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;Disasters and accidents

  • At least 51 people are killed when a bus traveling from the Kenyan capital Nairobi to Kisumu veers off the road and overturns. [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-45807969 (BBC)]
  • Three people were killed and houses were damaged after a magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck off East Java, Indonesia. [https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/shallow-60-magnitude-quake-hits-off-indonesias-java-usgs (The Straits Times)]
  • At least five people died and 30 were injured when a passenger train derailed in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. [https://cyprus-mail.com/2018/10/10/bus-crash-kills-42-in-kenya-train-accident-kills-5-in-india/ (Cyprus Mail)]
  • Four people are killed and 20 others are injured when an apartment building collapses in Manama, Bahrain. [http://gulfbusiness.com/least-four-killed-building-collapses-bahrain/ (Gulf Business)]
  • 2018 Haiti earthquake
  • The death toll of a magnitude 5.9 earthquake that struck Haiti rises to 17. [https://www.odt.co.nz/news/world/17-killed-haiti-quake (Otago Daily Times)]
  • 2018 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Hurricane Michael strengthens to a "potentially catastrophic" Category 4 hurricane and makes landfall on the Florida Panhandle. [https://www.npr.org/2018/10/10/656052881/hurricane-michael-an-extremely-dangerous-category-4-storm-heads-toward-florida (NPR)] [http://fortune.com/2018/10/10/hurricane-michael-florida-landfall/ (Fortune)]
  • A man in Greensboro, Florida is killed by a tree that crashed through his home, becoming the first reported death from the storm in the United States. Later, a child is killed by a falling tree in Seminole County, Georgia. [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45818960 (BBC)]
  • The storm causes power outages to 550,000 customers in Florida, Georgia, and Alabama, and 375,000 people in 22 counties have been ordered to evacuate. [https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2018-10-10-hurricane-michael-impacts-florida-gulf-coast (The Weather Channel)]
  • Heavy rain and strong winds from Michael are expected in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Virginia on Thursday. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2018/10/10/hurricane-michael-could-become-strongest-record-strike-florida-panhandle-wednesday/?utm_term=.988544e06c34 (The Washington Post)]

;International relations

  • The Turkish newspaper Sabah names the 15-member Saudi Arabian intelligence team allegedly involved in the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-politics-dissident-turkey/turkish-newspaper-names-15-saudis-in-khashoggi-case-idUSKCN1MK0J0?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews (Reuters)]
  • Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announces in a public broadcast that the United States President Donald Trump has sent an order to assassinate him. [https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/10/venezuela-maduro-planning-assassinate-181012062654843.html (Al Jazeera)]

;Law and crime

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