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Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Crimea attacks
    • An oil terminal in Feodosia, the largest oil facility in Russian-occupied Crimea, catches fire following an overnight drone attack by Ukrainian forces. Russian state media reports a state of emergency has been declared in Feodosia due to a "human-made disaster". (Pravda)
  • Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • One person is killed and six others are wounded, including two children, in Russian shelling that hit several apartment buildings in Sloviansk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Reuters)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis launch missiles towards Tel Aviv, Israel, on the anniversary of the Hamas-led attack on Israel. (The Times of Israel) (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane Milton
    • Hurricane Milton intensifies into a Category 5 hurricane with a minimum central pressure of 905 millibars. (National Hurricane Center)
    • Pasco, Hillsborough, and Pinellas counties in Florida cancel school and order evacuations of residential healthcare facilities in preparation of the storm. (Tampa Bay Times)
• Ten people are killed and an unknown number of others are missing after a mine collapses in Central Province, Zambia. (AP)

Health and environment

• The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control reports more than 350 deaths caused by cholera in the country since January, over two times the amount in the same period last year. (DW)

International relations

• Philippines–South Korea relations
  • The Philippines and South Korea upgrade their relations to a strategic partnership during South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol's visit to Manila. (ABC News)

Politics and elections

• Israel–Hamas war protests
  • 2024 Israeli protests
    • Israelis protest nationwide against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with some setting off a siren outside his official residence. (NBC) (ABC)
  • Thousands of pro-Palestinian protests are held worldwide, marking one year since the Hamas-led attack on Israel. (Reuters)
• 2024 Georgian parliamentary election
  • The Georgian parliament initiates a motion to impeach the pro-Western Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili over accusations of unauthorized overseas visits, in advance of the 2024 election. (Reuters)
• 2024 Tunisian presidential election
  • Incumbent Tunisian President Kais Saied wins a second term in the presidential election with 90.7% of the vote. The Independent High Authority for Elections reports 28.8% voter turnout, the lowest since the 2011 Tunisian revolution. (Al Jazeera)
• Human rights in Pakistan
  • The Pakistani government bans the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement, a social movement for Pashtun human rights, calling the movement a "proscribed organization". (Al Jazeera)

Science and technology

• Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  • American biologists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun are awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation". (CNN)
• European Space Agency spacecraft Hera is successfully launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on a Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket by SpaceX. The spacecraft will study the asteroid 65803 Didymos and evaluate the impact of the earlier Double Asteroid Redirection Test. (Space News)

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