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Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • An Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people in Gaza kills 28 people and injures 54 others. (AP)
  • Military aid to Israel during the Israel–Hamas war
    • Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz announces plans for Germany to supply Israel with a new shipment of weapons, and that the German government has agreed to continue shipments for at least the near future. (Euro News)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
    • An Israeli Merkava tank opens fire on a UNIFIL checkpoint in southern Lebanon, injuring two peacekeepers. Israeli troops also open fire on two other UN positions near the Blue Line, although no casualties are reported. (BBC News)
  • At least 22 people are killed in Israeli airstrikes on two different areas in central Beirut, Lebanon. (AP)
• Sudanese civil war
  • October 2024 Sudan airstrikes
    • Sudanese human rights group Emergency Lawyers reports that over 500 Sudanese civilians have been killed in airstrikes conducted by the Sudanese Armed Forces on multiple civilian areas held by the Rapid Support Forces. (Reuters) (Dabanga Sudan)
• Insurgency in Balochistan
  • At least twenty miners are killed and seven others are injured in an attack by unknown armed militants on a private coal mine in Duki District, Balochistan, Pakistan. (Reuters)
• Russo–Ukrainian war
  • The World Bank approves a new financial intermediary fund consisting of grants from the United States, Japan, Canada, and other countries coupled with interest from frozen Russian assets to give to Ukraine as part of a $50 billion loan. (Reuters)
  • Ukraine's Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War confirms the death of journalist Victoria Roshchyna who had been held prisoner by Russia since August 2023. (The Kyiv Independent)

Arts and culture

• Nobel Prize in Literature
  • This year's Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to South Korean writer Han Kang "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”. (Nobel Prize)

Disasters and accidents

• One person is killed and twelve others are trapped when an elevator fails at the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine in Cripple Creek, Colorado, United States. (Sky News)

Health and environment

• 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
  • At least ten people are killed in damages by tornadoes caused by Hurricane Milton in Florida, United States. (Reuters)
• In its annual Living Planet report, the World Wildlife Fund estimates that wild populations of animal species have decreased over 70% since 1970, with some high-biodiversity areas seeing up to 95% declines. (DW)

International relations

• Israel–Italy relations, Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni summons the Israeli ambassador to Italy after Israeli forces target bases manned by Italian peacekeepers in southern Lebanon. (CNN)

Law and crime

• Capital punishment in Malaysia, Murder of Shaariibuugiin Altantuyaa
  • The Federal Court of Malaysia commutes the death sentence of Azilah Hadri, one of Altantuyaa's murderers, to 40 years imprisonment. (CNA)
• Multiple Palestinian, Dutch, and Jewish human rights organizations sue the Dutch government for exporting weapons and military goods to Israel, thereby allegedly failing to prevent violations of the Genocide Convention and other war crimes in the Gaza Strip. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• War crimes in the Israel–Hamas war
  • United Nations human rights investigators accuse Israel of crimes against humanity and the crime of extermination by deliberately targeting health facilities and medical personnel in Gaza. (Al Jazeera)

Science and technology

• Tomb of Christopher Columbus
  • Researchers from the University of Granada confirm that bones lying in the Seville Cathedral in Seville, Andalusia, Spain, belonged to Christopher Columbus. (ABC Spain)
• The Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine are taken offline following a denial-of-service attack, with the hackers also stealing 31 million password hashes in a data breach. (Forbes)

Sports

• Erling Haaland becomes the all-time top goalscorer of the Norway national football team with 34 goals in the last 36 matches, beating Jørgen Juve's 1934 record of 33 goals. (Verdens Gang)

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