Impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump
first impeachment inquiry against U.S. President Donald Trump
Nobel laureate in chemistry & American chemist
The United States announces a tariff of 10% on European-made Airbus planes and 25% on a range of goods, set to take effect on 18 October.
Voters in Canada go to the polls to elect members of the 43rd Canadian Parliament.
In Barcelona, a water cannon is used for the first time against protesters in Spain.
The Marine Accident Investigation Branch of the UK Department for Transport issues a report on the grounding of cargo vessel MV Priscilla on the Pentland Skerries off the coast of Shetland, Scotland. The investigation concludes the lone crewmember on the bridge was distracted by watching music videos during the nighttime accident. The grounding triggered changes in procedures by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.
Police officers in Oslo wound an armed 32-year-old man, who injured three people when he rammed a stolen ambulance into them.
At least 40 people are killed and over 1,700 wounded when security forces violently clamp down on anti-government protestors in Iraq.
Hundreds of protestors march across Lebanon over the government's proposal to tax numerous goods, such as tobacco and WhatsApp calls. Police respond by firing tear gas on those in Beirut.
Three people are found dead in a supermarket that had been set on fire in San Bernardo.
President of Catalonia Quim Torra requests a meeting with King Felipe VI of Spain and Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and calls the sentence as an act of "revenge". Sánchez, in a special press conference, guarantees compliance with the sentence and calls for dialogue and coexistence, as well as ensures that Spain is a democratic state.
Evo Morales accuses opposition politicians of plotting a coup d'etat with foreign powers.
Two people are killed and two others are injured in attacks by a man wearing military camouflage near a synagogue and at a kebab shop in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Shots are also reported in nearby Landsberg. A suspect, 27-year-old Stephan Billiet, is arrested. The attack had been livestreamed on Twitch for 35 minutes citing anti-Semitic and racist motivations.
British biologist & Nobel laureate in medicine
self-governance of professions or industries, including unions and formal or informal political units
Ethiopian police report on Friday that the death toll from violent protests in Oromia Region was 67, including five officers. The protests started on Wednesday when protestors accused Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of acting dictatorial, but they quickly degenerated into ethnic clashes.
Three American soldiers with the 3rd Infantry Division are killed and three others are injured in a training accident at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, Georgia.
The government withdraws the controversial tax plan.
Typhoon Hagibis makes landfall in Japan, the biggest storm to hit the region in decades, with over seven million people urged to evacuate.
bilateral diplomatic relations between Japan and South Korea
Tornadoes strike North Texas as part of an outbreak
Voters in Poland go to the polls to elect a new government.
third planet from the Sun in the Solar System
capital and largest city in the Mexican state of Sinaloa
A magnitude 6.6 earthquake strikes the southern part of the island of Mindanao, killing at least eight.
A train catches fire in Liaquatpur Tehsil, Rahim Yar Khan District, Punjab, Pakistan.
Convicted British serial sex offender and paedophile Richard Huckle, who sexually abused dozens of children in Malaysia, is found stabbed to death in his cell at HM Prison Full Sutton.
A judge rules against U.S. President Donald Trump, ordering him to release eight years of state tax returns to New York officials. The defense makes an immediate appeal to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, and is granted a temporary stay "pending expedited review."
Voters in Mozambique go to the polls to elect both their president and the members of the legislature.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino for the development of lithium ion batteries.
A French tourist is stabbed to death while a Tunisian soldier is wounded by an Islamist in Bizerte, Tunisia.
The British Parliament votes 322 to 306 to pass the so-called "Letwin amendment" to the Withdrawal Agreement Bill, which states it will not approve any withdrawal agreement unless all relevant formal legislation is passed. In effect any subsequent vote on a deal is not considered final, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson will be forced to ask for an extension.
The length of the extension is yet to be decided.
The National Transportation Safety Board of the United States concludes its investigation into the accident, which killed six and injured ten. It states design errors were the immediate cause, exacerbated by failures to take appropriate remedial action when cracks were discovered.
Jimmy Sham, a leader of the Hong Kong protests, is attacked by a group of hammer-wielding men in the Mong Kok District of the Kowloon Peninsula, and is taken to hospital with severe head injuries.
The Washington Nationals beat the Houston Astros 6–2 in Game 7 to win the World Series.
contributions to American election campaign funds
Abul-Hasan al-Muhajir, the official spokesman of ISIL, is killed in a second operation near Jarabulus in northwest Syria.
Spanish businesswoman, banker, chairwoman of Grupo Santander
The killings were recorded by the militants, which has since been spread on social media.
NASA announces that the InSight Mars lander's heat probe had successfully dug 3 centimetres (1.2 in) into the ground after becoming stuck 35 centimetres (14 in) in the ground in February 2019, confirming that the probe had not hit a rock and instead simply didn't have enough friction in the soil to dig much deeper. The vehicle landed near the Martian equator in November 2018.
In Lower Manhattan, New York City, a 24-year-old homeless man is charged with murdering four other homeless men and attempting to murder a fifth in random attacks. Authorities identify one of the deceased as an 83-year-old man, but release no further details about the victims.
ISIL confirms the deaths of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and its spokesman Abul-Hasan al-Muhajir, and names Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi as its new leader.
They were convicted of a series of terror offences.
Italian lawmakers vote to reduce the number of seats in the Chamber of Deputies from 630 to 400, and the number of seats in the Senate of the Republic from 315 to 200, at the next Italian general election.
A bomb planted on a foreign tank wounds a soldier at Kandahar International Airport.
He denies a tenth murder, now believed to be perpetrated by a copycat.
executive position in the United States of America
Ugandan authorities announce that they have arrested 16 LGBT activists on suspicion of gay sex.
The Syrian Democratic Forces agree to allow the Syrian Army to enter the SDF-held cities of Manbij and Kobani in an attempt to deter Turkey from attacking the towns.
1924 Major League Baseball championship series
Amid an impeachment inquiry against him, U.S. President Donald Trump says "China should start an investigation" into presidential candidate Joe Biden.
In Fort Worth, Texas, a woman is shot dead in her bedroom by a policeman sent to check on her welfare.
The Turkish lira rises after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened 50% steel tariffs and a halt to trade negotiations in retaliation for the Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria.
France is put on high alert due to concerns of ISIL revenge attacks.
Police officers in Oslo wound an armed 32-year-old man, who injured three people when he rammed a stolen ambulance into them. The police then arrest him and a 25-year-old woman, both of whom have connections to the Nordic Resistance Movement.
Jordan recalls its ambassador to Israel when the latter refuses to release two Jordanian citizens whom Foreign Affairs Minister Ayman Safadi says have been held illegally for months without charges. They were arrested in August for crossing into the West Bank to attend a family wedding.
The Japanese ship had been attempting to warn the North Korean vessel away from Japanese territory.
Rights groups like Human Rights Watch and journalists worry the law could be used to stifle dissent and free expression.
President Michel Aoun pledges that the new government will consist of technocrats.
international organization of states in the Americas
In the International Space Station, the crew members Expedition 61, Christina Koch and Jessica Meir took the first all female spacewalk in history.
Protests break out across Bolivia in rejection of what are seen as fraudulent Presidential vote results.
The Supreme Court of the United States opens its 2019–2020 nine-month term with eight of its nine justices present. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who underwent a number of medical procedures for cancer throughout the past year, was present, but Justice Clarence Thomas was absent "due to an unspecified illness."
Thierry Bolloré is fired with immediate effect as the number two of the Renault group, reportedly after a power struggle with its president Jean-Dominique Senard.
Joko Widodo is officially inaugurated as president of Indonesia for the second time, while Ma'ruf Amin is inaugurated as the new vice president. They will serve their terms from 2019 to 2024.
The Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister, Faisal Mekdad, blames the Turkish offensive on the Kurdish forces, saying Syria will not be negotiating with them "on the terms of separatism".
software as a service offering from Adobe Inc.
large indoor shopping center, usually anchored by department stores
The OECD releases a set of proposals, for the 134 countries which accepted the principle, to discuss and negotiate a change in international taxation of the big digital and consumer goods companies' global profits.
Two men are given prison sentences in the United Kingdom after they incited copycat attacks following mosque shootings in New Zealand. They were convicted of a series of terror offences.
Greece issues new three-month debt at a negative interest rate.
The Chicago Teachers Union 2019 strike extends into its seventh schoolday, on-par with its 2012 strike. A Cook County judge is expected to hear an emergency injunction filed against the Illinois High School Association for not allowing student athletes within Chicago Public Schools participate in state playoffs, despite the IHSA's long-standing ban against teams from striking districts.
Date: 15 March 2019 3 years ago c. 1:40 – 1:59 pm (NZDT; UTC+13)
Somalia-based cell of the militant Islamist group al-Qaeda
head of state and government of Argentina
Four protesters and one policeman are injured in a pro-independence protest in Madrid.
leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant from 2013 to 2019
Three people are killed and three others injured in a plane crash at Capital Region International Airport in Lansing, Michigan.
International Organization for Migration
The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to Jim Peebles for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology, and to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for the discovery of 51 Pegasi b, an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.
terrorism motivated by right-wing and far-right ideologies
Amid an impeachment inquiry against him, U.S. President Donald Trump says "China should start an investigation" into presidential candidate Joe Biden. Chair of the Federal Election Commission Ellen Weintraub again explains that "it is illegal for any person to solicit, accept, or receive anything of value from a foreign national in connection with a U.S. election".
A rocket is fired from the Gaza Strip, exploding in an open field in southern Israel. The IDF retaliates by launching strikes against two Hamas military posts.
Following the resignation of Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj in July, voters in Kosovo cast their ballots to elect the new members of the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo. Opposition party, Vetëvendosje, lead by Albin Kurti wins in an unprecedented victory.
A YPG mortar and rocket attack on the Turkish town of Nusaybin kills eight civilians and injures 35 others, according to the governor of Mardin Province.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam invokes the colonial-era Emergency Regulations Ordinance and bans the use of face masks in public gatherings.
The 90-metre cargo ship MV Rhodanus, with a crew of seven, runs aground in the Mouths of Bonifacio nature reserve in the Strait of Bonifacio off Corsica.
present phase of the Somali Civil War, concentrated in southern Somalia
Two men are given prison sentences in the United Kingdom after they incited copycat attacks following mosque shootings in New Zealand.
The investigations inspired the movie Memories of Murder and saw 21,000 people investigated.
Four people are stabbed and injured, one critically, in a mass stabbing at the Manchester Arndale shopping centre in the Northern Quarter, Manchester, United Kingdom. Another person was injured but not stabbed. A man in his early 40s is arrested. He was arrested under the Mental Health Act.
Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and militant group
second largest island of the Philippines
American multinational banking and financial services company
Authorities abruptly stop updating the results, causing concern among opposition politicians and the Organization of American States, which has election observers in Bolivia.
Turkish police arrest nine people on terrorism charges in Adana, including one foreign national. The men are suspected of Islamic State membership, recruiting for the group, and planning terrorist attacks.
Protest groups issue a statement demanding that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) leave Ecuador, saying that civil unrest won't stop until they leave.
A federal judge rules the U.S. Justice Department must provide Congress with grand jury information redacted from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
highly contested topic especially for the fundamental human rights
Japanese Emperor Naruhito officially proclaims his enthronement as the Emperor of Japan in an ancient enthronement ceremony held in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, after ascending to the throne on 1 May.
legislative, executive and judiciary powers of Iran
The perpetrator is an 84-year-old man who ran for the National Front in the 2015 regional elections.
capital city of German federated state Baden-Württemberg
British politician and Speaker of the House of Commons (born 1963)
Canadian-American astronomer & Nobel Laureate in Physics
After a week of fare-dodging protests in the Santiago Metro, thousands of protestors clash with police in different places across Santiago, Chile.
September 2019 Israeli legislative election
List of mass shootings in the United States in 2019
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces calls the U.S. withdrawal a "stab in the back".
Partially collapsed high-rise building in New Orleans
Clashes erupts between Mossos d'Esquadra and the protesters that occupied the Barcelona–El Prat Josep Tarradellas Airport. Several flights are cancelled.
Hundreds of tourists flock to Uluru in Australia's Northern Territory to climb it for the last time before the park's ban on climbing goes into effect.
most populous city in the United States of America
Police respond by firing tear gas on those in Beirut.
Leicester City F.C. equals the 24-year record for the biggest ever Premier League win and the biggest ever victory by an away side in an English football top-flight game after beating Southampton F.C. 9–0 at St Mary's Stadium. It was also Southampton's worst ever defeat in all competitions in their history.
conflict between NATO Western forces and the Taliban
A gas explosion kills nine people in a restaurant in Wuxi, China.
Corruption trial of Israeli Prime Minister
Representative Elijah Cummings, Maryland Democratic Congressman and House Oversight Committee Chair, dies at age 68.
lack of a certain amount of material possessions or money
artillery weapon that launches explosive projectiles at high angles
A fiery bus crash near Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo kills at least 31 people, with another 18 injured.
Flooding in Japan kills nine people in Chiba and one more in Fukushima, with a further person missing in the latter.
On the third day of protests in Iraq, the death toll reaches 100. The government imposes near-total internet blackout.
The first meeting of the Syrian Constitutional Committee takes place in Geneva in a bid to end the country's eight-year-long civil war.
federal judge in California blocks a state law requiring presidential candidates to disclose income tax returns before their names can appear on the state's primary ballot.
court in London and one of a number of buildings housing the Crown Court
Fourteen state police officers are killed in an ambush in Aguililla, Michoacán; crime-scene evidence points to the involvement of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
Kristalina Georgieva succeeds Christine Lagarde as the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund.
capital and largest city of the United Kingdom
type of military offensive where armed forces of one polity forcibly enter another
chief legal officer of the State of Israel
A major incident has been declared in Devon, England, after a double-decker bus overturned near the town of Totnes while operating a busy passenger service between the English Riviera coast and the city of Plymouth.
A car bomb in Afrin kills nine people and wounds over 14 others. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Venezuelan politician and military officer
19 stations of the Santiago Metro are set on fire during the night.
organization that intends to supervise and liberalize international trade
specialised agency of the United Nations for education, sciences, and culture
This is the first reported injury from a live round.
After acquitting five Muslim men of murder, Thai judge Kanakorn Pianchana gives a speech complaining of corrupt pressure upon the judiciary, including in this case, to convict without sufficient evidence. He then shoots himself in the chest in court in Yala, but survives. Criticism from judges of the Thai legal system is rare, but rights groups claim Muslims often face trumped-up charges in the region, which is Muslim-majority and suffers from insurgency.
Analysts describe the sanctions as "relatively light" and "window dressing".
Senior SDF official Redur Xelil says defending ISIL prisons is not a priority anymore due to the conflict with Turkey.
bilateral relations between United States and Turkey
A North Korean fishing boat collides with a Japanese Fisheries Agency vessel and sinks off Japan. At least 20 North Koreans are pulled from the water. The Japanese ship had been attempting to warn the North Korean vessel away from Japanese territory.
Mali's government says jihadist militant attacks on military (FAMA) posts in Mondoro and Boulkessi, in the central Mopti Region, killed 41 troops and left 60 others missing, possibly captured, while also inflicting heavy equipment losses.
Turkish airstrikes kill five civilians in the village of Bab al-Kheir.
Local police arrested Brian Steven Smith and charged him with the murder, after identifying him from the content of the memory card.
Committees for the Defense of the Republic
UK clothing retailer Bonmarché collapses into administration. The chain employs 2,900 people and operates 318 stores.
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders suspends campaigning for the 2020 U.S. presidential election "until further notice" after the discovery of artery blockage during a medical evaluation for chest discomfort results in surgery.
2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria
A chemical plant used to manufacture Bakelite explodes in Guangxi, China; at least four are killed and six more are injured.
Turkish involvement in the Syrian Civil War
The Supreme Court of Spain sentences the twelve Catalan independence leaders between 9 and 13 years in prison and disqualification from holding public office for sedition and misuse of public funds. While it proves the existence of violent outbreaks, it judges they are not sufficient to convict for rebellion.
peninsula that forms the southern part of the main landmass in the territory of Hong Kong
Iran claims one of its oil tankers was hit in the Red Sea, likely by missiles. The Saudi Ports Authority confirms an incident with a tanker near the port of Jeddah overnight.
Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom)
presiding officer of the United Kingdom's lower chamber of Parliament
The U.S. House of Representatives votes 232 to 196 to approve a resolution formalizing the procedures of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.
Mercer Street and Fairview Avenue, Seattle, Washington, United States
The complex's infrastructural deterioration and excessive abuses were the cited reasons.
Ansar al-Islam claims responsibility for an IED explosion that killed three soldiers in Iraq's Diyala Province. This was their first attack since 2013.
U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered U.S.
At the Old Bailey a UK jury convicts a British man who traveled to fight against the Islamic State of a terror offence for visiting a training camp used by the PKK. He is the first UK man found guilty of such a crime, and is remanded in custody to await his November 7 sentencing hearing.
President of the European Council Donald Tusk tells Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson that "what's at stake is not a stupid blame game," after a UK source said that talks were "close to breaking down" following a reported argument in a phone call between Johnson and German chancellor Angela Merkel about the post-Brexit status of Northern Ireland.
Date: 15 June 2014 – 9 December 2021 (7 years, 5 months, 3 weeks and 3 days)
Holger Bingmann, head of the Federation of German Wholesale, Foreign Trade and Services, tells journalists German businesses have lost €3.5 billion so far this year due to Brexit.
Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador
Twitter announces it will ban all political ads on its platform starting November 22.
one of the five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel
port city and naval base located in Kangwŏn Province, North Korea
Ukraine releases the final report into the disaster, which was prepared by South Sudan.
Sophie Wilmès becomes the first female Prime Minister of Belgium, succeeding Charles Michel.
Chilean President Sebastián Piñera says that Chile is "at war" and calls on citizens to take sides in the matter as violence continues in the capital and other cities.
The remains of former Spanish dictator Francisco Franco are exhumed from Valle de los Caídos and are moved to a private mausoleum with his wife Carmen Polo, 44 years after his death.
In the floor exercise, Simone Biles lands a triple-twisting double backflip in a tucked position. The new skill will be named "Biles 2", the third element named after her, and will have an FIG difficulty value of J.
Five ISIL prisoners escape a Syrian Democratic Forces-run prison near Kobanî, Syria, after being shelled by Turkey.
Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve
An irregular gas company explodes and kills four people in Boa Vista, Brazil.
At a conference in Washington, D.C., Sergio Massa, candidate for the Argentine Chamber of Deputies for Frente de Todos, the coalition of candidate Alberto Fernández, says Fernández's position on Venezuela is clear and that keeping silent about the situation in Venezuela is to "become an accomplice of the government [of Maduro]". He also is the first member of Fernández's party to describe Venezuela as a "dictatorship".
one of five prizes established by Alfred Nobel
largest Christian church, led by the pope
Two sappers die and four more are wounded trying to defuse World War II shells in Poland. The last such casualties occurred in 1982.
The Hong Kong economy enters into a recession, as a result of continuous protests from the past five months.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces requests urgent air support from the United States, and a no-fly zone over northern Syria to protect it from Turkish air raids.
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
An Austrian man kills five people in the town of Kitzbühel, Tyrol: his ex-girlfriend, her brother and parents, as well as her new boyfriend.
legal declaration or de facto acts by a government allowing assumption of extraordinary powers
Brandon Taubman, the assistant general manager for the Houston Astros, is fired from his position for making "inappropriate comments" toward female journalists.
Indonesian investigators conclude their probe of the disaster with the release of a 353-page final report. The report states the crash was caused by a combination of flawed software design by Boeing, a failure of Lion Air to ground the jet over issues it had previously experienced, and inappropriate pilot responses to the developing emergency.
public space and tourist attraction in central London
Liu Xiaoming, Chinese ambassador to the United Kingdom, announces he has sent a team to Essex to verify the identities of the 39 bodies found in a lorry this week, who are thought by UK authorities to be Chinese nationals. Post-mortems are due to begin today. The Northern Irish driver remains in police custody, suspected of murder.
sporting event held at a location other than a team's home facilities
Since convening on 6 October, the synod of Catholic bishops from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Venezuela, and Suriname gather with Pope Francis in Rome. According to the bishops, "a deep personal, social and structural conversion" is needed in response to the "unprecedented" environmental and social crisis in the Amazon.
Nearly 170,000 protestors form a 105 mile (170 km) human chain running from Tyre to Tripoli to symbolize their solidarity.
An improvised explosive device detonates in a partially constructed building in Bati Kot, Afghanistan. The bomb kills two labourers and injures five more, three seriously.
Eliud Kipchoge finishes a marathon in Vienna in 1 hour, 59 minutes and 40 seconds, assisted by a car and using a fleet of pacemakers.
After a week of fare-dodging protests in the Santiago Metro, thousands of protestors clash with police in different places across Santiago, Chile. Subway service is suspended in the entire city. Protests started after a price hike in the most expensive subway system in Latin America.
The United Kingdom and the European Union agree on a new Brexit withdrawal agreement deal following talks in Brussels. Current coalition partner the Democratic Unionist Party subsequently announces they will oppose the deal.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announces that the number of deaths caused by vaping-associated pulmonary injury ("vaping illness") linked to electronic cigarettes has risen to 18, with an additional 1,080 injuries reported.
An Antonov An-12 cargo plane operated by Ukraine Air Alliance runs out of fuel and crashes as it approaches Lviv International Airport in Ukraine. Five of the seven occupants are killed, and the airport closes.
Clashes erupts between Mossos d'Esquadra and the protesters that occupied the Barcelona–El Prat Josep Tarradellas Airport.
An archaeologist discovers a 25 m (82 ft)-wide ring cairn dating back to the Bronze Age near Tidenham, Gloucestershire.
The number of people confirmed killed in central and eastern Japan by Typhoon Hagibis rises to 66, with 15 people still missing and more than 200 injured.
American investment bank and financial services corporation
2nd episode of the twenty-third season of South Park
President Lenín Moreno orders curfew and the militarisation of the capital as civil unrest worsens.
More than fifty people, including the bus driver, have been injured; eight people have serious injuries. Local hospitals have been overwhelmed with patients attending from the bus crash and forced to close to non-emergency care.
sexual activities involving men who have sex with men, regardless of their sexual orientation or sexual identity
The nationality of the military concerned is unknown.
At Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City, Pope Francis canonizes the 19th-century Anglican convert John Henry Newman, who was a unifying figure in both the Anglican and Catholic churches.
American League franchise in Washington, D.C., 1901 to 1960
The Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA), a law giving the Singaporean government more powers to stop the spread of designated falsehoods and fake news, goes into effect.
Police disarm and arrest the suspect, who is one of the injured.
Uganda announces the plan to pass a bill within weeks which potentially broadens the criminalisation of same-sex relations to include the death penalty.
President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
head of state of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The White House confirms that Ibrahim al-Asiri, suspected chief bomb maker for terrorist group Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, was killed in an American counter-terrorism operation in Yemen in 2017.
At a hearing in New York City, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, two associates of U.S. President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who aided him with a search in Ukraine for detrimental information on President Trump's political opponents, plead not guilty to charges that they funneled $350,000 in illegal donations to a pro-Trump political committee and another $20,000 to former Republican Congressman Pete Sessions while acting on behalf of at least one Ukrainian government official.
legal principle permitting use of force against aggressors without obligation to retreat
county in Virginia, United States; part of Washington metropolitan area
Argentinian voters go to the polls to elect a new president.
district seat of Landkreis Limburg-Weilburg and town in Hesse, Germany
Ukraine releases the final report into the disaster, which was prepared by South Sudan. The report concludes mistakes by both crew and maintenance, as well as poor weather, combined to cause the crash.
2022 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC Second Round
The Afghan army, together with its international partners, launch a series of counterterrorism airstrikes in Kandahar, Uruzgan and Zabul, killing 58, including a Taliban governor. Ten mines are also destroyed.
Luca Boschi and Mariella Mularoni begins the term as Captain Regents.
A 32-year-old Syrian man rams a stolen truck into eight cars in Limburg an der Lahn, Hesse, causing eight injuries. German police believe it was intentional, but the motive is yet to be determined.
Following the withdrawal of troops, U.S. F-15s bomb a CJTF–OIR ammunition depot bunker at the Lafarge cement factory in Aleppo Governorate, Syria, to prevent the munitions and other equipment from being used by Turkish-led forces or Syrian government forces.
As a result of the local government failing to reconvene in time, the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) Act 2019 comes into effect. This means abortion is decriminalized in Northern Ireland, and same-sex marriage is scheduled to commence in February 2020.
An explosion kills five people at a petroleum plant in Shaanxi, China.
California becomes the first U.S. state to ban the sale of fur products. The law goes into effect on January 1, 2023.
citizens or residents of The Netherlands
Papua New Guinea police issue an arrest warrant for former Prime Minister Peter O'Neill for corruption.
impeachment inquiry into President Trump
An Iraqi man is arrested at Brisbane Airport for his membership in a human trafficking syndicate responsible for chartering a boat carrying 421 Afghan and Iraqi refugees to Australia. More than 350 of those aboard perished when the boat sank off the coast of Indonesia in October 2001.
One person is confirmed dead with seven more rescued; a further ten people are believed to be trapped in the wreckage.
Over 80 Taliban members are killed in Afghan and U.S.
The Nanfang'ao Bridge, the only steel single-arch bridge in Taiwan, collapses on fishing boats in Su'ao.
As the situation in the country worsens, Moreno denounces a "coup attempt" by incumbent President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela and former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa.
The Liberal Party win a pluralty of seats, and will remain in government, albeit as a minority and having lost the popular vote to the Conservative Party. The Bloc Québécois resurge from a 10-seat rump at dissolution to take third place and regain official party status.
List of ambassadors of the United States to Ukraine
The attack happened in the village of Pobé Mengao in Burkina Faso.
Turnbull criticises the helicopter's pilot, prompting concerns by some victims over excessive blame being placed upon pilot error.
The European Union agrees to delay the deadline again for a Brexit deal until January 31, 2020.
Two men are killed in a town in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, during protests and riots over the disputed general election on 20 October.
Man shot and killed by police officer after she claimed to mistake his apartment for hers
Russia investigation origins counter-narrative
Conspiracy theory concerning the 2016 US elections
One Dutch person and two Afghans are remanded in custody for manslaughter and assistance to illegal immigrants staying in France, after they sold places in inflatable boats for them to reach Great Britain, causing the death of an Iranian woman on 9 August.
At least 14 people are killed after an illegal gold mine collapses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Maniema province. Search efforts are underway for others who could be trapped.
Public school system of the municipal government of Chicago, Illinois
American attorney and politician (born 1944)
President of Russia (1999–2008, 2012–present)
In leaked audio from a meeting with employees in July, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg threatens to sue Senator Elizabeth Warren, who is running in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, if she is elected president and tries to "break up" large tech companies.
Multiple explosions inside a mosque in Haska Meyna District of Afghanistan's Nangarhar Province kill at least 62 people and severely damage the building.
A Russian soldier shoots and kills eight fellow soldiers and wounds two others at a Russian Armed Forces base in the village of Gorny, Zabaykalsky Krai.
Five men and a woman are killed in a mass shooting Monday night at the Río Piedras housing project in San Juan, Puerto Rico. A group of people with large guns showed up before the shooting, according to the police commissioner. Sunday, two people were killed in Guaynabo in the northern section of the San Juan metropolitan area. Governor Wanda Vázquez Garced convened an emergency meeting of her security team Tuesday.
The New York City Council votes to close Rikers Island, the city's main prison, by 2026.
A court in Bangladesh sentences sixteen people to death after they burned a student alive when she reported sexual harassment by a teacher.
The aircraft crashed into a bar after running out of fuel.
Japan and South Korea hold the first round of talks in Geneva to address a South Korea complaint with World Trade Organization over Japanese export controls.
They were charged with planning violent mass disturbances, and said that they confessed during torture.
southern portion of U.S. state of California
event in which aircraft are used to attack targets on land or at sea
city in Los Angeles County, California, United States
The vessel was sunk in 1942 during the World War II Battle of Midway.
international border between the two countries in North America
Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who heads the current ruling bloc, calls on the opposition to help him introduce a motion of no confidence against Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi.
A homemade bomb strikes a Kenyan military vehicle, killing 10.
head of government of the United Kingdom
The New York Times reports that U.S. President Donald Trump suggested shooting migrants in the legs in order to slow them down after they crossed the Mexico–United States border during a meeting in March. He also reportedly suggested digging a moat to fortify a border wall and filling it with "snakes or alligators", and wanted the wall "electrified, with spikes on top that could pierce human flesh".
Five men and a woman are killed in a mass shooting Monday night at the Río Piedras housing project in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
capital and largest municipality of Spain
The Russian Ministry of Defence says the Syrian Army has gained control over Manbij and the surrounding area, adding, "Cooperation with the Turkish side has been arranged".
Severe flooding affects Laxey, Isle of Man, with some residents evacuated from their homes.
A convention centre catches fire in Auckland while still under construction, causing significant disruption in the CBD.
A court in France sentences five women to prison terms for their roles in the failed bombing. A Syrian man, thought to have been killed in Iraq in 2017, is sentenced to life in absentia.
association football club in Leicester, England
American lawyer and politician (born 1955)
United Kingdom government ministerial department responsible for the English transport network
Pizza Express, a UK-based chain with 470 restaurants, including 150 overseas, reportedly hires financial advisors ahead of talks with its creditors. The business is £1.1 billion in debt and has made a loss for two consecutive years. It employs around 14,000 people.
Jalalabad, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan
Swedish prince, son of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
A thousand U.S. soldiers are to be pulled out of Syria because of the Turkish offensive.
According to candidate for Vice President of Argentina for the Together for Change alliance, Miguel Ángel Pichetto, there is a "destabilization plan in Latin America directly linked to Venezuela's and Cuba's governments' activities". Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie also expressed his concerns and said there were "calculated and identical methods of destabilization in the region". He blames Nicolás Maduro's government after Constituent Assembly President Diosdado Cabello says there is a "Bolivarian breeze" in the region.
The law goes into effect on January 1, 2023.
type of memory storage for portable devices
The Catalan president Quim Torra, in a special plenary session at the Parliament of Catalonia, announces that he will convene a third independence referendum and a Constitution throughout the legislature.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe condemns in the strongest terms the latest North Korean missile tests and says they clearly violate United Nations Security Council resolutions.
A dam on the Seiba river in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, collapses, flooding a nearby gold mine and cabins used to house miners. At least 15 people have been killed, with 13 more missing and 14 hospitalised.
head of the United States Department of State
Almost 1,500 arrests have been made since last week.
More than 350 of those aboard perished when the boat sank off the coast of Indonesia in October 2001.
highest political office in Ecuador; head of state and head of government of Ecuador
Multiple mortars hit Mogadishu Airport, wounding at least six people.
Aaron Dean, the Fort Worth, Texas police officer who shot a woman to death in her bedroom during what was intended to be a welfare check, resigns his position, and later that day is arrested and formally charged with murder in the case.
Over 80 Taliban members are killed in Afghan and U.S. airstrikes.
Authorities in Slovakia charge four people with murdering investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée. The killings sparked widespread anti-corruption protests and forced the resignation of Prime Minister Robert Fico.
process for charging a public official with legal offenses by the legislature(s)
subgenre of the sitcom that is animated rather than live action
island country in the southwest Pacific Ocean
The European Commission announces that the European Union has agreed to a further extension of the Brexit deadline. The length of the extension is yet to be decided.
Iraqi state-sponsored umbrella organization
In a demonstration in Barcelona, 350,000 people protest prison sentences given to Catalan leaders.
Date: 5 February 2011 – present (11 years, 9 months, 3 weeks and 3 days)
The fourth night of violence in the streets of Catalonia in protest of the sentence of the Catalan independence leaders leaves 33 arrested and 80 injures. In Tarragona, the main door of the city hall is burnt.
The incumbent right-wing Law and Justice is expected to slightly increase its plurality.
country in north-west Europe, part of the United Kingdom
marriage of persons of the same sex or gender
A U.S. Department of Defense spokesperson says Turkey has been pulled off the Combined Air Operations Centre's air tasking order and that the U.S.
Armed jihadist group affiliated with Al-Qaeda and fighting in the Syrian Civil War
Steve Linick, the inspector general of the U.S. State Department, requests an "urgent" briefing with senior congressional staff members regarding Ukraine. The private meeting will be held tomorrow.
The ban is being implemented to respect the wishes of the indigenous Aṉangu people, who find Uluru sacred.
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (Japan)
In Lower Manhattan, New York City, four homeless men are beaten to death and a fifth severely injured while sleeping. A 24-year-old man, also believed homeless, is in custody.
The Nanfang'ao Bridge, the only steel single-arch bridge in Taiwan, collapses on fishing boats in Su'ao. Ten people are injured and six are believed to have been trapped.
work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work
association football club in Southampton, England
Climate activists continue Extinction Rebellion protests at the transport ministry in central London after the Metropolitan Police Service yesterday banned Extinction Rebellion protests in London, United Kingdom.
Teva Pharmaceuticals, McKesson, and AmerisourceBergen reach a US$260 million settlement hours before a civil trial in U.S. federal court in Cleveland, Ohio, brought as a class-action lawsuit representing communities affected by opioid addiction.
DNA located in organelles called mitochondria
It was attended by about 2,000 guests with 420 foreign dignitaries.
island group in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom
If moved forward, it could set a major legal precedent for cybersecurity.
WhatsApp sues Israeli cyber intelligence firm NSO Group for allegedly spying on 1,400 users on four continents.
North Korea fires a missile which lands in the exclusive economic zone of Japan, according to Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga.
A highway bridge collapses onto cars in Wuxi, China, trapping multiple vehicles. Search and rescue operations commence.
Gunmen kill 16 people during prayers in a northern Burkina Faso mosque.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu rejects a proposal by German Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer to establish a United Nations-mandated security zone in northeastern Syria, calling the plan "not very realistic".
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
United States government public health agency
The wreck of Japanese warship Kaga, sunk in the Battle of Midway during World War II, is discovered on the seabed in the Pacific Ocean.
Belfast shipyard Harland and Wolff owner Dolphin Drilling announces it has found a buyer for the shipyard, infrastructure-based InfraStrata, saving it from closure.
The men are suspected of Islamic State membership, recruiting for the group, and planning terrorist attacks.
Fourteen people are killed and ten are injured by Turkish airstrikes targeting a convoy in the Syrian town of Ras al Ain. Five are identified as civilians.
city in and county seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States
police force responsible for policing the county of Essex
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announces that the number of deaths caused by vaping-associated pulmonary injury ("vaping illness") linked to electronic cigarettes has risen to 18, with an additional 1,080 injuries reported. The CDC says the cause is still under investigation.
Vice President and Congresswoman of the Republic of Peru (2016-2019)
The House of Commons votes 438 to 20 to approve Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s call to hold a general election on December 12.
Pacific Gas and Electric shuts off power to 800,000 customers in Northern California, citing safety concerns over an elevated fire risk caused by weather conditions.
Reuters reporters witness at least one protester being shot in the head by a sniper, killing him.
A source for CNN confirms that a note posted anonymously on Pastebin.com is by Apple CEO Tim Cook. In the note, Cook defends Apple's decision today to bin the HKmap.live iOS app because, he says, its use endangers "law enforcement and residents in Hong Kong."
Electronic cigarette maker Juul announces it will stop producing most of its flavored cartridges, excluding mint and menthol.
Turkish officials say that Turkish Air Force jets have begun bombing the Syrian-Iraqi border on Monday night, ahead of an imminent invasion of northern Syria.
Some pro-Franco protestors gather outside the national mausoleum.
A suspect, 27-year-old Stephan Billiet, is arrested.
On Monday the Department of Commerce added twenty-eight Chinese firms and bureaus to its "trade blacklist" for similar reasons.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says his country is ready to mediate between the Syrian government and Kurdish forces.
Firefighters in Hungary save 20,000 baby birds in the wake of a barn fire that broke out earlier this week.
Counter-terror investigators confirm the man who killed four people at Paris police headquarters two days ago was a convert who adhered to Islamist extremism and had contact with Salafists.
Member of the United States Federal Election Commission
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, is believed to have died in a suicide bombing after U.S.-led coalition special forces raid targeted positions belonging to Huras al-Din in Syria's rebel-held Idlib Governorate. U.S. President Donald Trump makes a statement at 9:00 AM EDT (1300 UTC) asserting his death.
In Barcelona, 80,000 demonstrators take to the streets in protest of the Independent politics of the Catalan government and the violence of the last weeks' pro-independence protests, and for the unity and democracy of Spain.
A car bomb detonates in the Syrian city of Qamishli, killing three and injuring nine. The Islamic State claims responsibility for the attack.
rulebook that defines the scoring system in artistic gymnastics
Ana Botín, the chairwoman of Spain's Santander bank, which has suffered a major stock price fall since reporting its disappointing third quarter earnings, buys €3.61 million worth of shares as a display of confidence.
arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates southern England from northern France
state highway in Arlington County, Virginia, United States
The case prompted widespread debate about violence against women in Australia.
Johnson & Johnson announces it has reached a $20.4 million settlement with two Ohio counties over its role in the opioid epidemic in the United States.
Meanwhile, the Spanish government says it will meet protestors with a "firm, proportional and united" response.
On the third day of protests in Iraq, the death toll reaches 100.
At least 15 people have been killed, with 13 more missing and 14 hospitalised.
History of and policies about people seeking asylum in Australia
Michael Drejka, a 47-year-old white Florida man who shot and killed Markeis McGlockton, an unarmed 28-year-old African American man, in a parking space dispute, is sentenced to 20 years in prison.
2018 aircraft crash in the Java Sea off the coast of Karawang, Indonesia
legal process whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for an actual or supposed crime
The U.S. State Department imposes visa restrictions on numerous Chinese government officials whom it believes responsible for the detention or abuse of Muslim Uighurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang province. On Monday the Department of Commerce added twenty-eight Chinese firms and bureaus to its "trade blacklist" for similar reasons.
This enables the hearing of evidence in secret by members of the intelligence community, which would otherwise not be available as the coroner had previously granted public interest immunity to the witnesses on the grounds of possible assistance to future terrorists were the evidence to be heard.
Brazilian Congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro threatens to introduce a "new AI-5" in response to opposition to the government headed by his father, Jair Bolsonaro.
An anonymous senior Donald Trump administration official, who in 2018 wrote a controversial New York Times op-ed called treasonous by President Trump, has written a book about the administration titled "A Warning," its publisher says. It will be released next month.
Pacific Gas and Electric is set to shut off power to 179,000 customers in Northern California due to an elevated wildfire risk, while Southern California Edison does so for 308,000 in Southern California.
Date: 31 January 2009 – present (13 years, 11 months, 3 weeks and 6 days)
government approval before they can purchase components from U.S.
integrated circuit card for a mobile device
2019 killing of a young university student in Melbourne
leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant from 2019 to 2022
largest city in the South Island of New Zealand
historic nation and a self-governing British Crown dependency
The government of North Korea says that it is "running out of patience with the U.S." due to "unilateral hostile disarmament demands" and warns that the cordial relationship between Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump would not prevent the talks from derailing.
The driver, a man from Northern Ireland, is arrested.
Shelling in Bir Al Abd, Egypt kills nine members of the same family. A further six people are wounded.
Several universities and schools shut down as many students join the protests across Iraq.
Thousands of demonstrators arrive walking to Barcelona from the whole region.
A seven-storey apartment block collapses in Fortaleza, Brazil. One person is confirmed dead with seven more rescued; a further ten people are believed to be trapped in the wreckage.
Twenty people are injured in a grenade attack in Sopore.
Police in Albania say they have identified a terrorist cell in the country operated by the Revolutionary Guards of Iran and seeking to attack members of exiled Iranian anti-government group Mujahedin-e Khalq.
The Government of Spain issues a statement acknowledging that there is "widespread and coordinated violence in Catalonia" and that its objective is "to guarantee security and coexistence [...] following its commitment of firmness, proportionality and unity".
activity to defend against or prevent terrorist actions
At least five people are killed in a second day of spontaneous protests against unemployment, government corruption and lack of basic services in Iraq. Police say they have "lost control" of the city of Nassiriya after exchanging gunfire with protesters. Curfews are imposed on the Iraqi cities of Baghdad, Nassiriya, Amarah and Hillah.
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
Officials in the United States, United Kingdom, and South Korea called it one of the largest child pornography operations to date.
A World War II-era B-17 crashes near Bradley International Airport in the U.S. state of Connecticut, killing at least seven of the 13 people on board.
monument in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain
agricultural product processed from the leaves of plants in genus nicotiana
Director of Roscosmos Space Corporation, Former Deputy Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation
Russian military intervention in the Syrian civil war
global international and intergovernmental organization
Dutch farmers stage a protest in The Hague against proposals to halve livestock numbers in a bid to cut nitrogen emissions.
terrorist cell afiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Gunmen kill 16 people after they refused to help buy them ammunition. The attack happened in the village of Pobé Mengao in Burkina Faso.
sovereign state in North Africa and Asia
conflict, starting 23 February 2011, ignited by Islamist militants in the Sinai Peninsula
low-intensity asymmetric war between the Mexican Government and various drug trafficking syndicates
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accuses House Democrats of attempting to "intimidate" and "bully" five State Department officials whom key congressional committees have asked to interview as part of an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.
The Armed Forces of DR Congo (FARDC) began a new large scale offensive against the Allied Democratic Forces rebel group in the Congo's North Kivu province.
A court in Australia sentences Maasarwe's confessed killer, Codey Herrmann, to 36 years in prison with parole eligibility after 30 for rape and murder. The case prompted widespread debate about violence against women in Australia.
An appeals court in Tunisia releases candidate Nabil Karoui from prison, days before the second round of the presidential election.
Three people arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and conspiracy to traffic people after 39 deaths in a lorry earlier this week are released on police bail as Essex Police continue their investigation.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to Peter J. Ratcliffe, William Kaelin Jr. and Gregg L. Semenza for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.
Date: 14 October 2019 – 20 November 2019
Reactions to the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests
Japan says it will not join the U.S.-led International Maritime Security Construct to protect international shipping in the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz amid Iranian aggression, but will instead deploy its own Maritime Self-Defense Force to the region to guard merchant vessels "related to Japan".
It will be sent to union members tomorrow for final approval.
An overloaded ship carrying migrants capsizes and sinks off the island of Lampedusa, Italy, in rough conditions in the Mediterranean Sea. Search and rescue is underway; of at least 50 on board, 22 survivors have been saved and 13 bodies found. The deceased and missing both include pregnant women. The International Organization for Migration states the boat had departed from Tunisia.
Police in Anchorage, Alaska charge Brian Steven Smith, who was arrested on October 8 for the murder of Kathleen Jo Henry, with a second murder, that of Veronica Abouchuk. Smith reportedly confessed to killing Abouchuk and told authorities where her body could be found.
Multiple mortars hit Mogadishu Airport, wounding at least six people. Al-Shabaab claims responsibility for the attack.
Ukraine agrees to the "Steinmeier formula", aimed at granting a special self-governing status to the Donbass and organising OSCE-validated elections according to Ukrainian law.
A team of ocean explorers announce the discovery of Imperial Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi on the Pacific seafloor. The vessel was sunk in 1942 during the World War II Battle of Midway.
The government of Bangladesh announces it will begin moving thousands of Rohingya refugees from crowded camps to the flood-prone island of Thengar Char, starting early November. The government hopes to relocate 100,000 refugees by the end of the operation, which has been criticised by rights groups as an "inevitable" humanitarian crisis.
The Swedish Academy awards the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature to Olga Tokarczuk, "for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life", and the 2019 prize to Peter Handke, "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience". The 2018 prize is awarded only now because last year it was postponed due to a scandal.
system of governance where decision-makers are selected on the basis of their expertise in their areas of responsibility (esp. scientific knowledge), as opposed to one where elected representatives are the primary decision-makers in government
American multinational computer software company
A gunman opens fire on a mosque in Bayonne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, wounding two before being detained. The perpetrator is an 84-year-old man who ran for the National Front in the 2015 regional elections.
Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno declares a state of emergency amid nationwide protests against a hike in fuel prices. The protests have crippled the country's transport network with all major roads and bridges blocked in the capital Quito.
Florida International University pedestrian bridge collapse
Slovak politician, former prime minister and member of parliament
International military intervention against ISIL
In a move that surprised insiders, Microsoft beats Amazon Web Services to win a $10 billion cloud computing contract with the United States Department of Defense.
A double-decker bus carrying pilgrims crashes and catches fire near Medina, Saudi Arabia. The disaster kills at least 35 foreigners.
An explosion kills five people at a petroleum plant in Shaanxi, China. A further three are missing.
Guyger was indicted last year after fatally shooting her unarmed neighbor, Botham Jean, in his own apartment, which she claims to have mistaken for her own.
city in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt
multi-year debt crisis in multiple EU countries, since late 2009
Eight people are confirmed killed in the failed raid. More than twenty others were injured.
The United Automobile Workers ends their 40-day strike against General Motors after a new contract is ratified.
The blaze, apparently sparked by gas stoves used by passengers illegally cooking on board, kills at least 74 people.
set of ideologies holding that Islam should guide social and political as well as personal life
Anti-government protesters parade captured police officers in the Ecuadorian capital Quito, which is de facto under the control of protesters and the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador.
forces begin to withdraw from northern Syria.
Citizens of Botswana cast their vote to elect the members of the National Assembly and local government councils.
Japanese engineer and researcher (1948-), known as an inventor of lithium-ion battery
The report states the crash was caused by a combination of flawed software design by Boeing, a failure of Lion Air to ground the jet over issues it had previously experienced, and inappropriate pilot responses to the developing emergency.
Four people were killed in the accident.
A U.S. district judge in Boston, Massachusetts, upholds Harvard University's admissions process following a challenge from a group of Asian American applicants who believe the school discriminated against them.
Interstate 395 (Virginia–District of Columbia)
country in southwestern Europe with territories in Africa
70th anniversary of the People's Republic of China
American multinational technology company
President of the Government of Catalonia
head of government of the Generalitat of Catalonia
The Donald Trump administration says it is preparing to broadly expand DNA collection from migrants in U.S. detention.
automotive manufacturing corporation based in Detroit, Michigan, USA
Several universities and schools shut down as many students join the protests across Iraq. Thousands continue to participate in spite of the violent crackdowns from the previous days.
city and major port in Hampshire, South-East England, United Kingdom
A wildfire destroys 25 homes, displaces 100,000 people and burns over 7,500 acres of forest in and around Los Angeles.
Acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William B. Taylor Jr. testifies before Congress that he had been told President Donald Trump would, to help his reelection chances, withhold military aid to Ukraine until that country publicly declared investigations would be launched into Burisma Holdings, a company that hired former Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter, as well as Ukraine's alleged involvement in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
crime of willfully and maliciously setting fire to property
ground warfare branch of Turkey's military
I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration
op-ed article in The New York Times written by an anonymous senior official working for the Donald Trump administration
The Chicago Teachers Union's strike enters its sixth school day as it is unable to reach an agreement with Chicago Public Schools.
wagering of money on a game of chance or event with an uncertain outcome
Bundesverband Großhandel, Außenhandel, Dienstleistungen
capital and most populous city of France
A motorcycle bomb explodes in front of a hotel in Spin Boldak, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. Seven are wounded.
A Taliban truck bomb in eastern Afghanistan kills three police officers and injures 36 other people, including twenty children.
The Iraqi military says "unidentified snipers" have shot four people dead on the streets of Baghdad amid protests, including two police officers, with dozens of others wounded by sniper fire. Reuters reporters witness at least one protester being shot in the head by a sniper, killing him.
bicameral legislature of the United States
The driver of the lorry in which 39 bodies were found is charged with 39 counts of manslaughter, as well as immigration offences, money laundering, and people trafficking.
bilateral diplomatic relations between Japan and North Korea
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences selects Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer as laureates for this year's Nobel Prize in Economics, "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty".
United Nations-facilitated constituent assembly process
The Marine Accident Investigation Branch of the UK Department for Transport issues a report on the grounding of cargo vessel MV Priscilla on the Pentland Skerries off the coast of Shetland, Scotland.
It comes the day after Hezbollah supporters violently clashed with protestors in central Beirut.
2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference
international climate change conference in Madrid, Spain in December 2019
Wikipedia article covering multiple topics
The Daily Mail, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and Evening Standard owner Evgeny Lebedev are rumored to be potential buyers.
Polish politician, former President of the European Council, and former Prime Minister of Poland
attack by artillery fire or by dropping bombs from aircraft
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
A car collides with pedestrians and other vehicles after running two red lights while accelerating in central Shanghai. At least five are killed and nine more injured.
land service branch of the United States Armed Forces
A car collides with pedestrians and other vehicles after running two red lights while accelerating in central Shanghai.
Turkey's Minister of the Interior Süleyman Soylu says almost 500 people were investigated and 121 have been detained for "insulting" the Turkish offensive in Syria on social media and characterizing Turkey as an "invading" force.
mass shooting at Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport Florida, United States, on January 6, 2017
Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno says that he will not resign "under any circumstance" and continues with his government in Guayaquil.
The International Rescue Committee says 64,000 people in northern Syria have fled since the Turkish offensive began, leaving the border towns of Ras al-Ayn and al-Darbasiyah largely deserted.
It is suspected that six of the victims are Vietnamese nationals. The family of one of them, a 19-year-old woman, made public her last text message to her parents which she sent while dying.
A cargo plane carrying presidential staff crashes in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing all eight passengers and crew onboard. The Russian embassy in Kinshasa says "preliminary information" indicates Russians were on the aircraft.
cancelled APEC conference to have been held in Chile
Three other people remain in police custody suspected of manslaughter and people trafficking after 39 bodies were found in a lorry earlier this week.
English cleric, cardinal and saint (1801-1890)
Pizza Express, a UK-based chain with 470 restaurants, including 150 overseas, reportedly hires financial advisors ahead of talks with its creditors.
island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe
Among those affected were diplomats, journalists, and government officials.
President Sebastián Piñera changes eight ministries of his cabinet, notably with Interior Minister Andrés Chadwick and Financial Minister Felipe Larraín Bascuñán being replaced with Gonzalo Blumel and Ignacio Briones respectively. New rounds of protests and riots erupt in Santiago and other cities after the announcement.
President of Niger Mahamadou Issoufou claims that American hostage Jeffery Ray Woodke is still alive and being held by a jihadist group affiliated with ISIL. Woodke was kidnapped in October 2016.
province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Brazilian politician and 38th President of Brazil
2017 Constituent National Assembly of Venezuela
The Russian Ministry of Defence says the Syrian Army has gained control over Manbij and the surrounding area, adding, "Cooperation with the Turkish side has been arranged". The U.S. military spokesperson for Operation Inherent Resolve announces the United States has withdrawn their forces from Manbij.
U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper says American troops withdrawing from Syria will go to western Iraq, where the U.S. military will continue to conduct operations against the Islamic State to prevent its resurgence.
A Peninsula Air passenger plane carrying 42 people crashes at an airport in Unalaska, Alaska. One passenger on the Saab SB20 is killed, and at least one more is seriously injured.
Climate activists continue Extinction Rebellion protests at the transport ministry in central London after the Metropolitan Police Service yesterday banned Extinction Rebellion protests in London, United Kingdom. Following the ban, police cleared a protester camp occupying Trafalgar Square. Almost 1,500 arrests have been made since last week.
The Times reports that the Barclay family is looking to sell The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph, citing conflicting viewpoints within the family and low circulation. The Daily Mail, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and Evening Standard owner Evgeny Lebedev are rumored to be potential buyers.
U.S. Democratic Congresswoman Katie Hill of California announces her resignation days after admitting to having a relationship with a campaign staffer before coming into office.
a quick service food establishment specialising in various fast food and street food dishes, primarily Döner kebab and related sandwiches
ecuadorian indigenous political organization
San Juan–Caguas–Guaynabo metropolitan area
executive body of the German Government (part of the Federal Government of Germany)
China and the United States announced a tentative agreement for the "first phase" of a trade deal, with China agreeing to buy up to $50 billion in American farm products with the United States agreeing to suspend new tariffs scheduled for October 15.
A 4.5 magnitude earthquake, with a preliminary depth of 14.0 kilometers (8.7 miles), shakes the San Francisco Bay area.
A U.S. federal judge in California blocks a state law requiring presidential candidates to disclose income tax returns before their names can appear on the state's primary ballot. The ruling is considered a win for President Donald Trump, who has resisted releasing his tax returns.
WhatsApp sues Israeli cyber intelligence firm NSO Group for allegedly spying on 1,400 users on four continents. Among those affected were diplomats, journalists, and government officials. If moved forward, it could set a major legal precedent for cybersecurity.
Nobel laureate in Chemistry & American solid-state physicist and professor
Pulmonary lesion associated with electronic cigarette use
The Chilean government declares a state of emergency in the capital Santiago, following riots in response to a price hike in Santiago Metro fares.
restaurant group mainly in the United Kingdom
Eighth Elections of the Republic of Mozambique
former spokesman of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
German police believe it was intentional, but the motive is yet to be determined.
Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, presidents of Russia and Turkey respectively, reach an agreement in Sochi, which would end Turkey's offensive into Northern Syria.
principal executive body of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
It was also Southampton's worst ever defeat in all competitions in their history.
Officials believe the statue had been hidden inside those walls for about 400 years since the Restoration period.
census-designated place (CDP) in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States
Date: 30 September 2015 – present (7 years, 3 months, 3 weeks and 6 days)
The Vice President of Peru Mercedes Aráoz, who was named by the Congress as the acting president, resigns from both offices to facilitate the snap general election.
The IRGC say they captured Ruhollah Zam, an Iranian journalist-activist exiled in Europe, accusing him of having stoked anti-government unrest in early 2018 using social media.
president of the United States from 2017 to 2021
search for and provision of aid to people who are in distress or imminent danger
A 4.5 magnitude earthquake, with a preliminary depth of 14.0 kilometers (8.7 miles), shakes the San Francisco Bay area. Residents reported minor damage.
People in Bolivia head to the polls for the latest general election.
discomfort or pain felt anywhere along the front of the body between the neck and upper abdomen
form of legal immunity for government officials that confers total immunity from criminal prosecution and lawsuits so long as they are acting within the scope of their duties
The Supreme Court of Spain sentences the twelve Catalan independence leaders between 9 and 13 years in prison and disqualification from holding public office for sedition and misuse of public funds.
Like Huawei, which was sanctioned on an identical blueprint for national security reasons, the entities will need U.S.
Two protestors who were arrested in Rostov-on-Don in 2017 while holding signs seeking resignations from the Russian government, and have been in custody since, are sentenced to over six years each in high-security prisons. They were charged with planning violent mass disturbances, and said that they confessed during torture.
Demonstrations and cut roads take place throughout Catalonia, with the largest taking place in Barcelona. The Committees for the Defense of the Republic calls for disobedience and popular revolt.
Curfews are imposed on the Iraqi cities of Baghdad, Nassiriya, Amarah and Hillah.
Conservative academic Kais Saied wins more than 70% of the votes.
person who is not a legitimate member of the military
2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Authorities identify one of the deceased as an 83-year-old man, but release no further details about the victims.
Curfew is extended to Concepción and Valparaíso Region. Including Santiago, nine million people are under a state of emergency, equal to 52 percent of the country's population.
The Trump administration lifts the sanctions it placed on Turkey, in response to the latter's ceasefire.
indirect conflict between Iran and Saudi Arabia
British Conservative party politician (born 1972)
The strike was instigated over pay in light of new austerity measures.
Turkish officials say that Turkish Air Force jets have begun bombing the Syrian-Iraqi border on Monday night, ahead of an imminent invasion of northern Syria. That region is controlled by Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, whom Turkey regards as terrorists.
electrical utility in Southern California, United States
The wreck of Japanese warship Kaga, sunk in the Battle of Midway during World War II, is discovered on the seabed in the Pacific Ocean. It is only the second vessel sunk during the battle to have been found.
label for large technology companies including Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook), and Microsoft
public elective office; head of state and head of government of Bolivia
Two sappers die and four more are wounded trying to defuse World War II shells in Poland.
Western neologism to describe armed Islamic movements
Lee, who is serving life for the 1994 rape and murder of his sister in law, cannot be prosecuted because the statute of limitations has expired.
The United States House of Representatives votes 405 to 11 to officially recognize the Armenian Genocide as a genocide for the first time. Turkey condemns the resolution, describing it as "a meaningless political step", and that "its sole addressees are the Armenian lobby and anti-Turkey groups".
According to candidate for Vice President of Argentina for the Together for Change alliance, Miguel Ángel Pichetto, there is a "destabilization plan in Latin America directly linked to Venezuela's and Cuba's governments' activities".
The British Parliament votes 322 to 306 to pass the so-called "Letwin amendment" to the Withdrawal Agreement Bill, which states it will not approve any withdrawal agreement unless all relevant formal legislation is passed.
Voters in Switzerland elect the members of the country's Federal Assembly and Council.
executive of the devolved Northern Ireland Assembly
That region is controlled by Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, whom Turkey regards as terrorists.
Prominent Kurdish Syrian politician Hevrin Khalaf is dragged from her vehicle on the M4 Motorway and summarily executed along with her driver and eight civilians by Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army militants. The killings were recorded by the militants, which has since been spread on social media.
strait that connects the Arabian Sea with the Strait of Hormuz
Motoring group ANWB claims tractors on highways caused a total of 1,136km (700 miles) of traffic jams during morning rush hour, with tractors on one highway swerving back and forth to prevent traffic passing.
2019 presidential inauguration in Indonesia
2020 United States presidential election
American online social media and social networking service
bilateral relations between Russia and Venezuela
Search and rescue is underway; of at least 50 on board, 22 survivors have been saved and 13 bodies found.
Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi orders the elite Counter-Terrorism Service to quell the protests in the capital Baghdad and the southern city of Nasiriya.
Around 337 people in a dozen countries are arrested for participating in a child pornography network that hosted up to 250,000 videos depicting child sexual abuse. Officials in the United States, United Kingdom, and South Korea called it one of the largest child pornography operations to date.
knife attack in Paris, France in October 2019
head of state and of government of Turkey
Three women are killed after Afghan and Pakistani forces clash in Kunar Province.
A World War II-era B-17 crashes near Bradley International Airport in the U.S.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks out about China's religious freedom violations during a visit to the Vatican.
Following a phone call between U.S. President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the White House says that Turkish Armed Forces will launch an incursion into Syrian Democratic Forces-held northern Syria, and that United States Armed Forces will be withdrawing from the region to avoid clashing with its NATO ally.
At least one person is killed and 70 people hospitalized as more than 100 wildfires break out across Lebanon for the second day.
Dictator, General, politician of Chile (1915-2006)
He had been linked to three victims earlier this month by DNA.
ocean between Asia, Australia and the Americas
Forty-eight people are confirmed dead, about 100 others are injured and 17 are missing after Typhoon Hagibis makes landfall in Japan.
At least one person is killed and 70 people hospitalized as more than 100 wildfires break out across Lebanon for the second day. The Chouf and Matn regions are especially hit hard. The Lebanese Civil Defense labels it the worst firestorm in decades.
deportation and resettlement campaign of the Ottoman Empire's Armenian population with mass murder
Prominent Kurdish Syrian politician Hevrin Khalaf is dragged from her vehicle on the M4 Motorway and summarily executed along with her driver and eight civilians by Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army militants.
The protest turns violent with clashes with National Police Corps and Mossos d'Esquadra.
Japanese Emperor Naruhito officially proclaims his enthronement as the Emperor of Japan in an ancient enthronement ceremony held in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, after ascending to the throne on 1 May. It was attended by about 2,000 guests with 420 foreign dignitaries.
The European Commission announces that the European Union has agreed to a further extension of the Brexit deadline.
wife of Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland
A highway bridge collapses onto cars in Wuxi, China, trapping multiple vehicles.
Arabic word which literally means striving or struggling, especially with a praiseworthy aim
Islamist organization in Afghanistan (founded 1994)
Control of cities during the Syrian civil war
The Turkish lira rises after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened 50% steel tariffs and a halt to trade negotiations in retaliation for the Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria. Analysts describe the sanctions as "relatively light" and "window dressing".
Criticism from judges of the Thai legal system is rare, but rights groups claim Muslims often face trumped-up charges in the region, which is Muslim-majority and suffers from insurgency.
Scientists say that, using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, they have found evidence of a 300,000-year-long burst of radiation originating 3.5 million years ago from or near the center of our galaxy, erupting through both galactic poles, with effects on the Magellanic Stream, 200,000 light-years away.
Ten people are injured and six are believed to have been trapped.
military forces of the Russian Federation
A pool of citizens of the United Arab Emirates heads to the polls in the country's fourth parliamentary election.
A woman is killed and ten other people injured when a student attacks a teacher and students with a sword at a vocational school inside a shopping mall in Kuopio, Northern Savonia, Finland.
Swiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics
Sea-Eye, a charity which performs migrant rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea, claims the Libyan coastguard circled their ship MV Alan Kurdi and fired warning shots into the air, with weapons pointed at crew and the migrants they were rescuing.
Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport
airport near Fort Lauderdale and Hollywood, Florida, USA
They state the crash was caused by design flaws with software on the aircraft, and inaccurate assessments by Boeing as to how pilots would respond to them.
The disaster kills at least 35 foreigners.
United Parcel Service announces that it has been designated as the first official, commercial, drone airline service by the Federal Aviation Administration.
Parliament that exercises the legislative power of the Government of Catalonia
one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel
sovereign state situated on an island in the Caribbean Sea
He is the first UK man found guilty of such a crime, and is remanded in custody to await his November 7 sentencing hearing.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov visits ally Venezuela, reiterating Russia's support of disputed president Nicolás Maduro and announcing new trade deals with the economically crippled country.
A study by Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, and headed by geneticist Vanessa Hayes, pinpoints the Okavango region in northern Botswana as the origin of modern humans.
private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Following the U.S. military withdrawal from northern Syria, the United States is to deploy more troops to Syria's eastern Deir ez-Zor Governorate to secure the country's petroleum gas and oilfields, according to a senior Department of Defense official.
Date: 16 January 2012 – present (11 years, 1 week and 3 days)
Curfew is announced for the Greater Santiago area, the first time it is used since the end of the Pinochet dictatorship.
President Donald Trump makes a statement at 9:00 AM EDT (1300 UTC) asserting his death.
main police force for the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico
International Maritime Security Construct
2019 police killing of a woman in Fort Worth, Texas
Date: Before Morales resignation 21 October – 10 November 2019 After Morales resignation 11–21 November 2019
The U.S. House of Representatives announces it will vote this week to formalize the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.
United States Government agency dedicated to civil aviation matters
Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present)
Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland
youngest child of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden
United States investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 elections
two or three-wheeled passenger cart, of Asian origin
In line with opinion polls, exit polls show the incumbent Socialist Party winning the most seats, but likely not quite enough to form a majority.
Americans of ancestry from black ethnic groups of Africa
American electronic cigarette manufacturer
activity done by an astronaut or cosmonaut outside a spacecraft
Police in Kansas City, Kansas, are seeking two unnamed suspects after two men opened fire at a bar, killing four people and wounding another five.
The violence of the protests in Tarragona, Girona, Lleida and Barcelona increases, while there are clashes with Mossos d'Esquadra in Reus. Four protesters and one policeman are injured in a pro-independence protest in Madrid.
criminal proceeding in which the person who is subject to it is not physically present
King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden decides that the children of Prince Carl Philip and Princess Sofia, and the children of Princess Madeleine and Christopher O'Neill will no longer be members of the Royal House of Sweden. The purpose of the decision is to establish which members of the Royal House may be expected to perform official duties incumbent on the Head of State or related to the function of the Head of State.
The National Transportation Safety Board of the United States, as part of its investigation, issues a series of recommendations to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration asking it to mandate improved seatbelt and construction standard for stretch limousines.
The Washington Nationals beat the Houston Astros 6–2 in Game 7 to win the World Series. It is the franchise's first World Series championship and the first World Series victory for an MLB team based in the district since the Washington Senators (now known as the Minnesota Twins) won in 1924. This World Series is also notable as the first in which all games were won by the visiting team.
The police then arrest him and a 25-year-old woman, both of whom have connections to the Nordic Resistance Movement.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says his country has launched a military invasion of northern and eastern Syria.
Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign
form of property deposited or pledged to a court
highest federal executive body in the Russian Federation, headed by the Prime Minister
Judge Pablo Llarena issues a European Arrest Warrant against former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont.
Former Catalan Vice President Oriol Junqueras receives the highest penalty with 13 years in prison and disqualification, while former councilors Meritxell Borràs, Santi Vila and Carles Mundó are sentenced to one year and eight months disqualification for disobedience.
Argentina announces it has severed diplomatic ties with the disputed Nicolás Maduro-led Government of Venezuela in favour of explicit recognition of opposition leader Juan Guaidó as interim president of Venezuela in the context of the 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis.
In a demonstration in Barcelona, 350,000 people protest prison sentences given to Catalan leaders. The protest turns violent with clashes with National Police Corps and Mossos d'Esquadra.
Catalonia goes to a general strike in protest of the prison sentence of the Catalan independentists leaders. Thousands of demonstrators arrive walking to Barcelona from the whole region.
Following yesterday's collapse of Nanfang'ao Bridge in Su'ao, Taiwan, onto fishing boats, rescuers recover four bodies.
The first people are charged with breaking the ban on wearing face masks in Hong Kong.
U.S. President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani hires Watergate scandal prosecutor Jon Sale to represent him in the impeachment inquiry investigating the president.
A court in Australia sentences Maasarwe's confessed killer, Codey Herrmann, to 36 years in prison with parole eligibility after 30 for rape and murder.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accuses House Democrats of attempting to "intimidate" and "bully" five State Department officials whom key congressional committees have asked to interview as part of an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. The House Democrats in turn issue a warning to Pompeo to stop "intimidating" witnesses, telling Pompeo that it "is illegal and will constitute evidence of obstruction of the impeachment inquiry" into President Trump. ,
Former President of Catalonia Carles Puigdemont is released with charges by the Brussels prosecutor's office after surrendering on Thursday to the Belgian authorities following the issuing of the European Arrest Warrant on Monday.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan threatens to send 3.6 million Syrian refugees into Europe if the European Union labels the country's recent offensive in northeastern Syria an "occupation".
the trade dispute between Japan and South Korea since July 2019
time zone observing UTC−05:00 during standard time and UTC−04:00 during daylight saving time
A bomb explodes in a classroom at Ghazni University in Afghanistan, wounding at least nineteen students. The same university was targeted last month with a bomb attached to a university minibus. That bomb killed one person and injured five others.
They were arrested in August for crossing into the West Bank to attend a family wedding.
People in Uruguay vote for their next president and the members of the country's senate and Chamber of Representatives.
Two protestors who were arrested in Rostov-on-Don in 2017 while holding signs seeking resignations from the Russian government, and have been in custody since, are sentenced to over six years each in high-security prisons.
U.S. political scandal that began in 2019
Russian interference in the 2020 United States elections
A 24-year-old man, also believed homeless, is in custody.
supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom
After a peaceful demonstration involving more than 500,000 people in Barcelona, violent clashes erupt, with more clashes in Tarragona and Girona.
The Trump administration lifts the sanctions it placed on Turkey, in response to the latter's ceasefire. While U.S. President Donald Trump states the ceasefire is permanent, he threatens to reinstate the sanctions if "something happens that we are not happy with".
The fatal accident inquiry into the crash concludes with the issuing of a report by Sheriff Principal Craig Turnbull. Turnbull criticises the helicopter's pilot, prompting concerns by some victims over excessive blame being placed upon pilot error. The aircraft crashed into a bar after running out of fuel.
This World Series is also notable as the first in which all games were won by the visiting team.
self identifying term used by number of Aboriginal groups in Austealia
Fifteen more people are killed in clashes between security forces and protestors in Iraq, raising the overall death toll to 222 since protests began this month.
A Peninsula Air passenger plane carrying 42 people crashes at an airport in Unalaska, Alaska.
U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announces he will resign by the end of the year.
Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York
federal detention facility in New York City
A U.S. Department of Defense spokesperson says Turkey has been pulled off the Combined Air Operations Centre's air tasking order and that the U.S. has halted sharing aerial surveillance information with Turkey.
anti-semitic terrorist attack in Germany
Michael Drejka, a 47-year-old white Florida man who shot and killed Markeis McGlockton, an unarmed 28-year-old African American man, in a parking space dispute, is sentenced to 20 years in prison. Drejka had cited Florida's stand-your-ground law in his defense and was not initially charged until the case was handed over to State Attorney Bernie McCabe, who charged Drejka with one count of manslaughter.
Ministry of the Interior and Public Security (Chile)
capital city of New South Wales, Australia
type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse without consent
process of transforming profits of crime and corruption into ostensibly legitimate assets
Citizens of Oman vote for the members of the country's Consultative Assembly.
Two police officers are killed and another is wounded after a Dominican suspect opens fire on them at a police station in Trieste, Italy.
China celebrates its National Day with parades across the country, including a large military parade in the capital Beijing.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Transport announces it has revoked the air operator's certificate of Ukraine Air Alliance, effective from October 5. The move results from the October 4 crash of an Antonov An-12 owned by the airline, after it ran out of fuel near Lviv, Ukraine. The decision was taken the same day.
He then shoots himself in the chest in court in Yala, but survives.
The House Democrats in turn issue a warning to Pompeo to stop "intimidating" witnesses, telling Pompeo that it "is illegal and will constitute evidence of obstruction of the impeachment inquiry" into President Trump.
The driver of the lorry in which 39 bodies were found is charged with 39 counts of manslaughter, as well as immigration offences, money laundering, and people trafficking. Three other people remain in police custody suspected of manslaughter and people trafficking after 39 bodies were found in a lorry earlier this week.
An improvised explosive device planted by the Taliban detonates when a child steps on a pressure plate in Pashtun Kot.
Police say five people were shot dead and another four injured at a Halloween party in Orinda, California. An investigation is currently underway.
formation of the United States Army (since 1917)
A parent is sentenced to five months in prison, a fine of $100,000 and 500 hours of community service for his involvement in the college admissions scandal.
attack in Kuopio, Finland on 1 October 2019
Voters in Canada go to the polls to elect members of the 43rd Canadian Parliament. Polls show Justin Trudeau's Liberals and Andrew Scheer's Conservatives deadlocked with equal numbers of support after a divisive campaign.
Arab League countries in North Africa and Middle East (i.e. MENA)
Despite this, protests continue, with participants swelling to tens of thousands and them now calling for the downfall of the government.
The number of people confirmed killed in central and eastern Japan by Typhoon Hagibis rises to 77, while nine other people are still missing.
professional who renders financial services to clients
The ruling is considered a win for President Donald Trump, who has resisted releasing his tax returns.
Due to the escalation in the protests, President Sebastián Piñera announces the cancellation of the 2019 APEC Summit and the United Nations Climate Change Conference, due to be hosted in Santiago in the following weeks.
The government withdraws the controversial tax plan. Despite this, protests continue, with participants swelling to tens of thousands and them now calling for the downfall of the government. Prime Minister Saad Hariri gives his government 72 hours to resolve the country's worsening economic crisis.
A mass shooting at a Halloween party at a residence in Long Beach, California, by at least one gunman, who is believed to have targeted the party but to have fired at random, kills three and injures at least nine, with some having significant injuries.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Transport announces it has revoked the air operator's certificate of Ukraine Air Alliance, effective from October 5.
In Iraq, Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi agrees to resign after weeks of anti-government protests.
After a second day of mobilizations in Catalonia after the sentence of the independence leaders with cutroads and railways cuts, violent clashes take place in Tarragona, Barcelona, Girona, Sabadell and Lleida.
Authorities abruptly stop updating the results, causing concern among opposition politicians and the Organization of American States, which has election observers in Bolivia. Before the results were halted, incumbent President Evo Morales held 45 percent of the vote and former President Carlos Mesa held 38 percent.
city in Dallas County, Texas, United States
Boeing 737 MAX groundings due to safety concerns, after two new airplanes crashed within five months
subarctic archipelago, county and council area of Scotland that lies north-east of mainland Britain
The bomb kills two labourers and injures five more, three seriously.
The Organization of American States, with Spain, Mexico and Paraguay as observers, begins its audit of the election results.
city in and county seat of Chatham County, Georgia, United States
Portuguese voters head to the polls to elect a new session to the Assembly of the Republic.
election in which all or most members of a given political body are chosen
former capital of Myanmar (Burma) and the current capital of Yangon Region
percentage of a sum of money charged for its use
13th and current Vice President of Indonesia, Islamic cleric
In Tarragona, the main door of the city hall is burnt.
Police and military officers clash with protestors in Plaza Baquedano, Maipú Main Square and other places, while several cacerolazos are heard in the city.
UK Home Secretary Priti Patel announces the inquests into the deaths of the victims will be converted into a public inquiry at the request of the coroner.
Charles Kupperman, U.S. President Donald Trump's former deputy national security adviser, defies a congressional subpoena to testify before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence regarding the impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
Anti-government protesters parade captured police officers in the Ecuadorian capital Quito, which is de facto under the control of protesters and the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador. The officers were not harmed, though they were forced to address a large crowd calling on President Lenín Moreno to step down, which was broadcast live by several private broadcasters after being ordered to do so by indigenous leaders.
The Jordanian government announces it has struck a deal with the teachers' union to end a month-long strike that affected at least 1.5 million students. The strike was instigated over pay in light of new austerity measures.
suicide bombing in Manchester, England on 22 May 2017
President of Israel Reuven Rivlin tasks Leader of the Opposition Benny Gantz to try to form government after the failing of current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
president of Argentina from 2015 to 2019
impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump
A jury finds Amber Guyger, a former Dallas police officer, guilty of murder. Guyger was indicted last year after fatally shooting her unarmed neighbor, Botham Jean, in his own apartment, which she claims to have mistaken for her own.
A fire destroys much of the 500-year-old Shuri Castle in Shuri, Okinawa, Japan, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The authorities believe that over several years, the suspects imported approximately 50 tonnes of illegal drugs from the Netherlands, valued at several tens of millions of pounds.
labor union in the United States and Canada
condition on road networks that occurs as use increases, and is characterized by slower speeds, longer trip times, and increased vehicular queueing
hydraulic binder used in the composition of mortar and concrete
Indian national administrative subdivisions
convener of the Civil Human Rights Front
A murder case from Anchorage, Alaska makes national news, after it is revealed that the killer recorded the killing in both video and still photographs on an SD card, which was later found by a local woman on a street and turned over to police. Local police arrested Brian Steven Smith and charged him with the murder, after identifying him from the content of the memory card.
decision, action or inaction by a pilot of an aircraft
A fire razed Star City, an amusement park in Pasay, Philippines in a suspected arson attack early morning.
Migrant rescue ship MV Ocean Viking is granted permission to dock by Italy and heads to Taranto, carrying 176 migrants rescued at sea off the Libyan coast on Sunday.
The Islamic State claims responsibility for the attack.
In a men's football match attended by women supporters for the first time in decades, Iran beats Cambodia 14–0.
New Zealand International Convention Centre fire
maritime warfare branch of Japan's military
Prime Minister Novruz Mammadov presents his resignation as President appoints Ali Asadov to the office.
The uncrewed Boeing X-37B spacecraft returns to Earth after spending a record 780 days in orbit.
reactive substance that contains a great amount of potential energy that can produce an explosion
Argentine political coalition established in 2019
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake strikes the province of Cotabato, Philippines, at 19:37 local time (11:37 UTC), killing at least 5 people and injuring 53 others.
After acquitting five Muslim men of murder, Thai judge Kanakorn Pianchana gives a speech complaining of corrupt pressure upon the judiciary, including in this case, to convict without sufficient evidence.
A whistleblower who filed a complaint against U.S. President Donald Trump over a phone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky sought guidance from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence prior to the filing, Representative Adam Schiff's office says, but denies seeing the complaint in advance.
second-highest constitutional office in the United States
U.S. federal prosecutor John Durham's ongoing probe into potential FBI and Justice Department misconduct in the time leading up to the 2016 presidential election through the spring of 2017 is upgraded to a formal criminal investigation.
Central Bank Governor Riad Salame says the economy of Lebanon is "days" away from collapsing.
Kurdish nationalist and separatist armed organization
The Pentagon announces the deployment of 1,000 to 3,000 U.S. troops to Saudi Arabia to deter Iranian aggression.
type of legal case that precedes a trial
A rocket is fired from the Gaza Strip, exploding in an open field in southern Israel.
government of Lebanon headed by PM Saad Hariri
unicameral body that assumes legislative power in Peru
Women at the SDF-controlled Al-Hawl refugee camp, which holds around 74,000 refugees, mostly the wives and children of ISIL fighters, riot and burn their tents according to a Kurdish security official.
media event where newsmakers meet journalists
North Korea says it will resume working-level nuclear talks with the United States, reviving a denuclearization process that has remained stalled since a February summit in Vietnam ended without a deal.
second-most populous Islamic denomination
Microsoft says a network of hackers linked to the Iranian government has attempted to access the email accounts of people associated with a 2020 presidential election campaign, as well as prominent Iranian expatriates in the United States. Microsoft has not named the specific campaign which was targeted by Iran.
rotational center of the Milky Way galaxy
It states design errors were the immediate cause, exacerbated by failures to take appropriate remedial action when cracks were discovered.
Syrian minister of foreign affairs and expatriates
Video footage shows the police officer shooting the protester as the protester tries to hit his arm with a metal pipe.
The U.S. military takes two militants of the Beatles ISIL cell previously held by Kurdish forces to face trial in the United States.
Date: 22 September 2014 – present (8 years, 4 months and 5 days)
vote on whether a group of people still has confidence in a government or leader
state of Connecticut, killing at least seven of the 13 people on board.
aerospace and defense manufacturer in the United States
uncontrolled fire of natural, accidental or criminal origin, which spreads over a natural or agricultural area covered by combustible vegetation
French maritime police say the vessel did not respond to calls for around an hour before grounding, and that fuel was not thought to be leaking.
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri submits his resignation to President Michel Aoun.
municipality in Kitzbühel District, Tyrol, Austria
Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie announces, the day after Argentina severs diplomatic ties with the government of Nicolás Maduro, that visas granted to the diplomats appointed by Maduro have been revoked and they will be expelled from Argentina; the country now recognizes only Juan Guaidó appointees.
Right-wing terrorism in the United Kingdom
A stone statue is discovered in the walls of a church in England. Officials believe the statue had been hidden inside those walls for about 400 years since the Restoration period.
legislative body (parliament) of the Swiss Confederation
suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Former American envoy Brett McGurk mentions the 60,000 SDF-held ISIL detainees, saying that the State Department and inspectors general at the Department of Defense warn they are the "nucleus for a resurgent ISIL".
form of protest, mainly in Latin America
former United States government official
Chinese video surveillance equipment company
Argentinian voters go to the polls to elect a new president. Though the margin is lower than what opinion polls predicted, Alberto Fernández of the left-wing Justicialist Party beats incumbent Mauricio Macri of the center-right Republican Proposal. Macri becomes the first president in Argentinian history to lose his reelection bid.
false or misleading information presented as news
Three are identified as foreign fishermen, with a fourth corpse unidentified.
The last such casualties occurred in 1982.
form of attack in which a perpetrator rams vehicle into people or structures
Days after Prime Minister Saad Hariri resigned, both France and Hezbollah call for quick formation of a new government, saying that reforms are needed to deal with Lebanon's economic crisis.
Voters in Poland go to the polls to elect a new government. The incumbent right-wing Law and Justice is expected to slightly increase its plurality.
prehistoric period and age studied in archaeology, part of the Holocene Epoch
U.S. forces begin to withdraw from northern Syria.
Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosovo
air warfare branch of Turkey's armed forces
The Lebanese government passes a series of economic measures, such as slashing government wages and extending financial aid to poor families, in an attempt to placate protestors.
type of court of the United States federal court system
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and 3rd Supreme leader of North Korea
Liu Xiaoming, Chinese ambassador to the United Kingdom, announces he has sent a team to Essex to verify the identities of the 39 bodies found in a lorry this week, who are thought by UK authorities to be Chinese nationals.
Sources for The New York Times allege that two American diplomats presented a statement for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to sign wherein Ukraine would commit to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden.
The British Parliament votes 329 to 299 to pass the Withdrawal Agreement Bill, but then rejects the proposed timetable in a separate 322 to 308 vote. Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow says the bill is now "in limbo", and Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to consult with European Union leaders for the time being.
Hezbollah's Hassan Nasrallah calls on his supporters to leave the protests, warning the government's resignation will lead to "chaos" and "civil war". It comes the day after Hezbollah supporters violently clashed with protestors in central Beirut.
Another person was injured but not stabbed.
capital of the state of Roraima in Brazil
U.S multinational medical devices, pharmaceutical and consumer packaged goods manufacturer
Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow says the bill is now "in limbo", and Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to consult with European Union leaders for the time being.
In golf, Tiger Woods wins the inaugural Zozo Championship in Japan by three shots over Hideki Matsuyama for his 82nd career PGA Tour title, tying him with Sam Snead atop the all-time list.
official review of events or actions ordered by a government body
NASA/ESA space telescope (launched 1990)
in the United States, represents the government in the prosecution of criminal offenses
central business district of Auckland, New Zealand
India formally splits Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories, dubbed Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. Both entities will be directly governed from New Delhi.
alliance of militias fighting against ISIL and other Islamist extremists in the Syrian Civil War
seven-member executive council which constitutes the federal government of Switzerland and serves as the collective Swiss head of state
After meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence says Turkey has agreed to a five-day ceasefire in Syria while the United States helps facilitate the withdrawal of Kurdish fighters.
Turkish military offensive in northern Syria
geopolitical region encompassing Egypt and most of Western Asia, including Iran
The British Parliament votes 329 to 299 to pass the Withdrawal Agreement Bill, but then rejects the proposed timetable in a separate 322 to 308 vote.
Around 337 people in a dozen countries are arrested for participating in a child pornography network that hosted up to 250,000 videos depicting child sexual abuse.
The remains of former Spanish dictator Francisco Franco are exhumed from Valle de los Caídos and are moved to a private mausoleum with his wife Carmen Polo, 44 years after his death. Some pro-Franco protestors gather outside the national mausoleum.
testifies before Congress that he had been told President Donald Trump would, to help his reelection chances, withhold military aid to Ukraine until that country publicly declared investigations would be launched into Burisma Holdings, a company that hired former Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter, as well as Ukraine's alleged involvement in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces requests urgent air support from the United States, and a no-fly zone over northern Syria to protect it from Turkish air raids. U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered U.S. forces to not intervene in the conflict.
Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie also expressed his concerns and said there were "calculated and identical methods of destabilization in the region".
The New York Times claims it can prove Russian aircraft bombed four Syrian hospitals in a matter of hours in May, using a combination of logbooks from planespotters, recorded radio transmissions, and eyewitnesses.
Citing human rights issues, the United States Department of Commerce puts 20 Chinese public security bureaus and eight high tech companies, such as HikVision, SenseTime and Megvii, on the Export Administration Regulations entities blacklist. Like Huawei, which was sanctioned on an identical blueprint for national security reasons, the entities will need U.S. government approval before they can purchase components from U.S. companies.
type of jury empowered by law to conduct legal proceedings, investigate potential criminal conduct, and determine whether criminal charges should be brought
Microsoft says a network of hackers linked to the Iranian government has attempted to access the email accounts of people associated with a 2020 presidential election campaign, as well as prominent Iranian expatriates in the United States.
urban-type settlement in Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia
Kosovar soldier and Prime Minister of Kosovo
and Gregg L. Semenza for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.
Richmond Hwy./VA 110 at I-395, Arlington County, Virginia
In the early hours of the morning, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces hands over control of Tabqa, and the nearby Tabqa Airbase in the Raqqa Governorate to the Syrian Army.
Diplomatic relations between the European Union and the Republic of Turkey
An Iraqi man is arrested at Brisbane Airport for his membership in a human trafficking syndicate responsible for chartering a boat carrying 421 Afghan and Iraqi refugees to Australia.
Fourteen people are killed and ten are injured by Turkish airstrikes targeting a convoy in the Syrian town of Ras al Ain.
Indonesian investigators conclude their probe of the disaster with the release of a 353-page final report.
In a special session of the Florida Senate, the chamber voted 25–15 to uphold the suspension of former Broward Sheriff Scott Israel for his agency's response to the mass shootings at both Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and Parkland.
The Republican National Committee and the 2020 U.S. presidential election campaign to reelect President Donald Trump raised $125 million between July and September, setting a new presidential fundraising record, the Associated Press reports.
The CDC says the cause is still under investigation.
criminal organizations developed with the primary purpose of promoting and controlling drug trafficking operations
Seven Russian defense contractors from the Wagner Group and 20 Mozambican soldiers are reportedly killed in attacks by Salafi jihadists in northern Mozambique.
secret plan or agreement for an unlawful or harmful purpose, especially with political motivation
Hong Kong Other cities worldwide in solidarity
capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
aircraft designed for sustained observation over time by onboard persons or sensors
oldest federal political party in Canada
Empire in the Asia-Pacific region from 1868 to 1947
An ISIL radical stabs multiple people, including Indonesia's security minister Wiranto.
Brazilian politician, lawyer and federal police officer
constitutional institution and the highest office of Spain
National Transportation Safety Committee
Indonesian government agency responsible for investigating land, sea and air accidents
On October 14, 2019 in San Juan, Puerto Rico
French single territorial collectivity in the Mediterranean
Meta Platforms-owned mobile instant messenger and social media service
device usually used to quit or be an alternative to tobacco
violent act where the offender pulls up a knife
Adobe cuts access to its software and cancels all Creative Cloud memberships in Venezuela, to comply with U.S. President Donald Trump's trade restrictions.
Police say five people were shot dead and another four injured at a Halloween party in Orinda, California.
hobby of tracking the movement of aircraft
North Korean state media says the country has successfully tested a new type of submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) off the coast of Wonsan.
Halle and Landsberg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Four ministers resign from the current cabinet, stating that the government is incapable of addressing any of the issues under current circumstances. Conversely, Hassan Nasrallah of Hezbollah announces that his group will continue to support the government, saying, "All of us have to shoulder the responsibility of the current situation that we arrived at."
official residence and workplace of the President of the United States
Belgian politician, former deputy prime minister of Belgium
The Government of Ecuador, headed by President Lenín Moreno, moves to Guayaquil as the Carondelet Palace in Quito is taken over by protesters and chaos persists in the capital.
A North Korean fishing boat collides with a Japanese Fisheries Agency vessel and sinks off Japan.
Secretary-General of Hezbollah since 1992
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces calls the U.S.
military buffer zone between Turkey and Syria
provisional release from prison, with certain conditions such as probation in some states
As many as 700 ISIL family members escape an Ayn Issa camp.
Two further people are arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and conspiracy to traffic people in connection to the case.
lower house of the United States Congress
A Hard Rock Hotel and Casino under construction in New Orleans partially collapses, killing one person and injuring at least 18.
In the floor exercise, Simone Biles lands a triple-twisting double backflip in a tucked position.
Sánchez, in a special press conference, guarantees compliance with the sentence and calls for dialogue and coexistence, as well as ensures that Spain is a democratic state.
Military dictatorship of Chile (1973–1990)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports the number of deaths caused by vaping-associated pulmonary injury has risen to 27, with an additional 1,299 cases of non-fatal injuries.
The nine pro-Catalonia independence politicians jailed earlier this week issue a joint plea for an end to violent protests across the region. Meanwhile, the Spanish government says it will meet protestors with a "firm, proportional and united" response.
Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria
General Motors and the United Auto Workers announce that they have reached a tentative deal to end a month-long strike that cost the company US$2 billion. It will be sent to union members tomorrow for final approval. If approved, workers will receive a pay raise and temporary workers will be granted a more simplified path to full-time employment.
demilitarized zone running across the Korean Peninsula
A bomb on a rickshaw detonates as a minibus carrying new army recruits passes in Jalalabad, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. A military spokesperson says ten, including a child, were killed and a further 27 wounded.
As protests enter its eighth day, President Michel Aoun in a televised address states he is willing to meet with protestors and offers support for various reforms, such as increasing transparency for banks and lifting immunity for government officials. He however states that changes “can only happen through state institutions" in response to calls to bring down the government.
vintage World War II heavy bomber crash during tourist flight
The Kurds say that Turkey is already violating the ceasefire agreement by shelling the border town of Ras al-Ain.
King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden decides that the children of Prince Carl Philip and Princess Sofia, and the children of Princess Madeleine and Christopher O'Neill will no longer be members of the Royal House of Sweden.
The chain employs 2,900 people and operates 318 stores.
Salmossi, Oudalan Province, Burkina Faso
armed conflict in the Donbas region of Ukraine
It is only the second vessel sunk during the battle to have been found.
Date: 11 April 2002 – present (20 years, 9 months)
The Mexican National Guard arrests Ovidio Guzmán López, one of former cartel leader Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán's sons, in Culiacán. He is later released after government forces come under intense attack and are overpowered by Sinaloa Cartel gunmen, according to Security Minister Alfonso Durazo.
the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy
The Chouf and Matn regions are especially hit hard.
Indonesian investigators meet with families of the deceased ahead of the release of their final report, scheduled for Friday. They state the crash was caused by design flaws with software on the aircraft, and inaccurate assessments by Boeing as to how pilots would respond to them.
U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham strongly criticizes President Trump's decision, describing the event as "a big win for Iran and Assad [and] a big win for ISIL". Former American envoy Brett McGurk mentions the 60,000 SDF-held ISIL detainees, saying that the State Department and inspectors general at the Department of Defense warn they are the "nucleus for a resurgent ISIL".
landlocked territory near the Mediterranean coast of Western Asia
military airfield near Hinesville, GA, US
Police discover 39 bodies inside a lorry container in Grays, Essex, UK.
Qualification for the 2022 FIFA World Cup for AFC members
NASA announces that the InSight Mars lander's heat probe had successfully dug 3 centimetres (1.2 in) into the ground after becoming stuck 35 centimetres (14 in) in the ground in February 2019, confirming that the probe had not hit a rock and instead simply didn't have enough friction in the soil to dig much deeper.
Thirteen men are arrested in the United Kingdom for drug smuggling. The authorities believe that over several years, the suspects imported approximately 50 tonnes of illegal drugs from the Netherlands, valued at several tens of millions of pounds. The National Crime Agency called it “the biggest ever [drug] conspiracy that we've seen in the UK”.
Islamist insurgency in the DR Congo and Uganda
Iranian activist and journalist (1978-2020)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan threatens to invade SDF-held areas in Northern Syria "today or tomorrow", after dubbing joint US-Turkish patrols per the buffer zone agreement a "fairy tale".
president of the United States since 2021
Thousands continue to participate in spite of the violent crackdowns from the previous days.
ongoing crisis occurring in the country of Yemen
UK Home Secretary Priti Patel announces the inquests into the deaths of the victims will be converted into a public inquiry at the request of the coroner. This enables the hearing of evidence in secret by members of the intelligence community, which would otherwise not be available as the coroner had previously granted public interest immunity to the witnesses on the grounds of possible assistance to future terrorists were the evidence to be heard. Inquests cannot hear secret evidence.
Holy See's independent city-state, an enclave within Rome, Italy
Further evacuations are ordered, with 180,000 people now affected. Power companies are scheduled to cut supplies for a million people today, doubling the size of what is already the biggest blackout in California history in a bid to prevent further fires igniting from damaged electric cables.
armed forces of the Syrian Interim Government
Spanish historian, politician and professor
A motorcycle bomb explodes in front of a hotel in Spin Boldak, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.
province in China, whose capital is Xi'an
Border control refuses entry to Venezuela for the Guatemalan President-Elect Alejandro Giammattei, who was to visit Juan Guaidó on a diplomatic tour. Giammattei is rerouted to Panama.
combined military forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
A double-decker bus carrying pilgrims crashes and catches fire near Medina, Saudi Arabia.
A bomb planted on a foreign tank wounds a soldier at Kandahar International Airport. The nationality of the military concerned is unknown.
A study by Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, and headed by geneticist Vanessa Hayes, pinpoints the Okavango region in northern Botswana as the origin of modern humans. Other scientists express skepticism at this, particularly at the study's primary evidence coming from mitochondrial DNA.
thick growth of hair that covers the skin of many different animals, particularly mammals
Chief Executive of Hong Kong (born 1957)
sovereign state in northern South America
He also is the first member of Fernández's party to describe Venezuela as a "dictatorship".
Turkish police arrest nine people on terrorism charges in Adana, including one foreign national.
crime of killing of a human being by another human being, less serious than murder
Foreign ministry officials from Japan and South Korea meet in Seoul to discuss wartime forced labor and trade dispute
Voters in Switzerland elect the members of the country's Federal Assembly and Council. Provisional results show the Swiss People's Party retaining their plurality, and that the Green Party has become the fourth-largest party.
In Lower Manhattan, New York City, a 24-year-old homeless man is charged with murdering four other homeless men and attempting to murder a fifth in random attacks.
Salafi jihadist militant Sunni Islamist group
The private meeting will be held tomorrow.
The National Crime Agency called it “the biggest ever [drug] conspiracy that we've seen in the UK”.
A group of people with large guns showed up before the shooting, according to the police commissioner.
process of extracting gold from the ground
Subway service is suspended in the entire city.
United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
Tunisian politician, academic and jurist
military spokesperson for Operation Inherent Resolve announces the United States has withdrawn their forces from Manbij.
head of government of the U.S. commonwealth of Puerto Rico
high-velocity cloud of gas connecting the Large and the Small Magellanic Clouds
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Date: 31 October 2019 06:18 am PST (01:18 UTC)
political unionist party of Northern Ireland
The Mexican National Guard arrests Ovidio Guzmán López, one of former cartel leader Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán's sons, in Culiacán.
National Day of the People's Republic of China
At least 14 people are killed after an illegal gold mine collapses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Maniema province.
warship primarily designed to carry, support, launch, and recover naval aircraft at sea
Following yesterday's collapse of Nanfang'ao Bridge in Su'ao, Taiwan, onto fishing boats, rescuers recover four bodies. Three are identified as foreign fishermen, with a fourth corpse unidentified. Two people remain missing.
Shelling in Bir Al Abd, Egypt kills nine members of the same family.
changes in local and global economy due to Brexit
Chilean President Sebastián Piñera in a nationally televised address apologizes for the failures of the government and pledges economic reforms as violent protests continue in the country.
American multinational technology corporation
List of Trump administration dismissals and resignations
61st long-duration stay on the International Space Station
The violence of the protests in Tarragona, Girona, Lleida and Barcelona increases, while there are clashes with Mossos d'Esquadra in Reus.
The first people are charged with breaking the ban on wearing face masks in Hong Kong. The government of Hong Kong says the prohibition of face masks is needed to end months of violent protests.
An 18-year-old protestor is shot in the chest by police and taken to hospital for surgery during clashes between pro-democracy protesters and the police in Hong Kong on National Day of the People's Republic of China. Video footage shows the police officer shooting the protester as the protester tries to hit his arm with a metal pipe. This is the first reported injury from a live round.
Aida Merlano, a former Congresswoman who is serving a fifteen-year sentence for buying votes and for firearms offences, escapes from prison in Bogotá, Colombia.
A foreign exchange trader, Rohan Ramchandani, has filed a lawsuit against Citigroup. Ramchandani won acquittal last year after criminal charges of market manipulation. He claims that the charges were instigated by his former employer in order to mitigate the regulatory consequences for its own misbehavior.
largest city in California, United States of America
political and economic union of 27 European states
Further evacuations are ordered, with 180,000 people now affected.
transcontinental country straddling Western Asia and Southeastern Europe
Official results announce that incumbent Bolivian president Evo Morales has achieved a great enough margin to win re-election, though the legitimacy of the electoral process has been questioned by protestors and international observers.
President of Catalonia Quim Torra requests a meeting with King Felipe VI of Spain and Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and calls the sentence as an act of "revenge".
A woman is killed and ten other people injured when a student attacks a teacher and students with a sword at a vocational school inside a shopping mall in Kuopio, Northern Savonia, Finland. Police disarm and arrest the suspect, who is one of the injured.
form of exchange for the global decentralized trading of international currencies
School and sports organization that represents the high schools from the State of Illinois.
Two men die and ten others are injured in a mass shooting at a Halloween party in Greenville, Texas.
In Lower Manhattan, New York City, four homeless men are beaten to death and a fifth severely injured while sleeping.
A woman in Florida is arrested and charged with explosives offences after a police raid on her home finds 24 pipe bombs and bomb-making material and several other weapons.
The family of one of them, a 19-year-old woman, made public her last text message to her parents which she sent while dying.
walls and fences along the Mexico–United States border
diplomatic relations between Ukraine and European Union
He gives himself up at the police station.
The Jordanian government announces it has struck a deal with the teachers' union to end a month-long strike that affected at least 1.5 million students.
Incidents involving multiple victims of firearms, not including robbery or familicide
United Kingdom agency for investigating maritime disasters
diverse Indo-European ethno-linguistic group
series of earthquakes in the Philippines
Overnight, the high-rise headquarters of Enel Generación Chile is set on fire by rioters.
In effect any subsequent vote on a deal is not considered final, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson will be forced to ask for an extension.
demonstration in which people link their arms as a show of solidarity
The Foreign Minister of New Zealand Winston Peters accuses the United Kingdom of "walking out" on Pacific aid to small island nations. The accusation surprised British officials.
A ballistic missile capable of being launched from submerged submarines
Hundreds of protestors march across Lebanon over the government's proposal to tax numerous goods, such as tobacco and WhatsApp calls.
Researchers discover a shipwreck at a depth of 20,400 feet (6,200 m) under the Philippine Sea. The shipwreck is believed to be the remains of USS Johnston, a World War II-era destroyer.
Japan and South Korea hold a high-level bilateral meeting for the first time since the trade dispute, with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe meeting with his counterpart Lee Nak-yeon.
Legal guidelines specific to England and Wales regarding imprisonment until death
lawyer appointed to investigate, and potentially prosecute, a particular case of suspected wrongdoing for which a conflict of interest exists for the usual prosecuting authority (United States)
deliberate use of someone else's identity, usually as a method to gain a financial advantage or obtain credit and other benefits in the other person's name, and perhaps to the other person's disadvantage or loss
summit between Isaias Afewerki and Abiy Ahmed
The Iraqi government enacts a curfew in Baghdad as renewed protests enters its fourth day.
Member of the British royal family and former actress
Turkic ethnic group of Central and East Asia
Astronomers announce the discovery of 20 new moons around Saturn, adding to the 62 previously known. The new moons comprise 17 retrograde moons in the Norse group and three prograde moons, two of which belong to the Inuit group.
The investigation concludes the lone crewmember on the bridge was distracted by watching music videos during the nighttime accident.
strait between the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf
land force branch of the Syrian Armed Forces
The nature of the X-37B's mission remains classified information.
Police in Anchorage, Alaska charge Brian Steven Smith, who was arrested on October 8 for the murder of Kathleen Jo Henry, with a second murder, that of Veronica Abouchuk.
American retailer Bed Bath & Beyond announces it will close 60 stores by the end of the year due to declining profits.
city on the north bank of the Columbia River, Washington, in Clark County, United States
interior ministry of the Republic of Turkey
American agency of the Executive Branch of the Department of Transportation
head of the federal government of Belgium
Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dăncilă and her government is ousted after the approval of a vote of no-confidence. She will hold the office acting until new Prime Minister is elected.
government agencies for criminal activities in Ethiopia
The report concludes mistakes by both crew and maintenance, as well as poor weather, combined to cause the crash.
Steve Linick, the inspector general of the U.S. State Department, requests an "urgent" briefing with senior congressional staff members regarding Ukraine.
At a conference in Washington, D.C., Sergio Massa, candidate for the Argentine Chamber of Deputies for Frente de Todos, the coalition of candidate Alberto Fernández, says Fernández's position on Venezuela is clear and that keeping silent about the situation in Venezuela is to "become an accomplice of the government [of Maduro]".
The people found deceased in a lorry in Essex yesterday are suspected to be Chinese nationals.
Foreign interference in the 2020 United States elections
presidency of the council of EU heads of state or government
The Kurdish YPG-led Syrian Democratic Forces say that Turkish fighter aircraft strike targets and "civilian areas".
The purpose of the decision is to establish which members of the Royal House may be expected to perform official duties incumbent on the Head of State or related to the function of the Head of State.
ceremonial county in England (use Q21272241 for administrative non-metropolitan county)
industrial region in southeastern Ukraine and southwestern Russia
combined armed forces of Kenya's military
large sandstone rock formation in Australia, formerly known as Ayers Rock
modular space station in low Earth orbit
A stone statue is discovered in the walls of a church in England.
subject of controversy for the past several years
common name of Homo sapiens, unique extant species of the genus Homo, from embryo to adult
The government of Bangladesh announces it will begin moving thousands of Rohingya refugees from crowded camps to the flood-prone island of Thengar Char, starting early November.
A source for CNN confirms that a note posted anonymously on Pastebin.com is by Apple CEO Tim Cook.
Police in South Korea receive confessions from convicted murderer Lee Chun-jae to the serial rapes and murders, which occurred between 1986 and 1991 and left at least nine dead. He denies a tenth murder, now believed to be perpetrated by a copycat. The investigations inspired the movie Memories of Murder and saw 21,000 people investigated. Lee, who is serving life for the 1994 rape and murder of his sister in law, cannot be prosecuted because the statute of limitations has expired. He had been linked to three victims earlier this month by DNA.
major city in Greater Manchester, England, UK
discovery of, and investigation into, 39 dead bodies found in the container of a chiller lorry in Grays, Essex, England
General Motors and the United Auto Workers announce that they have reached a tentative deal to end a month-long strike that cost the company US$2 billion.
U.S. federal executive department overseeing commerce
public holiday in the People's Republic of China; October 1
The National Transportation Safety Board of the United States concludes its investigation into the accident, which killed six and injured ten.
2016 United States presidential election
58th quadrennial U.S. presidential election
Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
Date: Main combat phase: 9–17 October 2019 (1 week and 1 day) Post-ceasefire operations: 18 October – 25 November 2019 (1 month and 1 week)
Microsoft has not named the specific campaign which was targeted by Iran.
Crown colony and British dependent territory in East Asia between 1841 and 1997
Northwestern Europe; between the Celtic and North Seas
Syrian Kurdish politician and civil engineer
140th season of competitive association football in England
A Russian soldier shoots and kills eight fellow soldiers and wounds two others at a Russian Armed Forces base in the village of Gorny, Zabaykalsky Krai. Officials say the soldier is suspected of having a "nervous breakdown", according to Russian media.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says his country has launched a military invasion of northern and eastern Syria. The Kurdish YPG-led Syrian Democratic Forces say that Turkish fighter aircraft strike targets and "civilian areas". Syrian state television says the Turkish artillery shelling of Ras al-Ayn, al-Hasakah Governorate, is "random", and Ayn Issa, Raqqa Governorate, is also being shelled.
Near Old Palace Yard, Westminster, London, United Kingdom
A gunman opens fire on a mosque in Bayonne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, wounding two before being detained.
The move results from the October 4 crash of an Antonov An-12 owned by the airline, after it ran out of fuel near Lviv, Ukraine.
Police were notified of the problem by the 27-year-old's parents.
The IDF retaliates by launching strikes against two Hamas military posts.
Multiple reports that ISIL has committed multiple suicide bombings in the Syrian city of Raqqa.
type of employment or study in which a person devotes a minimum number of hours
incidents involving multiple victims of firearm-related violence
The 90-metre cargo ship MV Rhodanus, with a crew of seven, runs aground in the Mouths of Bonifacio nature reserve in the Strait of Bonifacio off Corsica. French maritime police say the vessel did not respond to calls for around an hour before grounding, and that fuel was not thought to be leaking.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces a pretrial hearing regarding the charges against him in Case 4000, one of the three corruption cases in which the Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit decided to indict him, pending a hearing.
Department of State Office of Inspector General
The Swedish Academy awards the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature to Olga Tokarczuk, "for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life", and the 2019 prize to Peter Handke, "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience".
A court in Yangon convicts five members of satirical thangyat troupe Peacock Generation over an April performance in which they lampoon the nation's military. They each are jailed for one year.
Uruguayan head of state and head of government
Date: September 24 – December 3, 2019 (2 months, 1 week and 2 days)
Border control refuses entry to Venezuela for the Guatemalan President-Elect Alejandro Giammattei, who was to visit Juan Guaidó on a diplomatic tour.
baseball team and Major League Baseball franchise in Washington, D.C., United States
Other scientists express skepticism at this, particularly at the study's primary evidence coming from mitochondrial DNA.
national newspaper and website publisher in the UK and Ireland
F-15s bomb a CJTF–OIR ammunition depot bunker at the Lafarge cement factory in Aleppo Governorate, Syria, to prevent the munitions and other equipment from being used by Turkish-led forces or Syrian government forces.
Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport
Date: 24 July 2015 – present (7 years, 6 months and 3 days)
East Asia, Southeast Asia and Micronesia
The European Aviation Safety Agency revokes its authorisation of Ukraine Air Alliance, effectively banning the airline from all airspace in the European Union. The move results from yesterday's crash of an Antonov An-12 owned by the airline, after it ran out of fuel near Lviv, Ukraine.
Portuguese voters head to the polls to elect a new session to the Assembly of the Republic. In line with opinion polls, exit polls show the incumbent Socialist Party winning the most seats, but likely not quite enough to form a majority.
Date: 14 August 2018 Time: 07:37 (BST, GMT/UTC +1)
The Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez advises in a press conference that the Government will act with moderation but not concrete exceptional measures yet.
U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham strongly criticizes President Trump's decision, describing the event as "a big win for Iran and Assad [and] a big win for ISIL".
equals the 24-year record for the biggest ever Premier League win and the biggest ever victory by an away side in an English football top-flight game after beating Southampton F.C.
2019 grand military parade, mass pageant, and music and dance evening gala celebration
Intersection of New York state routes 30 and 30A, Schoharie, New York, United States
New rounds of protests and riots erupt in Santiago and other cities after the announcement.
The officers were not harmed, though they were forced to address a large crowd calling on President Lenín Moreno to step down, which was broadcast live by several private broadcasters after being ordered to do so by indigenous leaders.
2018 accident in upstate New York that killed 20 people
He also reportedly suggested digging a moat to fortify a border wall and filling it with "snakes or alligators", and wanted the wall "electrified, with spikes on top that could pierce human flesh".
Clashes take place between Turkish forces and the Syrian Army in the town of Ras al-Ain, with an undetermined number of casualties.
American-led intervention in Iraq (2014–2021)
multi-national campaign beginning in June 2014 to rid Iraq of ISIL influence and deliver humanitarian aid to Iraqi minority religious and ethnic groups
someone who explores methods for breaching defenses and exploiting weaknesses in a computer system or network; mainly practiced by younger computer enthusiasts out of personal interest
American-led intervention in the Syrian Civil War
Provisional results show the Swiss People's Party retaining their plurality, and that the Green Party has become the fourth-largest party.
The killings sparked widespread anti-corruption protests and forced the resignation of Prime Minister Robert Fico.
strike action in which a substantial proportion of the total labour force in a city, region, or country participates
American Nobel Laureate, Professor of Medicine at Harvard University
kind of extradition within the European Union
Russian–Syrian hospital bombing campaign
Ongoing series of attacks on hospitals by Syrian and Russian security forces
Ethiopian police report on Friday that the death toll from violent protests in Oromia Region was 67, including five officers.
Shots are also reported in nearby Landsberg.
executive department of the U.S. federal government
southernmost part of the island of Manhattan in New York City, United States
An ISIL radical stabs multiple people, including Indonesia's security minister Wiranto. Two suspects were later arrested.
bilateral relations between Armenia and United States
self-governing Palestinian territory next to Egypt and Israel
The Lebanese Civil Defense labels it the worst firestorm in decades.
Astronomers announce the discovery of 20 new moons around Saturn, adding to the 62 previously known.
The New York City Council votes to close Rikers Island, the city's main prison, by 2026. The complex's infrastructural deterioration and excessive abuses were the cited reasons.
United States export guidelines and prohibitions
American attorney and career State Department official
East Slavic ethnic group, regardless of country of citizenship
The new moons comprise 17 retrograde moons in the Norse group and three prograde moons, two of which belong to the Inuit group.
Haska Meyna District, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan
A murder case from Anchorage, Alaska makes national news, after it is revealed that the killer recorded the killing in both video and still photographs on an SD card, which was later found by a local woman on a street and turned over to police.
She will hold the office acting until new Prime Minister is elected.
In the United Kingdom, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announce they are suing The Mail on Sunday, as well as its parent company DMG Media, claiming the publisher's newspapers have been publishing "false and deliberately derogatory stories" about their lives.
city in Alaska, United States of America
Palestinian Sunni-Islamist organization that governs the Gaza strip, with an associated military wing. The group is recognized as a terrorist organization.
The Committees for the Defense of the Republic calls for disobedience and popular revolt.
ceremonial county in England (use Q21694733 for administrative non-metropolitan county)
labor union for public school faculty and staff in Chicago, Illinois
systematic destruction of all or a significant part of a racial, ethnic, religious or national group
upper house of the United States Congress
governing body of the Russian Armed Forces
Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
combined military forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
soldier who performs a variety of military engineering duties
A car bomb detonates in the Syrian city of Qamishli, killing three and injuring nine.
University Park and Sweetwater, Florida, U.S.
Following the withdrawal of troops, U.S.
The Financial Action Task Force, an international counter-terrorism finance taskforce, tells Pakistan to improve its counter-terror funding operations by next February or face being added to the group's blacklist.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed wins the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to make peace between Ethiopia and neighbouring Eritrea.
American physician and university teacher, Nobel laureate in Medicine
The fatal accident inquiry into the crash concludes with the issuing of a report by Sheriff Principal Craig Turnbull.
The New York Times reports that U.S. President Donald Trump suggested shooting migrants in the legs in order to slow them down after they crossed the Mexico–United States border during a meeting in March.
The deceased and missing both include pregnant women.
Barcelona–El Prat Josep Tarradellas Airport
city in and county seat of King County, Washington, United States
Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno declares a state of emergency amid nationwide protests against a hike in fuel prices.
The Iraqi military says "unidentified snipers" have shot four people dead on the streets of Baghdad amid protests, including two police officers, with dozens of others wounded by sniper fire.
The grounding triggered changes in procedures by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.
series of demonstrations in Iran beginning on 28 December 2017
unlawful killing of a human with malice aforethought
The attacker, who was shot dead by other officers, was an admin worker at the station.
men's national association football team representing Iran
military storage facility for ammunition or explosives
separates the territories of Iraq and Syria
They will serve their terms from 2019 to 2024.
Acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William B. Taylor Jr.
period of Chilean history under the rule of General Augusto Pinochet
ongoing multi-sided civil war in Syria since 2011
A Cook County judge is expected to hear an emergency injunction filed against the Illinois High School Association for not allowing student athletes within Chicago Public Schools participate in state playoffs, despite the IHSA's long-standing ban against teams from striking districts.
city in Ingham County, Eaton County and Clinton County, Michigan, USA and Michigan federated state capital city
Governor Wanda Vázquez Garced convened an emergency meeting of her security team Tuesday.
Spanish general and dictator (1892-1975)
A roads in Zone 3 of the Great Britain numbering scheme
Wells Fargo, the fourth-largest bank in the United States, misses its third quarter profit estimates due to interest rate declines and the shrinkage of its mortgage lending business.
Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport
city in Broward County, Florida, United States
Chair of the Federal Election Commission Ellen Weintraub again explains that "it is illegal for any person to solicit, accept, or receive anything of value from a foreign national in connection with a U.S.
The attack had been livestreamed on Twitch for 35 minutes citing anti-Semitic and racist motivations.
The new skill will be named "Biles 2", the third element named after her, and will have an FIG difficulty value of J.
A third defendant who pleaded guilty is due to be sentenced on November 1.
The move results from yesterday's crash of an Antonov An-12 owned by the airline, after it ran out of fuel near Lviv, Ukraine.
approval by national aviation authorities to operate aircraft for commercial purposes
territory where aircraft aren't allowed to fly over
A court in Yangon convicts five members of satirical thangyat troupe Peacock Generation over an April performance in which they lampoon the nation's military.
constituent country of the United Kingdom
The shipwreck is believed to be the remains of USS Johnston, a World War II-era destroyer.
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022
device that shoots a high-velocity stream of water
Federation of German Wholesale, Foreign Trade and Services
Four ministers resign from the current cabinet, stating that the government is incapable of addressing any of the issues under current circumstances.
celestial coordinate system in spherical coordinates, with the Sun as its center
migration of people across national borders in a way that violates the immigration laws of the destination country
federal prosecutor John Durham's ongoing probe into potential FBI and Justice Department misconduct in the time leading up to the 2016 presidential election through the spring of 2017 is upgraded to a formal criminal investigation.
Turkish artillery mistakenly hits a contingent of United States special operations forces on Mashtenour hill in the Kurdish-majority city of Kobanî, according to a senior Department of Defense official.
official currency of the United Kingdom and other territories
45th presidential administration and cabinet of the USA (2017-2021)
ongoing and extensive overuse of opioid medications, both from medical prescriptions and from illegal sources, which began in the United States in the late 1990s, when opioids were increasingly prescribed for pain management
fictional story typically featuring folkloric fantasy characters and magic
President Sebastián Piñera changes eight ministries of his cabinet, notably with Interior Minister Andrés Chadwick and Financial Minister Felipe Larraín Bascuñán being replaced with Gonzalo Blumel and Ignacio Briones respectively.
runner who sets the pace in a race for other competitors
India formally splits Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories, dubbed Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
Voters in Tunisia go to the polls to elect a new president. Conservative academic Kais Saied wins more than 70% of the votes.
Timeline of the Kurdish–Turkish conflict (2015–present)
top institution of the U.S. Republican Party
At least five people are killed in a second day of spontaneous protests against unemployment, government corruption and lack of basic services in Iraq.
The Donald Trump administration says it is preparing to broadly expand DNA collection from migrants in U.S.
Tosa-class battleship converted to an aircraft carrier
border barrier being constructed by Pakistan at the Durand Line
Citing human rights issues, the United States Department of Commerce puts 20 Chinese public security bureaus and eight high tech companies, such as HikVision, SenseTime and Megvii, on the Export Administration Regulations entities blacklist.
armed conflict in Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique
An improvised explosive device planted by the Taliban detonates when a child steps on a pressure plate in Pashtun Kot. The explosion kills five, all children. A sixth child survives but is injured.
He claims that the charges were instigated by his former employer in order to mitigate the regulatory consequences for its own misbehavior.
capital city and smallest province of Indonesia
Belgian politician, former Prime Minister of Belgium, President of the European Council
restrictions on freedom of expression in China
Date: 5 October 2017 – present (5 years, 3 months, 3 weeks and 1 day)
Officials say the soldier is suspected of having a "nervous breakdown", according to Russian media.
A jury finds Amber Guyger, a former Dallas police officer, guilty of murder.
headquarters of the United States Department of Defense; named after the shape of the building, a polygon with five (greek: penta) sides
At the Old Bailey in London, Salih Khater is sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of fifteen years.
hgygttua celebration observed in many countries on 31 October
overview of the economy in the Federal Republic of Germany
1031 Canal Street New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Ongoing corruption scandal involving major universities in the U.S.
The Times reports that the Barclay family is looking to sell The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph, citing conflicting viewpoints within the family and low circulation.
family of people closely related to the King of Sweden
citizens or residents of the United States of America
lower house of the National Congress of Brazil
Current coalition partner the Democratic Unionist Party subsequently announces they will oppose the deal.
Since convening on 6 October, the synod of Catholic bishops from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Venezuela, and Suriname gather with Pope Francis in Rome.
Terrorist mass shooting attacks in Christchurch, New Zealand
Opposition party, Vetëvendosje, lead by Albin Kurti wins in an unprecedented victory.
A foreign exchange trader, Rohan Ramchandani, has filed a lawsuit against Citigroup.
termination of pregnancy in the United Kingdom
part of the Indian Ocean between South and South East Asia
city in the South Governorate of Lebanon, also an ancient Phoenician city and the legendary birthplace of Europa and Elissa (Dido)
fighter aircraft family by McDonnell Douglas
combined military forces of the Syrian Arab Republic
Joko Widodo is officially inaugurated as president of Indonesia for the second time, while Ma'ruf Amin is inaugurated as the new vice president.
International sanctions during the Venezuelan crisis
At least five are killed and nine more injured.
American politician and businessman (born 1963)
The Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA), a law giving the Singaporean government more powers to stop the spread of designated falsehoods and fake news, goes into effect. Rights groups like Human Rights Watch and journalists worry the law could be used to stifle dissent and free expression.
Smith reportedly confessed to killing Abouchuk and told authorities where her body could be found.
An anonymous senior Donald Trump administration official, who in 2018 wrote a controversial New York Times op-ed called treasonous by President Trump, has written a book about the administration titled "A Warning," its publisher says.
special operations branch of Iraq's military
A bomb explodes in a classroom at Ghazni University in Afghanistan, wounding at least nineteen students.
Jewish (or rarely Samaritan) house of prayer
Tunisian citizens gather to vote in the country's latest parliamentary election.
Heavy fighting between the Turkish Land Forces and the Syrian Democratic Forces along the Syria–Turkey border reportedly leaves hundreds dead. The International Rescue Committee says 64,000 people in northern Syria have fled since the Turkish offensive began, leaving the border towns of Ras al-Ayn and al-Darbasiyah largely deserted.
Police in Papua New Guinea withdraw the arrest warrant issued against former Prime Minister Peter O'Neill, who was accused of corruption.
political-economic policy aiming to reduce government budget deficits through spending cuts or tax increases
Protestors also try to enter the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad.
Police discover 39 bodies inside a lorry container in Grays, Essex, UK. They had been transported from Zeebrugge, across the English Channel to Purfleet. The driver, a man from Northern Ireland, is arrested.
Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) Act 2019
Public General Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom
Demonstrations and cut roads take place throughout Catalonia, with the largest taking place in Barcelona.
2019 United States outbreak of lung illness linked to vaping products
2019 outbreak of lung illness linked to vaping products
According to the bishops, "a deep personal, social and structural conversion" is needed in response to the "unprecedented" environmental and social crisis in the Amazon.
intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states
Catalan politician, lawyer and editor, expresident of Catalonia
The government hopes to relocate 100,000 refugees by the end of the operation, which has been criticised by rights groups as an "inevitable" humanitarian crisis.
The Bloc Québécois resurge from a 10-seat rump at dissolution to take third place and regain official party status.
city council; lawmaking body of the City of New York, USA
German politician, former federal minister of defence
Mongolian police arrest 800 Chinese citizens and confiscate hundreds of computers and SIM cards in Ulaanbaatar. Authorities believe they were part of a cybercrime ring involved in illegal gambling, hacking and identity theft, among other activities.
A train catches fire in Liaquatpur Tehsil, Rahim Yar Khan District, Punjab, Pakistan. The blaze, apparently sparked by gas stoves used by passengers illegally cooking on board, kills at least 74 people.
Refugees of the Syrian civil war in Turkey
Four people are stabbed and injured, one critically, in a mass stabbing at the Manchester Arndale shopping centre in the Northern Quarter, Manchester, United Kingdom.
After months of delay, the Supreme Court of Samoa accepts a closed court bail hearing for two defendants accused of attempting to assassinate Prime Minister of Samoa Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi.
Governments' recognition of the Ottoman empire's mass killing of Armenians as genocide
penetration with a sharp or pointed object at close range
A car bomb in Afrin kills nine people and wounds over 14 others.
sixth director of the FBI; American attorney
American rock band My Chemical Romance announces their reunion and first show in seven years.
The protests have crippled the country's transport network with all major roads and bridges blocked in the capital Quito.
Ansar al-Islam claims responsibility for an IED explosion that killed three soldiers in Iraq's Diyala Province.
warrant issued by a judge or magistrate on behalf of the state, which authorizes the arrest and detention of an individual, or the search and seizure of an individual's property
expendable weapons or weapon components dispersed from a weapon system, such as bombs, missiles, mines and projectiles
While it proves the existence of violent outbreaks, it judges they are not sufficient to convict for rebellion.
A shooting in Vancouver, Washington, United States leaves at least one dead, and several more injured.
international airport in Brisbane, Australia
Researchers discover a shipwreck at a depth of 20,400 feet (6,200 m) under the Philippine Sea.
withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union
Heavy fighting between the Turkish Land Forces and the Syrian Democratic Forces along the Syria–Turkey border reportedly leaves hundreds dead.
Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria
Iran claims one of its oil tankers was hit in the Red Sea, likely by missiles.
U.S. federal executive department in charge of law enforcement
He blames Nicolás Maduro's government after Constituent Assembly President Diosdado Cabello says there is a "Bolivarian breeze" in the region.
armed conflicts that started from January 2012
Sylmar, Los Angeles County, California, United States
Modern immigration to the United Kingdom
permanent migration to the United Kingdom
2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries
selection of the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States in 2020
It is the franchise's first World Series championship and the first World Series victory for an MLB team based in the district since the Washington Senators (now known as the Minnesota Twins) won in 1924.
If approved, workers will receive a pay raise and temporary workers will be granted a more simplified path to full-time employment.
Lebanese public emergency medical service
At least two people are killed and 200 are injured at protests against unemployment and government corruption in Iraq. Protestors also try to enter the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad.
Lebanese Army General and President of Lebanon
village and civil parish in East Riding of Yorkshire, UK
The business is £1.1 billion in debt and has made a loss for two consecutive years.
ban on entering public areas such as streets or squares at certain times
Major League Baseball franchise in Houston, Texas
region of the Americas where Romance languages are primarily spoken
China bans American animated sitcom South Park in response to the episode "Band in China" which parodied censorship in China and Chinese influence on Hollywood.
Opinion polling for the 2019 Argentine general election
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, is believed to have died in a suicide bombing after U.S.-led coalition special forces raid targeted positions belonging to Huras al-Din in Syria's rebel-held Idlib Governorate.
Indonesian investigators meet with families of the deceased ahead of the release of their final report, scheduled for Friday.
part of the United Kingdom situated on the island of Ireland
Hundreds of tourists flock to Uluru in Australia's Northern Territory to climb it for the last time before the park's ban on climbing goes into effect. The ban is being implemented to respect the wishes of the indigenous Aṉangu people, who find Uluru sacred.
security-oriented intergovernmental organization
United Kingdom government cabinet minister
filmmaking industry in the United States
murder of a prominent person, often a political leader or ruler
material that government claims requires confidentiality
national law enforcement agency in the United Kingdom
Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dăncilă and her government is ousted after the approval of a vote of no-confidence.
Curfew is extended to Concepción and Valparaíso Region.
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
non-paying job for the benefit of community
The European Aviation Safety Agency revokes its authorisation of Ukraine Air Alliance, effectively banning the airline from all airspace in the European Union.
Date: 6 September 2017 – 1 June 2018 (8 months, 3 weeks and 5 days)
One passenger on the Saab SB20 is killed, and at least one more is seriously injured.
Date: 7 October 2001 – 30 August 2021 (19 years, 10 months, 3 weeks and 2 days)
Turkish government ministry responsible for military and national defence affairs
American sex offender and financier (1953–2019)
trade of humans for the purpose of forced labor, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others
neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States
city in Hunt County, Texas, United States
partially recognized country in southeastern Europe
Two people are killed and two others are injured in attacks by a man wearing military camouflage near a synagogue and at a kebab shop in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
luxury sedan or saloon car generally driven by a chauffeur
Date: 13 November 1996 – present (26 years)
Syrian state television says the Turkish artillery shelling of Ras al-Ayn, al-Hasakah Governorate, is "random", and Ayn Issa, Raqqa Governorate, is also being shelled.
Mongolian police arrest 800 Chinese citizens and confiscate hundreds of computers and SIM cards in Ulaanbaatar.
Hezbollah's Hassan Nasrallah calls on his supporters to leave the protests, warning the government's resignation will lead to "chaos" and "civil war".
A team of ocean explorers announce the discovery of Imperial Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi on the Pacific seafloor.
policies regarding immigration of the Trump administration
electronic warfare launched by Iranian military forces
The nine pro-Catalonia independence politicians jailed earlier this week issue a joint plea for an end to violent protests across the region.
association football stadium in Southampton
writ issued by a government agency, most often a court, to compel testimony by a witness or production of evidence under a penalty for failure
An Austrian man kills five people in the town of Kitzbühel, Tyrol: his ex-girlfriend, her brother and parents, as well as her new boyfriend. He gives himself up at the police station.
protests and revolutions in the Arab world in the late 2010s
Eight people are confirmed killed in the failed raid.
Chinese multinational technology company
Two associates of Rudy Giuliani have been arrested for campaign finance violations in connected to efforts to discredit presidential candidate Joe Biden, according to a spokesman for the District Court for the SDNY.
They had been transported from Zeebrugge, across the English Channel to Purfleet.
Vessel which sank just south of the Indonesian island of Java 19 October 2001 killing 353 people
capital city of Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine
compact region at the center of a galaxy that has a much higher than normal luminosity over at least some portion – and possibly all – of the electromagnetic spectrum
person trained working with investigating deaths and injuries that occur under unusual or suspicious circumstances
He is later released after government forces come under intense attack and are overpowered by Sinaloa Cartel gunmen, according to Security Minister Alfonso Durazo.
The 2018 prize is awarded only now because last year it was postponed due to a scandal.
Polls show Justin Trudeau's Liberals and Andrew Scheer's Conservatives deadlocked with equal numbers of support after a divisive campaign.
Catalonia goes to a general strike in protest of the prison sentence of the Catalan independentists leaders.
Local hospitals have been overwhelmed with patients attending from the bus crash and forced to close to non-emergency care.
The United Kingdom and the European Union agree on a new Brexit withdrawal agreement deal following talks in Brussels.
2019 U.S. government report on Russian interference in the 2016 election
Al-Shabaab claims responsibility for the attack.
The Chilean government declares a state of emergency in the capital Santiago, following riots in response to a price hike in Santiago Metro fares. Overnight, the high-rise headquarters of Enel Generación Chile is set on fire by rioters.
a yearly award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for those who conferred the most outstanding contributions for mankind in the field of physics
forces to not intervene in the conflict.
molecule that encodes the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms and many viruses
city in Switzerland and capital of its canton
Turkey condemns the resolution, describing it as "a meaningless political step", and that "its sole addressees are the Armenian lobby and anti-Turkey groups".
city in Tarragona province, Catalonia, Spain
At least 42 people were killed during a landslide caused by torrential rainfall in the city of Bafoussam, Cameroon.
The Liberal Party win a pluralty of seats, and will remain in government, albeit as a minority and having lost the popular vote to the Conservative Party.
Prime Minister of Japan from 2020 to 2021
An overloaded ship carrying migrants capsizes and sinks off the island of Lampedusa, Italy, in rough conditions in the Mediterranean Sea.
Washington State authorities find a crane collapse earlier this year in Seattle was caused when workers removed securing pins too early during the crane's dismantling.
Macri becomes the first president in Argentinian history to lose his reelection bid.
After months of delay, the Supreme Court of Samoa accepts a closed court bail hearing for two defendants accused of attempting to assassinate Prime Minister of Samoa Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi. A third defendant who pleaded guilty is due to be sentenced on November 1.
Chilean President Sebastián Piñera fires all sitting ministers of his government.
form of dishonesty or criminal offense undertaken by a person or organization entrusted with a position of authority, to acquire illicit benefit or abuse power for one's private gain
bilateral relations between Jordan and Israel
violent acts committed primarily against women and girls
Mexican drug lord and former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel
The United States House of Representatives votes 405 to 11 to officially recognize the Armenian Genocide as a genocide for the first time.
2018 mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, US
Ramchandani won acquittal last year after criminal charges of market manipulation.
restoration of the monarchy in the British Isles
national park in the Northern Territory, Australia and location of a sandstone monolith
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks out about China's religious freedom violations during a visit to the Vatican.
inspector general of the U.S. State Department
English men's association football top league
capital and largest city of Massachusetts, United States
relations between the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria and the Syrian Arab Republic
county seat of Wyandotte County, Kansas, United States
United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability
Standing committee of the United States House of Representatives
political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s
head of state and head of government of the United States of America
A court in France sentences five women to prison terms for their roles in the failed bombing.
Azerbaijani politician and translator, former Prime Minister of Azerbaijan
2019–2020 Peruvian constitutional crisis
An 18-year-old protestor is shot in the chest by police and taken to hospital for surgery during clashes between pro-democracy protesters and the police in Hong Kong on National Day of the People's Republic of China.
evolutionary process leading up to the appearance of anatomically modern humans
metropolitan area in California, United States
legislative or penal initiatives that seek to stop individuals from concealing their faces
Five of the seven occupants are killed, and the airport closes.
A bomb on a rickshaw detonates as a minibus carrying new army recruits passes in Jalalabad, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan.
city in the region of Northern Savonia in Finland
No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.
French-Italian strait between Corsica and Sardinia
town in Schoharie County, New York, United States
Dutch farmers stage a protest in The Hague against proposals to halve livestock numbers in a bid to cut nitrogen emissions. Motoring group ANWB claims tractors on highways caused a total of 1,136km (700 miles) of traffic jams during morning rush hour, with tractors on one highway swerving back and forth to prevent traffic passing.
Dr. Michael Baden, a medical examiner who observed the autopsy of Jeffrey Epstein, says that it shows signs consistent with homicide.
Office of Inspector General (United States)
oversight division of a United States federal or state agency
British businessperson; husband of Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland
An Antonov An-12 cargo plane operated by Ukraine Air Alliance runs out of fuel and crashes as it approaches Lviv International Airport in Ukraine.
Deadly Ethiopian protests in the Oromo region
Full Sutton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
head of state and government of the Republic of Indonesia
The Russian embassy in Kinshasa says "preliminary information" indicates Russians were on the aircraft.
A woman in Florida is arrested and charged with explosives offences after a police raid on her home finds 24 pipe bombs and bomb-making material and several other weapons. She admits constructing the devices to harm people. Police were notified of the problem by the 27-year-old's parents.
city of the United Kingdom, capital of Northern Ireland
Gunmen kill 16 people after they refused to help buy them ammunition.
It is suspected that six of the victims are Vietnamese nationals.
military intervention against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Though the margin is lower than what opinion polls predicted, Alberto Fernández of the left-wing Justicialist Party beats incumbent Mauricio Macri of the center-right Republican Proposal.
aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy
According to a later statement, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and government authorities ordered officers to let Guzmán López go free to avoid a "bloodbath" and "preserve the lives of our officers and bring calm back to the city".
Police say they have "lost control" of the city of Nassiriya after exchanging gunfire with protesters.
city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States of America
lower house in the Parliament of the United Kingdom
The Foreign Minister of New Zealand Winston Peters accuses the United Kingdom of "walking out" on Pacific aid to small island nations.
cabinet whose political party or coalition of parties does not have a majority in the parliament
Protests started after a price hike in the most expensive subway system in Latin America.
nominating process of candidates for United States presidential elections
At least 20 North Koreans are pulled from the water.
UK clothing retailer Bonmarché collapses into administration.
As protests enter its eighth day, President Michel Aoun in a televised address states he is willing to meet with protestors and offers support for various reforms, such as increasing transparency for banks and lifting immunity for government officials.
1968 legislation by the Brazilian military government
military campaign against Islamist extremist militant groups in Syria by USA, Bahrain, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE
Thirteen men are arrested in the United Kingdom for drug smuggling.
country in Northwestern Europe with territories in the Caribbean
police of the People's Republic of China
Prime Minister Saad Hariri gives his government 72 hours to resolve the country's worsening economic crisis.
United Nations Climate Change Conference
At least two people are killed and 200 are injured at protests against unemployment and government corruption in Iraq.
A 32-year-old Syrian man rams a stolen truck into eight cars in Limburg an der Lahn, Hesse, causing eight injuries.
United States government investigative agency for civil transportation accidents
U.S. military operation in Barisha, Syria
proposed EU-UK agreement for implementing Brexit
This means abortion is decriminalized in Northern Ireland, and same-sex marriage is scheduled to commence in February 2020.
vice president of the United States from 2017 to 2021
Michael Baden, a medical examiner who observed the autopsy of Jeffrey Epstein, says that it shows signs consistent with homicide.
Russian-British lord and newspaper owner
Search efforts are underway for others who could be trapped.
There is universal suffrage for all citizens age 18 and over. Before the 1989 revolution, the Communist Party of Romania was enshrined as the only legal political party and the leading force in Romanian society.
led by the Prime Minister who is appointed by the King
The fourth night of violence in the streets of Catalonia in protest of the sentence of the Catalan independence leaders leaves 33 arrested and 80 injures.
Following the ban, police cleared a protester camp occupying Trafalgar Square.
actions to limit climate change in order to reduce the risks of global warming
formal procedure of investigating an important matter
written prose piece in a publication expressing the opinion of an author or entity
performs the diplomatic relations of the Argentine Republic with other countries
Washington State authorities find a crane collapse earlier this year in Seattle was caused when workers removed securing pins too early during the crane's dismantling. Four people were killed in the accident. Three firms are issued fines.
clothing retailer based in Wakefield, West Yorkshire
A cargo plane carrying presidential staff crashes in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing all eight passengers and crew onboard.
He was arrested under the Mental Health Act.
American multinational nonprofit news agency
Authorities believe they were part of a cybercrime ring involved in illegal gambling, hacking and identity theft, among other activities.
At least 42 people were killed during a landslide caused by torrential rainfall in the city of Bafoussam, Cameroon. Twenty-six of the victims are children.
An improvised explosive device detonates in a partially constructed building in Bati Kot, Afghanistan.
While U.S. President Donald Trump states the ceasefire is permanent, he threatens to reinstate the sanctions if "something happens that we are not happy with".
He however states that changes “can only happen through state institutions" in response to calls to bring down the government.
American businessman and associate of Rudy Giuliani
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to Peter J. Ratcliffe, William Kaelin Jr.
The Saudi Ports Authority confirms an incident with a tanker near the port of Jeddah overnight.
A man stabs five people at the central police headquarters in the French capital of Paris, killing three officers and an administrative worker.
Head of State of the Republic of Tunisia.
situation where the employee is expected to leave the employer within a certain period of time
declaration that a deceased person is an officially recognized saint
That bomb killed one person and injured five others.
political party in Switzerland (SVP/UDC)
A seven-storey apartment block collapses in Fortaleza, Brazil.
A military spokesperson says ten, including a child, were killed and a further 27 wounded.
form of Internet-based computing, whereby shared resources, software and information are provided to computers and other devices
village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, UK
The government imposes near-total internet blackout.
The Afghan army, together with its international partners, launch a series of counterterrorism airstrikes in Kandahar, Uruzgan and Zabul, killing 58, including a Taliban governor.
The International Organization for Migration states the boat had departed from Tunisia.
A South Korean serial killer who was convicted of killing his sister-in-law in 1994 and who later confessed to be the perpetrator of the Hwaseong serial murders.
A man stabs five people at the central police headquarters in the French capital of Paris, killing three officers and an administrative worker. The attacker, who was shot dead by other officers, was an admin worker at the station.
offices held over time by the head of government of Germany
Both entities will be directly governed from New Delhi.
Before the results were halted, incumbent President Evo Morales held 45 percent of the vote and former President Carlos Mesa held 38 percent.
Japanese imperial abdication and transition
subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms on a metered pay-as-you-go basis
series of agreements to stop the war in Donbas
The uncrewed Boeing X-37B spacecraft returns to Earth after spending a record 780 days in orbit. The nature of the X-37B's mission remains classified information.
United States federal executive department
international human rights advocacy and research NGO based in New York City
industrial sector which manufactures weapons and military technology and equipment
The protests started on Wednesday when protestors accused Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of acting dictatorial, but they quickly degenerated into ethnic clashes.
municipality in the Netherlands, seat of the Dutch government
The vehicle landed near the Martian equator in November 2018.
sea located east and northeast of the Philippines
dtstart: 2019-10-01 00:00:00 Date: 1 October 2019 – 24 July 2021 (Occasional protests until 5 November 2021)
Ex President of the National Assembly of Venezuela.
surgical procedure that consists of a thorough examination of a corpse
Power companies are scheduled to cut supplies for a million people today, doubling the size of what is already the biggest blackout in California history in a bid to prevent further fires igniting from damaged electric cables.
maritime security organization of a particular country
head of state and head of government of Venezuela
attack in which the attacker knows they will die
Period of major social and civil unrest in Chile.
115th edition of Major League Baseball's championship series
latest phase of the conflict which started after the escalation in 2015
a less serious offence than murder, the differential being between levels of fault.
The Chicago Teachers Union 2019 strike extends into its seventh schoolday, on-par with its 2012 strike.
The accusation surprised British officials.
The same university was targeted last month with a bomb attached to a university minibus.
Canadian federal political party active only in Quebec
Following the resignation of Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj in July, voters in Kosovo cast their ballots to elect the new members of the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo.
the protection of computer systems and networks from theft, damage, زmisuse or data leak
Terminal 2, Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport, Broward County, Florida, United States
uniformed police force responsible for the enforcement of civil law in Iraq
international airport serving Kandahar, Afghanistan
centre-right to right-wing political party in Canada
protests against electoral fraud allegations in the 2019 Bolivian elections
conflict over the Kashmir region between India, Pakistan and China
United States civil space and aeronautics agency
Opinion polling for the 2019 Portuguese legislative election
President Donald Trump, ordering him to release eight years of state tax returns to New York officials.
document for use in the reporting of tax information to the government or to potential taxpayers
general election held in the United Kingdom
The government of Hong Kong says the prohibition of face masks is needed to end months of violent protests.
primary national police force in Afghanistan
59th quadrennial U.S. presidential election
Senator Bernie Sanders suspends campaigning for the 2020 U.S. presidential election "until further notice" after the discovery of artery blockage during a medical evaluation for chest discomfort results in surgery.
American politician and activist (born 1941)
island sovereign state in the Caribbean Sea
measure of earthquake size, in terms of the energy released
Sunday, two people were killed in Guaynabo in the northern section of the San Juan metropolitan area.
has halted sharing aerial surveillance information with Turkey.
sovereign state in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia
A dam on the Seiba river in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, collapses, flooding a nearby gold mine and cabins used to house miners.
any crime that involves a computer and a network
city in Northeastern Brazil, state capital of Ceará
Drejka had cited Florida's stand-your-ground law in his defense and was not initially charged until the case was handed over to State Attorney Bernie McCabe, who charged Drejka with one count of manslaughter.
baseball team and Major League Baseball franchise in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
person or organization that has a right to a benefit
She admits constructing the devices to harm people.
The Supreme Court of the United States opens its 2019–2020 nine-month term with eight of its nine justices present.
The Northern Irish driver remains in police custody, suspected of murder.
pro-democracy demonstrations and other civil disobedience sparked by a proposed extradition bill in Hong Kong
ongoing political conflict over Catalan independence
As a result of the local government failing to reconvene in time, the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) Act 2019 comes into effect.
Voters in Tunisia go to the polls to elect a new president.
one of the six principal organs of the UN, charged with the maintenance of international peace and security
involvement of Turkey in the Syrian civil war
At the Old Bailey a UK jury convicts a British man who traveled to fight against the Islamic State of a terror offence for visiting a training camp used by the PKK.
wildfire that burned in Los Angeles County in October 2019
Jordan recalls its ambassador to Israel when the latter refuses to release two Jordanian citizens whom Foreign Affairs Minister Ayman Safadi says have been held illegally for months without charges.
city and administrative center of Rostov Oblast in southern Russia
Iraqi electoral coalition that includes Sadrist and secular parties
A Syrian man, thought to have been killed in Iraq in 2017, is sentenced to life in absentia.
Authorities in Slovakia charge four people with murdering investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée.
The U.S. State Department imposes visa restrictions on numerous Chinese government officials whom it believes responsible for the detention or abuse of Muslim Uighurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang province.
Police in South Korea receive confessions from convicted murderer Lee Chun-jae to the serial rapes and murders, which occurred between 1986 and 1991 and left at least nine dead.
Including Santiago, nine million people are under a state of emergency, equal to 52 percent of the country's population.
President of Niger Mahamadou Issoufou claims that American hostage Jeffery Ray Woodke is still alive and being held by a jihadist group affiliated with ISIL.
Nobel laureate in Literature & Austrian writer, playwright and film director
Political system of the Republic of Chile
killing of a human being by another human being. Use as value for "manner of death" (P1196)
internment camps in Xinjiang Province, China, established by the Chinese Communist Party
Josep Tarradellas Barcelona–El Prat Airport
international airport in Barcelona, Spain
campaign of Joe Biden for the election to President of the United States in 2020
More than fifty people, including the bus driver, have been injured; eight people have serious injuries.