entities of the country’s military and industrial complex. (EU Council)
A 14-year-old student opens fire at a middle school in Aubagne, France, injuring two staff members, before being detained. (France 24)
Pakistan‘s federal government detains hundreds of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) members, including former Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister Sohail Afridi and other provincial officials, after suspending the PTI-led provincial administration and imposing emergency rule. (AFP via RFI)
A cyber attack without attribution against French supermarkets results in losses worth millions of euros. (BBC News)
Ülle Madise, who was elected by the Riigikogu in September, takes office as President of Estonia, succeeding Alar Karis. (Estonian World)
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Sunday, October 11th , 2026
Houthis launch an attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh and King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, causing a fire, one dead and injuring multiple people. (Al Jazeera)
An Indian national injured in yesterday’s attack on King Khalid International Airport dies from his injuries, raising the death toll to 13. (Reuters)
The Royal Saudi Air Force launches an airstrike in Sanaa, Yemen, killing a child and wounding seven other people. (Al Jazeera)
One person is killed, seven others are injured, dozens of bulldozers are destroyed, and a key route connecting Beirut to Lebanon’s south is severed in Israeli attacks in Msayleh, An-Najjariyah, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera) (Naharnetnet)
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations reports that a tanker transiting in the Strait of Hormuz has been hit by an unknown projectile. (Middle East Eye)
Two Hamas members are killed by the Doghmush clan in an ambush in Gaza City, Palestine. A clan member is killed and 30 arrested in retaliation. (BBC News)
A drone strikes the tanker MT Petro Dolphin near Sohar, Oman, leaving two Indian sailors missing and prompting the rescue of nine others. Omani authorities conduct search-and-rescue operations for the missing crew members. (AFP via Arab News)
Airstrikes are launched at the Egypt–Sudan border targeting an artisanal gold mine in a mountainous area, killing at least 72 people. (Sky News)
An executive magistrate’s court in New Delhi, India, orders the release of Cockroach Janta Party founder Abhijeet Dipke and two other leaders, requiring them to avoid breaches of the peace for one year after their detention. (AFP via France 24)
At least two people are killed and four others are injured, including one critically, in a Russian strike on a church in Kostiantynivka, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Ukrainska Pravda)
Four FARC dissidents are killed and 12 rifles seized after an airstrike by the National Army of Colombia against a guerrilla camp in Norte de Santander Department, Colombia.(El Tiempo)
Ten people are reported missing and at least 35 houses and six bridges are swept away in a major flash flood in Gorkha District, Gandaki Province, Nepal. The exact number of casualties is unknown. (ANI via Gulf News) (Nepal Views)
At least 139 people are killed, 84 more missing, and over 80 are rescued when a boat carrying migrants shipwrecks off the coast of Djibouti. (AFP via France 24)
Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari declares a state of emergency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and suspends its provincial government amid disputes over the province’s response to Islamist militancy. (AFP via RFI)
Raphaël Glucksmann is elected as a candidate in the 2027 presidential election during the Socialist Party primary, receiving more than 66% of the votes in the first round. (AFP via RFI)
British musician Ian Watkins of the band Lostprophets is killed in HM Prison Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England, where he was imprisoned for sexual crimes against children and animals. Two men are arrested on suspicion of the murder. (BBC News)
Following Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan in Kabul and Paktika on October 9th, the Afghan Armed Forces launches attacks on several border posts of Pakistan along the Durand Line and seizes several posts. (The Guardian)
Pakistan responds with retaliatory strikes, gunfire and ground raids on Afghan posts along the border. (The Guardian)
Saturday, October 10th, 2026
US secretary of defense Pete Hegseth announces an agreement with Qatar to build a new Qatar Emiri Air Force facility at the Mountain Home Air Force Base in Elmore County, Idaho, that will host QEAF F-15QA fighter jets and pilots. (CBS News)
A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas comes into effect hours after the approval of the ceasefire agreement by the Israeli war cabinet. The Israel Defense Forces complete their withdrawal to the agreed-upon lines within Gaza. (AP)
Roei Shalev, a survivor of the Nova music festival massacre during the October 7 attacks on Israel, dies by suicide two years after the attack amid ongoing reports of severe psychological trauma among survivors. (The Jerusalem Post) (The Times of Israel)
The Lebanese government announces the arrest of a network affiliated to Israel which attempted to carry out assassinations and bombing attacks, mainly during a commemoration ceremony for the assassinated Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. (Al Jazeera)
The United Nations human rights chief says three days of attacks in and near a displaced persons camp in Al-Fashir, North Darfur, Sudan, has killed at least 53 civilians. (The Canadian Press)
Two unnamed high-ranking Pakistani Taliban leaders are confirmed killed in yesterday’s Pakistani airstrikes in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Radio Free Europe)
All the 30 surviving Pakistani Taliban insurgents involved in the attack in Orakzai District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, on Tuesday that killed 30 people, including eleven security personnel, are killed in a retribution operation. (Dawn)
At least eleven Pakistani soldiers are killed in an attack on a military post by the Pakistani Taliban in Tirah, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. (Reuters)
At least seven police officers and six militants are killed and 13 others are injured in an attack on a police training center in Ratta Kulachi, Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. ) (Dawn)
At least 16 people are killed and multiple others are injured after an explosion at a manufacturing plant in Hickman County, Tennessee, United States. (CNN)
At least 28 people are killed in floods and landslides in central and southeastern Mexico. Roads and homes are destroyed. (AP)
Biggest crypto liquidation event in historyMore than $19 billion of crypto leverage was liquidated in roughly a day. (Coinglass)
Senegalese health authorities confirm 17 deaths in a major outbreak of Rift Valley fever that began on September 21. (Africanews)
Afghanistan spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid says Pakistan launched an airstrike in the country’s eastern Paktia Province, while the Pakistani government says the Pakistani Taliban was allowed to use Afghanistan as a base for attacks against Pakistan. (AP)
Indian foreign minister S. Jaishankar announces the country will reopen its embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, after it was shut down four years ago during the fall of Kabul. (DW)
The International Criminal Court rejects a request from former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte to be released from detention, citing flight risk and witness tampering concerns. (AP)
One person is killed and 22 others are injured during a Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan protest in Lahore, Punjab. (Dawn)
Venezuelan activist María Corina Machado is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her promotion of democratic rights in Venezuela. (CNN) (Nobel Peace Prize)
Congress president José Jerí is sworn in as the interim president following Boluarte’s removal from power. (DW)
French president Emmanuel Macron re-appoints Sébastien Lecornu as Prime Minister, four days after Lecornu resigned. (France 24)
Komeito announces their exit from the Japanese ruling coalition with the Liberal Democratic Party. (Reuters)
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