Wednesday 8 October 2025

A family is injured, including a 4-year-old girl critically, and dozens of civilian infrastructure facilities are damaged in a drone strike on a house in Sumy, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine.

A Ukrainian missile strike kills three people and injures nine others in Maslova Pristan, Belgorod Oblast, Russia. A search and rescue operation is underway for others believed to be trapped under rubble.

Eleven soldiers and 19 Pakistani Taliban fighters are killed in an ambush on a military convoy and subsequent shootout in Orakzai District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

Hundreds of Texas Military Forces troops arrive at a United States Army Reserve military base near Chicago, Illinois, ahead of a deployment to the city.

Derrick Groves, the last remaining prisoner from a group of ten who escaped the Orleans Parish Prison in May in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, is captured in Atlanta following a standoff with police at a house.

Singapore executes Pannir Selvam Pranthaman, a Malaysian man convicted of drug offenses, bringing this year's number of executions in the country to 12.

A 29-year-old man is arrested for allegedly starting the Palisades Fire that killed 12 people and destroyed more than 6,000 homes in Los Angeles County, Southern California, United States, earlier this year.

Sabag Montiel is sentenced to ten years for attempting to assassinate the former president of Argentina and then-vice president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. His girlfriend, Brenda Uliarte, is sentenced to eight years for being an accomplice.

Four people are killed, including the perpetrator, in a shooting spree at three locations across southwest Houston and Sugar Land, Texas, United States.

The World Health Organization intervenes as the death toll from toxic cough syrup in Madhya Pradesh, India, rises to at least 20.