The day
Sunday 4 October 2026
17 stories, biggest first.
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News2026 Yemen offensives
The Houthis take control of Al-Turbah, Yemen, after government troops withdrew earlier in the day. This is the first time the Houthis have held Al-Turbah since the war began.
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News
The United States Coast Guard suspends the search for the Latitude Air Ambulance Gulfstream G100 aircraft that went missing yesterday with six passengers on board after finding a debris field in the ocean south of Nantucket, Massachussetts. All six passengers, including four Canadian pilots and crew and two Bermudian passengers, are presumed dead.
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CrimeChinese espionage in the United States
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation arrests a 34-year-old Chinese American woman at Los Angeles International Airport in California for allegedly acting as an unregistered Chinese agent and surveilling Taiwanese president Lai Ching-te's son and family in the United States.
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Crime2026 Vienna
Two people are killed and at least 35 are injured in a mass shooting during a homecoming block party in Vienna, Georgia, United States.
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News2026 Ethiopian offensive
A drone strikes a displacement camp in Sheraro, Tigray Region, killing at least eight people, including a child, and seriously injuring six others.
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Science
A lab worker in Russia's Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute in Shelekhov, Irkutsk Oblast, Siberia, dies from a pneumonic plague caused by Yersinia pestis, with nearly 200 workers in quarantine.
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Sport2034 FIFA World Cup
It is reported that Saudi Arabia has cancelled plans for the proposed NEOM Stadium in The Line, Neom, for the upcoming 2034 FIFA World Cup in the country.
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News2026 Ethiopian offensive
Ethiopian forces capture Mekelle, the capital of the Tigray Region, after the withdrawal of the Tigray People's Liberation Front.
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NewsWar crimes in the Sudanese civil war
The World Food Programme reports an airstrike on a United Nations truck in South Kordofan, Sudan, that killed the driver.
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NewsUnited States strikes on alleged drug traffickers during Operation Southern Spear
Four people are killed in an American airstrike against an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea.
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Politics2026 Bosnian general election
Bosnians vote to elect the three members of the presidency and 42 members of the House of Representatives. Concurrent elections are also held in the Federation to elect 98 seats of the regional legislature and in Republika Srpska to elect the entity's president and the 83 seats of the respective legislature.
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Politics2026 Brazilian general election
Brazilians head to the polls to elect their president, vice president, 513 members of Chamber of Deputies and 54 members in the Federal Senate. Incumbent president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is running for the fourth non-consecutive term, where his main opponent is Rio de Janeiro senator Flávio Bolsonaro, the son of former president Jair Bolsonaro.
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Politics2026 Brazilian general election
Flávio Bolsonaro wins the first round and will face Lula da Silva in a runoff on 25 October.
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News
Nicaragua announces its immediate withdrawal from the Central American Parliament after the Organization of American States approved a resolution on Friday calling for Nicaragua to release political prisoners and restore civil liberties.
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Crime
An American Marine stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, is arrested by Okinawa prefectural police in connection with the alleged robbery and murder of a local woman in Naha. Japanese foreign minister Toshimitsu Motegi summons U.S. ambassador to Japan George Edward Glass regarding the incident.
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Stories adapted from Wikipedia’s Current events portal for 4 October 2026, by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0.