October 17
Eight people are killed and eight others are injured after a minibus carrying 23 passengers plunges into a drain along the Delhi–Mumbai Expressway near Kota, India.
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The Times of India 
October 16
Sports
In women's rugby union, Canada defeats England 24–21 in a WXV Global Series match in Toronto, ending the Red Roses' four-year unbeaten run at 41 matches (the longest in rugby union history) after Shoshanah Seumanutafa scores a late try.
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Stuff
Law and crimes
Cockroach Janta Party leader Abhijeet Dipke is detained in Delhi, India, ahead of the party's planned march.
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BBC News
South African police rescue about 200 people from an unregistered rehabilitation centre in Mpumalanga and arrest two people while investigating alleged kidnapping and health and safety violations. Fourteen people receive medical treatment following the rescue.
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Reuters
International relations
Australia agrees to provide Fiji with solar-, wind-, and wave-powered Bluebottle maritime drones and training for surveillance and efforts against drug trafficking and other transnational crime, with deployment expected in 2027.
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AFP via RFI
Hungarian prime minister Péter Magyar and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy agree to improve bilateral relations during a meeting in Brussels, Belgium, with Hungary lifting objections to further European Union accession talks for Ukraine following progress on ethnic Hungarian minority rights in Ukraine.
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Reuters
Health and environment
Brazilian environment minister João Paulo Capobianco reports that deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest fell to 5,796km (2,238sqmi) in the year through July 2026, the lowest level since 1988 except for 2012.
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AFP via France 24
October 15
Health and environment
The United Kingdom declares a severe drought in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, East Sussex, and West Sussex after prolonged low rainfall left more than 80% of England in drought and major reservoirs below 20% capacity.
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AFP
Science and technology
Astronomers discover the first green star, WD J1330+6435, according to a study published by RAS Techniques and Instruments.
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Popular Science
At the General Conference on Weights and Measures, the International Bureau of Weights and Measures votes to abolish future leap seconds and make Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) continuous, starting 20 May 2027. To account for future differences between UTC and International Atomic Time, a leap hour will be observed as needed.
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Scientific American
International relations
A court in Hamburg, Germany, sentences a Danish national to eight years and six months in prison and an Afghan national to four years and six months in prison for plotting to assassinate Josef Schuster, the president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, on behalf of Iran.
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Reuters
Business and economy
The New Yalu River Bridge connecting Dandong, China, and Sinuiju, North Korea, opens following a 12-year delay.
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NK News
The European Central Bank authorizes UniCredit to raise its stake in Commerzbank above 30% without an upper limit, allowing the Italian bank to proceed toward taking control of the German lender.
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The Eastern Herald
Sports
In baseball, the Milwaukee Brewers sweep the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLCS to advance to the 2026 World Series, their first since 1982.
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ESPN
Law and crime
Three children and a teacher are killed in a mass school shooting at the Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, United States. Two other people are wounded. The perpetrator, a 16-year-old male, is shot and killed by a bystander.
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The Guardian
U.S. president Donald Trump announces that the Department of Defense has reversed its plan to livestream the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan, the perpetrator of the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, scheduled for December 3.
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AP
Argentine police arrest at least 25 people after clashes during a university funding protest in Buenos Aires, while eight police officers are injured.
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AFP via France 24
Northern Irish politician and former Democratic Unionist Party leader Jeffrey Donaldson is sentenced to 15 years in prison for child sexual abuse and rape. The offences occurred between 1985 and 2008.
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BBC News
Armed conflicts and attacks
Saudi Arabia says that it has intercepted a missile intended for Medina. However, the Houthis denied launching a missile at the city.
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France 24
The Houthis launch missiles against Al-Maashiq Palace, headquarters of the Presidential Leadership Council and official residence of President Rashad al-Alimi, in Aden, Yemen, killing five people and injuring 16. No member of the council is harmed in the attack.
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Reuters
Disasters and accidents
A roof collapses at a school in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, killing 34 students and a teacher, and injuring 50 more people.
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BBC News
Four people are killed fighting wildfires in Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park in East Java, Indonesia, after flames and thick smoke trapped them. Two others suffer serious burns.
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AFP
Seven people are missing after a San Marino-flagged tanker catches fire off the coast of Romania amid recent drone attacks on merchant shipping in the Black Sea. Search and rescue operations are underway to locate the missing crew members.
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Politico
October 14
Law and crime
The Ukrainian citizen accused of sabotaging the Nord Stream pipelines in 2022 faces trial at the Higher Regional Court in Hamburg, Germany,
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UPI
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.
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AFP via RFI
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.
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BBC News
President Claudia Sheinbaum signs a decree banning violent content on social media to protect minors under the age of 18.
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Expansión
Costa Rica inaugurates CACCO, a maximum-security prison modeled after El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison, aimed at holding 20% of the country's current prison population, as the homicide rate reached a record high in 2023.
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Reuters
Health and environment
Singapore records its highest air pollution level of 2026 as one-hour PM concentrations reach about 288 micrograms per cubic metre amid haze from Indonesian wildfires.
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AFP
Timor-Leste suspends in-person classes nationwide from October 15 to 17 due to worsening air quality from wildfire smoke and pollutant particles across Southeast Asia.
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AFP
Armed conflicts and attacks
The Houthis claim to have shot down a Royal Saudi Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft over Saada Governorate, Yemen. Saudi authorities did not comment on the claim.
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AFP via AA
The Saudi Civil Defense reports that debris from intercepted Houthi cruise missiles injured four people, including a child, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and damaged 15 homes.
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AFP via CNA
Two cargo ships, the Singapore-flagged container ship and the Antigua and Barbuda-flagged dry bulk carrier , sink after both are attacked by projectiles near the Strait of Hormuz while trying to navigate through what Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps called an "illegal and dangerous route." At least one crew member is killed in the attacks.
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Reuters
A Russian ballistic missile attack strikes a power station in the Dniprovskyi District, Kyiv, Ukraine, leaving more than 1,000 residential buildings without heating.
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BBC News
The Sudanese Armed Forces announces that they have re-captured the Bir Kelekel area of West Darfur, Sudan, from Rapid Support Forces, according to West Darfur state governor Bahr al-Din Adam Karama.
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AA
Rioters attack government buildings, banks, businesses and other sites as anti-government protests erupt in Tirana, Albania. At least 23 police officers and six others are injured during the unrest, while 35 people are detained. President Bajram Begaj condemns the violence and appeals for calm across the nation.
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AP
Science and technology
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CNN
Politics and elections
Over 300,000 public sector workers in Ireland, including teachers, health workers, and other civil servants, start a general strike, the first in the country since 2009, to protest against a deadlock in pay negotiations.
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Reuters
International relations
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Reuters