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Svante Pääbo
- Svante Pääbo (pictured) is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on human evolutionary genetics.
- In motorsport, Kalle Rovanperä wins the World Rally Championship, becoming its youngest champion at 22 years old.
- In Malang Regency, Indonesia, at least 131 people are killed in a human crush at an association football match.
- In Burkina Faso, a coup d'état led by Ibrahim Traore deposes interim president Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba.
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 the Russian Federation. (Reuters)
- 2022 Ukrainian southern counteroffensive
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Afghanistan conflict
- Four people killed and 25 others injured by a suicide bomber at a government ministry's mosque in Kabul. (Al Jazeera)
- Tigray War
- More than 50 people are killed in an Ethiopian Air Force airstrike on a school in La'ilay Adiyabo, Tigray Region, Ethiopia. (Reuters)
Business and economy
- Economy of Slovenia
- Unemployment hits a historic low in Slovenia, its lowest since the country's independence in 1991, despite a slowed economic growth. (Xinhua)
Disasters and accidents
- List of earthquakes in 2022
- A magnitude 5.6 earthquake strikes Khowy, West Azerbaijan, Iran, leaving 1,126 people injured. (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 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 the Tanzanian government is trying to violently evict them from their ancestral land to make way for a luxury game reserve, have lodged an appeal against a court ruling that dismissed their case. (The Guardian)
- The chief justice of the Supreme Court of Ukraine fires Bohdan Lvov, his deputy, for having dual Russian and Ukrainian citizenship. (Dzerkalo Tyzhnia)
Politics and elections
- 2022 Danish general election
- The prime minister of Denmark Mette Frederiksen calls a general election scheduled for 1 November 2022, thus avoiding a vote of no confidence. (The Guardian)
- The Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni, fires his son, Lt. Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, as the commander of national infantry forces, after the latter made a series of tweets expressing an irridentist claim to Nairobi, capital of neighbouring Kenya. (Associated Press)
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 state that they were not consulted over Saudi Arabian plans for $500bn desert Asian Winter Games and was in clear conflict with 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 legalises 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 injured after being shot by Palestinian militants near Elon Moreh in the West Bank. A demonstration by local Israeli settlers in protest at the incident is attacked with gunfire, injuring 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)
October 1, 2022 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Battle of Donbas
- Second Battle of Lyman
- Ukrainian troops recapture Lyman after weeks of fighting for the city and one day after the annexation of the Donetsk People's Republic to Russia. (The Guardian)
- The Ministry of Defence of Russia says that it has withdrawn troops from the town of Lyman due to "a threat of encirclement". (BBC News)
- After the defeat in Lyman, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, calls on the Russian government to introduce martial law and use low-yield nuclear weapons in Ukraine. (Moskovskij Komsomolets) (CNN) (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
- Second Battle of Lyman
- War crimes in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Attacks on civilians in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- A civilian convoy of seven cars attacked by Russian forces is discovered in Kupiansk Raion in Kharkiv Oblast with 24 people being killed, including a pregnant woman and 13 children, according to local governor Oleh Synyehubov. (Ukrainska Pravda)
- Attacks on civilians in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Battle of Donbas
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- An 18-year-old man is killed by Israeli soldiers in East Jerusalem, making him the 100th Palestinian killed in the West Bank this year. It is the deadliest toll of Palestinians killed there by Israeli's raids since 2015. (BBC News)
Disasters and accidents
- 2022 Atlantic hurricane season
- The death toll from Hurricane Ian increases to 84. (NBC News)
- Three people are killed and two others are injured after a helicopter crashes in Frontera, Tabasco, Mexico. (AP)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, Travel during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Canada formally ends all COVID-19 border measures, including vaccination requirements, pre-arrival testing, and quarantine, allowing all travellers to enter the country unrestricted without needing to submit public health information through the ArriveCAN government mobile app. (Global News)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, Travel during the COVID-19 pandemic
International relations
- United States–Venezuela relations
- Venezuela releases seven Americans from its custody, including five Citgo executives, in exchange for two nephews of Venezuelan First Lady Cilia Flores who had previously been convicted of drug smuggling in the United States. (Politico)
- Togolese Gilbert Houngbo becomes the new Director-General of the International Labour Organization, succeeding British Guy Ryder. (North Africa Report)
Law and crime
- 2022 Kanjuruhan Stadium disaster
- At least 125 people are killed in a human crush following the dispersal of riotors by tear gas. The riot occurred between supporters of Indonesian football teams Arema F.C. and Persebaya Surabaya at the Kanjuruhan Stadium in Malang Regency, East Java, Indonesia. (Al Jazeera)
- Kurdish separatism in Iran, Iran–Iraq relations
- Protests break out in Baghdad against Iranian involvement in the country following a series of missile and artillery strikes by the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps that killed dozens of civilians in Iraqi Kurdistan. (Iran International)
Politics and elections
- Mahsa Amini protests
- Protests enter a fifteenth day as large crowds and strikes are held at Iran's universities. (Iran International)
- Iranians around the world hold rallies in more than 160 cities in solidarity with protesters. (Euronews)
- 2022 Latvian parliamentary election
- Latvians head to the polls to elect members of the Saeima. (The Business Standard)
September 30, 2022 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- War crimes in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Attacks on civilians in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russian attack on civilian convoy in Zaporizhzhia
- Russian forces launch 16 missiles at areas near the city of Zaporizhzhia, including a gathering point for civilians preparing to cross into Russian-occupied territory, where at least 25 people are killed and 50 others are injured. (NBC News)
- Russian attack on civilian convoy in Zaporizhzhia
- Attacks on civilians in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Ukraine–NATO relations
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy requests fast-track NATO membership following the Russian annexation of Southern and Eastern Ukraine. (BBC News)
- 2022 Russian mobilization
- Uzbekistan says that it will not deport Russians fleeing conscription. (Reuters)
- War crimes in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Afghanistan conflict
- September 2022 Kabul school bombing
- Twenty-six people are killed and 56 others are injured by a suicide bomber at a school in Dashte Barchi, Kabul, Afghanistan. (CNN)
- September 2022 Kabul school bombing
- Papua conflict
- Four people are killed when armed rebels open fire on civilians in West Papua, Indonesia. (Reuters)
- September 2022 Burkina Faso coup d'état
- Junta leader Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba is removed from office in a coup d'état after gunfire in the Burkinabé capital of Ouagadougou. Coup leader Ibrahim Traore imposes a curfew, suspends all political civil society activities as well as the Constitution, and closes all land and air borders. (AP) (France24)
- Mahsa Amini protests
- Nineteen people are killed and 32 more injured as separatist gunmen attack a police station and open fire in Zahedan, Iran. (Al Jazeera)
Business and economy
- 2021–2022 inflation surge, Economy of the Netherlands
- Inflation in the Netherlands increases to 17% amid a substantial increase in energy and fuel prices. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- 2022 Atlantic hurricane season
- Hurricane Ian makes its fourth landfall in South Carolina, after devastating portions of Florida and Cuba. (National Hurricane Center)
- Two people are killed and 25 others are injured by a 5.9 magnitude earthquake in Northern Sumatra, Indonesia. (Reuters)
- Eight people are killed and three others are missing after flooding in Tachira, Venezuela. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- Russian annexation of Southern and Eastern Ukraine
- Russian president Vladimir Putin signs accession treaties to annex the occupied Ukrainian territories to Russia. However, the accession treaties must be ratified by both houses of the Russian parliament before becoming effective under Russian law. (Reuters) (Reuters 2)
- Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador confirms that the Mexican Secretariat of National Defense was hacked and that leaked data included information about the president's health issues and other national security issues. (Proceso)
September 29, 2022 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- War crimes in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Attacks on civilians in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russian forces strike a residential neighborhood in Dnipro with a cruise missile, killing a family of four, including two children, and injuring 18 other civilians, according to local authorities. (Ukrinform) (Ukrainska Pravda)
- Three people are killed and 12 others are injured by a Russian cluster munition attack on a bus stop in Mykolaiv, according to mayor Oleksandr Sienkievych. (Ukrainska Pravda)
- Attacks on civilians in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Russian emigration following the 2022 invasion of Ukraine
- Finland announces that it will deny entry to Russian tourists beginning on Thursday night, thereby cutting off the last direct link between Russia and the European Union. (Reuters)
- War crimes in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Kurdish–Iranian conflict
- Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launches ballistic missiles at Erbil, the capital of Iraq's Kurdistan Region, killing nine civilians and injuring 32 others. The Iraqi Foreign Ministry says that it will summon the Iranian ambassador in response to the attacks. (RFE/RL)
Disasters and accidents
- 2022 Atlantic hurricane season
- Hurricane Ian
- A section of the Sanibel Causeway in Florida, United States, collapses following damage from Ian, blocking access to the islands of Sanibel and Captiva. (Tampa Bay Times) (WTVJ-TV)
- Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announces that the state has launched efforts to rescue people stranded from their homes by flooding from Ian. Additionally, President Joe Biden declares Ian a major disaster. (Politico)
- The death toll from the hurricane increases to at least 17. (CNN)
- Hurricane Ian
- 2022 Nord Stream gas leaks
- Swedish authorities report a fourth gas leak from the Nord Stream pipelines. (Sky News)
- Russian President Vladimir Putin calls the Nord Stream gas leaks "an unprecedented act of international terrorism". (RBK)
- One person is dead after a fire breaks out at an election agency in Asunción, Paraguay. (Reuters)
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
- COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia
- COVID-19 vaccination in Indonesia
- Indonesia grants approval for the first Chinese mRNA vaccine against COVID-19, the Walvax COVID-19 vaccine. (Reuters)
- COVID-19 vaccination in Indonesia
- COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan
- Taiwan announces that it will end the mandatory quarantine of visitors on October 13 and will also restore temporarily suspended visa-free travel for countries that had a relevant agreement with the island. (The Straits Times)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia
- COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
International relations
- Foreign relations of Nicaragua
- Bettina Muscheidt, the European Union ambassador to Nicaragua, is declared persona non grata, presumably due to her criticism of undemocratic policies of President Daniel Ortega. (Euractiv)
- Montenegro–Russia relations
Law and crime
- Abortion in India
- The Supreme Court of India strikes down a portion of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act that forbade unmarried women from having an abortion, thus legalising the procedure for all women until the 24th week of pregnancy. The ruling also notes that forcing a woman to carry the child could constitute marital rape, which is not, however, recognised as an offence in India. (Al Jazeera)
- Aung San Suu Kyi, the ousted leader of Myanmar, is sentenced to a further three years' imprisonment for "violating the state's secrets act". She is already serving 20 years on other charges. (AP)
- The Catholic Church reveals that it disciplined Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, an East Timorese minister and former bishop who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1996, over allegations of sexual abuse of teenage boys committed in the early 1990s. (Reuters)
- The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda begins the trial of Félicien Kabuga, one of the richest Rwandan businessmen in the 1990s who is implicated in the Rwandan genocide. Kabuga pleads not guilty and does not appear on the first day of the proceedings. (BBC News)
- The European Commission sues Malta in the European Court of Justice, seeking to end the country's "golden passport" scheme, which is the only such scheme still active in the EU. This scheme allows large investors to be granted Maltese citizenship, and by extension, citizenship of the European Union. (Bloomberg)
Politics and elections
- Annexation of Southern and Eastern Ukraine
- Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov says that the Kremlin is scheduled to sign agreements on the annexation of the occupied territories of Ukraine by Russia on September 30. (Forbes)
- President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy announces that he will convene an urgent meeting of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine on September 30. (Ukrainska Pravda)
- Russian President Vladimir Putin signs a decree recognizing the "independence" of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia Oblasts, which were proclaimed yesterday. (The Guardian) (RIA Novosti)
- 2022 Nauruan parliamentary election
- Russ Kun is inaugurated as President of Nauru following the general election on 24 September. (Radio New Zealand)
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