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Annie Ernaux
- Annie Ernaux (pictured) is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- At least 36 people, mostly children, are killed in an attack at a nursery in Nong Bua Lamphu province, Thailand.
- Svante Pääbo is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on human evolutionary genetics.
- Ethiopian Yalemzerf Yehualaw and Kenyan Amos Kipruto win the London Marathon women's and men's races.
October 8, 2022 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022 Crimean Bridge explosion
- The Kerch Strait Bridge suffers several explosions, resulting in a fire and the partial collapse of a road section. Three people are killed. The cause is currently unknown, with a Russian investigative committee claiming the cause to be the explosion of a truck bomb. (The Guardian)
- 2022 Crimean Bridge explosion
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Disasters and accidents
- At least 12 people are killed and 30 others are injured after a bus collides with a diesel tanker and catches fire in Nashik, Maharashtra, India. (Reuters)
- Flash floods leave at least four people dead and thousands of crop hectares inundated across Cambodia, according to prime minister Hun Sen. (Xinhua)
International relations
- Mahsa Amini protests
- The Netherlands and France order their respective citizens to leave Iran. (Iranintl)
Law and crime
- Iran–Ukraine relations
- The Ukrainian immigration center denies extending visas to Iranian students in retaliation for Russia using Iranian drones during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Middle East Eye)
- All rail traffic in northern Germany is suspended for nearly three hours in the morning after vital cables for the rail were found cut. Deutsche Bahn blames sabotage and German Federal Police have launched an investigation. (Al Jazeera)
October 7, 2022 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Communist rebellion in the Philippines
- Two soldiers are killed and three civilians are injured in clashes between the military and the New People's Army in Eastern Samar, Philippines. (Xinhua)
- Somali Civil War
- The Somali Armed Forces kill 19 al-Shabaab militants in Bal'ad, Middle Shabelle, in a repelled attack amid ongoing operations against the jihadist group. (allAfrica)
- The defense ministry of Djibouti reports that seven soldiers of the Djibouti Armed Forces have been killed in the north of the country. The government blames the Armed Front for the Restoration and Democracy rebel group for the attack. (Al Jazeera)
Arts and culture
- 2022 Nobel Peace Prize
- Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski, the Russian human rights society Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organization The Center for Civil Liberties are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. (DW)
- Eurovision Song Contest 2023
- Liverpool is selected as the host city of next year's Eurovision Song Contest. (BBC News)
Disasters and accidents
- Creeslough explosion
- Ten people are killed, eight others are injured, and others remain trapped under rubble after an explosion at an Applegreen petrol station in the village of Creeslough, County Donegal, Ireland. (BBC News)
International relations
- Mahsa Amini protests
- Canada–Iran relations
- The Canadian government permanently bans 10,000 IRGC members from Canada. (Iranintl) (CTV News)
- Denmark–Iran relations
- An armed intruder damages several vehicles in the parking lot of the Iranian embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian criticizes the Danish police for not providing adequate protection for the embassy. (Tasnim) (Bloomberg)
- Canada–Iran relations
Politics and elections
- 2022 Lesotho general election
- Citizens in Lesotho head to the polls to elect the 120 members of the National Assembly. (Reuters)
October 6, 2022 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Attacks on civilians in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russian forces shell residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia, killing at least three people, injuring twelve others, and causing widespread fires. (Reuters)
- Attacks on civilians in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- War against the Islamic State
- American-led intervention in the Syrian civil war
- A United States Air Force airstrike and helicopter raid kill two senior Islamic State leaders in Qamishli, Syria, including the Islamic State's deputy leader in Syria. CENTCOM says that no civilians nor any U.S. military personnel were killed or injured in the operation. (CNN)
- American-led intervention in the Syrian civil war
- Tigray War
- An airstrike kills at least five people and injures 37 others in Tigray Region, Ethiopia. (Reuters)
Arts and culture
- 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature
- French author Annie Ernaux is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for "the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory". (Reuters)
- The Irish Dancing Commission, Ireland's governing body for Irish dancing, appoints a former judge to investigate claims of prominent dance schools and teachers fixing competitions. (The Guardian)
Business and economy
- 2021–2022 inflation surge
- Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko bans price increases as part of an effort to reduce inflation in the country. (The Moscow Times)
Disasters and accidents
- 2022 Atlantic hurricane season
- Hurricane Ian's death toll increases to 130, with 125 deaths in the United States and five in Cuba, making it the 24th deadliest hurricane in US history. (CNN)
- European migrant crisis
- At least 15 people are killed and 20 others are missing after a boat carrying migrants sinks off the eastern coast of the Greek island of Lesbos. Five others have been rescued. (CNA)
- Sixteen people are killed and 20 others are injured when a bus overturns in Bara District, Nepal. (Xinhua)
Health and environment
- 2022 monkeypox outbreak
- Mozambique reports its first case of monkeypox. (The Star)
Law and crime
- War on drugs
- U.S. President Joe Biden announces that he will pardon anyone who was convicted on prior federal charges, or who was convicted in the District of Columbia, for marijuana possession. (CNBC)
- 2022 Nong Bua Lamphu attack
- At least 36 people, including 24 children, are killed and 10 others injured by a dismissed policeman in a mass shooting, which started at a daycare centre in Na Klang district, Thailand. The perpetrator later commits suicide after killing his family at his home. (AP)
- 2022 Las Vegas Strip stabbing spree
- Two people are killed and six others are injured, three of them critically, in a mass stabbing on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, United States. (KTNV-TV)
- Iran's IRIB broadcasts purported confessions from two French citizens accused of espionage. This broadcast comes in the context of the Mahsa Amini protests which began in September as well as the claim by the Iranian government that the protests are an attempt by France and other countries such as the United States and Israel to overthrow the current Iranian Islamic government. (The Washington Post)
October 5, 2022 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022 Ukrainian southern counteroffensive
- Ukrainian troops recapture the strategic village of Dudchany on the west bank of the Dnieper following the withdrawal of Russian forces. (Al Jazeera)
- Annexation of Southern and Eastern Ukraine
- Russian President Vladimir Putin signs a law formally annexing the Donetsk People's Republic, Luhansk People's Republic, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia into Russia. (Reuters)
- 2022 Ukrainian southern counteroffensive
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Tigray War
- Adi Daero school airstrike
- More than 50 people are killed in an Ethiopian Air Force airstrike on a school being used as an IDP camp in La'ilay Adiyabo, Tigray Region, Ethiopia. (Reuters)
- Adi Daero school airstrike
- Mexican drug war
- Eighteen people are killed, including the town's mayor, and three others injured, in a mass shooting by the Los Tequileros drug gang at the town hall in San Miguel Totolapan, Guerrero, Mexico. (BBC)
- Afghanistan conflict
- Four people are killed and 25 others are injured by a suicide bomber at a government ministry's mosque in Kabul. (Al Jazeera)
- Abuja–Kaduna train attack
- The Nigerian military says it has secured the release of the last 23 passengers taken hostage in late March. (Reuters)
- Central African Republic Civil War
- Three United Nations peacekeepers from Bangladesh are killed in a bombing while on patrol in the Central African Republic on Monday. (Reuters)
Business and economy
- Unemployment reaches a record low in Slovenia, the lowest since the country's independence in 1991, despite a slowed economic growth. (Xinhua)
Disasters and accidents
- 2022 Atlantic hurricane season
- The bridge connecting Pine Island in Lee County, Florida, reopens to the public after undergoing repairs from damage caused by Hurricane Ian. (Wink News)
- 2022 West Azerbaijan earthquake
- A magnitude 5.6 earthquake strikes Khowy, West Azerbaijan, Iran, while no deaths were reported around 1,000 people suffered some degrees of injuries. (Reuters)
- One person is killed and 2 others are injured by a magnitude 5.8 earthquake in Piura, Peru. (Reuters)
- Twenty-five people are killed and over a dozen others are injured when a bus falls from a mountainous road into a gorge in Uttarakhand, India. (CNA)
Law and crime
- Lawyers for Maasai herders, who say that the Tanzanian government is trying to violently evict them from their ancestral land in order to make way for a luxury game reserve, have filed an appeal against a court ruling that dismissed their case. (The Guardian)
- The chief justice of the Supreme Court of Ukraine fires his deputy Bohdan Lvov for having dual Russian and Ukrainian citizenship. (Dzerkalo Tyzhnia)
Politics and elections
- 2022 Danish general election
- Prime minister of Denmark Mette Frederiksen calls a general election for 1 November, thereby avoiding a vote of no confidence. (The Guardian)
- Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni fires his son Lt. Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba as commander of the national infantry forces after Kainerugaba made a series of tweets threatening to capture Nairobi, the capital of neighbouring Kenya. (AP)
Science and technology
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Americans Carolyn R. Bertozzi and Karl Barry Sharpless, and Dane Morten P. Meldal are jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry". (Reuters)
Sports
- Carlsen–Niemann controversy
- A Chess.com investigation finds that Hans Niemann probably cheated in more than 100 chess games. (The Guardian)
- 2029 Asian Winter Games
- The IOC states that they were not consulted over Saudi Arabian plans for the $500 billion desert Asian Winter Games and that this was in clear conflict with their policy of using existing arenas. (The Guardian)
October 4, 2022 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Colombian conflict
- Colombian peace process
- The Government of Colombia and the National Liberation Army (ELN) announce the resumption of peace talks in Caracas, Venezuela. (Reuters)
- Colombian peace process
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Annexation of Southern and Eastern Ukraine
- The Federation Council of Russia unanimously approves the annexation of Ukraine's Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions. The annexation documents will now receive final signing by President Vladimir Putin. (Reuters)
- 2022 Ukrainian southern counteroffensive
- Ukraine's 35th Marine Brigade recaptures the village of Davydiv Brid in Beryslav Raion, Kherson Oblast, as it continues its ground offensive. The Ukrainian Interior Ministry says that around 3,500 citizens have been freed from Russian occupation in recent days. (BBC News)
- Annexation of Southern and Eastern Ukraine
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Business and economy
- The European Union adds The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands to its tax haven blacklist, while Bermuda is removed from the list and Anguilla is named a "non-cooperative jurisdiction". (Caribbean News)
Disasters and accidents
- 2022 Atlantic hurricane season
- The U.S. death toll from Hurricane Ian increases to 109, including 105 in Florida. (CNN)
- Bangladesh suffers a severe power grid failure, leaving 80 percent of the country without electricity, according to the Bangladesh Power Development Board. (NDTV)
- Two people are killed and 10 others injured after a plane crashes in Gao, Gao Region, Mali. (Reuters)
- Ten people are killed and 11 others are reported missing after an avalanche in Draupadi ka Danda, Uttarakhand, India. (AP)
Law and crime
- Same-sex marriage in Slovenia
- The Slovenian National Assembly codifies the legalization of same-sex marriage and adoption for same-sex couples. (Barron's)
Science and technology
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- Alain Aspect of France, John Clauser of the U.S., and Anton Zeilinger of Austria are jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for "experiments with entangled photons, establishing the validity of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science". (CNN)
- Coverage of Google Street View
- Rwanda is added to Google Street View. (Virtual Streets)
October 3, 2022 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022 Ukrainian southern counteroffensive
- Ukrainian forces advance more than 20 kilometres (12 mi) along the Dnieper towards Dudchany, Kherson Oblast, in what is being called a "major breakthrough". (Reuters)
- The Russian Defence Ministry dismisses Colonel General Alexander Zhuravlyov in response to a series of military defeats in Ukraine. He is replaced as commander of the Western Military District by Major General Roman Berdnikov. (Reuters)
- 2022 Ukrainian southern counteroffensive
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Somali Civil War
- October 2022 Beledweyne bombings
- Twenty people are killed and 36 others are injured by two al-Shabaab suicide bombers at the local government headquarters in Beledweyne. The health minister of Hirshabelle and Hiran's deputy governor for finance and security are among the dead. (AP) (Shabelle Media Network)
- October 2022 Beledweyne bombings
- 2021–2022 North Korean missile tests
- North Korea launches a suspected ballistic missile towards Japan with the Japanese government warning residents in Hokkaido and Aomori prefectures to immediately seek shelter. It later landed in the Pacific. The launch comes after a series of balloon launches and placard protests from South Korea and various military exercises involving the US. (Bloomberg) (WNYT-TV) (BBC News)
- Ten people are injured when a homemade explosive device explodes in Butembo, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Reuters)
Business and economy
- American wiki hosting service Fandom purchases numerous entertainment and review sites, such as TV Guide, Metacritic, and GameSpot, for US$50 million. (Variety)
Disasters and accidents
- 2022 Atlantic hurricane season
- The U.S. death toll from Hurricane Ian increases to 87, with around 10,000 people remaining unaccounted for. (NBC News) (The Guardian)
- 2022 Pacific hurricane season
- Hurricane Orlene makes landfall in the Mexican state of Sinaloa as a Category 1 hurricane. (Reuters)
Health and environment
- North Korea restricts movement due to COVID-19. The announcement was made minutes after it launched a missile over Japan. (RFA)
Law and crime
- 2022 Ecuador prison riots
- Fifteen people are killed and 21 others injured by a prison riot in Latacunga, Cotopaxi Province, Ecuador. (Reuters)
- Agriculture in Kenya
- The Cabinet of Kenya votes to overturn a law prohibiting the open cultivation of genetically modified crops, and William Ruto officially authorizes the use of genetically modified maize. (AP)
Science and technology
- 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Swedish geneticist Svante Pääbo is awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for "his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution". (The Washington Post)
October 2, 2022 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022 Ukrainian southern counteroffensive
- Ukrainian troops recapture Khreshchenivka as they continue to advance southwards in the Russian-occupied Kherson Oblast, with Russia's 49th Combined Arms Army reportedly withdrawing some troops from the frontline to Beryslav. (Forbes)
- 2022 Ukrainian southern counteroffensive
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- A taxi driver is shot and wounded by Palestinian militants near Elon Moreh in the West Bank. A demonstration by local Israeli settlers to protest the incident is attacked with gunfire, wounding a soldier. A Palestinian group called The Lion's Den claims responsibility for the incident. (Times of Israel) (Times of Israel 2)
- September 2022 Armenia–Azerbaijan clashes
- A video emerges showing Azerbaijani soldiers executing unarmed Armenian prisoners of war during clashes between Azerbaijan and Armenia last month. (South China Morning Post)
- Second Libyan Civil War
- A mass grave of 42 people is found in Sirte, Libya, after arrested Islamic State militants tip off authorities. (AP)
Disasters and accidents
- 2022 Atlantic hurricane season
- The death from Hurricane Ian rises to 87. (NBC News)
- Twenty-six people are killed and ten others are injured when a tractor pulling a wagon with around 40 people on board overturns into a pond in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. (AP)
Health and environment
- Haitian authorities announce an unexpected resurgence of cholera in the country and report that at least seven people have died from the disease. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Mahsa Amini protests
- A stand-off ensues between students, protesters, and Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces in and around the Sharif University of Tehran, as gunfire is reported amid an apparent siege of the building. (BBC News)
Politics and elections
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Annexation of Southern and Eastern Ukraine
- The Constitutional Court of Russia says that the annexation is constitutional, citing the need to correct the "arbitrary decisions of the Soviet government" and to prevent the claimed widespread repression of the Russians in Ukraine. It was later also clarified that the borders of the annexed subjects are intended to be those at the time of annexation. (RBC Russia)
- Annexation of Southern and Eastern Ukraine
- 2022 Brazilian general election
- Brazilians head to the polls to elect their president, vice president, and National Congress. (The Washington Post)
- Incumbent president Jair Bolsonaro and former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will face off in a runoff election on October 30. Lula obtained 48.3% of the vote, Bolsonaro 43.3%. (The Washington Post)
- 2022 Bulgarian parliamentary election
- Bulgarians head to the polls for the fourth time in 18 months to elect members of the National Assembly. (Al Jazeera)
- 2022 Bosnian general election
Sports
- 2022 Singapore Grand Prix
- Sergio Pérez wins the F1 Singapore GP as his teammate Max Verstappen missed the chance to win the championship. (The Guardian)
- 2022 London Marathon
- Yalemzerf Yehualaw of Ethiopia becomes the youngest woman to win the London Marathon while Amos Kipruto of Kenya wins the men's race. (The Guardian)
- In horse racing, Alpinista wins the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France. (The Guardian)
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