Armed conflicts and attacks
Business and economy
Disasters and accidents
International relations
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- Mali War
- Four suicide bombers attack a Malian military base in Bamba, Gao Region, killing an unknown number of people. (Africanews)
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2023 Russian elections
- Russia says its air defense systems has shot down two Ukrainian drones attempting to attack a polling station in Skadovsk, Kherson Oblast, as voting is under way. (Al Jazeera)
- 2022–2023 western Russia attacks
- Russia’s security services detain a man for plotting to blow up a railway in Crimea and collecting information on the deployment of Russian defense ministry facilities and units. (Al Jazeera)
- Bombing of Kryvyi Rih
- Four people are killed and 72 others are injured in a Russian missile strike on Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. (CNN International) (Reuters)
- Eastern Ukraine campaign, Southern Ukraine campaign
- Russia says it has repelled numerous attacks along the front line in Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia and inflicted hundreds of losses on Ukrainian forces. (Reuters)
- Ukraine accuses Elon Musk of allowing Russian forces to attack Ukrainian cities after it was revealed Starlink satellite communications interfered with a drone operation by disabling a communications network near the coast of the Russian-occupied Crimean peninsula as Ukrainian drones were approaching Russian warships resulting in lost connectivity. (Al Jazeera)
- 2023 Russian elections
Business and economy
- Petroleum industry in Russia
- Russia begins shipping crude oil to Brazil through Lukoil from Murmansk to Madre de Deus port, operated by Transpetro, a subsidiary of Petrobras. (Reuters)
- Spain has become more reliant on Russian natural gas, according to government data. Russia's market share of total imports increased to 28 percent in July, surpassing Algeria as Spain's second largest gas supplier. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- 2023 Pacific typhoon season
- Flooding occurs in Guangdong and Fujian province in southern China after Typhon Haikui makes landfall over the region. Rainfall in Hong Kong and Shenzhen reach record levels, the heaviest since meteorological records began in the cites. (Reuters)
- Aftermath of the 2023 Hawaii wildfires
- Hawaii state officials say that they plan to reopen the western area of Maui on October 8 from northward Kaanapali. (The Maui News)
International relations
- Armenia–Russia relations
- The Russian government summons the ambassador of Armenia to protest recent actions and statements undertaken by the Armenian government, amid a continuing of deterioration of relations between the two nations. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Corruption in Ukraine
- Tens of thousands of Ukrainians have signed a petition asking President Zelenskyy to veto asset declaration legislation critics believe hampers an effort to hold officials accountable by delaying a requirement to publicly declare their assets. (Reuters)
- Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau freezes more than $80m in assets belonging to Ihor Kolomoisky for 48 hours as part of an embezzlement investigation. (Reuters)
- One person is killed and five are injured when a car ploughs through pedestrians and two other vehicles in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The driver is arrested at the scene. (ABC News Australia)
Politics and elections
- 2023 Russian elections
- Russians head to the polls to elect the bodies of local government in the country. (Reuters)
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