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October 2025

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  1. Fri31Moldova's parliament appoints Alexandru Munteanu as prime minister following the victory of President Maia Sandu's Party of Action and Solidarity in…
  2. Thu30In the United Kingdom, King Charles III begins the formal process of revoking Prince Andrew's royal title due to his dealings with deceased convicted…
  3. Wed29In the Netherlands, a snap election is held following the collapse of the Schoof cabinet in June.
  4. Tue28Hurricane Melissa makes landfall in Westmoreland parish, southwest Jamaica, as a Category 5 hurricane with 185 mph sustained winds.
  5. Mon27Hurricane Melissa reaches Category 5 intensity on its approach to Jamaica.
  6. Sun26At least 13 people are killed and 29 others are injured when a bus collides with a car and plunges off of a bridge into a stream in Puerto Iguazú…
  7. Sat25Independent candidate Catherine Connolly is declared winner of yesterday's election of the President of Ireland, after Fine Gael candidate Heather…
  8. Fri24At least four people are killed in Haiti and the Dominican Republic by Tropical Storm Melissa.
  9. Thu23More than 30 people are arrested by United States law enforcement as part of an investigation into illegal gambling linked to the American mafia…
  10. Wed22Four people are killed when a Robinson R66 helicopter crashes near Ekalaka, Montana, United States.
  11. Tue21Sanae Takaichi is elected as Japan's first female prime minister by the House of Representatives after her party, the Liberal Democratic Party…
  12. Mon20At least one person is killed and four others are critically injured when a tornado hits the Ermont commune in Val-d'Oise, Île-de-France, France.
  13. Sun19Centrist candidate Rodrigo Paz Pereira of the Christian Democratic Party defeats independent right-wing candidate and former president Jorge Quiroga…
  14. Sat18The bodies of two deceased hostages were returned to Israel via the custody of the Red Cross from Hamas, the two hostages' names were Sgt. Maj…
  15. Fri17Israelis fire at a vehicle carrying a displaced family in Gaza City, killing eleven Palestinians, including seven children. The IDF claims it crossed…
  16. Thu16At least three Palestinians are killed in Gaza by Israeli troops, bringing the total to at least 23 people killed by Israel since the start of the…
  17. Wed15Ten people are killed and 21 others are injured, including four critically, in an explosion on a crude palm oil tanker docked at a shipyard on Batam…
  18. Tue14In association football, the South Africa soccer team qualifies for the upcoming FIFA World Cup following a 3-0 win against Rwanda. This will be…
  19. Mon13Heads of government of 30 countries and leaders of several major international organisations gather in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt to discuss the next…
  20. Sun12In tennis, Monégasque player Valentin Vacherot, who was ranked 204th on the ATP rankings, defeats his cousin Arthur Rinderknech in the Shanghai…
  21. Sat11British musician Ian Watkins of the band Lostprophets is killed in HM Prison Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England, where he was imprisoned for sexual…
  22. Fri10Venezuelan activist María Corina Machado is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her promotion of democratic rights in Venezuela.
  23. Thu9Hungarian novelist and screenwriter László Krasznahorkai wins this year's Nobel Prize in Literature "for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in…
  24. Wed8Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar Yaghi are jointly awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on metal–organic frameworks.
  25. Tue7Iris Stalzer, the mayor-elect of Herdecke, Germany, is left in a critical condition. She has told investigators it was her 17-year-old adoptive…
  26. Mon6A teachers' strike in Alberta begins, making 51,000 teachers off-work and affects more than 700,000 students. Thousands rally across Alberta to…
  27. Sun5A court in Mexico formally indicts footballer Omar Bravo with the aggravated child sexual abuse of a teenage girl following his arrest in Zapopan…
  28. Sat4Sanae Takaichi defeats Shinjiro Koizumi in a runoff election to become the next president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and prime…
  29. Fri3Bishop of London Sarah Mullally is announced as the new archbishop of Canterbury, becoming the first woman to lead the Church of England and the…
  30. Thu2Israel intercepts the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters and detains hundreds of activists from 44 countries carrying humanitarian aid…
  31. Wed1A federal government shutdown occurs in the United States after a funding bill fails to be passed, the first government shutdown since January 2019.