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October 2025
31 editions. Choose a day to read it in full.
- Friday 31 October Moldova's parliament appoints Alexandru Munteanu as prime minister following the victory of President Maia Sandu's Party of Action and…
- Thursday 30 October In the United Kingdom, King Charles III begins the formal process of revoking Prince Andrew's royal title due to his dealings with deceased…
- Wednesday 29 October In the Netherlands, a snap election is held following the collapse of the Schoof cabinet in June.
- Tuesday 28 October Hurricane Melissa makes landfall in Westmoreland parish, southwest Jamaica, as a Category 5 hurricane with 185 mph sustained winds.
- Monday 27 October Hurricane Melissa reaches Category 5 intensity on its approach to Jamaica.
- Sunday 26 October At 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…
- Saturday 25 October Independent candidate Catherine Connolly is declared winner of yesterday's election of the President of Ireland, after Fine Gael candidate…
- Friday 24 October At least four people are killed in Haiti and the Dominican Republic by Tropical Storm Melissa.
- Thursday 23 October More than 30 people are arrested by United States law enforcement as part of an investigation into illegal gambling linked to the American…
- Wednesday 22 October Four people are killed when a Robinson R66 helicopter crashes near Ekalaka, Montana, United States.
- Tuesday 21 October Sanae Takaichi is elected as Japan's first female prime minister by the House of Representatives after her party, the Liberal Democratic…
- Monday 20 October At 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…
- Sunday 19 October Centrist candidate Rodrigo Paz Pereira of the Christian Democratic Party defeats independent right-wing candidate and former president…
- Saturday 18 October The bodies of two deceased hostages were returned to Israel via the custody of the Red Cross from Hamas, the two hostages' names were Sgt…
- Friday 17 October Israelis fire at a vehicle carrying a displaced family in Gaza City, killing eleven Palestinians, including seven children. The IDF claims…
- Thursday 16 October At least three Palestinians are killed in Gaza by Israeli troops, bringing the total to at least 23 people killed by Israel since the start…
- Wednesday 15 October Ten people are killed and 21 others are injured, including four critically, in an explosion on a crude palm oil tanker docked at a shipyard…
- Tuesday 14 October In association football, the South Africa soccer team qualifies for the upcoming FIFA World Cup following a 3-0 win against Rwanda. This…
- Monday 13 October Heads of government of 30 countries and leaders of several major international organisations gather in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt to discuss…
- Sunday 12 October In tennis, Monégasque player Valentin Vacherot, who was ranked 204th on the ATP rankings, defeats his cousin Arthur Rinderknech in the…
- Saturday 11 October British musician Ian Watkins of the band Lostprophets is killed in HM Prison Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England, where he was imprisoned…
- Friday 10 October Venezuelan activist María Corina Machado is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her promotion of democratic rights in Venezuela.
- Thursday 9 October Hungarian novelist and screenwriter László Krasznahorkai wins this year's Nobel Prize in Literature "for his compelling and visionary…
- Wednesday 8 October Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar Yaghi are jointly awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on metal–organic…
- Tuesday 7 October Iris Stalzer, the mayor-elect of Herdecke, Germany, is left in a critical condition. She has told investigators it was her 17-year-old…
- Monday 6 October A teachers' strike in Alberta begins, making 51,000 teachers off-work and affects more than 700,000 students. Thousands rally across…
- Sunday 5 October A court in Mexico formally indicts footballer Omar Bravo with the aggravated child sexual abuse of a teenage girl following his arrest in…
- Saturday 4 October Sanae Takaichi defeats Shinjiro Koizumi in a runoff election to become the next president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and prime…
- Friday 3 October Bishop of London Sarah Mullally is announced as the new archbishop of Canterbury, becoming the first woman to lead the Church of England…
- Thursday 2 October Israel intercepts the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters and detains hundreds of activists from 44 countries carrying…
- Wednesday 1 October A federal government shutdown occurs in the United States after a funding bill fails to be passed, the first government shutdown since…